I feel so lucky. Friday a week ago I was djing for the first time at Fabric and Alex Gloor and Sasha Crnobrnja of In Flagranti came by and hung out for a while behind the dj booth and had a nice chat. Alex Gloor did the Smylonylon tapes which I've posted here before and he gave me this very first tape of them all! In Flagranti were playing live on the same night and are a hot item right now, which has a lot to do with their fantastic music knowledge, as evidenced by the Smylonylon tapes. You can listen and buy their new release Grand Central Shuttle here.
The early Smylonylon were more exotica/easy listening, so don't expect the dancey/droney mid 80s rare german disco that you can find on some of the later tapes. Still the stuff on here is in a league of its own and very hard to find. I discovered some of the tracks on this amazing Weils.nl blog which has rare 80's stuff, soundtracks, live shows of Siouxsie and the Banshees and more. It's truly an amazing blog.
Also - check my new blog for new music every day. Derfreshcreamy
Smylonylon No. 1 - Side A
1. Piu forte ragazze! - Samba
2. Bimbo Jet - Buffalo's Band
3. Anonymous Venetian - Main Theme
4. Enoch Light - Scarborough Fair
5. Ward Swindle - Windmills of our Mind
6. Heino - Bergvagabunden
7. Klaus Wunderlich - Lotto Zahlen
8. Silvetti - Steps in the snow
9. Esquivel - Sun Valley Ski Run
10. Martin Denny - Flamenco
11. Fabio Paramo - Playa Corola
12. Switched on Bacharach - Do You Know the way to San Jose
13. Enoch Light - Marrakesh Express
14. 10th Victim - Main Theme
15. Ernst Mosch - Dompfaff
16. Esquivel - Bye Bye Blues
17. Switched on Bacharach - Wives and Lovers
18. Enamuelle - Eternal Anguish
19. Enoch Light - past and I Call You
20. Lady nelson and the Lords - Call Me
21. Chuck Davis Orchestra - Spirit of the Sun
Here's one stand alone track:
Switched on Bacharach - Wives and Lovers
Smylonylon No. 1 - Side B
22. Mason Williams – Baroque a Nova
23. Bent Fabric – The Dipsy Doodle
24. Flutes and Percussion – Mountain Greenery
25. Martin Denny – Bacao
26. Harmonicats – Mambo Jambo
27. Latin Love Machine – Hare Krishna
28. Paul Bley – Parks
29. Claudine – My Guy
30. Vision of Eight – Olympic Village
31. Jerry Allen – Fly me to the Moon
32. Crown Heights Affair – Dreaming a Dream
33. Dexter Wansel – Life on Mars
34. Latin Love Machine – Peanut Vendor
35. Brain Tickets – Black Sand
36. Sadistic Mika Band – Suki Suki Suki
37. Incredible Bongo Band – Let There Be Drums
38. Sandy Nelson – Drums a Go Go
39. Titanic – Sante Fee
Below are some tracks from this mix. I couldn't find Suki Suki Suki from the Sadistic Mika Band, but I found this great track Picnic Boogie. And the Incredible Bongo Band track Let There Be Drums is from the same band that did Apache, which is well known as one of the most sampled of early hip hop songs and very heavily used in drum and bass (you'd recognize it). Of course the Dexter Wansel and Crown Heights Affairs tracks are famous and you should get them if you don't know them.
Incredible Bongo Band - Let There Be Drums
Sadistic Mika Band - Picnic Boogie
NEW ARTIST SECTION:
Bishi is someone who I have know for a while as she has been on the London scene doing some of the hippest parties (I first met her at Kashpoint, which coincidentally will always have a special place in my heart as I met my girlfriend there). Now she's flying on her own, has learned to play the Sitar very well and is in general a very sweet person. So I think she needs a little props up as she is doing something niche - writing and performing pop songs with a Sitar, so she certainly has a hook to her appeal. The song she sent me here is quite catchy and she wrote it with Matthew Glamorre, another very sweet and very creative person (responsible for the above mentioned Kashpoint). I think she really has some potential though I have told her I think the tracks need to be remixed or have more of an edgy dance sound to them (where are the odd 90s beats and other dance sounds from Kashpoint?). Any way - still a great track.
Bishi - On My Own Again
7 comments:
Cool.Good post.I like this blog.
Gutted I missed your Fabric gig ! I was quite happy to see a blog I've read for some time, had it's writer on the line-up !
Hope it went well..
loops.
i actually own this one. now, if you can convince alex to give you no. 2, you + i will both be ecstatic. it's the first one i owned, and the b-side changed my life forever. he didn't respond to my last email about trading tapes with him, so it's up to you now!
fyi: those who downloaded the arkle + sparkle tape (horrible encoding, sorry), back it up as my my first sony tape player recently ate it, and that's the only recording i made of it.
it was a painful thing to watch happen.
Thank you ever so much. I only recently lost Vols. 1-3, after revisiting them over and over since I discovered them many years back. This helps... but I still need 2 and 3!
oh this was great- am loving this blog..thanks!
hope to see you Djing whenever I come back to London one day.
i used to own almost all of the smylonylon tapes since i worked there from 1995 until they closed in 1997. now i think i only have one floating around somewhere. i remembered a lot of the songs on the tapes which i was able to find online after some digging. i also keep in touch with the owners & they were able to give me some names of songs & artists. but i what i would give to have them all! drew barrymore has the whole collection at her LA residence & her NY residence. at least that is what she said the time she came in & bought ever single volume for sale!
I would really love to get these tapes out there , or at least listen to more ... ANY help on these tapes and or download links so I can share and listen would be AWESOME , big thanks ! email me 3lixxx (at) gmail (dotcom)
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