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09/03/23 • 119 min
This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive.
‘The Voice of Music’, Model 270-0 looking like Second World War in car entertainment the US Army never had. Would have been a tad bumpy. Currently a $185 eBay Buy It Now, out of Florida, USA but ‘missing needle or wire that allows music to play‘.
Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.
Lyric of Playlist 119...
It has to be Marvin’s legendary query but if he hadn’t turned up on this show his bastard son, Mara TK would have walked it. ‘Some got the good book some got a gun. If they got both, then you probably need to run... ‘ Ain’t that the truth!
00.00
(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.
00.41
NEW ORDER – Mesh (Cargo demo) – Movement, LP Definitive Edition boxset – Warner Music – 2019
Later to be heard with Barney on vocals but up to this point – in Rochdale’s Cargo Studios in January, 81 and live, at the time – with Hooky. Either way, it was gone from the set before I caught them for the first time a few weeks later.
03.46
CABARET VOLTAIRE – Twanky Party – Salvation! (soundtrack) LP – Les Disques du Crépuscule – 1987
Could well have been a mood setting gig opener but as far as I know, it was never played live.
07.54
MARASMA – Two Hearts In One Body – 12′′ extra track – Freerange Records – 1998
And onwards from a soundtrack sound to a short lived, late ’90s London-based project and some ‘incidental music’... of the edgy sort.
12.56
JAZZ THE GLASS – WanT – Shine, CD only – 2023
Out of Dunbar, Scotland, ‘retro soul’ slow beats and samples grooves of the highest order.
16.28
ERICK SERMON (feat MARVIN GAYE) – (Just Like) Music * – 12′′ – Polydor – 2001
I don’t suppose the going $$$ rate for officially sampling Gaye was too shabby, but I’m guessing maybe the a cappella of his I’ve Got My Music was freely floating around the net for all to grab before anyone subsequently concocting a half decent tune with it had to approach the powers that be. For me, it’s worth it for Sermon’s smile-along ‘Marv melding’ alone... with the rap very nearly superfluous.
18.54
MARVIN GAYE – What’s Going On (Original single version) – 7′′ – Tamla Motown – 1970
I was thirteen when this iconic song was released but it might have been a couple of years before the pocket money jobs started paying for me to invest in Motown 7′′s, occasionally new but most often second hand... and the What’s Going On album is still up there as my fave of all time.
22.32
JALEN NGONDA – Come Around And Love Me – Come Around And Love Me, LP – Daptone – 2023
As this show uploads, upcoming in the next few days. Maryland, USA via Liverpool, UK... or in the case of this particular track, I’d suggest via the aforementioned Marvin Gaye album. One of my tunes of the year, so far.
25.36
GLENN JONES – Open Up Your Heart – Here I Go Again, LP – Atlantic – 1992
US R&B and a single that never was... but should have been.
29.45
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS – Block Rockin’ Beats – 12′′ – Freestyle Dust – 1997
You have to do some serious searching on 41 Rooms to find certified UK singles chart toppers but this was such a strut. Big beats!
34.37
SIR DREW – Funkin Miss Loader * – 12′′ – Kingsize – 1999
One of a constantly passing through the ’90s bunch of head noddin’ but slightly throwaway tracks. I’d already guessed at ‘tooled up studio chancers having a laugh’ before I decided to check out who exactly Sir Drew had been. Discogs says of Andrew Meecham: ‘Producer from Stafford, UK. Got his break when he and Chris Peat answered an ad in the paper looking for sound engineers at Blue Chip Studios. They were keyboard players with no experience of engineering, but they blagged their way in‘. I rest my case.
38.04
SUB SUB – Jaggernath – 12′′ b-side – Robs Records – 1995
Doves in their younger dance beats incarnation.
42.06
URBAN SPECIES (feat IMOGEN HEAP) – Blanket (Alb...
02/06/22 • 240 min
PLAYLIST 100 uploaded Feb 6, 2022Celebrating show #100 with 4hrs of 21st Century 7′′ cheeriness!
Unsurprisingly then, this one is 100% vinyl friendly.
The occasionally-mentioned-in-these-parts big bunch of early 60s singles that arrived with a second hand Dansette my dad bought and the arrival of two of the Beatles’ (She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand) given to the Hickey household by our next door neighbour, all around 1964, were the start... and the 7′′ has been my favourite music format ever since. With a great tune on the A side it’s as close to perfection as a physical format can get and whereas the previous ninety nine 41 Rooms shows might all have included a 7′′ or three, let’s hear it for nearly seventy time of my fave vinyl 7s released since 2000.
Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop.
00.00
(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info.
00.41
NEW ORDER – Everything’s Gone Green (Cicada Remix) – London – 2005
Mess with the band’s early electronic manoeuvres and you’re on very shaky ground with me but even though you’ve got to dig deep to find any New Order 7s this century this is a great remix. The upfront pedestrian (even clunky?) beat would easily kill a bunch of other tunes but it works well here with the eery feel given this mega statement of a track from a pivotal period in the band’s journey.
04.52
THE DUKE SPIRIT – The Step And The Walk – You Are Hear Music – 2007
Sounding just right... just here. Indie rock goodness.
08.08
PVA – Divine Intervention – Speedy Wunderground – 2020
A mighty debut single I’d have spun in our club back in 1981, if it wasn’t for the fact the band members were even born... and though it’s not vital, if anyone can decipher what number copy I have (see below), do let me know.
11.46
WORKING MEN’S CLUB – Teeth (Extended Mix) – Heavenly – 2019
More post punk feel electronics from modern day bright young things.
17.32
DRAGONS – Here Are The Roses – Ohm Recordings – 2007
One of a handful of cracking tunes from their brief existence but the cynic in me feels if they had ditched the near uniform shades look for the video to this 7′′ they might have survived a bit longer. Trying just that bit too hard to look... errr, I dunno. It can be a grey and difficult area for some.
21.36
EDITORS – All Sparks – Kitchenware – 2006
More early eighties ‘feel, this time maybe new wave’ish? The fifth single from their debut album, but the first to venture out from the single word title format. Spooky... or maybe not.
25.01
DEPARTMENT M – The Second Prize – Too Pure – 2013
Storming stuff. The work of one Owen Brinley. His ex band, Grammatics, had a couple of prog rock-tinged tracks I liked. At the point I spun this on an earlier show there was a very cool live version of Second Prize on uuutuuube that in all its time had, stunningly, only amassed 700+ views... and the lone comment ‘Owen is brilliant’. Sadly, it appears the vid has since disappeared, unless someone tells me otherwise. Releases on both Fierce Panda and Too Pure had failed to jump start OB to a higher profile, but he’s sounded way too class an act to not be releasing music again at some point. 500 grey, heavyweight, hand numbered vinyl copies of Second Prize out there somewhere.
28.55
UNKNOWN – Stupid – No label – Early 2000s
Sampling Sly and the Family Stone, with Charlie Manson’s vocals adding some menace. Inventive, the way bootleg 7′′s should be.
33.09
(DJ) PARKER – Penny Dreadful – Leisure Recordings – 2006
‘Hip hop, don’t stop’...
36.37
THE GENE DUDLEY GROUP – The Hilo Bay Halfway (Gene Dudley Disco Dub Mix) – Wah Wah 45s – 2013
Hi’s to Wah Wah heads, Dom Servini and Adam Scrimshire.
40.36
HOLY STRAYS – Christabell – Morning Ritual – 2012
Drummer and composer, Sébastien Forrester playing the perfect game of 21st century sounds on a 7′′ and coloured/see through vinyl.
45.46
PAULINE TAYLOR – Fire (Siren EP) – Ramrock Red – 2020
Gospel-style!!
48.14
DEBO BAND – Gedawo – Elec...
Episode 97 – 7.11.21
41Rooms
11/07/21 • 119 min
PLAYLIST 97 uploads Nov 7, 2021
and it’s 74% vinyl friendly. Not bad.
The Jive Turntable.
Roughly £140 for this bright and breezy set up, so don’t expect wonders. ‘Entry level’, I think they call it… and that set of button controls reminds me of some remote/zapper used for the TV… or something else I can’t quite place. 
Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop.
Lyric of Playlist 97…
Mr Wrobbel! The prize is yours.
00.00
(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info.
00.41
NEW ORDER – Isolation (John Peel session, ’98) – In Session, CD only – Strange Fruit – 2004
A worthy companion to the original version, I remember this and the other tracks on the session it comes from were wrapped around conversation between Peel and the band. Their first ever meeting? A nice touch, whatever.
03.21
SEA FEVER – De Facto (The Carlton Club, Manchester) – Youtube only – 2021
Based in Manchester and including the two ‘newer’ members of New Order, this groovily rushes along.
Episode 99 – 2.1.22
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01/02/22 • 120 min
PLAYLIST 99 uploaded Jan 2, 2022
and it’s 88% vinyl friendly. Impressive.
As of 2018 or so Audio Consulting’s R-evolution Meteor-Stealth turntable was arguably the third most expensive turntable on the market. At $176,000 there sure as hell needs to be some back story – so, this is it and being a Switzerland-based company it might be handy for all those very wealthy bods visiting their Swiss bank accounts who might want to ‘Call and collect’ a turntable whilst they’re there... to save on the P&P
Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop.
Lyric of Playlist 99...
With little real competition, it’s Marv and Tammi’s dualling. Hearts on their sleeves.
00.00
(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info.
00.41
NEW ORDER – The Him (Cargo Demo) (2019 Remaster) – Movement, Definitive Edition boxset – Rhino / Warner Music – 2019
From the band’s Jan ’81 Cargo Studios, Rochdale demos sessions, that would also make up the bulk of their immediate live sets leading to the album’s debut in November of that year.
05.29
THE WAKE – Here Comes Everybody (Peel session, 14.7.83) – Harmony & Singles, 2LP – Factory Benelux – 2013
Always a fave Wake track with me, the Peel session was a couple of months before I put them on for the first time in Bedford, at Winkles.
The Wake, outside Revisited vintage clothes shop, Bedford, pre their gig at Winkles, 7.9.83
Photo credit/copyright: Dec Hickey
12.26
GERALD SHAPIRO (and THE ELECTRIC PHOENIX) – Phoenix – Electro Acoustic Music II, v/a CD only – Neuma Records – 1991
Anyone of a certain age who got ambushed by the French a-cappella group, the Swingle Singers turning up on early 70s, variety-type UK TV might struggle to learn there was a personnel connection between them and this recording... but there was.
17.45
SWEDISH FISH – Voices Move Me – How Can You Sleep At Night, 7′′ EP – Bullseye Records Of Canada – 1986
Just two mid 80s 7′′ singles and then just the twenty years later (in your own time) a more ‘polished and accomplished’ but less interesting (for me anyway) debut album. It did though manage to involved the same main personnel in both eras, so that’s no mean feat in itself.
21.38
CRISPY AMBULANCE – The Presence – Live On A Hot August Night, 12′′ b-side – Factory Benelux – 1981
This does always genuinely bring to mind a summer’s evening, at the Hickey family home in Bedford back in those times. Not sure if it was in August, though. Either way, very strange.
29.38
THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND – Who Called The Dandy? – CD single extra track – City Rockers – 2006
Leeds via some US West Coast sensibilities.
34.18
BJÖRK and DAVID ARNOLD – Play Dead (Tim Simenon 7′′ Remix) – 7′′ – Island – 1993
Released as the only single from the soundtrack of the 1993 crime drama, The Young Americans... written by Jah Wobble and notable more so for Björk’s co performer, David Arnold’s strings and stuff than Tim Simenon’s remix work.
37.42
THIEVES – The Night – 7′′ b-side – Hut Recordings – 1993
One of the earliest public sightings of David McAlmont’s soaring voice, he’ll be back here at some point.
41.24
EDDIE HOLMAN – It’s All In The Game – 7′′ b-side – ABC – 1969
The best and only version of the song that will grace 41 Rooms it’s also almost certain to be the only one involving a Vice President of the USA in waiting, the music for the tune having been written by Charles Dawes in 1911. The words were added in the 1950s.
44.48
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD – Everything’s Tuesday – 7′′ – Invictus – 1970
Beyond my first ever record buy (50p pocket money given to Dad to grab Elton John’s Your Song in Hockliffe’s, Bedford) this was one of three singles that followed. One of the other two, America’s Horse With No Name, has already made it to 41 Rooms but it might have to be a strange day for the third one to get here.
47.38
THE ORIGINALS – Don’t Stop Now – Portraits Of The Originals, LP – Soul – 1970
Never a single in its own right first time around but a growing affection from...
Episode 101 – 6.3.22
41Rooms
03/06/22 • 120 min
PLAYLIST 101 uploaded Mar 6, 2022
and it’s 93% vinyl friendly. Near perfect.
Nothing to do with Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the ELP Laser Turntable may be for the younger generation who grew up knowing nothing but CDs... and who have around £10,000 to spend! ‘In theory, it’s the perfect turntable because it uses a laser instead of a cartridge and stylus (hence, wear on the vinyl is effectively zero) and its transport resembles a large CD drawer‘ said the promo. Also, you can even ask the vinyl to play a less worn side of the groove to avoid excessive groove noise. Who thinks this stuff up?
Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop.
Lyric of Playlist 101...
It has to be Electric Wire Hustle... once again
00.00
(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info.
00.40
NEW ORDER – Dream Attack – Technique, LP – Factory – 1988
A track that was regularly in the live set in ’88 and ’89 and even survived the band’s then first, errr... ‘rest’, to appear again when they resumed play in ’93.
05.09
THE B-52’s – Planet Claire – 7′′ – Island Records – 1979
New wave royalty with one of their early gems.. and was there ever a match more made in heaven than them and the Flinstones? I think not.
08.27
NAKED ROOMMATE – We Are The Babies – Do The Duvet, LP – Upset The Rhythm
Not too dissimilar an ‘approach’ to the above and I’ll bet there’s a B-52’s track somewhere that could mix in and out of this... should anyone want to.
11.11
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – The Cutter – 7′′ – Korova – 1983
I suspect there’s been a myriad of great subject matters behind Ian Mac’s lyrics through the years but to be honest, as much as I’m a fan of their early years I’ll have known none of them.
14.54
GNAG OF FOUR – Silver Lining – 7′′ – EMI – 1983
A bit of a funk feel creeping into the band around these times, and as mighty a live track as any of their earlier, more angular material. I’m judging that from Youtube, as I somehow never saw them play live. Something also gave me the notion that bass player of the time, Sara Lee had Bedford(shire) connections. Never saw her in the pubs, though... so maybe not.
18.20
SLAB! – Death’s Head Soup – 7′′ – Ink Records – 1989
A phaaaat sound... from a band who rarely sounded otherwise!
24.19
STIK-E & THE HOODZ – Shake Whatcha Mama Gave Ya – A Break From The Norm, 12′′ promo only – Gut Recordings – 2001
A shoddy lyrical idea (and you can guess what the video looks like)... but a storming ‘feel’ in the sound, if that makes sense. Now, if say Public Enemy had put a storyline to this ‘melody’ it would have made one massive statement.
28.04
WORKING WEEK – I Thought I’d Never See You Again – 7′′ – Virgin – 1985
‘I don’t do jazz ‘ Pt 101... or whatever. Post Tracey Thorn’s brief time with the band, Juliet Roberts leads a beaut of a sound.
31.39
LESLEY DUNCAN – Love Song – Sing Children Sing, LP – CBS – 1971
During an interview I did in the late nineties with publishing heavyweight, Terry Oates (re his time introducing a then unknown Jose Feliciano to the UK in the mid sixties) he mentioned he had once signed Lesley. In amongst a spate of sixties singles she was also doubling as a session singer (maybe most notably as part of Dusty Springfield’s backing vocalists) and it was whilst working on a Jose UK recording session in 1967 that Terry got on the case. This might not be the only version of Love Song that makes it to 41 Rooms... but the other won’t be Elton’s.
34.39
SNOWGOOSE – Crawl Out Your Window – Harmony Springs, LP – Open Hearth – 2012
I’ve only recently realised the band is made up of Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fan Club and other Scottish ‘indie’ bods of note, with singer Anna Sheard looking like the only one who hasn’t done a stint with one of said bands. I bought the album at the time (it might even have been a Record Store Day release) with none of the above info on board.
39.47
TIM BUCKLEY – Make It Right – Greetings From L.A., LP – Warner Brothers – 1972
Another occasion to thank Simon S, schoolboy mate of New Order’s Ste...
Episode 87 – 3.1.21
41Rooms
01/03/21 • 119 min
PLAYLIST 87 uploaded Jan 3, 2021 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive A Zenith Stroboscope, and looking at the facia, maybe the sort of turntable ET could fall in love with? Or am I thinking of some scatty (accident prone?) miniature robot and film. Date of manufacture of the above unknown. Photo credit: www.vinylengine.com Any track marked […]
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Episode 85 – 1.11.20
41Rooms
11/01/20 • 120 min
PLAYLIST 85 uploaded Nov 1, 2020 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Listen With Your Eyes, by Chrissie Macdonald. One of ten one-off Rega Planar ‘augmented’ turntables up for auction on Nov 12, the proceeds of which will go to this year’s Secret 7″ charity partner, Help Refugees. Any track marked * has been given either a […]
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Episode 92 – 6.6.21
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06/06/21 • 119 min
PLAYLIST 92 uploaded June 6, 2021 and is 89% vinyl friendly! Impressive. The Nordic Concept Reference Turntable, designed by A Better Life Audio Group. ‘The Milky Bars are on me!‘ Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop. Lyric of Playlist 92… The weight of Tim’s […]
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05/01/22 • 119 min
and it’s 91% vinyl friendly. Near perfect
Grand Prix Audio’s Parabolica (‘inspired by and built like a Formula 1 race car’) is named after a turn at Italy’s Monza circuit, so if Formula 1 floats your boat... $16,500. Tonearm extra.
Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune sonically might not sound quite how it originally did.
Lyric of Playlist 103...
‘God, sometimes you just don’t come through... ‘
No shit!
Initially I’d forgotten ‘he’ was in my firing line here in the last show... so I’ll repeat. We’ve more chance of Donald Duck sorting things. No really, we have.
00.00
(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info.
00.41
NEW ORDER – Someone Like You – Get Ready, LP – London Records – 2001
Daughter, Alice’s copy of Get Ready below, autographs acquired by herself in the dressing room of a Brixton 2001 gig. The Sharpie I’d bought the same day (red, to match the sleeve) has worn about as well as the sleeve itself, with the latter (spanking new at the time) having then been stuffed unceremoniously into Alice’s school locker for an age. Let’s be grateful for small mercies. If the album had been an autographed copy of whatever every other 12yr old was listening to, it might have been nicked. As for Someone Like You? The machines echo a slightly darker undercurrent of menace of the band’s earlier years and melded with the ‘brighter’ Barney’s vocals and BVs it works just fine.
05.57
SEX PISTOLS – Problems – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols, LP – Sex Pistols Records – 1977
Att...i... tude!
10.06
X-RAY SPEX – Let’s Submerge – 7′′ b-side – EMI International – 1978
Poly! Poly! Poly!
13.28
PENETRATION – Money Talks – 7′′ b-side – Virgin – 1977
Another punk gal who showed the way. Up to this 41 Rooms show I hadn’t ever worked out whether my first and by default sighting of Penetration live had actually happened but an updated band gigography has confirmed as much. I went to the Marquee on June 29, ’77 actually to grab a chat with Ian Gillan, who I knew was going himself, to see Heron. Whilst at the bar with Ian I heard this scream from the out of sight support band and went and caught my first ever glimpse of Pauline Murray’s crew!
Mate, Dave’s early 80s poster...
15.07
THE REZILLOS – Cold Wars – 7′′ – Sire – 1979
One of a bunch of highly entertaining singles they put out.
18.01
23 SKIDOO – Ethics – 7′′ – Pineapple Products – 1981
Before their crooked, industrial funk side set in. They were well capable in both areas.
21.23
INERTIA – Injury Time – Dancebeat Attitude (Pop Anguish En Route), 7′′ EP – Inertial Records – 1980
I’ve made numerous attempts to want to playlist this but the vocals have proved ‘difficult’ to sit next to... well, just about anything! Both Inertia’s first two singles (this was the second) were spun on John Peel’s radio show and he read out a band member’s address as to where to nab them... which I did. I sold them years later when ‘minimalist synth’/electronic bods were helping to up their value(s) – at one point later on both were fetching well over £100! – but the interest seems to have died off a bit since.
I still have the note (using a spare sleeve!) Inertial main man, D(ouglas) B(enford) sent me with this single back in 1980.
23.46
THOMAS LEER and ROBERT RENTAL – Monochrome Day’s – The Bridge, LP – Industrial Records – 1979
Leer showing a vocal confidence that he’d later stretch much further, with Rental’s musical career pretty much drawing to a halt just a year after this album. Not sure about that apostrophe in the title, though.
27.22
PETE SHELLEY – Homosapien – 7′′ – Genetic Records/Island Records – 1981
A slight swerve in between his Buzzcocks eras.
31.46
THE BEATLES – Things We Said Today – 7′′ b-side – Parlophone – 1964
Well documented at 41 Rooms, the Dansette, plus bunch of early and second hand 60s 7′′s job lot purchase of my dad’s in the early ’60s (Peacock’s, Bedford auction/sales room) might just have beat this 7′′ into the Hickey household but our next door neighbour, Barbara Varney bequeathed the Beatles’ She L...
10/01/23 • 119 min
This playlist is 82% vinyl friendly. Impressive.
Early Technics decks custom coloured, courtesy of digifunktechnics.co.uk. Wasn’t there a colour of Spangle a few decades back that nearly matched the above? Pimping up and beyond also available... and no, I’m not an affiliate for them.
Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here.
Lyric of Playlist 120...
If I’m honest there are precious few contenders this month. At one end, maybe Mr Callier for the simplicity. At the other? Green Gartside. He’ll never sing his without them laid out in front of him.
00.00
(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.
00.41
NEW ORDER – The Game (Mark Reeder Spielt Mit Version) – Music Complete: Remix EP, promo CD only – 2017
Berlin-based but very long time friend of the band from his Manc days, Reeder takes the slower/break down passages of the original as his starting and finishing point.
07.00
THE BEATLES – Come Together – 7′′ b-side – Apple – 1969
A bit of a mid ’70s Heronscroft, Putnoe, Bedford ‘sense’ surrounds me when I hear this. A track that led off the Abbey Road album but played second fiddle to Something on the single.
10.57
SCRITTI POLITTI – Lions After Slumber (Single version) – 12′′ b-side – Rough Trade – 1981
If you’re a ‘singalong on the chorus’ kind of guy there’s nothing to see/hear here.
15.33
MARIBOU STATE – Blackoak – 12′′ – Ninja Tune – 2023
Warm sounds, limited and numbered to 300 pressed on eco-vinyl, white label copies. All hand-stamped and signed by the duo.
20.20
OUTLINES – Listen To The Drums (Clignancourt Edit) – 12′′ – Sonar Kollektiv – 2006
Still sounding a very idiosyncratic release.
24.50
KODŌ – Ibuki Reconstruction (DJ Krush – Extended) – Remix 2, 12′′ – Columbia – 1998
The Japanese drum troupe’s beats a rolling, courtesy of their hip-hop’er fellow countryman.
27.48
ERIC RANDOM & THE BEDLAMITES – Mad As Mankind – 12′′ – Doublevision – 1984
Some won’t be surprised to learn this was recorded at Cabaret Voltaire’s Western Works studio and produced by Richard and Mal.
34.09
ELECTRIBE 101 – You’re Walking (Peeping Tom Mix) – Electribal Memories, LP – Mercury – 1990
Such was the money floating around in the late ’80s, dance music had its fair share thrown at it. Courtesy of every name US house producer/remixer of note, these Birmingham lads and Billie Ray Martin’s class electronic torch pop managed to straddle both the house/club scene and the charts, and along with the latter having kept vocally active ever since, the band’s ‘lost’ second album, Electribal Soul managed to finally surface in 2021, three decades after their first.
39.25
KHERAL – I Loved You First (Rawhouse Mix) – 12′′ – Freetown Inc – 1992
‘Kheral’s soaring vocals are driven along by Pierre’s incessant melting and moulding of all the musical elements. A combination guaranteed to send shivers down your spine – one to play from start to finish. Deeper!‘ – Rhythm Doctor, Record Mirror (Music Week), 20.3.93
DJ Pierre at the controls, it sort of plods but it also quietly builds, with the man himself also letting loose. Another first heard back in the day on late night KISS FM – with a nod here to Sarah HB’s show.
44.09
MR FINGERS – Waterfalls – Amnesia, 2LP – Jack Trax – 1989
Hearing this for the first time won’t have been too far from the above – possibly Steve Jackson’s house show.
48.44
SMALL FACES – Tin Soldier – 7′′ – Immediate – 1967
‘Pop’ gold! My fave ’60s band when catching up as a teenager a few years later... and they still are. Apologies if I’ve told this one before somewhere on 41 Rooms but in those early collecting days I used to get excited seeing acetates, indeed any acetate... and even after decades they can still have a very distinctive smell. In the mid ’90s I was cratedigging (not called that back then...
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