Chris 'Bam Bam' Westbrook has put his Roland TB-303 synthesizer up for sale on eBay. For a 'buy it now' price of only USD$10,000, you too can live out your acid house dreams. The silver box's previous owner was little know Chicago native Marshall Jefferson, who managed to bang out the acid classics 'I've Lost Control' (Sleezy D) and 'No Way Back' (Adonis), before moving it onto Bam Bam (for 150 bucks!).
This follows Jesse Saunders attempt to sell the original master tape of 'On & On' on eBay a few weeks back (the auction was passed in).
Recently adding 'outlawed blogger' to his CV; music journalist, film critic and broadcaster Anthony Carew champions the kinds of artists who make 'indie' seem mainstream. However, penning for a variety of street press as well as Rolling Stone, Melbourne broadsheet daily The Age and online hub aboutmusic, Carew declares that he has spoken to both "the incredibly famous" and "the instantly obscure". His musical taste is as immaculate as his on-air manner (he hosts a weekly program on public radio station 3RRR). And, despite his virtual rubbing of shoulders with the blogospherical underbelly, we dare play host to a set of tunes he has spliced together for the normally squeaky-clean DoaDD blog. So with the possibilty that his We People Space With Phantoms blog may never return, we offer you this fix of Carewebbery.
'Death Mix' by Anthony Carew (direct link)
TRACK LIST: Elk - 'Sarah' (Shape Up Records) Gardens & Villas - 'Orange Blossom' (Secretly Canadian) Ryskee feat Jenny Wilson - 'Horrors Of Love (Jamaica's Rmx)' (Kitsune) Purity Ring - 'Ungirthed' (Transparent) Sleep ∞ Over - 'Romantic Streams' (Hippos In Tanks) Psychic Reality - 'Fanta' (Not Fun Records) The Deeep - 'Slow Coaster' (Not Not Fun Records)
British hip hop's most celebrated exponent Roots Manuva seems to have done a 'Dizzee' and got down with the club kids. However when Manuva does it, it's not with Dizzee-style collab partners like Armand Van Helden or Shakira. Nup, Manuva rolls with a higher class of dance boffins altogether. And, that's why one of the year's catchiest UK funky tracks witnesses the fitness of grime upstart Toddla T and the grandad of indie dub Andrew Weatherall on 'Watch Me Dance' with Manuva. Grimey Sheffield lad T has worked with Manuva previously (eg 2008's Slime & Reason), before T became a mainstream go-to remixer through work with Tinchy Stryder, Hot Chip and Ladyhawke. In the meantime, Weatherall has quietly been releasing some of his best work in recent years despite many considering his golden period as the time he spent remixing indie bands in the '90s. Weatherall's work with Harvey, Fuck Buttons and David Holmes, as well as his 2009 A Pox On The Pioneers album, is not only in a league of its own - other players can't even get in the draft for it. Manuva + T + Weatherall = superfunkpunkdub. Listen to the remix, out now thru Ninja Tune, and then wrap your eyes around the clip of the OG radio cut - Manuva looks like he fell into a Clavin Harris set. Toddla T - 'Watch Me Dance (with Roots Manuva)' (Andrew Weatherall Remix) by toddla_t
New Jersey House producer Blue Jean was killed in a hit and run accident last Friday night. Blue Jean had a string of great 12"s in the late 80's and early 90's. One of my favourite producers, his records had a strong NJ vibe, but always stuck out to me. Something about them is off-kilter, deep and fresh.
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