I used to watch this go round and round for hours…

…usually while listening to Master of Reality by Sabbath

 

Brilliant. And that’s just the hats for starters.

San Francisco 99ers

Hip Hop, Be Bop, Don’t Stop

Currently revisiting the Crucial Electro series Chez Moonbolt. Click on the link below for a recording of Volume 1, side A in all its vinyl glory. Flippin’ marvellous. And thanks to these dudes for the rip.

01 – Crucial Electro 1 – Side 1 – Various Artists – Streetsounds Electro

Tracklisting:

Side -01-
01 – Tyrone Brunson – The Smurf
02 – Warp 9 – Light Years Away
03 – Warp 9 – Nunk (New Wave Funk)
04 – Man Parrish – Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)
05 – Herbie Hancock – Rockit

Side -02-
01 – Twilight 22 – Electric Kingdom
02 – Cybotron – Clear
03 – Hashim – Al Naafiysh (The Soul)
04 – Captain Rock – The Return Of Captain Rock
05 – TimeZone – Wild Style

If Jack White and Phil Mitchell had a son, he would sound like this:

Back in 2004, XFM and the annoyingly ubiquitous Christian O’Connell launched a competition to find the UK’s best school rock band. For the most part, the middle class kids who could afford the best kit got through with pedestrian covers of Green Day and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers (I believe the winning band actually performed a version of Don’t Speak by No Doubt. Go figure).

But one entry stood out – a 13 year old from North London who called himself ‘Ye Olde Fighting Cocks’. His home-made and terrifying version of Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes was never going to win, simply because it was too good, too rude and too rock for Rock School.

The recording has since disappeared from XFM’s site and there is no other copy of the song on the internet that I can find… until now. Just don’t ask me where I got it from.

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks seven nation army

Booker T. & The MG’s – 1968. Doesn’t get better.

BBC 6 is vinyl only for New Years Day

If Gideon Coe wants some rare Chinese/French punk or my collection of Moog classics, then he knows where I am. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16330702?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Miles of smiles

It’s all about Americana at the moment. While trawling through a load of old  CDs I came across this gem of a track. Getting played a lot Chez Moonbolt.

And so say all of us…

@mrjimbob: I’m not bitter, but fuck off http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14937569

Thin Pixies

I can’t begin to tell you how much I love this. Thanks to the indomitable @FenlandGent for the tip-off.