Thanks to the following for their sweet reminiscences and factual feedback on the Ancient Grime post:
Kirk Degiorgio:
wow! that cover brought back some memories... one of the oddest records to come out of UK Black music... I knew very little about the history or the people involved in that - very interesting.. I don't have any of my electro anymore, I need to start buying them again... some of them I've heard again recently and they do sound HIDEOUSLY dated, but you can't beat stuff like Marley Marl Scratch, Hip Hop On Wax 1-3, Fresh, Fly Wild & Bold, etc... ET Boogie was HUGE in Ipswich... my all-time electro fave has to be T LA ROCK & JAZZY JAY "It's Yours". I had the original on Partytime which was good enough but then Def Jam licensed it and did a version with some mad flanged crowd effects in the backing which was even better... Def Jam were such an exciting label in the period where they had all purple labels/sleeves... "Drum Machine", LL Cool Jay's early tracks, Jimmy Spicer.. culminating in that monster by Original Concept... funnily enough I bumped into an old mate in Ipswich recently and he STILL has all his old electro collection... I've got his details so I must pay a visit and get them all on my hard drive ;-) I remember 'London Bridge...' as being one of the best UK electro tracks - matched only by some live tapes I had of the London Posse a few years later...
Footnote: Apparently Simon and little me get name-checked on Kirk's new album! Cool!
Julius:
u might also note that jazzy jeff tune (american yeah, once of funky 4+1, not the guy uncle phil throws out the door) was produced by a duo called the willesden dodgers!! they had this strange baseball fixation i suppose cos their rubbish lp ws called '1st base', and they only did a few outside productions for jive. but since one of those was whodini's 'haunted house of rock' on motherfucking spooky green wax and incredible pic sleeve all is forgiven, best 12 ever! (er probly better albion occult magick musick than coil or whatever too)
Dan Selzer:
oh man, London Bridge is Falling Down is totally my jam! Maybe because my education on electro-funk came from Streetsounds and Mastercuts, another example of the UK teaching us young american kids about our roots, I've been exposed to the more obscure UK stuff along w/ the us classics. I have the picture sleeve as well as an american Jive release. "this is a cool jam, this is a cool jam and I'm coming to bring you superman..."
Posted by Woebot at September 27, 2004 08:36 PM