Cutting Records Dump
Picking up from the Todd Terry Giggles record, when I picked it up I realised I had a bit of a crush on the Cutting Records output. I went through the racks at home and dug out these absolute beauts. Hippest of this lot would have to be Hashim's "Primrose Path" which Kodwo namechecks in the back of "More Brilliant Than The Sun", it rocks a similar vibe to Strafe's "Set It Off" with an electric guitar marooned amid the 808 beats. Actually that reminds me, the Cybotron records have lots of post-Hendrix (perhaps post-Pete Cosey?) guitar on them don't they. Rick Davis of Cybotron was a Vietnam vet and a thing for Hendrix is practically de rigeur if you served there in the Armed Forces isn't it? Funny how electric guitars in Electro don't sound like such a bad idea as they did ten years ago, sort trashy and a bit Shoreditch-ish.
Woah The Imperial Brothers! These two records are poised on the cusp between Rap and Electro with the effect that they come over like a deconstructed Hip-Hop: big, booming, sparse, dubbed-out. So it's no surprise then that James Lavelle gave them the nod in the early days of Mo' Wax. But what's going on with Lavelle and that guy from The Cult? I saw their thing at Glade and it was more baffling than awful, I mean since when did their vein of Toffler-ised Mondo-2000-rock have adherents? I suppose I may have answered that in the last paragraph? Perhaps, like Phil Collins, Ian Astbury has fans deep within "The Game"?
Oh and these two. The Coro a recent admission to the vault. I only regret I don't have copies of the Nitro Deluxe on Cutting, just sandwiched in on various compilations. I suppose I could simply pick 'em up online, but where's the fun in that? Network did very respectable reissues of these in the UK anyway, so I suspect there aren't many imports kicking around. The 2 In A Room LP I picked up in Greenpoint.
Oh and this one! Another one in the Todd pile which escaped inclusion in the Todd-a-thon. Enough already.