https://www.discogs.com/release/195270-Various-One-Step-Ahead
Collection of 7"s very much of its time. Some classics from the likes of Two Banks of Four, Cinematic Orchestra… and the Earthbound tracks are decent (Attica Blues remix is sweet)… some proper meh coffee table vibes but a few that still sound good for yer early doors bar listening (ie. Tosca).
https://www.discogs.com/release/93703-Maze-Featuring-Frankie-Beverly-Too-Many-Games
Have this purely for the incredible Twilight, which I found out recently is the hold music when you call Barclays along with Sade’s Paradise… Balearic Barclays?
https://www.discogs.com/release/1434498-Boz-Scaggs-Lowdown
Not much to say about this one!
https://www.discogs.com/release/13139143-The-Countach-Aqua-Marina
Reissue of one of the most Balearic records of all time? Also has the Santana OG on it.
https://www.discogs.com/release/2543476-Chris-Proctor-Runoff
One of a quite a few random acoustic guitar records in my collection, actually play these quite a lot, great music for reading/chatting/cooking to.
Great thread, I’ve enjoyed reading all these and loads and tunes I don’t know.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1773321-Various-The-Original-Soundtrack-From-Countryman
Pretty sure I got this at a boot sale. Great mix of reggae and Wally Badarou.
https://www.discogs.com/release/106380-Frank-De-Wulf-Wishflower-The-End
I bought this all the way back in 1992 from a record shop called Manchester Underground, which I think was down by the old Corn Exchange. A side is an original floaty banger, needs pitching down a bit though. Side B is a beatless ambient track, appears on a cafe Del mar tape I seem to remember.
https://www.discogs.com/release/10571125-Blank-Jones-Relax-Edition-Ten
A gift from Sharon Andrews, I think she was PR-ing. Mega coffee table Balearic LP.
https://www.discogs.com/release/3925683-Benoit-Sergio-New-Ships-EP
First heard of B & S on one of those cover mounted mix CDs the dance magazines used to give away, it was a Visionquest comp mix, done by Soul Clap I think.
I was one of those wankers who stood in WH Smith for ages, reading mags from cover to cover before putting them back on the shelf and nicking the CD if I liked the look of the tracklist, this was one i’d half inched.
I’d got bored with House a few years before but I immediately loved that Visionquest/Soul Clap sound and Benoit & Sergio were my favourites.
This is one of my fave 12s of their’s.
Used to love Manchester Underground, used to go regularly there on a Saturday to buy rap with my pocket money, remember one time taking ages to decide which tape I was gonna spend my dough on, Intelligent Hoodlum’s debut album or LL Cool J’s Mama Said Knock You Out, finally decided, after much umming and ahhhing, on the former which in retrospect was the wrong choice.
Story of my life lol.
Grantham station used to have a shop with magazines so whilst waiting for the London train Id get to read Viz cover 2 cover over a few days but Starbucks took it over
Curse of globalisation
a few more - proper procrastination for the work i should be doing.
https://www.discogs.com/release/652941-Del-The-Funky-Homosapien-Wrongplace
everyone loves del, he was such an oddball in hip hop before hip hop oddballs were a thing. great cadence, great flow. probably not among his best tracks but still good. glad i bought this stuff up when i did.
https://www.discogs.com/release/403691-Beck-Ghettochip-Malfunction
only beck record i own! i am absolutely not a beck fan. unlike del, who’s a natural oddball, beck is a completely self-manufactured oddball. a dude who’s just trying toooo hard. a wholly un-genuine guy. the human equivalent of the george carlin axiom “nail two pieces of shit together that have never been nailed together before, and some asshole will buy it!” full on nepo baby vibes with beck.
https://www.discogs.com/release/33873-The-Sabres-Of-Paradise-Theme
probably the least loved of the sabres tracks. i enjoyed the hell out of it. it was a good antidote to so much of the trancey tech and techy trance that was floating about at the time. i’ll bet i played it in the same sets as i played the del track above. the b-sides were great too.
Coma aka Richard Sen on thème artwork duty. The youngest kid in the UK to go to jail for graffiti (methinks).
At last I’ve found the other person who thinks Beck is trying too hard. He never sounded quite true to me
I could be wrong, but I think he was the first person to be given a custodial sentence for graffiti in the UK.
Always liked this Beck cover of INXS, although it’s more Annie Clark, really.
Bought this online when it came out. Lectric sands were releasing quite a few little gems at the time. Cities of the plain still gets the occasional play
https://www.discogs.com/release/4090429-Mazing-Vids-Fruit-Mines-EP
https://www.discogs.com/release/1339307-Dave-Mason-Alone-Together
As a teen I was really into British blues rock from the 1960’s and all the tentacles etc. Traffic were in my favorites list, and so inevitably I went to have a look at the solo careers of the members and got to this record. I still get good memories listening to it but nowadays I sort of just think “Why did I think this was all so great?”. It might have been because I was in a band. Still, cool packaging and the record is all splattery and stuff… Oh, and “Only You Know and I Know” is a killer track, still.
https://www.discogs.com/release/5832664-Lodger-Odoo-Afro-Cuts
I went nuts when I bought another release of Fela edits on this label by Jascha Hagen, and I went out to look for what else they had released at the time and got this one and the other one with cool Herbie Hancock and Oliver Sain edits. This one has faster BPM’s than the others. These were well made, exceptionally pressed, but these days not really what I’m into playing anymore. Still have them though. Surprised to see the label’s still putting out an occasional release.
working in a record store, i’ve bought and sold this record dozens, maybe hundreds of times. but i’ve never listened to it. maybe i’ll give it a shot tonight.
oooh finally a disco record, lord knows i have enough of them.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1091847-Taana-Gardner-When-You-Touch-Me
it’s good! obvs, it’s a classic. MAW loved it enough to both do a re-edit of it on this - i never played that one out, for no other reason than i can’t play em’ all.
https://www.discogs.com/release/5351711-Tommy-Awards-Sessions-EP
tommy awards is/are great, and i’m pretty sure a lot of yous have this record and might agree. not a dancefloor banger, but if there’s a dancefloor that regularly includes tommy awards records - let me know and i’ll come play it. i learned about these guys via origin peoples which i thought might be a PNW thing but never bothered to ask around to find out who’s behind it. just like you how you can’t play em’ all out, you can’t know em’ all either. and that’s fine.
https://www.discogs.com/release/2737597-Asia-Born-DJ-Shadow-And-The-Groove-Robbers-Send-Them-Entropy
boooootleg and i have no idea how i picked it up. there’s a strong chance that some distributor sent this to me and i thought “oh yeah, i don’t think i have an original of this” and kept it. not gonna lie, i can’t tell you how this sounds or if it’s really good or not. i probably don’t hate it. i’m sure it’s pretty solid, but it didn’t spend a whole lot of time in regular rotation.
https://www.discogs.com/release/35631-The-It-Donnie
the it sort of feels like an entry point to larry heard, and that’s cool, but if you only ever heard the it, you could be forgiven for not becoming a LH disciple right out the gate. i love it, and i did get a little bit of play out of it in early doors hours way back when, but it sort of feels like one of those tracks that if you played it now, you’d do best to build around it. warm it up a bit. don’t play a banger out of it.
https://www.discogs.com/release/5424-Alphawezen-Gai-Soleil
sort of slower-house vibes from when a good song could bridge the gap between your chill downtempo set and your peak hours naked music vibes. also has the moving water samples, so yeah, sort of balearic but also maybe a bit too moody for the early end of the night. i feel like i remember playing this amongst herbert and waldek records. i bought this single and then never checked out anything else they did, probably to my detriment. goth house 2K.
I don’t even think it’s worth it, to be honest. A couple OK tracks, nothing special, except the opener - and the main reason I like it so much is because it has Carl Radle on Bass and Jim Gordon on drums and those guys worked extremely well together.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1506106-Donato-A-Bad-Donato
Now this on the other hand was recorded the same year as that Dave Mason record, and coincidentally (I swear I pressed the random button and it came up) it is on the same label, too, and is just overall a much better record in every sense. Crazy psychedelic electronic music by the genius that was João Donato. This record isn’t played enough, IMO. It’s like the soundtrack to a Brazilian Roger Moore James Bond movie in Rio. Donato on the cover could be the villain. God I love this record.
Yeah Stamp is still going strong. The earlier releases were better, imo. Also bought the Jascha Hagen which still sounds great. Discogs prices no doubt driven by the fact it was a regular Luke Una play. Great track to move from warm up into more energy in a set.
