Notes from a suburban raver - DannyL's list

IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
DannyL said:
I look white, but I have mixed parentsge. My Dad was Jamaican, mixed black snd Chinese. I think I mentioned that in the thread, in the Coldcut entry.
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So you could say that the hot blood of the Caribbean is pulsing in your veins... in fact you did say that, a number of times.
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
Corpsey said:
Both Aleem tunes are great
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Don't forget "Get Loose" either - it's basically the same tune as "Release Yourself" but with different lyrics. Perhaps it was an attempt to cash in on the success of whatever one came first.

You might dig the Logg album and Universal Robot Band stuff, it's disco but Leroy Burgess is such a great songwriter.



I don't know if I could get myself back into the space where I appreciated these as much as I did back then. But I absolutely got them and their brilliance, don't know if I still do.
 
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DannyL

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It's not the songwriting in terms of lyrics but his feeling in terms of melodic build and the use of a hooks and bassline that just stay with you for days.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
It's great having the electro before the electro soul cos it contextualises it, although I am guessing the electro soul came first? Maybe not, maybe it was completely contemporaneous, which would make sense.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
DannyL said:
16. Anita Baker - Sweet Love
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Something about this one in particular brings back dormant prepubescent memories of the 80s

I can picture hideous fabrics, adverts for Thomas Cook, jam sandwiches on forgotten friends' carpets

Keep waiting for the breakbeat to kick in though

 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
DannyL said:
Around 86/7 or so, "rare groove" began to emerge (or be rediscovered), and my tastes began to be more strongly influenced by retro. This was one of the first things I totally fell in love with.

Note: its not at all "rare groove", just an amazing piece of gospel disco that got revived
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Nice to see the larger sized ladies also getting a spot

Beautiful too, terrible mixdown but almost adds to the poignancy of it
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Once again, I like the feeling here of delving into the history and mind of another person, like the selections carry the texture of a life with them in aggregate
 
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DannyL

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Corpsey said:
It's great having the electro before the electro soul cos it contextualises it, although I am guessing the electro soul came first? Maybe not, maybe it was completely contemporaneous, which would make sense.
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It's more my trajectory? Rap before songs etc though the growth of "soulies' was kinda contemporaneous though it was more the music of mates' older brothers, that kinda thing, guys who were also borderline football hoolies. I don't think the UK soul scene as represented by Caister Weekenders and so on was well established in the early 80s. Hip hop by contrast was kids music.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
The mind and soul of the suburban raver

"The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world..."
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Someone else wrote something on here that fascinated me about being at a distance from a cultural happening, living in some satellite suburb receiving transmissions from the hub

The suburbanites (particularly those who grew up in home counties villages like me) will never be as hip as the urbanites but there's something you get living at that remove, perhaps, a romantic, near-religious notion of culture
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
DannyL said:
I could just list some of the more anthemic tunes that got revived back then, things like Jackson Sisters "I believe in Miracles" but tbh, "90 %of me is you" etc etc but tbh, they suffer from over saturation, we've all heard them to death. So gonna try and dig in the memory banks and pull out a few tunes that were dipping in and out of the growing record collections of me and my friends.

20. Natural Four - Try Love Again

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BEL(LE)TER
 
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DannyL

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Corpsey said:
Someone else wrote something on here that fascinated me about being at a distance from a cultural happening, living in some satellite suburb receiving transmissions from the hub

The suburbanites (particularly those who grew up in home counties villages like me) will never be as hip as the urbanites but there's something you get living at that remove, perhaps, a romantic, near-religious notion of culture
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i was still at a distance from it in outer London. it was a proper adventure, going "up West" especially to go out clubbing etc. This was quite a trend though apparently. Suburban soulies who started going to West End clubs. All this history gets subsumed before the acid house juggernaut.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Yeah, I was thinking of your posts about hearing stuff on the radio without having been to clubs

I suppose in this global culture we're all outsiders viz a viz some scene or other
 
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