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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.
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.
If you’re British and of a certain age this track will bring on a flood of nostalgia. Originally a KPM library track (from KPM1253 – The Reggae Album) it was used for several years as The Gallery music on British children’s show Take Hart. In many ways it’s a sister track to the equally sublime ‘Left Bank Two‘ by The Noveltones which was the theme music to Take Hart and prior to that The Gallery music from Take Hart’s parent show Vision On.
Thankfully ‘Marguerite’ didn’t remain hidden away on a hard to find library LP and was released as a single which makes it so much easier to wallow in the near perfection of Bob Morgan’s clarinets and lilting reggae.
I’m somewhat bewitched by Tunng’s version of Kraftwerk’s ‘The Hall Of Mirrors’ (from ‘Trans-Europe Express’ – you need it); a rather beguiling blend of psychedelic folk and modern electronics. It was recorded as part of Paul Morley’s ‘Showing Off…’ series in The Guardian and you can find a higher quality version there although both versions only play out of the right hand speaker.
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.
