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Deep haunting bass-driven funk rock tune form Yugoslavia in 1982, hence the cliche 80s guitar solo. Pretty cool vibe almost like ‘Skatt Bros – Walk the night‘, not sure what the language is but it is a lot scarier than English.
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Behind The Ocean’ is a acid meltdown ala Chicago Trax 1989 but with a new school NY twist. With live rhodes touches and deep chord structures the acid keeps groovin. Unlike a lot of acid this isn’t whimsy and it packs a tonne of cowbell. Its featured on Daniel Wang’s massive ‘The Balihu Years’ compilation CD released in September this year.
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This is a cool late night tune by the British guitarist John Martyn. Best with a 2 am cig and whiskey. One of the great guitar players, John past around this time last year. Great vocals and instrumental.
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This track is the flip on the Ugly edits 7th release. A wicked rare live version of Funkadelic’s ‘Undisco Kidd’ sounding a lot rawer and deeply funked than the original album version. Not sure whet re-editing has occurred here but the track is pure insane fire.
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Words of wisdom from one of the most important musicians and DJs ever coming out of Detroit: Mr. Derrick May – one of the godfathers of techno. Listen to him philosophising about how you pull the strings of life in the right way and right direction. Never dance to your own music. Don’t you ever dare to offer someone fruit with the promise how great the taste will be. Beware! There are a lots of shades of shit in an orange…
This interview with techno music pioneer Derrick May is part of a series created by the Red Bull Music Academy, click through for the full length version. RBMA have kindly created this editied version for feelmybicep.
Also including this awesome radio show at RBMA and from couple of weeks when Mr. May took over BBC Radio 6.
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Classic 1990’s techno, this kid was 14 when he produced this track! Trent’s father was a disco DJ. He recorded the track “Altered States” while still a high schooler, releasing it on Armando’s Warehouse Records in 1990. The track became a huge club hit among devotees of techno, despite Trent’s grounding in the Chicago house scene. This classic detroit sound has had an influence on uk labels, especially lots of the earlier Soma releases etc. Enjoy
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Outrageously camp jacking Hi NRG flavoured Disco from back in 1982. This appears to have been quite a big influence for tracks like Den Haan’s ‘Nightshift’
This track was actually produced by the legendary Patrick Cowley in collaboration with Parker, who coincidently shares both the 2nd name and giant ‘San-Fran Tash’ with the late Dennis Parker.
Great cowbell’s and relentlessly hissing hi hats assure that this is in keeping with plenty of your peak time tackle. Enjoy, with a cocktail.
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Here’s a deep little synth jam by the band Yes. Despite making their name with hits like ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart’, they always tried to maintain their status as a prog rock band. Perplexing. Their pop stuff was a lot better.
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NEU! is a German based Krautrock super group made up of Michael Rother & Klaus Dinger. Klaus Dinger played drums on the first Kraftwerk LP in 1971. The following year he joined forces with Michael Rother and they formed Neu!, releasing their self-titled debut LP on German label Brain. Their music was heavily innovative and influential, melting distorted guitars with metronomic drumming, noise effects and tapes.
As you can hear its some pretty trippy shit, perfect music to drive to epically if your nailing canisters of Mescaline and regularly swatting bats from your vision. Seen this second release of this for sale in a fleamarket in Prenzlauer Berg for €30, got it for £2 in Stoke Newington. Bargins!
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“‘Dragonfly’, is a Danny Kirwan setting of a W.H. Davies poem, catches the mood of the poem perfectly, and is typical Kirwan – wistful, delicate, and exquisitely melodic”
In an age here pretenders are at the forefront of ‘indie’ music it is worth looking back at the pioneers, perfect Winter tuneage.
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Hands up who likes Italo of the disco kind! these guys defiantly have the sleaze factor and their synths pack more meat than those Turkish Kebab shops in Dalston *girthy doners*. Come on the guy on the left has been heavily inspired by Daniel-Son-Karate Kid and the right guy clearly stole Eddie Murphy’s haircut…All in all Amin Peck are win win.
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Quality tribally looper here from the Talking Heads, as ever perfectly executed, on the wonderful Fear of Music album The lyrics are an adaptation of Dadaist Hugo Ball’s poem “Gadji beri bimba.” either way this is weirdly funky!
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Huge piano house remix of Kevin Saunderson’s ‘The Reese Project’ by underground resistance back in 1992, this helped propel them into the forefront of house and techno music.
Underground Resistance is probably the most militantly political outcropping of modern urban American techno. Combining a grubby, four-track aesthetic, an almost strictly DIY business philosophy, and an oppositional, militaristic ethos similar to Public Enemy without the drama (or the familiarity; the members refuse to be photographed without bandanas obscuring their identities), UR have redirected their portion of the Detroit techno legacy to social activist ends, trading mainstream popularity and financial success for independence and self-determination. Begun in the early ’90s by Detroit second-wave trinity Mike Banks,Robert Hood & Jeff Mills, UR adapted the flavor and kick of early Detroit techno to the complex social, political, and economic circumstances in the wake of Reagan-era accelerated inner-city decline, and was formed as an outlet for uncompromising music geared toward awareness and change.
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One of the godfathers of chicago house bringing us the original house music anthem, all the way back in 1986!
You’ll almost certainly recognise it from the various cheesy remakes, here’s the original.
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Been listening to some Roni Griffith recently, dark undergorund ”Christian” aarpeggiated disco….It’s crazy that she gave everything up (her New York Music career) due to her faith?!?!
She resided in New York from the age of 19 until she was 23 years old, finding an amount of success within a short period of time. On the eve of her first music video and her launch on the new music media outlet MTV, Griffith decided to walk away from everything based on her morals and values as a Christian in the secular music industry.
In 1983, Griffith pursued a career as a Christian Contemporary artist. She appeared on The 700 Club and was also featured numerous times in her hometown newspaper, The Herald Times. In 2004, she released her second Christian Contemporary album, entitled Only You.
Don’t let this put you off, Enjoy!
Mondo Man
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Spy
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Hot Lover
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Voodoo Man
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