A quick dip into some recent purchases…
Speaking of musclecars (see above), I was just at a listening party for the upcoming album (hitting the shops in May, I think) and the whole thing is mind-blowingly excellent
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I normally only buy digital files these days, cos obviously I sold my record collection. But this week I did something really rash and slightly bananas. Having never spent more than £100 on a record, I paid £300 for one a few days ago. I’ve been looking for it for 15 years and in the last 8 years only two have come up for sale that I know of. My tax bill was lower than I anticipated, so, well, there you go.
Having said this, I’ll probably hold onto it for a while and then re-sell for the same or more.
Anyhow, here it is. A £300 record.
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Forgot what a good song 1979 is - it’s been an ear-worm all wk after hearing this HB version!
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Yikes! That’s a serious amount of money on a record. What’s the back story to the record? Where did you first hear/come across it?
Honestly, I’ve not idea. I discovered it randomly searching for interesting covers of Ring My Bell about 15 years ago and I became obsessed with it (mainly, I guess, because it was so hard to find). It obviously didn’t do very well at the time, otherwise I’d have found a copy by now. It was actually really rare when it was selling for £20 and no one knew about. The first time I missed it being sold it, it went for under £70.
caravan - workdub on music from memory
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when this came out, my dad’s team Aston Villa were champions of Europe - 1982
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I interviewed 100 Poems on my radio show yesterday, which some of you may be interested in. He’s a lovely fella and we could’ve chatted for hours, tbh.
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New on DFA, produced by James Murphy.
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Bought this last week and been on a lot
Bought a couple of apparently deadstock 12"s by Quantic.
This one is from his Flowering Inferno offshoot project (2017?). It’s very nicely produced roots reggae featuring veteran vocalist U-Roy and with bv from Alice Russell (I particularly like her contributions). There’s also a nice modern-sounding dub on the flip. Both are featured in this video:
Also this 
This one is dancehall style, with vocal by Shinehead. Once again, really nice production on this! Plus, my copy still had the unused download code 
Also has a nice dub version, plus a decent remix by Ed West (whoever he is?)
This is ace (flip side is too)
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A couple of things I picked up last week:
My understanding is that The Daktaris were a single album project from various people involved in the afrobeat revival scene in New York about 20 years ago (Ray Lugo plus various players who became involved with Antibalas, Kokolo and others). Been meaning to pick up a copy for ages, and now I have one.
I used to have this next one, got rid of it, then immediately regretted it. Now I have a replacement. The principal reason for owning it is the cool balearic reggae-crossover cut on the b-side. There’s also a quite nice jazzy dub of the a-side.
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I bought this Sprinkles album reissue last week - some great bits of house music on there
Really enjoying this twinkly guitar EP from Golden Retriever on Omena:
https://goldretriever.bandcamp.com/album/nafasam
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Think this is a cracking piece of deep house with some piano-ey niceness. Right up my street…
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Zepherin Saint remixes are always 
Didn’t know about this one, thank you.
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