Choon of the Day, redux

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WashYourHands said:
Freezing June night overnight, getting home this morning seeing condensation in house windows like early spring, accompanied by the almost silent shooooosh of a milk float passing

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4:21 to 4:36 sounds like the melody from Enter the Dragon at 0:33 slowed right down.

 
Murphy

Murphy

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find it especially more-ish because of the harmonies and almost vertiginous calm, deft and a hint of something off-kilter

it enchants when other tracks would steam into turgid introspection, plus the setting of chilly calm cycling up near empty Mansfield Rd at dawn helped
 
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0bleak

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Unless you feel burdened by the need to keep up appearances, I wouldn't worry about it since you're both of age.
 
william_kent

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ALL BAD BOY!

COME IN MY DJ!
FIRE RUFF!
COME IN THE MORNING!
ALL CREW!
REVIVAL!



MANCHESTER STREET SOUL SELECTION

ALL BAD BOY! ALL GOOD GIRL! side A

I posted this mixtape a couple of years ago in the Street Soul UK Sound System thread but it's finally out on ( pre-order ) vinyl and I've ordered it

BROADER THAN BROADWAY!

MOSS SIDE CREW!

at 19:23 there is an amazing SLENG TENG VS ROSE ROYCE section!

Sleng Teng vs Rose Royce

"special request!"
"riiiighttt!"
"easy baad boy!"
"yes, all crew!"
"hold tight!'
"yeah, easy!"
"seckle!"
"hold tight massive!"
"hold tight!"
" You know!"
" Yeah! "
"Respeckt!"
"all the whistle in the place!"
" blow the whistle!"

I love this mixtape

I used to neck a couple of codeine tablets washed down with tenants super and smoke all the profits from the squidgy black franchise to pirates playing these tunes #nostalgia
 
william_kent

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edit: for those of you who won't take my word - here is what BOOMKAT has to say:

A Manchester Soundsystem special, compiled from original recordings made at house & blues parties between 1988 and 1996, fully joining dots between early pirate radio, black secret technology and latter-day 'nuum branches, such as space afrika and beyond, dubbed into the void. Trust - it’s the lick.

First time on vinyl; a manchester soundsystem special, 1988 - 1996. Upfront exclusive, comes with a download of the album dropped to your account.

Capturing the fabled Manchester soundsystem scene in its 1988-1996 heyday, the tape follows a sort of meta-narrative culled from multiple mixtapes recorded at the legendary Broadway, Stereodan, Soul Control and Splinta Blues Parties, slinking between sections of boogie soul and R&B, mad bashment edits and proto-house lit with MC chat and sloshing over with sirens and FX.

Anyone that lived in the area at the time will know that the story goes much deeper, Blacker, and far more eccentric than the standard Factory/Madchester narrative makes out, and this set of recordings reinforces the importance of those mostly undocumented days. Crammed with underground tunes that were run parallel to the hardcore, house and techno mainstream, played in a soundsystem style and notably slower, heavier in a way designed to hold the pressure in smaller spaces - there was no looney dancing for fear of jawing the lass next to you, or spilling Black Velvet on the next man’s new leather creps.

Space Afrika's Josh Reid recalls hearing Broadway tapes vibrating through his childhood home when he was growing up - in his bedroom he'd just hear traces of bass and the interconnecting sirens, crashes, and shout-outs, all elements that later went on to form the backbone of the duo's own compositions. It's music that addresses a sound and a community that's been low-key directing Manchester's creative energy for years - we're not overstating this; MCR musical royalty and the producer behind the greatest jungle album of all time A Guy Called Gerald cites Moss Side's soundsystem parties as a formative influence.

Listening now, decades later, it's easy to put the pieces together. Tracks cut between pliable riddims and ethereal, soulful calls; into blunted proto-trip-hop grooves lost in dense spirals of bouncing space echo. Bristol might get credit for placing its cultural foot forward as soul, reggae, and funk was filtered thru the collective British wyrd melancholia, but Manchester's stamp is made plain here. It's a different vibe altogether: cloudy, poetic, with an edgy whiff.

Best believe there’s no other tape quite like it, the closest you’ll get to a night out in Moss Side 30 years ago.
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fair to say none of the boomkat lads were old enough to be there, and I was only listening in on pirate radio, I'm still alive so I couldn't have been there at the actual parties, I'm not gangster enough lol



ALL BAD BOY! ALL GOOD GIRL! SIDE B


OOOH GOSH!
COME IN!
COME AGAIN YOU KNOW!
FIELD MARSHALL!
PEPPERHILL CREW! *
FREE AND EASY!

HOLD ON!
EASY!

* the forgotten dark side of Manchester gang violence
 
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