Belated birthday present from the Mrs. Arrived yesterday.
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Iâll be honest, I really like tracks A1, A4 and B4. The rest are decent as well. Definitely a solid purchase.
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Will have to check that, this one is actually the 7â - cheapie charideee shop pick up - has definately made me want âa full lengthâ as it were
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Yeah itâs a great sleeve. Itâs the white label of this:
https://www.discogs.com/release/10308222-Various-Tribute-To-Peckings
Unfortunately the pressing is fucked, has the weirdest warp Iâve ever seen - instead of a gradual wave itâs like a 5 mm pimple at the edge of the disc so track one of both sides wonât play.
Cheap ÂŁ3 pick up though and worth it for the Winston Francis version of âLa La La La means I love youâ originally by the Delphonics
And as you say, lush graphics too
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I used to live round the corner from Peckings, not that I ever went in of course
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Highly recommended re issue. Australian dub from 1980s thatâs heavily influenced by UK post-punk scene, Mad Prof, Sherwood etc.
I got the record from Dubwise but itâs also digital if youâre that way inclined.
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Thanks for the tip in this thread about the KiF Still Out release on Bandcamp Friday. Did anyone else get a super warped copy?
Sorry to hear that. Maybe not what u want to hear but mine came last week and is 100% fine, no warp and plays great.
This looks like a nice one
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Did any of you go to these parties? In South Africa chill rooms were a thing and there was even a club called the Magic Lushroom that had shag carpet on the walls and a guy named Tarquin played ambient records only that morphed into things on Warp, etc. Got a little too clever and was a bit po-faced. Was that the same in the UK? Weâre talking '95 - '98 here.
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Iâve got a feeling we did. There werenât many electronic things back then in a weird way. Guess there were less clubs in general. From Megadog to Lost and then Sabresonic etc⌠I bet Iâm getting my timeline well wonky there
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A bit before my time, and wasnât in the area. In the PNW my experience of the âchill out roomâ was at sketch raves and house parties and usually involved hip hop & blunts.
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We were right into Mixmaster Morris, so would catch him when we could. This was just after his time at The Brain and would tend to be in oddball places: ommunity centres or separate nights in the back rooms of big clubs that you wouldnât usually go to. It was pre internet, so you had to keep your nose to the ground. There was a great music shop in glasgow where the guy was bang into his ambient tunes, so heâd tell us about goings on. If you were down south, as Paul said, Megadog was great. They did a weekend party in St Austell in Cornwall that was like paradise. Camping on the beach. Megatripolis were really good too. I went to Lost, but didnât remember a chill out room. But I was too transfixed by Jeff Mills juggling vinyl.
Iâve just convinced myself that I should really get that Telepathic Fish album on vinyl rather than digital. 
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The Magic Lushroom was literally someone going, âimagine if we made the chill room the main room â and et voila a club with bean bags everywhere, no dancing and everyone chewing their eyebrows on a cocktail of acid and ecstasy. It was a juice bar as well and loads of interactive things like textured walls, a hot bath thing to wash your feet in that was in the middle of the place and things like back scratchers and that thing people used to put on your heads that would stimulate three parts of your scalp were handed to you at the door. I donât remember a single record that was played. It was only open on Thursdayâs I think if memory serves me right.
Actually in hindsight, sounds alright.
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Yep - that was very much the vibe. I remember queuing up to get into one place and the guys ahead of us had brought their double mattress for the full chill experience. A different time indeed!
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I mean youâve got to respect it. They went once and thought it was a great experience but it was missing a certain level of comfort, and they took it upon themselves to solve it.
I love that they got in with it.
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Totally! We thought we were ahead of the game taking a pack of cards!
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