great record. Think Simon's enemy kirk degeorgio turned me onto it on one of his hall of fame lists.
Notes from a suburban raver - DannyL's list
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great record. Think Simon's enemy kirk degeorgio turned me onto it on one of his hall of fame lists.
nah nah this was around 82-84 from what ive read, paul murphy upstairs and paul trouble anderson/george power downstairs.
Oh nah, we would've been too young. Doesn't surprise me though, I've heard that Paul Murphy used to kill it.
33. Side Effect - Always There
Can't remember if I ever heard this out. I'd started going out at this time and venturing "up West" to places like The Wag and Dance Wicked but irregularly and I was still pretty unsure of myself. When clubs had an air of "cool" before the open doors mania that accompanied raving, this was the sort of thing that got revived and was burning up the dance floors.
Can't remember if I ever heard this out. I'd started going out at this time and venturing "up West" to places like The Wag and Dance Wicked but irregularly and I was still pretty unsure of myself. When clubs had an air of "cool" before the open doors mania that accompanied raving, this was the sort of thing that got revived and was burning up the dance floors.
I will shift on from this era at some point but I keep remembering too many fantastic tunes. Got to give an honorable mention to Roy Ayers, one of the artists I saw live most at the time. Again, he suffers from overplayed to me but he has a huge catalogue so...this is one I would still jam today.
34. Roy Ayers - Red, Black & Green
Bonus honorable mention for this breakbeat classic
34. Roy Ayers - Red, Black & Green
Bonus honorable mention for this breakbeat classic
Okay, going to try and (perhaps) close out this section with the following. It seems a good example of both killer tunes and the weird way you learn about and hear music via the play of rediscovery, club revivals etc.
35. Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need A Change of Mind :
I actually heard this after the following disco dub masterwork - and no, I have no idea who Began Cekic is.
36.Brooklyn Express- Girl You Need A Change of Mind:
35. Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need A Change of Mind :
I actually heard this after the following disco dub masterwork - and no, I have no idea who Began Cekic is.
36.Brooklyn Express- Girl You Need A Change of Mind:
Amazed that that Brooklyn Express tune only has one like, it's the best tune in this thread.
37. Coldcut - Beats & Pieces
This is acting as a kind of stand-in. On one level, it's literally the sound of the last 30 years of music being cut up and remodelled, on the other it's a British answer version to Lesson 3 (see upthread - I find it frankly insane that there's only 3 years between the two, seems wrong somehow), and a precursor to all the insane creativity you'd get in British dance music over the next 15 years. On a final more personal level, it's a stand-in for their show, which I loved precisely because it was so eclectic - it'd be Sheila E to 808 State and back again on any given afternoon - this seems to capture the spirit of hip hop to me (flashback to reading in Rap Attack about Bam cutting up Kraftwerk & Malcolm X speeches at Bronx house parties). I've always loved this ability to cut and mix, to place one thing alongside the other, in a way that empowers both. Perhaps it's some kind of psychoanalytic dramitisation of my own mixed background.
37. Coldcut - Beats & Pieces
This is acting as a kind of stand-in. On one level, it's literally the sound of the last 30 years of music being cut up and remodelled, on the other it's a British answer version to Lesson 3 (see upthread - I find it frankly insane that there's only 3 years between the two, seems wrong somehow), and a precursor to all the insane creativity you'd get in British dance music over the next 15 years. On a final more personal level, it's a stand-in for their show, which I loved precisely because it was so eclectic - it'd be Sheila E to 808 State and back again on any given afternoon - this seems to capture the spirit of hip hop to me (flashback to reading in Rap Attack about Bam cutting up Kraftwerk & Malcolm X speeches at Bronx house parties). I've always loved this ability to cut and mix, to place one thing alongside the other, in a way that empowers both. Perhaps it's some kind of psychoanalytic dramitisation of my own mixed background.
38. I see Chano Pozo - Jayne Cortez & the Firespitters
Here's a selection from them, I remember seeing it in Jonathon Moore chart years before I heard it (when you couldn't just look everything up straight away). Amazing tune. Chano Pozo was a Cuban drummer and Santeria devotee who played with Dizzy Gillespie alongside a host of others, he was shot and killed in Harlem in 1948, the murder and motive remain a mystery.
Here's a selection from them, I remember seeing it in Jonathon Moore chart years before I heard it (when you couldn't just look everything up straight away). Amazing tune. Chano Pozo was a Cuban drummer and Santeria devotee who played with Dizzy Gillespie alongside a host of others, he was shot and killed in Harlem in 1948, the murder and motive remain a mystery.
39. Boogie Boys - Breakdancer
Going out of chronology here but thinking of Coldcut I think reminded me of this. Still one of the all time heavyweight electro productions. I like that this has no rap, and let's the production speak. Other cavernous electro tunes would be Craig G- Shout, and of course, the infamous PSK.
Going out of chronology here but thinking of Coldcut I think reminded me of this. Still one of the all time heavyweight electro productions. I like that this has no rap, and let's the production speak. Other cavernous electro tunes would be Craig G- Shout, and of course, the infamous PSK.
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Just gonna drop in a couple of randoms to keep things moving. I'm sparing people thus far the degeneration in tastes when I started to listen to white people music in the late 90s.
40. Pleasure - Joyous. Breakbeat classic. It sounds like its title
41. Leroy Hutson - Get to this
Leroy Hutson occupies a weird place in London musicology that you can only understand if you *get* how important Lovers Rock was. He matches that sensibility exactly with the near falsetto, the kind of lightness. He has a lot of downtempo tracks which would be the late night blues party selection but this is more an uptempo dancer.
42. Lou Courteny - The Common Broken Heart
One of a million lost soul albums. I could imagine this just washing straight over people, "what's so special?" but if you manage to get it, this is one of those incredible albums. The songwriting is so impeccable, the voice so perfect, and the hooks echo round your head for days.
Bonus Lou Courtney as I couldn't make my mind up:
40. Pleasure - Joyous. Breakbeat classic. It sounds like its title
41. Leroy Hutson - Get to this
Leroy Hutson occupies a weird place in London musicology that you can only understand if you *get* how important Lovers Rock was. He matches that sensibility exactly with the near falsetto, the kind of lightness. He has a lot of downtempo tracks which would be the late night blues party selection but this is more an uptempo dancer.
42. Lou Courteny - The Common Broken Heart
One of a million lost soul albums. I could imagine this just washing straight over people, "what's so special?" but if you manage to get it, this is one of those incredible albums. The songwriting is so impeccable, the voice so perfect, and the hooks echo round your head for days.
Bonus Lou Courtney as I couldn't make my mind up: