Thank fuck for Acid House
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Steve Walsh played at our local kids disco in Orpington - the civic. We also had silver bullet one day. A much better booking.
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More Radio 1 Roadshow than Paradise Garage.
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ā¦and the terrible āsitting down in a line and rowing danceā to Oops Upside Your Head thru early and mid 80s!
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Agh, yes! Had forgotten that too.
Thanks for posting this - been trying to find this footage of the old Solar Records in Brixton for ages having lost the link.
That whole āon the micā thing is so strange to watch now, but I think back to the first all soul/dance dayer I went to in 1988 and one of the DJs was specifically introduced as a DJ who doesnāt talk! That āpersonality jockā stuff died really quickly after that at the clubs I went to, though I do remember Nightmares on Wax using the mic sometimes even in 1989/90. Imagine it now! (Then again, Moodymanā¦)
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That whole call/response thing is tired an irrelevant today but I do like at least a little mic action: thanks for coming, see you next time kinda thing. Not because I want thanking, but because it adds to the sense of community, togertherness. Yeah, Iām a softieā¦
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I know its a different scene and crowd but I cant imagine the soundsystems without the mic action ā¦
A lot of the UKG parties were whipped up by the mic man too.
Tenaglia wasnt adverse to getting on the mic in miami either, albeit after a good few hours of lights out, heads down houseā¦
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Pretty much the only thing that I like from the soul scene was the few second break after a DJ had finished their set so you could show your appreciation. Always thought that was a civilised act.
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a website that plays a few seconds of random YouTube videos with almost no views. After a few seconds, it starts playing another video. Itās oddly addictive.
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The first record I bought was XTC. āSgt Rockā. I liked the cartoon cover but the song was so good.
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Iāve still got the 7". Great cover, great song.
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Thatās lovely. I finally had a moment with āApple Venus Vol. 1ā, a beauty, I fell asleep and woke up a few moments later with my headphones on, which was incredibleā¦however English Settlement has been stuck on my mind and turntable for several years, this is the album whose songs I sing along to as I walk down the street, itās therapeutic isnāt it
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Maybe someone already posted this but I really enjoyed watching this, despite not being the worldās biggest fan of new London jazz funk stuff (just think itās a bit saturated at this point, although Yussef is an incredible drummer)
The setting and the additional footage in Japan is really cool, plus the tunes with Minami Kuzuki some of the best stuff heās made.
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https://youtu.be/3T4KQPfNtDk?si=cfYmuBvgyBAQUw1n
Sweat It Out - The Wilson Donnelly Tape, 1988
Nevwr seen this before. Amazing footage of early MCR scenes
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puzzled as to why they dismissed Garnier at the beginning. wasnāt F-Communications the driver of French techno?
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