Episode 119 – Original Upload 3.9.23

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‘.

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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.

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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!

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00.00

(Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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38.04

SUB SUB – Jaggernath – 12′′ b-side – Robs Records – 1995

Doves in their younger dance beats incarnation.

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42.06

URBAN SPECIES (feat IMOGEN HEAP) – Blanket (Alb...