Where Did You Sleep Last Night (1870s) – traditional I wanted to let you hear the version that made this song popular to me, by my favourite Charlie Feathers (who recorded it on the French label New Rose Records in the late 1980s), but it’s not available on Youtube. The clip above mixes between Lead […]
Marquee Moon (1977) – Television I was 16 or 17. D____ gave me this record. He didn’t like it or didn’t know what to make of it. To the last of knowledge, he lives on the Canary Islands. I don’t know where he got the record from. I no longer have this album. The World […]
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_2qjzj73Y] “Theme from S’Express” (1989) – S’Express This is from the period when house reached the public consciousness in Europe. It was released one year after Coldcut’s Doctorin’ The House. Both tracks featured nervous “acid” bass lines. A similar track from that same era is Stakker by Humanoid. See previous entries in this series.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JpD5skqGOo] Knights of the Jaguar (1999) – DJ Rolando See previous entries in this series.
Today, on the occasion of Grandmaster Flash‘s 49th birthday: [Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6e9G-ump3Y] The Message (1982) – Grandmaster Flash “The Message” is an old school hip hop song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released in 1982. The song’s lyrics were some of the first in the genre of rap to talk about the struggles and the […]
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yE-hUJYrvs] Sueño Latino (1992) – Derrick May mix Sueño Latino is an Italo disco duo from Italy, formerly known as Righeira. In 1989 they released a famous eponymous house–techno song Sueño Latino. The track is based on Manuel Göttsching‘s E2-E4. It was remixed by May in 1992. The track you hear here as in a […]
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-ppc4lYyg] Miss You (1978) – The Rolling Stones “Miss You” is a 1978 song by The Rolling Stones, from their album Some Girls. You need the twelve inch version. The Rolling Stones disco years: Several of the songs on 1976’s Black and Blue had boasted vague dance influences, and certain songs such as “Hot Stuff” […]
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BGi8u8BtaA] This Is Not a Love Song (1983) – Public Image Ltd This Is Not A Love Song is a 1983 of the group Public Image Ltd.. It was written by Johnny Rotten, vocalist of Public Image Ltd. and the Sex Pistols and featured on the album This Is What You Want… This Is What […]
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKz4qVmUz84] Psyché Rock (1967) – Pierre Henry and Michel Colombier If you’d like nearly the same with female vocals, try Roller Girl, another Colombier production from the same year (must have been the same studio session by the way the sound is so similar.) See previous entries in this series.
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidEjpsxS3w] Why Can’t We Live Together? (1972) – Timmy Thomas