Mike Pickering & Graeme Park – Nude @ The Haçienda - 26.02.1989 by djmixes
Tracklist:
PART 1
01. Gino Latino ‘No Sorry’
02. K-Os ‘Definition of Love’
03. Inner City ‘Do You Love What You Feel’ ( Power 41 In Control Remix )
04. Inner City ‘Do You Love What You Feel’ ( Power 41 Remix )
05. Royal House ‘Get Funky’
06. Raven Maize ‘Forever Together’
07. White Knight ‘Keep It Movin’ ( Cause The Crowd Says So)’ ( Insane Mix )
08. Sound Factory ‘Cuban Gigolo’
09. Dionne ‘Come Get My Lovin”
10. 28th Street Crew ‘I Need A Rhythm’ ( Vocal Club Mix )
11. Adeva ‘Warning’
12. The Bass Boyz ‘Lost In The Bass’ ( Mike ‘Hitman’ Wilson Mix )
13. Julian ‘Jumpin’ Perez & Kool Rock Steady ‘Aint We Funky Now’
14. Monie Love ‘Grandpa’s Party’ (Love II Love Mix)
15. Tony Scott ‘That’s How I’m Living’
16. Chubb Rock ‘Ya Bad Chubbs’ ( Crib Mix )
17. Akasa ‘One Night in My Life’
18. Kid ‘N’ Play ‘2 Hype’ (House Inst.)
19. Kenny ‘Jammin’ Jason & Fast Eddie ‘Can U Dance’
20. Jungle Crew ‘Elektric Dance’
21. NWA ‘Express Yourself’
22. Big Daddy Kane ‘Warm It Up, Kane’
PART 2
23. Queen Latifah ‘Dance 4 Me’ (Ultimatum Mix – Vocal)
24. MC’s Logik ‘Get Involved’ (In It To Win It Mix)
25. Reese ‘Rock to the Beat’ (Mike Wilsons Hitman Mix)
26. Rhythim is Rhythim ‘Strings of Life’ (Unreleased Remix)
27. R-Tyme ‘R-Theme’
28. Doug Lazy ‘Let it Roll’
29. Frankie Bones ‘We Call It Techno’
30. Seduction ‘You’re My One & Only True Love’ (C & C New York House Mix 1)
31. Sandee ‘Notice Me’
32. Forgemasters ‘Track With No Name’
33. Diskonexion ‘Love Rush’ (Put On Mix)
34. Black Box ‘Ride On Time’
35. Sterling Void ‘Runaway Girl’
36. Annette ‘Dream 17′
37. Phase II ‘Reachin”
38. T-R-P – Let There Be House ‘Untitled’
39. Orange Lemon ‘Dreams of Santa Anna’
40. Shannon ‘Let the Music Play’ (1989 European Remix)
\Film Clip Sample poss from Donna Rouge ‘Sad Song’ 12″\
41. Carly Simon ‘Why’ \ Donna Rouge ‘Sad Song’ (Accapella)
\Martin Luther King “I Have A Dream” Speech Excerpt\
PART 3
42. Imagination ‘Just An Illusion’ (Park & Pickering Mix)
43. Company 2 ‘Tell it As it Is’
44. Roberta Flack ‘Uh Uh Ooh Ooh Look Out (Here it Comes)’ (Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley Mix)
45. 2 in a Room ‘Somebody in the House Say Yeah’
46. T-R-P – Let There Be House ‘Untitled’
47. Richie Rich ‘Salsa House’
48. Redhead Kingpin & the FBI ‘Do the Right Thing’ (Happiness Remix)
49. Digital Underground ‘Doowutchalike’ (Playhowyalike Mix)
50. Kariya ‘Let Me Love You For Tonight’
51. Nocera ‘Summertime Summertime’ (House ‘89)
52. Lil Louis ‘French Kiss’ / Sylvester ‘You Make me Feel (Mighty Real)’ (Acca)
53. 808 State ‘Pacific’
54. Sueno Latino ‘Sueno Latino’
55. Dynamic Duo ‘In The Pocket’ (Hip House Dub)
56. Da Posse ‘It’s My Life’ (Aluh Mix)
57. Technotronic ‘Pump Up the Jam’
58. ID?
59. Mix N’ Tel ‘Feel The Beat’ (Pierre’s Mix)
60. Gary Jackmaster Wallace ‘House Has Taken Over Me’ (The House Every Night Oh Yeah Mix)
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Saturday 26 February 2011
Phuture - Acid Tracks (1987)
Distratcted with Lovefre.sh. Just time for a couple of the Acid tracks that left me a fan to this day...
Original and best - Phuture - Acid Tracks (*Marshall Jefferson)
Still rocking - Humoid - Stacker
Original and best - Phuture - Acid Tracks (*Marshall Jefferson)
Still rocking - Humoid - Stacker
Sunday 13 February 2011
Tune for Sunday: Chicago-Street Player (12" promo)
Short and sweet blog post while i'm totally distracted launching Lovefre.sh.
Something chewy to sugar coat your Sunday. The vibe that lured me away from a purely Indy existence. Way back when.
One of the finest. Such a classy arrangement.
Something chewy to sugar coat your Sunday. The vibe that lured me away from a purely Indy existence. Way back when.
One of the finest. Such a classy arrangement.
Saturday 5 February 2011
Why Toffee City?
Firstly, Parliament are one of my guilty pleasures. Their 1975 album Chocolate City, inspired by their love of Washington DC, is an all time great. Bernie Worrell's supremely funky keyboard skills, George Clinton's out of this world vocals and Bootsy Collins' funky rhythm and bass, mixed up with a style that, to a small boy in suburban Northern England in the 70s, was just magical.
Here's what Bootsy has to say on the whole thing:
Secondly, House music and Deep Dish, who along with Murk's Ralf Falcon and Oscar G (also known as Liberty City and Funky Green Dogs From Outer Space), are about my favourite House artists/producers of the time, released a track called - Chocolate City (a tribute to the tribute and a convenient coincidence). It sits in my top 10 of all time House tracks. Have a listen to it.
This track informs an understanding of what I love about House. The dreamy journey that music as apparently unsophisticated as house music can take me on is unmatched by any other genre. This was never more evident to me than when standing in my bedroom, mixing for pleasure and practice, finding whole days slipping away and mix tapes mounting up, with no intention of ever doing anything with them (I must have about 1000 in a suitcase in the loft). There is a meditative quality to it that does far more for me than any religion ever managed.
The third reason is the secret sauce that takes me from Chocolate to Toffee. It's significant to me - but would mean nothing to you, so lets just say the name 'Toffee City' appealed to me and hopefully suggests to others, that there might something worth chewing on here :P /gets coat.
Welcome to Toffee City.
I forgot I had set this blog up - with good intention of sharing some musical musing.
I've always had eclectic music tastes - and long been an obsessive collector of vinyl. I started buying records in about 1978, aged 7, a choice album which I still have, in mint condition, the Beetles' Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was soon joined by music very much influenced by my Dad. Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, Elvis and Eddie Cochran. Bowie followed, briefly; Earth Wind and Fire discovered and loved; Mantronix and my cousins Sugar Hill records confused but pleased. Through my teens I obsessed with Indy and flirted with Industrial Electronica. It wasn't until I moved to London to study that I developed a love for Miami and New York House music, along with a finer appreciation of Reggae and the soulful side of Funk and Disco. I flirted regularly with more industrial sounds - Hardcore, Drum and Bass, even german techno, but nothing ever got me nodding my head and bobbing a little (i'm a nervous dancer), more than House music - preferably from the USA although by the mid 1990's the UK Deep House movement had matured with rare quality.
I'll try not to make this all about dance music. I still listen to Joy Division, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen and The Sugarcubes of my teen years. I'm a big fan of film scores and in particular the work of Ennio Morricone. I like piano - preferably Chopin, although I tend to save it for the more sombre, thoughtful moments in my days. I enjoy Jazz, and play Clarinet and Tenor Sax - though not with any measure of skill. After playing around with lots of different kit in the studio, I settled down with a Nord Lead 2 and we've been happy together ever since.
Building my Vinyl collection started in earnest back in 1990, After 6 months of hanging out in East London's record shops, I blagged the job of running Friday nights at the Student Union and began organising club nights and parties in all sorts of unlikely places. This was a superb period. It was also tiring ;) Eventually I built myself a small studio and began making music with my mate Doss, releasing a few 12"s under the name Service (search: patio of delights), but mostly doing it for love. Artists as diverse as Meco and Tangerine Dream and tunes like Manzel's 'Space Funk' informed our electronic musical noodling - the results of which are dotted around on Dat and ocassionally uploaded to Soundcloud.
I don't get much time for DJ'ing any more and I'm far too 'Pipe and Slippers' to go clubbing. I've packed the mixer and second deck away and rely on a single trusty Technics 1210mkII which I bought when I was 19 and which is still as good as new. This brings me to Toffee City - and what it's about.
I plan to start digitising my Vinyl, and backing it up in the cloud so I can listen to it wherever I am. I have alot of work to do - my collection stretches to in excess of 5000 records. I intend to post the highlights and gems, on here, for you to enjoy - and for me to bathe in fond memories.
I will post other bits an pieces from around the web; tunes that mean something to me - or evoke memories of the various stages of my musical development. I'm not going to be prescriptive of how i'll use the blog - except to say that it will be to share my love of music with anyone who is interested. It won't always be pretty, or what you'd expect. I don't want to just end up covering the 'cool and the rare', rather I want to share an honest slice of all my likes. This track, for example, is by one of the most derided bands in history, showing their mockers why they are wrong! The track is called Georgie Porgie, the artist Toto. It's a special track with special memories - and if you find yourself Touching your Tummy while it plays, then we've probably been to the same parties ;)
Cheers, Mark
I've always had eclectic music tastes - and long been an obsessive collector of vinyl. I started buying records in about 1978, aged 7, a choice album which I still have, in mint condition, the Beetles' Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was soon joined by music very much influenced by my Dad. Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, Elvis and Eddie Cochran. Bowie followed, briefly; Earth Wind and Fire discovered and loved; Mantronix and my cousins Sugar Hill records confused but pleased. Through my teens I obsessed with Indy and flirted with Industrial Electronica. It wasn't until I moved to London to study that I developed a love for Miami and New York House music, along with a finer appreciation of Reggae and the soulful side of Funk and Disco. I flirted regularly with more industrial sounds - Hardcore, Drum and Bass, even german techno, but nothing ever got me nodding my head and bobbing a little (i'm a nervous dancer), more than House music - preferably from the USA although by the mid 1990's the UK Deep House movement had matured with rare quality.
I'll try not to make this all about dance music. I still listen to Joy Division, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen and The Sugarcubes of my teen years. I'm a big fan of film scores and in particular the work of Ennio Morricone. I like piano - preferably Chopin, although I tend to save it for the more sombre, thoughtful moments in my days. I enjoy Jazz, and play Clarinet and Tenor Sax - though not with any measure of skill. After playing around with lots of different kit in the studio, I settled down with a Nord Lead 2 and we've been happy together ever since.
Building my Vinyl collection started in earnest back in 1990, After 6 months of hanging out in East London's record shops, I blagged the job of running Friday nights at the Student Union and began organising club nights and parties in all sorts of unlikely places. This was a superb period. It was also tiring ;) Eventually I built myself a small studio and began making music with my mate Doss, releasing a few 12"s under the name Service (search: patio of delights), but mostly doing it for love. Artists as diverse as Meco and Tangerine Dream and tunes like Manzel's 'Space Funk' informed our electronic musical noodling - the results of which are dotted around on Dat and ocassionally uploaded to Soundcloud.
I don't get much time for DJ'ing any more and I'm far too 'Pipe and Slippers' to go clubbing. I've packed the mixer and second deck away and rely on a single trusty Technics 1210mkII which I bought when I was 19 and which is still as good as new. This brings me to Toffee City - and what it's about.
I plan to start digitising my Vinyl, and backing it up in the cloud so I can listen to it wherever I am. I have alot of work to do - my collection stretches to in excess of 5000 records. I intend to post the highlights and gems, on here, for you to enjoy - and for me to bathe in fond memories.
I will post other bits an pieces from around the web; tunes that mean something to me - or evoke memories of the various stages of my musical development. I'm not going to be prescriptive of how i'll use the blog - except to say that it will be to share my love of music with anyone who is interested. It won't always be pretty, or what you'd expect. I don't want to just end up covering the 'cool and the rare', rather I want to share an honest slice of all my likes. This track, for example, is by one of the most derided bands in history, showing their mockers why they are wrong! The track is called Georgie Porgie, the artist Toto. It's a special track with special memories - and if you find yourself Touching your Tummy while it plays, then we've probably been to the same parties ;)
Cheers, Mark
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