Digging through the shelves yesterday at Maison Du Acid I happened upon a house version of “Hard Act to Follow” by Chicago Funk / Soul legends The Chi Lites. This is f0und on the b-side of the release, and uncovers a little known gem of a 1985 Chicago style house version that strips of most [...]
It's gonna Go Bang again in Brighton during the whole month of May
Some may remember from last year I was blogging about a month long Guerilla style (and not men dressed in ape outfits) festival that takes place in Brighton over the month of May at various non-club venues. Well it’s that time of year again folks, and the good people at Go Bang are hosting there [...]
Safe to Dance
A bit of 80′s Synth re-edit action today of an old tune I used to love back in the early 80′s, these days maybe considered a guilty pleasure. This edit extends the grooves, subtracts some areas of the original extended dance mix and multiplies the beats into a monster eight minutes of shameless 80′s fun. [...]
Belouis Some – Imagination
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elzzlgcfNgw] Time to dig the 80′s crate again and resurface some Balearic gems. The Belouis Some was British New Wave musician Neville Keighley, who had some minor hits in the 80′s with Some People, Round and Round but the highlight for me was Imagination, that hit no.17 in the uk charts. The opening line conjures [...]
Passion
In the mid nineties hand bag house was the popular sound in the more commercial clubs and dance music charts in the uk, examples of such artists are Strike, Loveland, Nush, Gat Decor Bootlegs, The Hed Boys. One of the big hitters was by Jon of the Pleased Wimmin with his chart hit Passion. Jon [...]
Guilty Pleasures
We all have musical guilty pleasures in life, those songs or tracks that you know you should not really like, but you just love them. I posted a couple of years ago some of my hidden gems and guilty pleasures, in truth 90% are mainly hidden gems as I guess I did not want to [...]
Meditating on floating clouds
Modest, quiet, bad with self-promotion and with answering the phone, composer and multi instrumentalist (he’s one of the best on guitar ) Manuel Göttsching is instead content to stay at home meditating on his next project by painting his Berlin’s flat windows, but yet, he is prominently exhibited as a wax model in Asia’s largest [...]
Warm Sounds – Live Show 24th November 2009
Here is a recording of The Warm Sounds Live show on Pirate Revival net radio from Tuesday evening, 2hrs of randomly selecting tunes and putting them in the mix. The Warm Sounds Show is still in its infancy and has been running for little over 6 months, it is very organic, and requires no pre-planning [...]
Warm Sound Radio Show
Ok I forgot to tell you about my “Warm Sounds” Show that I present on Pirate Revival Radio Station on alternate Tuesdays between 6pm-8pm GMT. For 2hrs I select a kaliedascape of sound including Punk, Funk, Disco, Acid, House, 80′s Synth, Electrofunk and everything else in between past, present and future from the record boxes [...]
Tim Rivers – Balearic Juke Box – Club Classics Pride Guest Mix (remake)
Less than two weeks ago I had the amazing opportunity of playing at a club classics night hosted by the Balearic Brothers on Pride Weekend in Brighton. Although not recorded live on the night, I thought I would record the set pretty much in the same track order as it was on the night. Being [...]