by phil meadley
Tom Tom Club | Spooks | (Sire)
I heard it about two months ago, just before I went to America. I got it on a weird
American promo thing. It was originally the B-side of "Wordy Rapping Head-On." I've
got the English 12". It's just a mental, weird groove track with Moogs and percussion,
no vocals. All of the others have got silly vocals in it. It's like slowed down
drum'n'bass. That's the mad thing about it, but unfortunately it's on 45 RPM. It would
be luscious if I had a record player with 78 and speeded it up. Then it'd be drum'n'bass.
Martin Circus | Disco Circus | (Unidisc)
I bought that in America about a month ago in a weird shop in the middle of nowhere
I think it was Dallas. It's from '83/'84 I think. It's kind of weird Hi-NRG house,
sort of like a really fucked-up version of "Jack Your Body." There's no samples,
just loads of singers recorded on tape, people fucking up, bassy and badly recorded.
I like it, it's wicked strange shit. Probably a gay record 'cause it's on a label
that's usually got man-to-man hi-NRG, but quite a lot of that's mad shit.
Human League | Fascination Improvisation | (Virgin)
It's a mad instrumental version of "Fascination." It's much more than
an instrumental, it's got mad edits in it. It's 1981 and I don't know how
the fuck they did it with reverse edits and hard as fuck beats, really cold
beats, harsh techno beats. I get pissed off by the vocals in Human League tracks,
but just about all the instrumentals are wicked. I've got loads of Spandalu Ballet
instrumentals which are lush, but when you listen to the vocals...
Organized Confusion | Somehow Someway | (Priority)
It's nothing amazing from them. It's them kind of chilled-out, but it's still
a real juicy, fat hip hop track. It's still a cut above all the other hiphop
I've heard recently. Fuckin' mental rappers and I bought it in America as well.
Busta Rhymes | Rhymes Galore | (Elektra)
It's a cheeky track with a killer synth in it the usual mad Busta Rhymes rhymes.
I got it in Yanksville as well.
Taxi Driver Soundtrack | The Days Never End | (Arista)
Jazzy, funky slow mellow track. I didn't know it was going to be a good
soundtrack, I just saw it really cheap. It's all quite lush.
Invisibl Skratch Piklz | Furious Ostrich Tracks | (KOD)
It's a white label, and just a scratch album. It's mental, with one guy doing
a beat, another cutting up tones, and some guy's doing cheeky stuff on top, with
different tempos and time signatures. They look so chilled out compared to what
they sound like. DJ Food are kind of old-school compared to these geezers doing
so many new tricks. They're reinvented it as a completely different art form
from the old style. They've invented all these techniques for scratching,
like they're playing synths more than scratching. They'll scratch in the
maddest Moog noises. I bought this in San Fran, the shop there has loads of
videos on them. I bought loads for on the tour bus.
Mathematique Moderne | Jungle Hurt | (Celluloid)
It's an old '81 track, kind of like Kraftwerk only not so cold, light
funky with a tasty groove going on. It's got a vocoder on it which always
gets me.
Junie | Granny's Funky Rolls Royce | (Westbound)
My favorite vocoder track, an old '75 disco-funk thing that must
have influenced Prince Dirty Mind-time.
Serge Gainsbourg | The History of Melody Nelson | (Philips)
It's one of his huge, epic obscure albums that must of cost hundreds of
thousands of quid to make. I reckon it's probably about something perverted.
He's probably talking about shagging his daughter or something. Filthy old
sod. It's probably better not knowing what it's about. That was a tour
bus favorite, that LP. If you're in the right mood, i.e. fucked, then
it's wicked. A mushroom tune.
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