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25 July 2013

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:


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....

16 July 2013

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

07 July 2013

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:


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:

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

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. 


16 May 2013

Löffel at The Spoon Inn | Sunday 26th May


Loffel returns to The Spoon Inn on Sunday 26th May for a bank holiday Sunday all dayer as part of Chorlton Arts Festival. #Facebook event here.

DJs are Jeff [ Eighty Six ] & Tom [ aA ] plus live percussion from Dreadbeatz. 

Expect the usual mix of folk, downtempo soul, calypso, electronics & most points in between. Plus of course good cake

A bit like this in fact:

 

We'll start around 3pm and run on through til closing time about 10pm. 


Some photos from last time:




26 March 2013

Next LOFFEL : SUNDAY 21st APRIL


 Löffel returns to The Spoon Inn for another afternoon session on Sunday 21st April - more details, very soon..

12 March 2013

LIVE DJ RECORDINGS From Löffel, Sunday March 10th at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton, M21


Each month we do an afternoon / early evening DJ session at The Spoon Inn in Chorlton, Manchester called Löffel. It's a chance to play a more laid back selection of lo fi folk, soul, soundtracks & field recordings - pretty much anything that sounds good to drink tea in the sunshine to...

Last Sunday we recorded the soundtrack between 1pm and 6pm & uploaded them as below. The sound quality is a bit off as the levels go up and down all day but hopefully it gives you an idea of what we do.

There's no tracklist as yet but we'll try to sort one when we get a chance... 

 
 LOFFEL LIVE DJ RECORDING PART ONE by LEGO-aA
 

 
 LOFFEL LIVE DJ RECORDING PART TWO by LEGO-aA  

[ please excuse the record skipping at the start of the second recording, a toddler tried to storm the decks... ]

If you like this kind of thing keep an eye on The Spoon Inn's FB page for details of the next Loffel including a Bank Holiday all dayer in May.

& if you're after something very slightly bit more uptempo, check out Eighty Six which is on at Spoon Inn next Saturday:



28 February 2013

EIGHTY SIX at De Nada, Friday March 01st


This Friday I'm DJing at De Nada in Chorlton with the Eighty Six lot. It starts around 8.30pm and runs til late.

Pop down for South American food, beers and a laidback sound track. 

20 February 2013

Löffel Afternoon Session, Sunday March 10th


We're back at The Spoon Inn, Chorlton on Sunday 10th March for another Löffel, click here to find out miore...

ADAM CURTIS 'IT FELT LIKE A KISS' | 2009 DOCUMENTARY | AUDIO SOUNDTRACK MIXTAPE


I've just uploaded the soundtrack from Adam Curtis' 'It Felt Like A Kiss' show to Soundcloud. Not really a mixtape but it works well with just the audio, check it out:




IT FELT LIKE A KISS SOUNDTRACK
      Uploaded by LEGO-aA

Oh What a Dream - Ruth Brown
Camille - From Le Mepris soundtrack - Georges Delerue
Let the Four Winds Blow - Fats Domino
Stealing Fat - From Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers
On the Rebound - Floyd Cramer
What Does a Woman Do? - Doris Day
Monkey 23 - The Kills
Baja - The Astronauts
Do-Wah-Diddy - The Exciters
Just One Look - Doris Troy
Monkey on Your Back - Clinic
I'll Be Your Mirror - Velvet Underground
Parlez-Moi d'Amour - Lucienne Boyer
Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens
Slap in The Face - from The Gadfly - Shostakovich
Easier Said Tan Done - The Essex
He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss) - The Crystals
The Locomotion - Little Eva
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Cha-Cha - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein
Meeting Scene - from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Who's That Guy? - The Kolettes
The Madison Time, Pt 1 - Ray Bryant Combo
All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground
Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Bob Dylan
Cry To Me - Solomon Burke
Freak Freak - The Bug
Moonlight - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten
Who Is Tyler Durden? - Fight Club soundtrack - Dust Brothers
I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash
Wouldn't It Be Nice? - Beach Boys
Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground
Have You Seen Her? - The Chi-Lites
River Deep Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner
Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee
Krautrock - Faust
Dawn - Four Sea Interludes (From Peter Grimes) - Benjamin Britten





02 February 2013

PHOTOSTREAM 02: More 1980s NYC + a narrative...



"The New York of the 1980s differed in two fundamental ways from the New York of today.

First, 1980s-era New York was an edgier, riskier, dirtier, tenser, more dangerous and chaotic place. I think that fairly comes through in my images.


Second, 1980s-era New York had a sense of wide-openness and freedom that was lost following 9/11 ... and likely never will be regained.


Notice how these two fundamental changes overlap in a number of important ways. A safer city, to some extent, comes at the price of a loss of freedom and openness. Conversely, the edginess and riskiness of the 1980s came at an appalling human and social cost. My photos of South Bronx and Bushwick are -- if I might say so -- a testament to that. Those who might be nostalgic for the edginess and riskiness of the 1980s were surely not the people who were growing up in the South Bronx and Bushwick in the era. 


 
The trade-off between openness and security is reflected in a very literal way in some of my 1980s photos. Some of my photos from that era were taken from the tops of bridges and within city-owned properties that were nominally closed off to the public. In that era, many of these locations were open and accessible. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that -- in this post-9/11 era -- an itinerant photographer should not attempt to explore these same locations. The probable consequence, at the very least, will be the loss of the ability to smoothly pass though airport security checkpoints.


In any event, these are just a few broad-brush generalizations... useful but limited. The City is such an enormous and complex place that one should hesitate to resort to generalizations -- let alone attempt to explain the complicated forces that have shaped the City over the past thirty years.


My photos say this better than I can. What I mean is: If my photos show anything about New York, it is New York's astonishing diversity. New York is not one city. It is -- and always has been -- a collection of hundreds of neighborhoods. Each of these neighborhoods has its own delicate social fabric. One cannot know New York -- or understand New York -- without exploring all five boroughs.


Although I have explored the City more than most, I can still find plenty of places that I've never encountered before... that are new to me, and surprising. One can never know it all! Even if one tried, a neighborhood would likely change by the time one got around to visiting it again! 


 

That brings me to the subject of neighborhood change. To me, viewing a neighborhood undergoing change is quite fascinating -- and a natural subject for photography. When a bodega is located next to a boutique, there are many chance interactions... and perhaps there is much more than that. Perhaps there is even real economic and racial integration. This is New York at its best and most vital. The suburbs will never contain this heterogeneity.


But unfortunately, this situation is inherently unstable. If only one could "freeze" that change in place.... before the lease on the bodega runs out, and it is forced to leave. If only.


Times Square is, in some ways, emblematic of the changes and trade-offs that have taken place in New York over the past thirty years (In other ways, it is not, because Times Square is the City's central business district -- not a mere neighborhood) In any event, no one can mourn the loss of the sleaze and degradation of the old Times Square. But the new Times Square is often sterile and corporate .... with all the character and authenticity of a shopping mall. I'm not at all sure that the best of the old could have been preserved while making way for tangible improvements.


I do know that, as long as I'm around, I'll be there -- with my camera -- to witness and record the changes in this remarkable City"


NOW, LISTEN:

 



PHOTOSTREAM 01: Street Portraits, NYC 1980s



Then watch this....



DAMN.

23 January 2013

REUP: FRIDAY MIXTAPE


 

RUFF UKG / HOUSE MIXTAPE FEAT: MASTERS AT WORK, ZED BIAS, LIL SILVA, GIRL UNIT, DVA, ROSKA, BASSMENT JAXX, RAMSEY & FEN, WU TANG, DJ ZINC, TIGERSTYLZ, TIMO MASS, D MALICE, NIGHT SLUGS, CRAZY TITCH, ED CASE & THE STREETS... PRETTY MUCH 1999 ONTO 1999 THRU TO 2010...

12 December 2012

BALA then, now it's KRAAK, on Friday 21st December...


Earlier in the year I DJ'd at an ace party in Bala, North Wales - ace sound, ace people, ace LASERS...

We're doing it again, Friday 21st @ Kraak, Manchester...

 Scenes from Bala:










10 December 2012

EDDIE MURPHY SAYS "HAPPY CHRISTMAS...."



 
by LEGO-aA

RUNNING BACK  - NYC STREET SOUNDS
EDDIE MURPHY - DELIRIOUS [CLIP]
JULIO BASHMORE - ?
WORLD FAMOUS SUPREME TEAM - HEY DJ [INSTRUMENTAL MIX]
JULIO BASHMORE - ?
PRINCE - I WANNA BE YOUR LOBSTER [DIMITRI FROM STOKE EDIT]
ASHLEY BEEDLE - YARDISM EP [GIRLS MUSIC]
JULIO BASHMORE - AU SERVE [ORIGINAL MIX]
DOM PERIGNON & DYNAMITE - GOT MYSELF TOGETHER [DND MIX]
?? - ?
NBC - FUNKY BEATS [187 LOCKDOWN REMIX]
FAT CAT - JUMP [DOUBLE 99 REMIX]
CRST - ALL THAT YOU CHASE
?? - ?
ROOTS MANUVA - DREAMY DAYZ [MJ COLE VOCAL MIX]
M DUBZ - BUMP & GRIND [SUNSHIP REMIX]
?? - OUT IN THE STREET [JA IN NYC REMIX]
JAMESY P & ELEPHANT MAN - NOOKIE TONIGHT [HOUSE MIX]

**CHRISTMAS INTERLUDE WITH HOLLY JOHNSON & BOB GELDOFF**

VYBZ CARTEL - ?? [MOSCA REMIX DUB]
SISTER NANCY - BAM BAM [DMZ REMIX]
LEE SCRATCH PERRY - OUTTA SPACE [DMZ REMIX]
BASSMENT JAXX - JUMP & SHOUT [SOUNDSYSTEM REMIX]
JULIO BASHMORE - BATTLE FOR MIDDLE YOU [ORIGINAL MIX]
FRED FALKE - RUNNIN
THOMAS BANGALTIER - STARDUST/HOLIDAY [BOOTLEG MIX]
DEADBOY - ??
LIL SILVA - PULSE VIP
?? - WUT [NIGHT SLUGS]
SKREAM - MIDNIGHT REQUEST LINE [HOUSTON VOCAL REMIX]
NIGHT SLUGS - ??
MARY J BLIGE - REAL LOVE [OG 7" BIGGIE GUEST REMIX]
ALEX REECE - PULP FICTION [EXTRACT]
GLAMMA KID & SHOLA AMA - SWEETEST TABOO [MJ COLE REMIX]
?? - ?
HYPNOTISED - YOU DO [DOMU REMIX]


ONE HOUR, 28 MINUTES & OUT...










20 September 2012

NME @LPOOLPSYCHFEST MIXTAPE


TRACKLISTING:

THE TIME AND SPACE MACHINE : VISION OM
BLACK MARKET KARMA : ADRONE
THE TIME AND SPACE MACHINE : COSMIC COWBOY RIDES AGAIN
DEAD SKELETONS : PSYCHODEAD
WOLF PEOPLE : TINY CIRCLE
THE SEE SEE : AUTOMOBILE
THE LUCID DREAM : DEVILS RIDES OUT [ THE TIME AND SPACE MACHINE MIX ]
HOOKWORMS : FORM AND FUNCTION
PLANK! : LA LUNA [ LP VERSION ]
DEAD SKELETONS :  KINGDOM OF GOD