quick post before bed with this bass heavy groover as I dip into JC's Vinyl Room that I've just rediscovered. just slightly cheesy but oh so sweet. always a great 4am tune.
freddy fresh has been knocking around for ages now and produced some of the tightest party tunes around. Check out his bio. Interesting guy who lived a normal life by day but wondered the nights away with his music.
Around this time last year I was sitting in JC's Vinyl Room converting vinyl into mp3 for posting here. We haven't had a post in this series for a while so here is an epic tune from 1994, coming in at just over 13 minutes that is some nice stripped down, bare minimal techno from the masters that are Basic Channel.
Not everyone's cup of tea but with its tight production, solid beats, high-hats and dubby feel you might be pleasantly surprised. ;)
Buy: Discogs Marketplace, Boomkat
Check out the Basic Channel site for an amazing array of releases under various guises.
Cheers,
Where Is The Feeling (Da Klubb Feelin Mix)
Kylie Minogue
Deconstruction Records/BMG
I would just like it to be known that this
is the only Kylie Minogue record in my collection and I didn’t pay for it. That
said this is a gem – a filthy Felix Da Housecat remix of one of Kylie’s lesser
known numbers. 11 minutes of filthy filtered house music from one of the finest
(at least in my eyes) producers to ever come out of Chicago.
Download: Where is the Feeling (Da Klubb Feelin Mix)
Note: despite extensive searches I haven't been able to find this for sale anywhere online. Let me know if you know otherwise
The Sabres of Paradise – Smokebelch II (Entry) (Sabres of Paradise)
Like a lot of other indie kids I discovered Andy Weatherall through his production and remix work on artists like Primal Scream and My Bloody Valentine. By the time I was out clubbing every weekend in the early 90s Weatherall was a god to me and I eagerly snapped up all the releases on his own Sabres of Paradise label and his partner Nina Walsh’s Sabrettes imprint.
I fondly remember the man himself dropping this as his penultimate track at a set in Dublin’s Temple of Sound, a club which brought some of the top techno and hard-house DJs to the Ormond Hotel (mentioned in James Joyce’s Ulysses, by the way – wonder what Mr Joyce would have made of the shenanigans that went on there 70 years after he fled repressive Dublin). I’d bought this just days before and as that familiar eerie riff was dropped into the mix I was grinning from ear to ear through the dry ice and strobe lights.
From the very first squelchy notes this slice of esoteric electronica still sends shivers down my spine. A dreamy mix of acid basslines, tribalism, and horns this one just builds and builds in intensity and blows away dancefloors. But it’s equally subtle to enjoy on headphones or at a chill out session.
Down to the original painting by Richard Sen on the sleeve and the cheeky Sabres logo, I just loved everything about this little slab of vinyl which has been played to death over the years. Trivia fans may like to know that Weatherall’s co-conspirators in the Sabres, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns went on to be central to The Aloof, an act I’ll also be featuring here in the future.
This is the 11-plus minute version pulled from the 12” release. Enjoy.
Download Smokebelch II (Entry)
Welcome to JC’s Vinyl
Room, a new section on CubikMusik, where I (JC) will be digging into my old
crates of vinyl to bring you some long forgotten nuggets.
So here’s the deal. Me and Cubik go way back. Like back to secondary school (high school for US readers) when we both had silly hair and an obsession with The Cure. We’ve stayed best mates through a variety of musical adventures since then – including his brief career as a roadie for the band I managed and me leaving him in my car for three hours as I ligged backstage at Feile (Ireland’s major outdoor music estival of the late 80’s and 90’s).
A year-out for a world
trip at the tail end of 2001 saw my vinyl collection going into storage in the
attic of my house (hauling those boxes into the attic, seriously stressed poor
old Cubik’s skinny little body). It remained there until last month when Cubik
arrived back from Austin with an iTTUSB turntable which allows you to easily convert your vinyl to MP3.
Several hours later, after a few beers and some funny cigarettes, the idea of
JC’s Vinyl Room was dreamed up.
This is a good deal
more house-y than most of the stuff I was listening to when this came out back
in 1995 even though it was on the Ministry of Sound’s techno imprint Open. The
work of Mike Dunn, a Chicago DJ since the 80s (and not as far as I know any
relation of the hip hop DJ of the same name but I could be wrong), this is just
one of those infectious old school numbers with a groovy almost spoken word
lyric. This gospel-inspure number was guaranteed to get pulled out at least once a night in our
after-hours club that ran in the front room of my apartment most weekends.
Still makes me want to get up and dance around the room – and it’s not that
often that happens these days.
As the man himself puts it “To understand a groove like this you got to be funky”.
Download God Made Me Phunky
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