Löffel back at The Spoon Inn for August Bank Holiday Sunday...

Löffel

We'll post more details when we have them but for now, a quick heads up that Löffel returns to The Spoon Inn on the next Bank Holiday Sunday, August 25th. 

MONKEYS ROCK - 2 HOUR 1999 / 2001 MIXTAPE COMPILATION

Between 1998 and 2001 I put together a series of mixtapes under the somewhat random title of 'MONKEYS ROCK!'. The mixes mostly consisted of soul breaks cut up with charity shop records,  hip hop & various reggae / disco tracks, put together on two Technics, a Vestax mixer and a tape deck.

I've now compiled volumes one & two into a continuations mixtape - check it out below:

 
 MONKEYS ROCK! [ CASSETTE RIP ] by VISUAL SOUND

There's absolutely no chance of a tracklisting as there's at least 150 separate records on there but as a guide, please see below for a list of some featured artists:

FOREIGN LEGION, REUBEN WILSON, DOUG E FRESH, SONNY & CHER, BOB DOROUGH, DESMOND DEKKER, SAM & DAVE, IKE TURNER, BIZ MARKIE, MUDFOOT, MOS DEF Vs BURT BACHARACH, O JAYS, MAJOR FORCE, CUT CHEMIST, PETER POWELL, DE LA SOUL, PUMPKINHEAD, ESTHER WILLIAMS, ROB BASE & DJ EZ ROCK, SISTER NANCY, NATURAL RESOURCE, RAEKWON, AV8, JAMES BROWN, AFU RA, CODE RED, DJ PREMIER, AYATOLLAH, CLINT EASTWOOD, PETER PARKER, DJ FOOD, SCHOOLY D, FRED STEINER, ESTA, SOULS OF MISCHIEF, DJ RECTANGLE, SHIRLEY BASSEY, BEANIE MAN, COLDCUT &  A LOAD OF CHARITY SHOP RECORDS....

LIVE RECORDING from July's Löffel at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton, M21..

The Spoon Inn

We recorded bits of last Sunday's Löffel at The Spoon Inn - check out the links below. mix of various afternoon suitable stuff...

 

  LOFFEL LIVE JULY 2013 PART ONE by VISUAL SOUND

TRACKLISTING:


FRENCH PSYCHEDELICS - HORSE
TOPANGA CANYON - LOVE YOU
AMARSI UN PO - ??? [ ADRATIC SUN EDIT ]
HEIKKI SARMANTO & JEANNINE OTIS - SUMMER SUN [ 33 RPM VERSION ] 
LEO'S SUNSHIP - GIVE ME THE SUNSHINE [ INSRT. ]
LAND OF LIGHT - PRESENCE OF THE PAST
LAND OF LIGHT - HIGHER LOVE
?? - ?? [ LETS'S GET LOST VOLUME 17 ]
NINOSTA STEEL - FOXY PUP
?? - ??
BEGIN - ELATE [ 33 RPM VERSION ] 
?? - ??
BEGIN - LAY
THE POPES - BASTARD [ VERSION IDJUT ]
GEORGIE FAME, DEE LEWIS & CORAL GORDON - NEW YORK AFTERNOON 

 
LOFFEL LIVE RECORDING JULY 2013 PART TWO by VISUAL SOUND  



 LOFFEL LIVE RECORDING JULY 2013 PART THREE by VISUAL SOUND
 
We'll post a tracklisting soon & look out some other recordings too....

Outside Spoon Inn

Dunkel

Arts

Basil

Terrace

Löffel July at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton

Loffel July

So next Sunday, the afternoon after the return of Club Suicide, we're back at The Spoon Inn for July's Löffel. 

We'll be starting around 3pm & playing through to the sun down - expect a suitable soundtrack for tea & cake consumption....

Here's a recording of a previous afternoon:

 
  LOFFEL LIVE DJ RECORDING PART TWO by VISUAL SOUND

The Return Of........CLUB SUICIDE - Saturday July 13th

Looking forward to the return of one of Manchester's best clubs from the last 10 years - here's what they say:

CLUB SUICIDE

LIVE: AÉREA NEGROT (BPITCH CONTROL) & HIEM (NANG RECORDS)

ISLINGTON MILL, SALFORD

Club Suicide is a misguided attempt to map the space between leftfield pop, old punk (funk), new electro and off-kilter techno. You could say 'anything goes', but it doesn't. Not really. Between 2000 and 2004, Suicide ran sporadically and chaotically at a pub in the Arndale (now demolished) and Charlie's. Live turns were crucial to the night and Club Suicide gave Manchester debuts to, among others, Patrick Wolf and M.I.A. The 'DJs' didn't mix (they still can't), but people danced. Honestly. 

On Saturday July 13, Club Suicide returns for a one-off continuation. No classics, no nostalgia, no pandering. Instead, we will pick-up where we left off and, for one night, hopefully present a unique collision (car crash?) of musical styles for curious disco dissidents. 

Playing live: Aérea Negrot, the 21st century Berlin chanteuse and Venezuelan force of nature, whose Arabxilla on BPitch Control was one of the most distinctive albums of recent years. Aérea's music may be filed as house or techno, she may be a sometime collaborator with Hercules & Love Affair, but this is 4/4 channelled by a woman equal-parts Grace Jones, Maria Callas and Klaus Nomi. Google her, now, and tell us that operatic, electronic eruption isn't one of the strangest, most thrilling noises you've heard, this year. See? You can’t, can you? 

Closer to home, we also welcome our friends and yours, Sheffield's mighty Hiem. The Steel City lineage of peculiar, clangy electronic pop remains one of Club Suicide's key inspirations, and with Hiem's debut album, Escape From Division Street, recently re-released by Nang Records, fate was clearly telling us to get Nico and Bozz involved. Expect: facepaint, fleet disko, fat synths and plenty of that trademark surly SoYo wit.

WHY? WHY? WHY ARE WE DOING THIS NOW? 

Someone asked us, basically. Bill Campbell is the creator of Islington Mill and a one-time Suicide regular: "For me, the early Club Suicide nights at John Willie Lees reasserted a DIY, John Peel-esque spirit in Manchester, bringing together various generations of misfits, and giving them a new home. The music, post-punk, synth pop and noisy garage rock, sat perfectly alongside the emerging electroclash scene, putting it in context without nostalgia. It reignited a sense of just-do-it in me personally and, in the friends I made there, brought two distinct music and art crowds together in a way that has informed much of what we now do at the Mill. That is, bringing people together to explore what is possible."

Which is a very nice way of Bill saying that he spent a lot of time at Suicide, "drunk" and "dancing". Ultimately - in fact, primarily - that is all there is to it. See you there.