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!
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…
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!
Here’s a lovely old tune heard on Gilles Peterson’s show the other week. La ritournelle crossed with the andrea true connection with a bit of sade, all thrown in the compost bin in a chilled stylee. A tune to garden in the moonlight to, that’s if you have the floodlights and the fluorescent hoe.
While looking through a 1960’s gardening book the other week I noticed that the chap who wrote it was photographed doing all the jobs in a lovely shirt & tie combo and sharply creased trousers. How the hell did he manage to work in all that get up?
When I was at the council there was a guy there who everybody knew as “Mr Clean”. He would always have on a crisp white shirt with a purple westminster council tie underneath his pristine council issue coach-drivers type jacket (which he’d get dry cleaned every few months!) There was a method behind his madness as when it came to working his excuse was that he couldn’t as he didn’t want to get his clothes dirty. It paid off as I never ever seen him do any. He was an expert with his custom made long-handled litter picker and could reach deep into bushes and shrubs to pick up coke cans/weeds without actually stepping on the soil, brilliant! I doubt if that sort of thing could happen today. Nice one Mr Clean!
Funnily enough last Thursday I chatted to another council gardener who was dressed unworkmanlike as well, in a lovely pink Lacoste polo shirt with the collars turned up (that isn’t going to get too dirty is it?). After watching him pull out summer bedding and perennials I asked him did they dump them like they used to do in my day at the council. I was pleased to hear they didn’t but composted all the bedding and gave away perennials including ornamental foliage plants to schools and charities. The usual practice years ago was to pull up the plants and spring bulbs and put them in brown sacks and give them to the binmen to take away but we’d give them out to keen gardeners we tipped off the day before while the gaffer weren’t looking. Waste not want not and all that!
Here’s a great tip from the folks at my local garden centre, Shannons in Forest Hill. Ten days before you wish to harvest your potatoes, cut the top growth off (leaving a little stalk so you know where the spuds are when you come to dig them up!) The plant will then put all it’s energy back into the tubers (ie. the potatoes) and give you better skins. I didn’t know that!
Dennis Brown – Say what you say (Joe Gibbs) It’s funny, I love Dennis Brown but I’ve never heard this track before and the first time I did was only last week when I downloaded a recording of King Sturgav Hi-Fi (sound system of the great U Roy) from the late 70’s from the excellent website “who cork the dance” http://www.whocorkthedance.com/sturgav.html
The recording isn’t exactly hi-fi quality but it’s a great piece of reggae history on tape/MP3. Big up the late great D Brown! While I was writing this singing to the song on headphones, my 14 year old daughter came in very concerned and asked was I okay as I sounded “slightly high.” What, on a Thursday night on a glass of cheap Marks’ Sauvignon? I wish, It must be my bad singing!
Weeds up to me knees 