Schneider TM - Pac Man / Shopping Cart label: City Slang year: 2006 side a: Pac Man / Shopping Cart side b: Thursday Night Blabla www.schneidertm.net | www.myspace.com/schneidertm More German pop-ish electronics. I love this. Don't understand why I only own this 7" by Schneider TM, his whole discography should be in my Expedits. "Pac Man / Shopping Cart" is from the album Škoda Mluvit , which is also the last one he released. So it's about time for a new one, [...]
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst) label: WEA year: 1982 side a: Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst) side b: Ich Hab' Keine Lust www.peter-schilling.com I really like that "Völlig losgelöst" bit. It just means he's cut loose from the earth (I think) but it sounds so good. A bit like my former colleague William used to shout a couple of times a week, out of the blue and for no reason at all: "Völlig abgerockt!" It probably isn't even real German, or maybe it is, but [...]
The Scene - Sex label: Scene year: 1986 side a: Sex side b: Sex Edit www.behindthescene.nl It took me a while to appreciate pop and rock music in Dutch. I was about seventeen and with the exception of the ever fabulous Doe Maar I had a real hard time finding rock bands singing in my mother tongue anything other than tres uncool. It was just one of those silly hang-ups some teenagers suffer from. It passed (I'll elaborate on that further [...]
The Saturn V featuring Orbit - Buckleshoe Stomp label: Hypothermic year: 1998 side a: Buckleshoe Stomp side b: Speedway Twist www.thesaturnv.com The Saturn V featuring Orbit - I don't like band names that have the word "featuring" in it followed by the name of one of the band members. Like nobody would come to see them or buy their records if it's not absolutely certain that one member is playing. Orbit was the leader of this band who disbanded a couple of years ago (I [...]
Sapho - Train de Paris label: Torso year: 1987 side a: Train de Paris side b: Methylène www.sapho.org | www.myspace.com/saphodemarrake ch I remember buying this record. It was at the mythical, now defunct, Boudisque record store at the Haringpakkerssteeg in Amsterdam (Torso was the Boudisque label). I saw it and thought to myself "Hmmm, Sapho, French-Moroccan singer. How interesting." Video of "Train de Paris" .
Sam The Sham - Wooly Bully label: MGM year: 1966/? side a: Wooly Bully side b: Little Red Riding Hood www.samthesham.com Classic that maybe has been played too many times. Or has it? Sam The Sham wanted to pay tribute to the hully gully dance but for legal reasons changed the title of the song to "Wooly Bully". This is a reissue but I don't know in which year it was released. Doesn't really matter, does it? The B-side was another #1 [...]
Salad - Motorbike to Heaven label: Island Red year: 1995 side a: Motorbike to Heaven side b: Diary Hell I don't think Salad were very big in The Netherlands, and maybe they weren't big anywhere. Although maybe they were a bit in the UK. I quite liked this single (still do, only now it's mostly because the sound reminds me so much of the era during which it was released), and for reasons I don't remember I found it intriguing that the singer, Marijne van der Vlugt [...]
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It label: Columbia year: 2008 side 1a: Sure Hope You Mean It side 1b: Just One Kiss (ft. Joss Stone) side 2a: 100 Yard Dash side 2b: Calling side 3a: Keep Marchin' side 3b: Let's Take a Walk side 4a: Big Easy side 4b: Sometimes [...]
Quantic And His Combo Barbaro - Linda Morena label: Tru Thoughts year: 2009 side a: Linda Morena side b: Enyere Kumbara www.quantic.org | www.myspace.com/quanticmusic First single taken off the fantastic Tradition in Transition album. "Linda Morena" features the wonderful MC Kabir on lead vocals, while non-album track "Enyere Kumbara" is a cover version of a song by Cali-based Julian Y Su Combo (which you can find here - well worth a listen). Get the album if you [...]
Otis Lee - Hard Row to Hoe label: Soul Magic year: 2009 side a: Hard Row to Hoe It's only single-sided but Otis Lee's very funkily delivered story about the hard life is worth it. Especially if you know how much the original (I don't know when it was released the first time round but it must be late sixties/early seventies) is worth these days. Apparently there's people paying over 1,500€ for it. So thank you, whoever you are, for reissuing it, and with such great sound quality, too. [...]
Factory Floor - Bipolar label: Outside Sound year: 2008 side a: Bipolar side b: You Were Always Wrong www.myspace.com/factoryfloor Joy Division, anyone? "Bipolar" could be produced by Martin Hannett . But it isn't. Martin Hannett is a long time dead and the track was recorded and released a year ago on Outside Sound as the label's first and only reference to date. I got engaged in an email conversation with one of the people behind [...]
DJ Shepdog/Black Grass - Dare Man/Show Me Dub label: Nice Up! year: 2009 side a: DJ Shepdog - Dare Man side b: Black Grass - Show Me Dub www.myspace.com/djshepdog | www.myspace.com/blackgrassmusi c Two of the big mash-uppers of these times, Shepdog and Black Grass. The first lays Shaun Ryder 's vocals off of Gorillaz ' "Dare" over Malente 's "Ska Wars", the other takes the vocals of Robin S ' "Show Me Love" and mixes it [...]
The Dead Weather - Hang You from the Heavens label: Third Man year: 2009 side a: Hang You from the Heavens side b: Are 'Friends' Electric? www.thedeadweather.com A band made up of people from bands I like a lot . That's got to be good, right? I haven't heard the whole album yet, but this single sounds okay enough to me. Video of "Forever My Queen / Hang You from the Heavens" played live in LA [...]
Various Artists - The Black Revolution EP label: Enlace Funk year: 2009 side a1: UTO (Unimos Tus Oidos) - Desde Ayer side a2: The Black Evolution DJs - Un Minuto de Funk Skit 1 side b1: Hot Power Funk - El Vibrador del Funk side b2: The Black Evolution DJs - Un Minuto de Funk Skit 2 www.fotolog.com/tbe | www.myspace.com/unimostusoidos | www.myspace.com/hotpowerfunk 45 #33 in the series by Spanish funkest magazine Enlace Funk , this time [...]
Ukraine rocks bells. Well, the part we went to, anyway. Big country. Check the pix . 45 Series will continue tomorrow I think.
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Les Rythmes Digitales - Kontakte label: Wall of Sound year: 1996 side a: Kontakte side b: Tropicano I was rather pleased with myself when I got in touch with Wall of Sound to offer them an exclusive distribution deal for Spain and Portugal (which they took), before even the Barcelonese hipsters had gotten to them, which was surprising as they were pretty quick in those days. Same story with Mo'Wax , by the way. As I said, rather pleased with myself. Of [...]
Ruthless Rap Assassins - And It Wasn't a Dream label: Syncopate year: 1990 side a: And It Wasn't a Dream side b: Posse Strong One of those bands I heard once and didn't really like them, and now I do, twenty years late and all their records hard to find. I was intrigued by their name when wandering through the Amsterdam city centre one day. I nearly walked into a lamp post on the Leidseplein because I was looking at the ground. I looked up and saw [...]
Various Artists - Ruff Stuff label: Demolition year: ? side a1: The Zeros - Wanna Go side a2: The Skulls - Help Against Your Will side b1: Permanent Green Light - Honestly side b2: White Flag - Grace Me Don't know what year this came out but it must be late eighties or early nineties. Demolition was a sublabel of Munster Records , but Ruff Stuff is actually a Gasatanka Records sampler, and Gasatanka was Bill Bartell AKA Pat Fear's [...]
Royal Trux - Mercury label: Domino year: 1994 side a: Mercury side b: Shockwave Rider Could it get more nineties-indie than this? I don't think so. I don't know why but even though I really like Royal Trux (because I was very, very much into nineties-indie), this is the only Royal Trux/RTX record I own. Time for some catching up. Or is it? Video of Royal Trux being very nineties-indie whilst doing various station calls .
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