Medina Records

I’ve been uploading a number of my mixes onto Mixcloud. All of these are already available in downloadable form here but if you just want to stream or are part of the Mixcloud community then check them out.

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.

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

Loving this electronic music mix from Will Clarke.

Eroc – Kleine Eva
Edgar Froese – Stuntman
Oppenhiemer Analysis – Subtereanean Desire
Wally Badarou – Voices
Harald Grosskopf – Transendental Overdrive
Tangerine Dream – Barbakane
Depeche Mode – Any Second Now (Instrumental Remix)
Amin Peck – My Frames
Logic – Automatic Collect Automatic Correct
Tangerine Dream – Tangent
Broadcast – You & Me In Time
Peter Bauman – This Day
Tom Ware – Chinatown
Asmus Tietchens – Unterhaltsmusik
Peter Bauman – Biking Up The Strand
Mark Shreeve – Storm Column
Beach Boys & Spacemen 3
Memory Control One – Basic

Download it at Cosmic Disco

From my own tape archives this is an appearance of two of hip hops most important DJs on Tim Westwoods then relatively new Radio 1 Rap Show (he moved over from Capital Radio a year earlier). Kool Herc and Jazzy Jay play classic breaks, funk, soul and old school hip hip cuts. Westwood also interviews and there’s a brief Stick-E & The Hoods (remember them?) interlude in there too.

Download Part One

Download Part Two