The Minute Men – All My Friends

At last I managed to succesfully get a copy of this record, after the inital attempt getting lost in the post. So arrived yesterday morning in all its shiny black goodness came this most excellent US hip house from 1991. This featured on a 1991 mix tape I had from DJ Legend Danny Rampling, the recording was from the Ministry of Sound in the year that it opened. The track selection on the tape slid effortlessly between sublime ambient tracks like The McKenzie – No Promises to early 80’s disco classic like Hamilton Bohannon’s Let’s Start the Dance. While I usually avoided Hip House tunes, this one was a real grower, a catchy disco influenced tune sampling Dinosaurs L – Go Bang and a sneaky little sample from Eddie Grants – Timewarp. From producer Norty Cotto whom has done countless reords under many an alias and released on NY Label Moon Roof Records, 1991 a sublabel of Tod Terry’s garage label Freeze that became defunkt in 1997.

With Permission

The  Minute Men – All my friends

The Acid House – Now on Facebook

Just the heads up for all those Facebookers out there,  The Acid House Facebook Group has been started today, a place where you can post your own mixes, tunes and share memories of yester year and also re-unite yourselfs with old ravers from back in the day.

Join – The Acid House – Facebook Group

Fighting to keep the spirit alive..

Well it has been sometime since the last update due to a number reasons. You may have noticed at the end of September The Acid House was shut down for over a week by the housing authorities for accommodating artists works within The Acid House that allegedly did not have permission to be hung on the walls there. This was a real shame and a blow to all the work and effort over the years that have gone into keeping a flame alight and re-uniting the rave soldiers of yesteryear with the sounds they marched too. The allegation was completely non specific and did not identify which musically produced art was “illegal”; it was just another scatter gun approach by the authorities to close another site that shares music whether is has copyright or not. Yes the music industry needs to protect itself, but why attack a site that is helping the scene by keeping it alive and therefore keeping an interest in “old Skool” music that will inevitably lead to the industry issuing releases of commercial dance anthems and yet another 100% Old Skool compilation that can be released. If information centres like The Acid House did not exist, then older music would fall into the distant memory of misspent youth. The music found shared here are mainly from white labels, or small defunct independent labels and is as far away from the profit making main stream commercial music as it can get. The industry is does not discriminate, they try and roll the bull dozer through The Acid House, but the foundations are good and The House stands for another day. However cracks in the walls are apparent, and the repairs are becoming more and more difficult to deal with. Let the music be the light that will lead the way and repair the soul.

 

 

 

 

SAS – Amber Groove

Another gem from 1992 to let you in on, you really need to play this on a loud system to fully appreciate this one. …..oh the memories !

SAS – Amber Groove (Toxic Hijack Mix)

http://www.mediafire.com/?jmgw1dt2mmt

LB Bad – New Age of Faith

Was listening to The Sabres of Paradise – Smokebelch earlier, and reminded me that this was effectivly a remake of LB Bad’s tune called New Age of Faith. I have read some stories that the song was never credited to LB, not sure if that is true, as some say it was credited to LB on Smokebelch II. Either way Sabres must have made a shed load of cash from the remake, and reading comments from LB on youtube, he did not get a look into that. But I guess the success came down to the Sabres giving this tune new light and exposure, as LB’s version was seldom heard if at all back in the days. Cannot say I have ever heard it on a late 80’s mix tape. I actually really like LB’s version, but for me the beatless mix by the Sabres is so lush, it makes you just melt into the sand.

Warm Sound Radio Show

Ok I forgot to tell you about my “Warm Sounds” Show that I present on Pirate Revival Radio Station on alternate Tuesdays between 6pm-8pm GMT. For 2hrs I select a kaliedascape of sound including Punk, Funk, Disco, Acid, House, 80’s Synth, Electrofunk and everything else in between past, present and future from the record boxes here at The Acid House. You can tune in via itunes or by visiting the stations website here. There is a friendly shout box on the stations website where you can join in the banter, also the station runs 24/7 and has many DJ’s covering many different genres from dubstep, hardcorebreaks, old skool house and hardcore 88-94, Funk and Balearic.

Direct Link to Live Stream http://radio.piraterevival.co.uk:8000/listen.pls

And here is an MP3 of the Science mix of the Underground Kids – Get Up

Underground Kids – Get Up (Science Mix)

The club mix is still online, just use the search box.

Also..Big Love to Jay for the Artwork above

Sunday Sound Waves – Compiled by Tim Rivers

The very nice chap Andy at Wigid Soundwaves asked me many moons ago to put some tunes together for his excellent blog site. Well I eventually found some time and put together a selection of music that are part of my Sunday musical intake and for when I am sitting on the local beach, music for espadrilles and straw donkeys.

Track Listing

01. The Doves – Compulsion
02. Fleetwood Mac – Brown Eyes
03. Chilled by Nature – Otherness
04. Mariee Sioux – Love Song
05. Icasol – Ongou
06. Chocolate Milk – Time Machine
07. Phoreski – Shellin Out
08. Laughing Light of Plenty – The Rose
09. Studio – Escape from Chinatown
10. Rhythm Doctor – Bones
11. Max Essa – Slo mo Sapien
12. Iya Santana – Instrumental Odyssey

Download here @ High Quality 320kps

Jamie Principle – Your Love – Persona Records 1986

In 1986 Jamie Principle unleashed “Your Love”, however it was not until the late 80’s particulary when Frankie Knuckles re-released the record on a B-Side of Baby Wants to Ride on Trax Records (without crediting Jamie Principle), that the tune gained popularity on the growing Acid house scene in the UK. Later The Source Bootlegged the tune and dropped the Candi Staton ” You got the love” acca over the top creating a mainstream hands in the air anthem. The original bassline was sampled from an early 80’s Italo tune by Electra called Feels Good, and recently I have heard Greg Wilson play a brilliant re-edit by a chap who goes under the name of Cosmic  Boogie , has done a rather nice re-edit of Electra with the Candi Staton acca over the bassline which is due to be released on Disco Deviance records sometime soon, so watch out for that one. But back to the original, a timeless classic house tune still smashing dance floors some 23 years after it’s release on US Label Persona Records. I thought I would share the Rodapella Dub version with you as it a lesser known track, and stretches the original to an almost 12 mins of lushness.

Jamie Principle – Your Love (Dub / Rodapella)

http://www.mediafire.com/?mom2mtjzwmd

Kool Rock Steady – I’ll Make You Dance

A lesser known B-Side from the legendary Acid House Label Trax recordings from Chicago I thought I would share with you today. According to discogs.com, Kool Rock Steady is the Cousin of Afika Bambaataa and invented Hip House along side friends Tryee Cooper and Fast Eddie. I was not a huge fan of Hip House and there are only a hand full of tracks from that genre that I like, the A-Side of this release I thought was quite weak, but the flip side co-written with acid legend Lidell Townsell makes up for this and makes it worth while purchase.

Kool Rock Steady – I’ll Make You Dance

http://www.mediafire.com/?qz3z1t3aemy

The Summer of Pub – Go Bang Closing Party – 19th September, Brighton

Just to give you the heads up about the Go Bang all dayer taken place in Brighton on the 19th September. Throughout the Summer the Brighton based groove providers Go Bang have been busy holding parties all over the city in clubs, pubs and basements, playing along side the likes of Crazy P, Greg Wilson, Soft Rocks, etc. Call it Balearic, call it disco, call it groove based, call it whatever you like, these guys know how to put on a party that’s for sure, always drawing a friendly intimate crowd and creating a great atmosphere. So on the 19th September at the Gladstone Pub on the Lewes Road Brighton, Go Bang will be hosting their Summer closing party which will be over three rooms including an outside area playing everything from rare groove, funk, soul, acid, house, electrofunk, disco, reggae, dub, balearic and anything in between. If you are in the Brighton area or from out of town and fancy dropping by for a pint and a boogie, then I’ll see you there.

THE SUMMER OF PUB-THE LAST OUTSIDE ALL DAYER OF 2009 IN BRIGHTON

THE GLADSTONE
(outside and inside)

123 Lewis Road
Brighton
BN2 3QB

Hosted by Go Bang Brighton and Friends
http://gobangbrighton.blogspot.com/

The “Summer Of Pub” started as an idea which was aimed at providing Brighton with a regular night using strictly groove based dance sounds whilst at the same time doing this all down a boozer as a sort of “off piste” non club orientated affair

DJs

-Justin Pollard
-Senor Mick and Johnny Hartshorn
-The Recess
-Steve KIW
-Jeff Daniels (Dedicated Player/Southport Weekender)
-Tim Rivers (The Acid House)
-Pablo Contraband
-Matt Neal and Stu Clark (Wolf Music)
-Daddy Marcus (The Fishbowl)
-Deadfly Hi-Fi (Brighton Frequency Festival)
-Affy Wajid and Ali Broadcast