Amblongus

Big up Amblongus for top tenning Fad Gadget and Fox’s “S-s-single Bed” – the latter is a campy disco smasheroo that I bought on 7″ in the basement of Camden MVE on the basis that it was on the same label as my version of “I Feel Love”, which was picked up at a car boot sale in Leighton Buzzard.

I seem to have some unwritten rule which forbids me for paying more than 50p for camp disco-pop classics. Divine’s “You Think You’re a Man (But You’re Only a Boy)” was another one – 20p on 12″ in Barcelona.

Anyway S-s-single Bed is one of those tunes I have listened to occasionally without knowing any background since I bought it. I kept meaning to find out more or do a google or even read the label but preferred just to slap it on the deck now and then and enjoy it for what it is. The opening beats are sorta train-like and her voice is all “wrong”. It’s great!

nerd up!

Following on from the comments over at Woebot, I haven’t set up an RSS feed because:

a) I don’t really know how they work
b) I don’t know how to set one up
c) Dnyl at chaos.org.au probably does know how to set one up in the blink of an eye, but has enough on his plate anyway
c) I’ve only ever heard of two people who use RSS readers, one of them being Matt and the other being Gyrus
d) I am not clear what the crack is with using an RSS reader in an office environment with IT Dept surveillance
e) There are other things I would like to do first

However, having said that, there already seems to be one [old chaos.org.au link removed]
It would be cool if Gyrus and/or Matt could confirm whether or not it works. If it does I’ll stick a link up or something.

I thought Matt’s comments and templates for bloggers was great. I thought about doing a “here’s an HTML tag, here’s two others – now start a blog!” thing like Sniffing Glue did with punk, but it all got fairly automated soon after that. There seems to be no middle ground in the “hardcore coder” vs “just slap it up by any means necessary” webclash. I’m firmly in the latter category tho I have picked a few things up since I crawled onto the web back in 1996.

DIY Breakcore in E2

One of the more obscure features of the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood is its impressive “make your own breakcore track” installation on the first floor. For only 60p you can, for a limited timescale, mash the place up in front of a captive audience of children.

There are no actual instructions, so please print this off for guidance.

Step 1: Place 30p into the big red fire engine mini-ride. This provides the necessary droning engine noises and sirens.

Step 2: Place infant (preferably your own or a friend’s) into said fire engine.

Step 3: Place another 30p into the adjacent Wurlitzer jukebox and select “1712”: “Pass the Dutchie” by Musical Youth.

Step 4: Encourage infant, and any passing children or adults to exclaim “Selector!!!” or “Murder Style!!!” very loudly. Ignore confused looks of other parents and staff members.

Step 5: Enjoy your industrial reggae mash up!

weakening

Oh yeah, and apologies for the week long gap.

I was hunting for easter eggs in my parents’ back garden with the daughter. And my workplace nearly burned to the fucking ground over the weekend. Dali-esque molten keyboards, all my work covered in ash, the lot.

Plus, I couldn’t be arsed. Sorry 🙂

pre-history of sleng teng

Nice piece on Sleng Teng over at Search And Delete.

Some stuff to check for sure. (Thanks as ever to Matt for the link).

My tuppence worth:

pumpkin belly

Tenor Saw’s “Pumpkin Belly” is arguably far better than the original Wayne Smith cut.

On the same lyrics over different backing tip, Alozade & Hollowpoint’s “Under Mi Sensi” on the Clappas riddim is well wicked, high energy stuff.

Conscious Sounds & Kenny Knots

You should also look out for Kenny Knots and the Bush Chemists track “Good Sensimiella” which came out on a Conscious Sounds 10″ last year. Great vocals and dub of an absolutely seismic reworking of the riddim by Dougie Conscious.

Rubadub Soldier

Nice to see some mention of the pre-sleng teng digi stuff also. Paul Blake and the Bloodfire Posse’s “Rub a Dub Soldier” is a current household fave here, with the daughter demanding that we sing the opening lines on a regular basis:

“I’m… just a rub a dub soldier – fighting… to keep the rockers aliiiiiiiiiiiive
I’m… just a rub a dub soldier – working… from a nine until fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive.”

Also features a bit of just about ok scratching in the dub bit, which I’m sure isn’t a common occurrence.

herbman

What’s interesting about early 80s productions of people like Junjo and Sly & Robbie (and Scientist’s dubs) is that they were getting increasingly sparse and robotic – as if the culture was reaching out for the technology long before it actually became available or affordable.

Solution Sound – addendum

In response to this…

“Author: Solution Crew
Date: 04-07-04 13:27

Well John thanks for your comments and yes this now has to be sorted out. We have never told mic men what is and isn’t acceptable on the sound as on the whole it hasn’t been necessary but it has come to the point were we now have to.

We don’t support these lyrics and you won’t be witnessing them on our sound again, sorry it ruined your night.

Respect
Solution Crew”

Enough said!