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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

NME 002 - Jive Wire



I had a real fantastic haul at the Dalston Oxfam Shop this last week. FYI the Oxjam events are starting today and going on through April. Go support cause it's a fantastic shop and organization and they've given me so much.


But back to me . . . I picked up 3 of the early NME cassettes including this one, NME 004 and NME 005. So if you look at all the NME cassettes listed here, if you add those with the 2 others I've posted on this blog already, the Mad Mix II NME 008 and the Ace Case NME 009, I have a lot of the early cassettes. Looks like the really famous C81 was followed up by a NME 001 in the same year. Weird.


In terms of tracks there are some really unusual and odd things here. On Side A my favorite track is probably the Leisure Process track - it's like twice as long as other versions I've seen on the web. But the track from Buzzz for example is apparently only on this cassette and I can't find any more info about it. I look forward to comments from those more enlightened.

Side B has some really great stuff too. The Altered Images version of Happy Birthday may be the coolest Happy Birthday song ever, and the Pablo track Madaleina is fantastic vintage african pop.


Side A



Side B


Producer - Ric Ocasek (from the Cars)
B2 Kraftwerk - Das Model (3:39)
B3 Altered Images - Happy Birthday (3:15)



We are also relaunching our african party Manifesto tonight, 1 April in London off Regent Street at the Burlington club. It will be downstairs in the chic club space with djs and a few live musicians (but no band) and then once a month we will do as before with the full venue being used for the party with top live african bands, etc. It's easy to get in and not super expensive and still the best african party in London cause it's new AND old - and I'm djing :)

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Thursday, September 07, 2006

NME Ace Case



See, I love all types of music. While I am very much enjoying the early 90's stuff that is a good percentage of the tapes left in the Oxfam bin, there are always lots of other good things. This last week I also picked up some other good early jazz/rocknroll stuff and a great tape from Ivo Papasov & his Wedding Band which I may post in the future. Apparently this tape was released by NME and it's impossible to find for purchase. I particularly love the tracks Oh! Oh! Get Out the Car (by Richard Berry who also wrote "Louie Louie") and Good Rockin Daddy (by Etta James who also did "At Last"). And the Tina and Ike track is quite good. Enjoy.

Side 1

1. Etta James - Good Rockin' Daddy
2. Charles Brown & Amos Milburn - Educated Fool
3. Young Jessie - Hit Git & Spit
4. Bobby Marchan - Quit My Job
5. Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns - Don't You Just Know It
6. Arthur Alexander - Anna
7. Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side
8. Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller
9. Richard Derry - Oh! Oh! Get Out The Car
10. The Chanters - She Wants To Mambo
11. Alvin 'Snake Eyes' Tyler - The Peanut Vendor

Side 2

1. Ike & Tina Turner -I Can't Belive What You Say
2. Shirley Ellis - The Nitty Gritty
3. The Olympics - (Baby) Hully Gully
4. Mary Love - You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet
5. Bobby 'Blue' Band - Call On Me
6. B.B. King - Ain't Nobody's Business
7. Johnny 'Guitar' Watson - She Moves Me
8. Little Richard - Directly From My Heart
9. The Jive Five - Rain
10. The O'Jays - Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)
11. The Impressions - Keep On Pushing

All the kids who are loving a little speed disco check out this New York remake of a classic. All over yo face!! Like . . . what is on my face?

Cazwell - All Over Your Face (extended disco vocal mix)
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Urban 88


Been feeling like the late 80's have been neglected lately. People are loving early 90's rave and still searching for those early 80's new wave rarities, plus some are feeling a bit of a good disco revolution. But very few will drop the odd late 80's urban dance track in a dj set. Most of these tracks only sound really good on a good bass system, and I'm not crazy about all of them. But the Theme from P.O.P. is a fantastic acid based dance track. Also, as I am often suprised to find, this cassette has tracks which feature almost no where else from big artists (much as was the case in this previous blog for Aphex Twin and Oasis) - more than one track on the second side are mixed or written by Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim in his early days and are almost only available on this cassette. The Urban All Stars was him and so is the Rockaway Three. FYI - most of the bits about It Came From Africa that I like which Norman used actually come from an amazing old disco track called I Believe in Miracles by the Jackson Sisters which you can download on the Butter Team blog.

On another note, I have started a new blog - Der Fresh Creamy. As the Dalston Oxfam Sh0p blog is really limited to old cassettes and that kind of thing, and yet I spend a lot of time finding new music (as I sit in front of a computer all day) and hear about things from other friends who dj in London I thought it would be nice to have a forum to share my finds. My hope is that in contrast to the Hypem.com or elbo.ws or other aggregators, which list everything, this will only list finds which are reliably good but which are not exclusive to me as they exist on other blogs. It's like a thing I've done for friends of friends instead of a blog I want to hype.

Here is the cassette. I like to include all the detail from Discogs.com so you can link to the musicians involved in the tracks.

Side A

1 James Brown Download: The Payback Mix (5:04)
Mixed By - Jonathan More , Matt Black

2 Phoenix (10) Download: Everybody (Get Loose) (5:38)
Engineer - Tom Frederikse Producer - Rochefort, Wesson

3 The Groove Train Download: Why Did You Do It (3:50)
Producer - Martyn Ware

4 Walter Beasley Download: I'm So Happy (4:57)
Producer - Lionel Job , Walter Beasley

5 Visions (7) Download: It's A Choice (4:12)
Producer - David "Pic" Conley, David Stewart (4)

6 Perfectly Ordinary People Download: The Theme From P.O.P. (6:45)
Producer - Pozitiv Noize Producer, Remix - Mike Morrison Remix - Martin Freeland



Side B

1 Urban All Stars Download: It Began In Africa (5:45)
Mixed By - Norman Cook

2 The James Taylor Quartet Download: The Theme From Starsky & Hutch (6:40)
Producer - Simon Booth

3 Rockaway Three Download: It's Your Thing (3:57)
Producer - Bob Christ , Norman Cook

4 James Brown Download: Got To Have A Mother For Me (5:10)
Producer - James Brown

5 Ace Of Clubs Download: Ace Of Clubs (4:32)
Producer, Mixed By - Paul Heard , Simon Booth

6 Roy Ayers Download: Running Away (6:56)
Co-producer - Edwin Birdsong , William Allen Producer - Roy Ayers

7 James Brown Download: Payback (The Final Mixdown) (5:55)
Mixed By - Norman Cook , Streetsahead

If you want to find a good party that feels like a community of people having fun instead of a random bunch of boring people searching for love, check out this party. Fresh but not too slick. As I am djing more and more, I list below upcoming gigs in case you want to come down.

Feb 13 - Tank Magazine party for TseSay at Automat

Feb 20 - African music set @ Come For Lunch (by some of the people behind Rakehell's)

Feb 21 - downstairs @ Catch 22

Feb 22 - African music set @ Fabric - opening for Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve, Erol Alkan's psych rock side project

Feb 28 - downtairs @ Catch 22 with Girlcore special anniversary party upstairs (open till 4 am)
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