One from the great ‘spear complete with bird noises. Dedicated to the late great Duke Vin who passed away in London last Sunday. Respect to UK’s first soundman (originally selector on Jamaica’s Tom The Great Sebastian alongside the DJ, Count Machucki). In a BBC interview in 2009 asked when he will retire the duke replied, “It’s in my blood. It is my life. Death has to retire me.” Respect, let’s hope there’s some nice bass bins in the afterlife!
http://www.right-on.org/duke-vin.html
Prof.Logik – Entering unfamiliar land (intro)
Here’s a lovely piece of glitchy slow-mo hip-hop heard on this week’s excellent truthseekers radio show available as a free download on bandcamp.
http://proflogik1.bandcamp.com/track/entering-unfamiliar-lands-intro http://truthseekersradio.org/
Sheila Rickards – Jamaican Fruit Of African Roots – Shella
What a flipping tune! This was the first record I heard at work this morning on Gilles’ show via I-player. I’ve heard the heavy dub of this before but never the vocal, turns out it’s a Bunny Lee tune scorcher and there’s a touch of the Shirley Basseys about the intro too. What a tune and re-released on 10” vinyl in the new year, super! Only a minute on youtube, but it gives you a taste!
Full vocal and dub on this podcast http://www.studiofeed.com/main/studiofeed-radio-the-bass-kultcha-show-episode-7-ft-earl-grey/
And “The mystery of Sheila Rickards” from the gleaner http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080528/ent/ent1.html
Neal Hefti – The Mafista
Thanks to Noel Hawks, Steve Barker and the “On The Wire” team for this weeks “I never knew that” played on the recent show on BBC Radio Lanchashire. The inspiration possibly to the reggae classic Satta Amassa Gana by The Abyssinians no less, bonkers!
Guts – You Don’t Have To Worry – Heavenly Sweetness
http://soundcloud.com/guts/dont-worry
We featured a track from guts last week but gilles p played another one on his last show and it’s a right old cracker! We do love a bit of nice slow-mo french hip-hop here, and it turns out it’s on on the Heavenly Sweetness label which is home of the great blundetto. Big thanks to dj dick (rockers hi-fi) from birmingham for putting us onto blundetto after hearing it on his blog and dick is interviewed on the recent free school podcast which is great listening and features some nice tunes too!
http://wearefreeschool.com/post/34184358585/free-school-podcast-16-dj-dick-rockers-hi-fi
I’ve just got sent this glitchy recommendation from our good mate will. Reminds me of a bleepy nathan fake. Like it! One more before the cocoa boils over…
If my Maria Thun biodynamic sowing and planting calendar 2012 goes AWOL I pop over to this site to see “what time it is”…
http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/MoonPlanting.asp
Guts – brand new revolution
Here’s a lovely old tune heard on this week’s gilles peterson show from last year. A nice bit of Latin-tinged electronica that puts me in mind of a very slowed down version of the excellent “together forever” by exodus (as played by the late great larry levan) crossed with fela and freddy fresh. A great combination. Tune!
Here’s a well simple gardening tip which is so obvious but one I am very guilty of forgetting on many occasions and that is labeling your seed trays or rows of seeds when sowed outdoors. All it takes is the time to get a felt tip pen and write on a plastic seed label, simple! So why do I now have a lovely butternut squash on what I thought was a cucumber plant?
I found this one while searching soundcloud this week for some good mixes on Andrew Weatherall’s Transitions mix (http://soundcloud.com/everybodywantstobethedj/transitions-404-part-2-andrew). It’s a bit of a slowmo dancefloor banger but I mean, it is a Saturday night! Love the old school piano riff around the 1.54 mark. Let’s see those gardening gloves in the air!
Weeds up to me knees 