Moustache? Check. Rollneck cardigan? Check? Hammond organ? Check. Man, Alan Hawkshaw had it all. Some of the finest late night London library jazz funk fell from his fingers. Beat Boutique is pure session groove, 90 seconds of '60s beat music with some terrifically dirty brass. The party doesn't start swinging until this comes on the radiogram. Alan Hawkshaw - Beat Boutique (alternate download)
On vous parlait la semaine dernière de la sortie à venir du premier LP de Fulgeance To All Of You et en particulier du morceau " Hiver Normand " . Pour ce morceau, Fulgeance a samplé Alan Hawkshaw , musicien d'origine britannique à la carrière plus que prolifique. Né en 1937, il est à l'origine du groupe The Mohawks , a joué avec David Bowie avant de rejoindre The Shadows puis de travailler avec Serge Gainsbourg . Beaucoup de ses [...]
They say those who ignore history are bound to repeat it. In music, however, those who pay attention to history seem just as likely to repeat it. So here's a bunch of new versions of things that are worth ripping off. The percentage of previously unreleased material (as well as packaging, liner notes, etc) certainly factored into what made this list, and the order as much as the quality of the original work. 1. Dolly Mixture - Everything and More [Dolly Mixture] | BUY [...]
The only way to follow up a night in which you stumble into bed at 3:30 in the morning is to stumble into bed at 4:30 in the morning. It's been a long weekend, folks, and all the over-the-counter pseudoephedrine in the world couldn't keep me from crashing before my work-day ended. I was a busy bee, productive as all hell until about 90 minutes before my shift ended. Then I totally crashed and couldn't function any more. I was so anxious to get out and go home that I left without my computer. Good thing Nicci doesn't [...]

A couple of splendid psychedelic mixtapes to point your ears towards today. Wooden Shjips provide Vessel music with a multicolored blend through space & time. Grab it here . From it here's the wonderful Shogun Kunitoki : Shogun Kunitoki- Montezuma (Download) Head on over to Fact magazine & get your mits on an equally cosmic mix from The Time & Space Machine : Watch out for his debut long player 'Set Phazer to Stun'. Alan Hawkshaw- Rumplestiltskin [...]

... but just be careful if you use the computers. You don't know who was there last or what kind of German Shepherd bukkake movies they were watching, if you get my drift... I think this very well be my first ever post of Library music. We're not talking about odes to the Dewey Decimal Code... we're talking '70s production Library music... tunes by the thousands made explicitly for anonymously dropping into TV or films because this car chase needs some pizazz! What someone eventually figured out is [...]
Apologies for being late with this Silly Sunday. Writing posts on a Sunday is officially gay anyway. This tune is very special to me and is pretty much the reason why I had the idea of doing Silly Sundays in the first place. Back in my uni days, when we were drunk and it was late/early enough for the sun to start poking through the curtains, we would play the BBC Grandstand theme music and pretend to be a variety of sports stars doing their sporty stuff. For example, Cricket: the classic moves we would copy would be [...]

Hello and welcome to our second ever Silly Sunday, where we post weird and random stuff. If you're new to it, the policy is anything goes. This week we're proud to announce that we have the Grange Hill theme tune for your pleasure! So if you're having a nice relaxing sunday, suffering from a hangover, preparing a roast or zapping every last brain cell and trying to remember the last time you slept, get a load of it. It's AMAZING. For our non-British readers, Grange Hill was a kiddies program that used to run in the late 70's [...]

If you've been passin' through this joint for a while, then you know that I occasionally like to break up the monotony by throwing a guest writer into the mix. In the past, I've invited a vast array of DJs, producers, MCs, musicians, and fellow bloggers/writers to share some of their unique talents with the squadron of soul children who frequent this spot. Today I offer you a glimpse into the mind of the almighty Styler . Styler became a celebrity 'round here by throwin' down some mad intelligent discourse in the comments section. His [...]

i dont know much about any of the below, but its a pretty righteous collection of 70's funk, jazz, groove and all around weirdness that only the 70's could have produced. some of the stuff actually sounds pretty timely, while some other stuff would make awesome personal theme music for either sweet loving making or just walking down the street. 1. ritual - nico gomez 2. je m'appelle geraldine - jean-claude vannier 3. pcyhedelic mood - piero piccioni 4. t plays it cool - [...]