I have one basic rule for my blog: don’t just post loads of videos. With that in mind, here’s another video.
There’s been a number of vinyl related videos popping up online lately (I’m not complaining) and this is one of the most creative I’ve seen.
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.
Need.12inch.vinyl.now.
Paul Morley’s doing great stuff on The Guardian website at the moment. Lots of video/audio interviews going up with the likes of Goldie, soundtrack king Daniel Pemberton and lots of disco goodies going up at the moment too.
The cash-in on the twentieth anniversary of the Beastie Boys sophomore classic may have happened six months ago but the proper anniversary was last month and what better way to celebrate (a little late), on a gorgeous sunny late August evening, than with Funk Factory’s peerless ‘Rien Ne Va Plus’.
‘Rien Ne Va Plus’ provides the bulk of ‘Car Thief‘, one of the stand out cuts on the album. Huge pieces are flawlessly blended with the Jackson 5’s cover of Funkadelic’s ‘I’ll Bet You’, heavily transformed (the scratch and the transmutation) Trouble Funk bomb-drop synth and cut up tire screech. It’s everything that the lawless late Eighties sampling boom was about and along with the intelligent and humorous lyrics it was, and is, everything made/makes ‘Paul’s Boutique’ great.
I won’t bore you with much of a history of the track other than it was written by Bernard Kafka and originally recorded by his vocal group the Novi Singers. He later formed Funk Factory with Michal Urbaniak (another Polish jazz musician) and they recorded one self-titled album including their impressive updating of ‘Rien Ne Vas Plus’ turning it into a jazz funk classic.
Funk Factory – Rien Ne Va Plus
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
