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.

One of the great appeals of record collecting is the oddities. The records that no one except the most obsessed would give a second glance to. The groovy lounge records, micro press cabaret weirdness, creased promotional flexis, dull looking library LPs, privately pressed college jazz and of course those funky childrens records. I’ve long collected those weird kiddy funk LPs and 45s, usually battered and abused by their original owners and often binned at the end of their life they can be hard to find in playable condition.

Case in point the Do-Re-Mi Children’s Chorus and their take on the much loved (and much covered) Classics IV classic ‘Spooky’. I first heard this on the ‘Beat Actione’ compilation in the earlier part of the 00s and eventually landed a rather water damaged copy (thank you, eBay). It’s one of those must have records; a great blast of enthusiastic childish glee over echo-y drums, cheesy organ and jazz guitar. It’s everything you could want from a mildewy sleeve.

Do-Re-Mi Childrens Chorus – Spooky