BRADBURY STREET FESTIVAL -  DALSTON RECORD FAIR HOSTED BY ELDICA RECORDS - GILLETT SQUARE, DALSTON

Tis' a busy wekend - this Saturday in Dalston, Hackney council have been kind enough to close up the whole of Gillett square - Dalston, for the Bradbury Street festival. There will be all sorts on show food from the four corners of the globe, entertainment from Cuba and most importantly a record fair hosted by Eldica records and featuring various record dealers from as far afield as you can imagine with records from even further afield.

Then there's the after party, at a new warehouse space SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS , 10A BRADBURY STREET with

Andy Eldica

Judah

Santi San

Mr Wonderful

Dj Timothy

Mr. Beatnick

and 

Dayo

Line up speaks for itself

TIM WESTWOOD SHOW - RECORDED SOMETIME IN THE 80'S

Don't let anybody tell you other wise this guy is a legend, he's influence on hip hop in the UK cannot and should not be sneered at.

He's worked with 45king for Christ sake.

I remember many a time (eon's ago) listening to Tim Westwood in a dark room and writing down the name of tracks and artists that i have never heard of and going out the next day to buy those records in Archway and Camden town - when they still had record stores - that was in the early and mid 90's - this show was recorded in the 80's and when i first heard this recently I saw my self doing what I did when I listened to his shows as a yoot.

Get ready for schooling from a master - a true master.

Hope you get as much pleasure from this as I did - - enjoy

Refreshing to know that in the UK there are still musicians like Stevie creating incredible music and there are labels like Eglo that are prepared to release their work.

Unless you've had cotton wool in your ears for the past few months the chances are that you have heard of Eglo records and their array of talent (Fatima, Floating Points, Alex Nut, etc) either in conversation or on radio. Funkineven 1956  (Stevie J) is the latest member of the fam.   

West London (Ladbroke Grove) is where he resides, space is home and his home clearly influences his music. Fusing fusion, House, Hip Hop, Boogie, Jazz and all other groove laden genres of music his stuff is alien to many an untrained ear, the universe is his oyster - a real planet jumper.

There's a couple bangin tracks of his currently available for download, this is one of them 

Funkineven 1956 - Mad Swing

Watch this space for more on Funkineven

INCOGNITO - PARISIENNE GIRL 7"- 1980 - ENSIGN

The second feature on our Great Britain not Rubbish Britain segment is the Incognito track - Parisienne girl.

This was their first ever release - I think, and it features on their first album Jazz Funk released the following year.

One of the fore fathers of the whole acid jazz movement, Bluey and co are still doing their thing till this day and have more band members than I've had cold breakfasts - including Jocelyn Brown

(Read more and listen to track)

NONSENSE - SATURDAY 20TH JUNE - PLASTIC PEOPLE, 147-149 CURTAIN ROAD

NONSENSE & ONE HANDED MUSIC present PAUL WHITE ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY "THE STRANGE DREAMS OF PAUL WHITE"

NONSENSE returns with ONE HANDED MUSIC to celebrate the release of the highly anticipated album:

PAUL WHITE "THE STRANGE DREAMS OF PAUL WHITE"

Hosts 

JUDAH

MR.WONDERFUL

BENNY BLANCO

Guests

PAUL WHITE

ALEX CHASE

Goes without saying really, the line up's tasty - the sets will be tastier. There's really only one place to be this Saturday, whatever plans you had drop them and make your way down to Plastic.

- The sets will be recorded and we will posting them for download, so watch this space.

See you Saturday

YOU MISS OUT, IF YOU MISS OUT .

MADLIB LIVE SET KCRW RADIO - RECORDED 2001

In our recent newsletter we said that we had a rare live set by Madlib on KCRW radio, well we just found out that this is also posted on the Stones Throw website - so not exactly rare if you are a Stones Throw fan.

It's Madlib doing what he does best, and was done as part of the promotion for the Yesterdays New Quintet drop Angles without Edges.

Jazz, Fusion, Folk Rock and some of Jay Dee's finest.

It may sound dated for those who follow Madlib like Hawks - but classic tracks will always be classic tracks and there are some Killahs on here.

THE HOLLIES - FOR CERTAIN BECAUSE (1966) CLOWN - PARLOPHONE  - RON RICHARDS

Let's be totally honest the Hollies were a paupers Beatles - a very poor pauper, and as far as I am concerned got even worse after Graham Nash left to join David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Neil Young (to a certain extent)  to form the legendary Crosby, Stills and Nash.

However their fifth album "For certain because" - (released as Stop! Stop! Stop! in the States) was their first dabble into the realm of psychedelic music, and of all their albums that I've heard- and trust me I've heard a few -  This is the one that stands out.

Overall the album is still pretty pop-py in keeping with their squeaky clean / sugary sweet image, but a couple of tracks do stand out "suspicious look in your eyes" is a beautiful 60's pop tune, the track "Clown" on the other hand is not what you'd expect to hear on the album.

I can possibly imagine during writing the album they decided "ok guys i think we should play it a little bit risque at least for one track just to show we can also fit into this whole psychedelic movement that's all the craze" - which explains why the track is only two and a bit minutes long - the shortest and best track on the album.

It starts with some circus like music and then Bobby Elliot comes in on drums with a beautiful kick start, with either Allan Clarke or Nash on vocals - the rest of the track then carries on at the same pace it's almost like an interlude or skit in the album but with beautiful vocals and simple yet brilliant lyrics.