2010
08.30

Electric Wire Hustle – EP 003
label: Wonderful Noise
year: 2010
side a: They Don’t Want
side b: Tom Boy
www.electricwirehustle.com/ | www.myspace.com/electricwirehustle

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Electric Wire Hustle - EP 003 7"

Beautiful single by this New Zealand outfit. Both tracks can also be found on their highly recommendable first album Every Waking Hour, originally released in 2009 on their own label and now out in the rest of the world via BBE and Wonderful Noise (Japan). One thing though: someone tell those fine people in the UK and Japan to release it on vinyl. Please. Pretty please?

Video of “They Don’t Want” live in Paris:

2010
08.29

The Eastside Prep Boys – MTS
label: Stones Throw
year: 1986/2009
side a: MTS
side b: One MC

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The Eastside Prep Boys - MTS 7"

Bonus single that came with the fabulous 45 Live: Classic Rap 45s box set when ordered at the Stones Throw store. The sound quality is rather poor but don’t you just luuuurve that old school rap?

2010
08.25

Dub Syndicate – Lift Off
label: On-U Sound
year: 1993
side a: Lift Off
side b: No No (Original)
www.myspace.com/dubsyndicateartist | http:www.dubsyndicate.com

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Dub Syndicate - Lift Off 7"

Single that came as a bonus with the first 1,000 copies of the Echomania album. In a time when “the first 1,000 copies” still meant something. Dub Syndicate are ace, as almost everything on the fabulous On-U Sound. Sherwood is boss!

Here’s a video of the “Ravi Shankar” tune, an animation in which a man builds a soundsystem. Ikea should do videos like this:

2010
08.23

Dodo – Electric Love
label: Freshly Squeezed Music
year: 2007
side a: Electric Love
side b: Nuclear Mustard
www.myspace.com/dodonumber1

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Dodo - Electric Love 7"

Got this single sent a while ago. It’s got a certain, er, German feel to it, mostly because of the recitative (or “parlando”), I guess. Although I can’t really make out if the accent is Frenchish or Germanish. Whatever.
At first I wasn’t really into it, but after a couple of spins I quite like it.

Here’s the video:

2010
08.22

Desmond Dekker – Rude Boy Train
label: Beverley’s Records
year: 1967/2010
side a: Rude Boy Train
side b: Version

Desmond Dekker - Rude Boy Train

Great reissue of this 1967 single. Great because it sounds good and you can play it out, unlike many of the Jamaican pressings, which many times sound good enough for (not too loud) playing at home but awful on a big soundsystem. Not that there are that many big, or good soundsytems in the Madrid clubs.

Actually “Rude Boy Train” is by Desmond Dekker And The Aces and together with the immortal “Israelites”, one of my favourite tunes ever, it was one of his biggest hits in the UK (where it was released by the Pyramid imprint, fruit of the hook-up of Beverley’s head honcho and producer Leslie Kong with engineer Graeme Goodall) and on the mod scene worldwide.

Here’s a live video of “Rude Boy Train”:

2010
08.20

The Dead Weather – I Cut Like A Buffalo
label: Third Man Records
year: 2009
side a: I Cut Like A Buffalo
side b: A Child Of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death

The Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo

The Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother
label: Third Man Records
year: 2009
side a: Treat Me Like Your Mother
side b: You Just Can’t Win

The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother

I love The Dead Weather. The A-sides of these singles are from the Horehound album, haven’t checked the new one yet. Mental note. The B-sides are covers. “A Child Of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death” is originally by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, while “You Just Can’t Win” is a tune by Them.

This is the video for “I Cut Like A Buffalo” – I’ve chosen version two (version one is here) because I like it better:

2010
08.19

Dam-Funk – Japan Groove
label: Stones Throw Records
year: 2009
side a: Japan Groove
side b: When80mprfeelslike20
www.myspace.com/damfunk

Dam-Funk - Japan Groove

Dãm-Funk – Toeachizown Bonus 45
label: Stones Throw Records
year: 2009
side a: On Your Way To Her Pad
side b: Attic Secrets

Dãm-Funk - Toeachizown Bonus 45

Can this man do anything wrong? Probably, but it’s not a lot. These here fine singles I love. I wish I could play them out without the brasas coming to me going on about playing “something danceable”, or worse, “something funky”. I kid you not, ask anyone who’s ever spinned funk in Spain (and who’s not famous).

Check this interview with LA Weekly:

2010
08.18

Converse 45 Series #1
label: Wax Poetics
year: 2009
side a: 9DW – Black Coffee
side b: Mackrosoft – Vicoden Reality
www.myspace.com/9dw | www.myspace.com/mackrosoft

Converse 45 Series #1

Converse 45 Series #2
label: Wax Poetics
year: 2009
side a: Adrian Younge – Rafelli Chase
side b: Brian Bennett/Alan Hawkshaw – High Diver
www.brianbennettmusic.co.uk | www.alanhawkshaw.com

Converse 45 Series #2

These two singles came free with issues 37 and 38 of Wax Poetics respectively. In the magazine it said that the 45s are only for U.S. subscribers (racists!) but I still got them, even though I live in Spain. It stopped after #2 though, so I guess someone woke up.

At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I have to say I don’t think I would have missed them much hadn’t they come my way like they did. Not that it’s bad stuff on here, but they’re not DLHWI stuff, either. Especially the first single, the one featuring 9DW and Mackrosoft. The second is better IMHO. I like the K-ish sound of Adrian Younge’s “Rafelli Chase, and the nice’n'slick “High Diver” by former The Shadows members Brian Bennett and Alan Hawkshaw.

2010
08.17

Arena Rota Festival 2010

2010
08.17

The Budos Band – Kakal
label: Daptone Records
year: 2010
side a: Kakal
side b: Hidden Hand
www.thebudos.com | www.myspace.com/budosband

The Budos Band - Kakal

Exclusive bonus single that comes with the rather great new Budos album The Budos Band III. Vintage Budos stuff, can’t go wrong with that!

Here’s a video of the making of The Budos Band III: