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Suppose it was only a matter of time before PhotoMosh started watermarking and charging. TBF I've been using it for years on here, surprised it hasn't happened before like.

A Tribe Called Quest - Dis Generation

Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes still doing it. You love to hear it.

David Axelrod - Holy Thursday

Gotta say I only really know this from Lil Wayne's Dr Carter but it seems it's been sampled extensively and used on all sorts of soundtracks including a GTA game. Incredible jazz funk rock from 1968.

Ouri - Down

Throbbing electronic music from Ghostly in 2018 though it sounds a little older than that. I heard this on Hyperdawn's Sunday Mix for Crack Magazine last month.

Youandewan - Be Good To Me, Poly

When those chords start I always think it's gonna be a bit Radiohead then it starts twisting and twinkling and ends up nearer early Caribou... and looking at the YouTube comments, it samples Weird Fishes by Radiohead, so there you go.

KLF - What Time Is Love?

Right, the next couple of tracks have all been mentioned in Party Lines, Ed Gillett's excellent exploration of dance music and British culture. The first half of the book is particularly strong, debunking the myth that acid house exploded out of nowhere in 1987 when Paul Oakenfold et al brought the music, the pills, and the vibes back from Ibiza. Instead, it traces a lineage of 'illegal' partying through the New Traveller movement of the 1980s, the free festival scene of the 1970s, and blues dances and sheebeens of the 60s. 

Smith and Mighty - Bass Is Maternal

Party Lines also traces how the state suppressed these gatherings and through the co-opting of rave, we've ended up at business techno and santisied festivals. There are other excursions in the book, from a stinging takedown of Boiler Room, plague raving during the panny d, and the rise of pirate radio, but it's the first half that really sticks.  

Will Powers - Adventures in Success

Actually, the stuff on the Nine o'Clock Service, which blended rave music with Christian worship in Sheffield is also mind-boggling. Turns out it was a personality cult riddled with sexual and psychological abuse, with people still coming forward over 30 years later. Proper grim.

DJ Pierre - Box Energy

Also in this section about Christian worship and dance music, it mentions a Channel 4 show fronted by Adam Buxton called God In The House. You will not see anything more cringingly 90s and it's no massive surprise that Dr Buckles doesn't ever bring it up.

Red Hot Entertainment - Junior Spesh (ft. Jaxor, Klayze Flaymz, Terra & Ray)

Anyway, I really dug Party Lines, especially as picked it up by chance from the local library, something I've not done in years.

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And yes that's Kiell Smith-Bynoe.

Ceefax 4 Life

2nd February 2009. That's when I started this blog. 15 years. Fuck me.

A birth, a marriage, a couple of deaths. Numerous house moves only to end up back in Llantwit. Fuck me.

2009 was too late to start a blog. I read they may be back though. Maybe it's because everything is falling apart online, so you might as well do one. Nothing lasts forever on the internet, platforms crumble, content is archived, redirects break. 

Kinda amazed that Blogger is still going TBH, surely Google isn't making anything off of this shite? Figured that it go shortly after they rejigged the CMS in 2020. One last roll, then goodbye, as is the way.

I don't know.

I do know, I'll never get these sweet 2016-2018 numbers again.

But this ain't about numbers. It's all about me. And as I sit here cringing while listening to the podcast I did in that first post back in Feb 2009, maybe Google should just nuke it. Nuke it to fuck. 

Until it does, I'll still be here.

Posting shite to 10-15 people/bots at a time. 

Ceefax 4 Life.

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Done a few too many normal posts to start the year, so here's a phoned in playlist to get us back on track.

Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It?

All about that lopping bassline. Funky punk from 1979, though looking at the YouTube comments it seems its use in Ted Lasso and a Guardians of the Galaxy game has brought it renewed interest recently. Is Ted Lasso any good? TBH it's on Apple TV and I'm never gonna subcribe, so why am I even asking.

Empress of Nature & t-woc - Rapper's Delight

A weirdo-wonky cover of the Sugarhill Gang classic with a kid on the mic. Good clean fun.

Four Tet - Loved

New Four Tet sounding like old Four Tet? I'm down with that. Whoooooo remembers folktronica?

Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need A Change Of Mind

Didn't know about this tidy number till watching Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution on iPlayer a couple of weeks ago. I've only watched the first episode, gotta say it didn't really grip me all that much, but glad I did give it a spin to discover this song like. The breakdown around 4 mins is so good.

Carly Simon - Why (12" Version)

A slow disco banger from 1982 produced by Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards (ya Chic fellas).

Maldwyn Pope - Altered State

Slight cheesy italo-disco from 1985 by a Welshman called Maldwyn? Man, I wish I had this for Amser Electroneg. Fun fact, I'm pretty sure it's the same Mal Pope that sung the Fireman Sam theme tune. 

David Bowie - Warszawa

Banged on Low last month. Such a great album. 

Theo Parrish - Lost Angel (Little by Little Unofficial Remix)

I adore this tidy little rumbler. So much in fact, it's the first thing I've added to my best of 2024 list. 

Just clocked it's a free download off Bandcamp too. You love to see it.

Mystic Force - Psychic Harmony

I wanted to post the 127bpm mix that Richard Sen has spun a few times on his, quite frankly, brilliant show on Do!! You!!! Radio (Fridays 12pm-2pm). But I can only find the original mix on YouTube. And Searching Mystic Force seems to bring up loads of Power Ranger videos. Still it's kinda similar, and needs must.

Black Devil Disco Buzz

After clocking that I didn't do one single album review for Buzz Magazine in 2023, I thought I should get back on it.

So here's a rusty 150 words on Black Devil Disco Club's latest album Etincelles, out now on Lo.