Three years ago, I got rid of my 2009 Chevy Cobalt and got a 2003 Chrysler Town and Country that had been modified with a ramp and tie-downs for wheelchairs. My wife uses a powered wheelchair to get around most of the time, and it helped a lot in getting her to her job every day. For her purposes it was a godsend, though I didn't care too much for it. For starters, while I'm not concerned with having a flashy vehicle, I do want it to look okay, and while the body of the van was okay, the hood had been given a half-ass repainting that couldn't hide a huge shadow from something that once sat on it, specifically an image of a pair of dice with the words Casino Bound written beneath them. This vehicle had clearly been used by a company for the purpose of bringing people to (and presumably from) gambling establishments at one time or another.  The other thing that bothered me about the van was the sound system, a serious downgrade from my Cobalt. I've never been one to spen...

So I took most of a month off, and if you were waiting for another post, my apologies. Life gets hectic, and I intended to post something last week, but it just didn't happen. It's a reminder of how much life has changed since when I was running a somewhat popular blog in the late 00s. I was devoted to writing something every day or so, and my life was a bit simpler back then. Now I have a job that doesn't afford me all the free time I could want between work, and while a lot of us have had more free time than we've expected to since around March, the last few weeks have been a mess for me. They're still kind of a mess, but a very big hurdle has been leapt which makes things a bit easier. I was going to wait until tomorrow to work on a post, but fuck it screw it, here we go. This one is a bit of a tribute to my early days on Soulseek . If you haven't followed what I've said about it previously or looked into it yourself, give it a go if you're feeling a...

If you haven't heard Carl Craig's remix of Delia & Gavin's Relevee yet, you've really missed out. Much to my dismay, this track, at least in it's original remix form, is no longer available for purchase or streaming via your favorite digital receptacle. Maybe it's a casualty of those brief years that DFA had a distribution via EMI . I have to assume EMI wanted LCD Soundsystem bad enough that they agreed to distributing records by Black Dice as well, which definitely didn't work out for them. Don't get me wrong, DFA is a great label, and Black Dice are a great group if you like noise and weirdness, as are and were many of the artists on DFA , but I can't see EMI benefiting from much of their output beyond LCD , Hot Chip and maybe the Juan MacLean . Delia & Gavin were wonderful too, but their unfettered output is essentially fifteen minute analog synth epics, again a bit of a limited market for the record buying public. So I suppose...

Before we begin..., I read some of this post to my wife and she didn't want me to share it. I told her I didn't think there was anything wrong with it but she felt otherwise. Well, everything that follows below is what I'd written, though if anything I've said bothers anyone, please know that wasn't my intent. Call me crazy... no seriously, it's okay, you can call me crazy. That said, before last night I'd never heard the original version of Wanda Dee's To the Bone . I suppose that's because it's a long out-of-print record that is best known as the source of the "gonna make you sweat" sample in the the "live" version of The KLF's What Time Is Love , though I'd heard a version where Trevor Jackson of Playgroup mashed the acapella with Dexter's I Don't Care to wonderful effect. I'll stick with that version, as the original is rather dated. While reading through the comments on the YouTube video for To th...

Sorry there hasn't been a real post this week. This one is a little overly easy, but I'm sure you'll find it enjoyable. Here are some links for some albums that aren't generally available through traditional sources. Two of them have been worked on by myself and some friends, but everything else is as it was presented online. Resident Alien - It Takes a Nation of Suckas to Let Us In I've posted this before, but it's been a while. Prince Paul produced this album for his Dew Doo Man imprint which was to be distributed by Def Jam , but Russell Simmons cancelled it. Now Russell Simmons is being cancelled, though Paul seems to be doing fine. By the way, he and Open Mike Eagle have a new podcast dedicated to Paul talking about his career and the interesting people he's worked with. It's called What Had Happened Was and you should definitely go listen to it as it's wonderful. Props to Harvey Cliff for hipping me to the show! Central Services - Fore...

Should I have a stupid subtitle for this post, like THE QUICKENING or ELECTRIC BOOGALOO ? Nah, fuck that. And as sad as it is to say this, I've read that the word boogaloo now has some kind of new, shitty context related to racist organizations. Fuck that too! All I'm here for is the music and the history, sometimes in that order, sometimes reversed. And today, it's more about the music because someone else did the history part a long time ago. And with that... Do you remember Richcolour and Mastermix dot org ? If not, well, you missed out. It was a cool site dedicated to mixes played on the radio in the UK primarily in the eighties. The site is technically still there, but there isn't any content and I wouldn't bother visiting. Instead, use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine   and visit some archived versions of the site! Now, at this point you might be saying something to yourself like "None of the links on archive pages ever work, so I can't grab ...

As if the all caps title doesn't give it away, here are some very old bootlegs. Unlike most of what I've posted so far, most of these mp3s are transfers from bootleg vinyl pressed in the eighties, the exception being a track from an early nineties bootleg compilation that Ninja Tune released on the Bond St. imprint . Let's Do It: More of the 80s Medley (Short Version) Let's Do It: More of the 80s Medley (Long Version) Are you familiar with Stars on 45 ? If not, their initial release, also named Stars on 45 , was a wonderful abomination focused on making a medley of mostly unrelated hits with a side of Beatles classics. It's kind of awful and wonderful all at the same time with a group of studio-based mimics doing miniature covers of songs the whole world sang, or at least danced to in some cases. What's less known about that first record is it was based off a successful bootleg mix created for club DJs, which in turn was also based off yet another bootle...