Medina Records

Gilles Peterson has been over in Cuba to shine some light on the music scene recording a series of documentary shows for Radio 1 and putting together an LP of new music. Bonus-beats-wise you get footage of an excited Gilles digging in an unamed store in Havana. Memorise that store front.

Spine TV seems to come and go but when it’s there it’s definitely worth checking out. Lots of gems to be viewed in the current incarnation plus live streaming video of DJ MK, Harry Love and guests many evenings (UK time zone). Here’s a brief guided tour of some of New York’s record shops from a mixtape king and DJ Amir Abdullah.

In New York again this time focusing on A-1 Records and their overstocked basement.

Some fella digging in Mumbai. Bollywood scores aplenty.

Wallifornia Soul from Laid Back on Vimeo.

As I mentioned before there have been a fair few vinyl related videos cropping up online of late but few (if any) are as fascinating and inspiring as Belgian vinyl maven Jean Roger who details several decades of digging. Superbly put together by the Laid Back crew (I hope there’s more like this coming); be sure to check out their superb radio player and check out JR playing records and being interviewed (in Belgian) on Laid Back radio.

Leslie Ash era Tube (I guess from about 1983); decent footage too with Arthur Baker, The Peech Boys, The Rock Steady Crew, Quando Quango and visits to the Paradise Garage, Danceteria and The Roxy.

via Turntable Lab’s Blog

I’ll blame it on the Summer, those beautiful British Summers of ash grey clouds, torrential downpours and the ocassional hot sunny blue sky day (we’re having one of these today….it’s too hot….I can’t take it). Anyway my blog has been neglected once again so it’s time for catch up. A few brief links for h’ors d’ouvres and plenty more to come.

‘Funky Cold Medina’ and ‘Wild Thing’ are the same song

Massive Attack on KISS FM: Vintage mix from 1994

DJ Spinna home studio tour on video and photos

A brief piece on Quantic from last year on YouTube

I’m not sure what happened to May but I was busy elsewhere and my blog was neglected. Apologies if you were waiting for updates; I shall do my best to rectify that this month.

As featured on YouTube’s movie channel, this is a documentary originally aired on PBS in the US in 2003. We don’t have a song-poem industry in the UK (that I’m aware of at least) so this was something of a revelation. It’s really an ode to outsider art and if you’re a fan of the Tay Zonday ‘Chocolate Rain’ thing (before it went money mad at least) then it’s well worth fifty five minutes of your time.

If you’re hungry for more you can pick this up on DVD (with lots of extras). Oh and there’s a compilation or two out there also.

Bonus beat: Jimmy Carter Says ‘Yes’ by Gene Marshall

Radio 4 (yes, Radio 4) bring together Steinski, the 45 King, Tuff City owner Aaron Fuchs, Coldcut (who list all the samples from their classic ‘Paid In Full’ remix), Keb Darge, dealer Harold Moores, Idris Muhammad, B George, Bob Stanley and Johan Kugelberg for a documentary on beat digging and record collecting.

via Very Good Plus

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