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.

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The  Minute Men – All my friends

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

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

Soulful Acid House

This is one of those tracks I am patiently waiting to turn up on my record digs, an absolute gem of a soulful acid house tune from 1989, sexy vocals on the A-side and a lovely deep acid instrumental groove on the flip side.

B-Side: Annette – Dream Slumber

http://www.mediafire.com/?mh2mmzkugny

In 2004 I started to notice some new releases adopting the original acid house sounds, and one that really hit the spot and stood out was Alex Kid’s Don’t Hide it release on French label F Communications with an excellent dub and vocal version.

Alex Kid – Don’t Hide it (Acid Dub)

http://www.mediafire.com/?zdyyw4zujan

DJ Alfredo @ Amnesia 1985

Well the weekend has landed, love the August Bank Holiday Vibes. Just having a quick dig around and stumbled across this excellent blog with some mixes by some of the DJ’s on the Balearic scene. And one of those being DJ Alfredo, whom I have mentioned once or twice in previous posts. Quite interesting to hear what he was playing at Amnesia in 1985, way before the Acid House explosion kicked off.

http://testpressing.org/2009/08/14/mix-dj-alfredo-amnesia-1985/

Enjoy

The Art of Acid – (re-edits)

Last year the Most Excellent Justin Robertson (see what I did there…clever eh), released a double CD called The Art of Acid. The second disc was more of interest as it was unmixed and consisted of recent edits of some classic Chicago Acid house tracks. Included was the Greg Wilson mix of No Way back, that I seem to hear quite regulary in Brighton, but also an intersting re-edit by Graeme Park of Pierre’s Phuture Phatasy Club – Dream Girl. For me the original has an amazing acid hook, but I always thought the vocal let the track down in a big way. So it was refreshing to hear Graeme’s re-edit maybe a little drawn out over 9mins, but nether the less I prefer it to the original vocal version. Another treat is Dusty Kids remix of the all time classic and one of my favourite tunes Frankie Knuckles – Your Love, while it is still not a touch on the original, it is a refreshing tripped out instrumental edit that changes the texture of the original and brings new colour and light with the use of the echo effects and delays. It is available on Juno Download, and looks like there are some extra edits that were not on the CD, worth a listen at least, if you like it, go out and buy it.

Pierres Phuture Phatasy Club – Dream Girl (Graeme Park Edit)

Frankie Knuckles – Your Love (Dusty Kid Edit)

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Tim Rivers – Balearic Juke Box – Club Classics Pride Guest Mix (remake)

Less than two weeks ago I had the amazing opportunity of playing at a club classics night hosted by the Balearic Brothers on Pride Weekend in Brighton. Although not recorded live on the night, I thought I would record the set pretty much in the same track order as it was on the night. Being a Club Classics night, I dusted off lots of Anthems and being pride night, I just could not resist dropping King’s “Love & Pride” that went down well nicely with plenty of people singing along to it. Anyway here it is for you to enjoy, recorded in one go on my usual weapons of choice…2 x Technics SL1210 Turntables a Mixer.

Download in 320kps MP3

Tracklisting

Talizman – Only You (1993)
A G C G – Voodoo Ray (1989)
Y0ung MC – Know how (1989)
Precinct 13 – Listen to you heartbeat (1989)
Marshall Hain – Dancing in the City (Dancing Strings Mix) (1992)
Kenny Jammin Jason – Can you dance (1987)
Fallout – The Morning after (1989)
FPI Project – Rich in paradise (1989)
Seduction – Groove me (1990)
Victor Simonelli – Feels so right (1996)
Orange Lemon – The Texan (1989)
Hashim – The Soul (1983)
King – Love & Pride (1984)
Yazoo – Don’t Go (1982)
A Seperate Reality -  Let no man put Asunder (1992)
Joe Smooth – Promised land (1988)
Lil Louis – French Kiss (1989)
Chantel – The Realm Acca (1990)
Frankie Knuckles – Your Love (1989)

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