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A wonderful soul gem first time on 7" vinyl by the relatively unknown artist Jimmy Messina. No breaks and samples just good vibes and perfect for that soul box.
Love is here - a great soul sing a long and a dance floor mover, brung on the sunshine!
Do you wanna dance - is a perfect soul dancer
Love is here - a great soul sing a long and a dance floor mover, brung on the sunshine!
Do you wanna dance - is a perfect soul dancer
TRACK LISTING
1. Do You Want To Dance
2. Love Is Here
It’s a testament to Jimmy Smith’s volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classics—Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack—in a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25, 1960 with Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Donald Bailey on drums.
This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.
This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Midnight Special
2. A Subtle One
Side B
3. Jumpin' The Blues
4. Why Was I Born
5. One O'Clock Jump
Jimmy Somerville’s debut solo album Read My Lips is re-issued with rarities and new remixes.
Originally released in 1989, the album enjoyed Gold Sales and 3 Top 30 hits, as well as Jimmy’s Top 10 cover of Sylvester’s ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’.
This expanded version contains remixes from William Orbit, AMYL, B-Sides and rarities such as ‘From This Moment On’ (from Red, Hot + Blue) and I Believe in Love (with Arthur Baker and The Beat Disciples).
New liner notes from journalist and author Paul Burston.
Originally released in 1989, the album enjoyed Gold Sales and 3 Top 30 hits, as well as Jimmy’s Top 10 cover of Sylvester’s ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’.
This expanded version contains remixes from William Orbit, AMYL, B-Sides and rarities such as ‘From This Moment On’ (from Red, Hot + Blue) and I Believe in Love (with Arthur Baker and The Beat Disciples).
New liner notes from journalist and author Paul Burston.
TRACK LISTING
Side One
1 Comment Te Dire Adieu 2 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
3 Perfect Day
4 Heaven Here On Earth (With Your Love)
5 Don’t Know What To Do (Without You)
Side Two
6 Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)
7 My Heart Is In Your Hands
8 Control
9 And You Never Thought This Could Happen To You
10 Rain
Side Three
11 Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough) (AMYL Remix) 12 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (William Orbit Remix)
13 Adieu! (June Et Jim Présentent Madame Tata Mix)
Side Four
14 From This Moment On (from ‘Red Hot + Blue’)
15 I Believe In Love (from ‘Merge’)
16 Comment Te Dire Adieu (Commercial Mix) 17 Rain (Pascal Gabriel Mix)
Jimmy Somerville’s debut solo album Read My Lips is re-issued on vinyl for the first time since its original release.
Originally released in 1989, the album enjoyed Gold Sales and 3 Top 30 hits including ‘Comment Te Dire Adieu’ and ‘Read My Lips (Enough is Enough)’, as well as Jimmy’s Top 10 cover of Sylvester’s ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’.
Originally released in 1989, the album enjoyed Gold Sales and 3 Top 30 hits including ‘Comment Te Dire Adieu’ and ‘Read My Lips (Enough is Enough)’, as well as Jimmy’s Top 10 cover of Sylvester’s ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’.
TRACK LISTING
Side One
1 Comment Te Dire Adieu
2 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
3 Perfect Day
4 Heaven Here On Earth (With Your Love)
5 Don’t Know What To Do (Without You)
Side Two
6 Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough) 7 My Heart Is In Your Hands
8 Control
9 And You Never Thought This Could Happen To You
10 Rain
The Search for God is a wake-up call for a troubled world that’s still worth saving, animated by a belief in the power of small connections to add up to big changes. At 10 songs delivered in a brief 15 minutes, Jimmy Whispers’ long-awaited sophomore album feels present in a way that feels brand new for the cult auteur. Like many of us, Jimmy has been affected by the pressure of the past few years. After embracing sobriety in 2019, and now as a filmmaker sharing the stories of lesser known Los Angeles community members, he’s brought his dreaming down to earth, while turning its direction even further out.
Recorded with his longtime friend Ziyad Asrar of the band Whitney (and re-recorded after a hard drive incident destroyed the original files), The Search for God was created in the wake of Jimmy’s COVID isolation, and returns to some teen influences that are out of step with the chill/lo-fi LA indie rock scene he’s found himself lumped in with. Created mostly with two vintage synths, a single Roland CR5000 drum machine, and a busted karaoke machine, it channels Midwestern emo, the Beach Boys’ Smile, subtle nods at hyper-pop production, and forgotten jewel-box era college radio of the early aughts into a pure pop sound that transcends easy categorization.
The album’s standout single—and its statement of purpose—is “Hellscape,” which packs more into a minute and 40 seconds than you’d think possible: multiple immediately-unforgettable hooks, kaleidoscopic keyboards, and a bracing reminder that even the most transcendent moments are rooted in a world full of suffering. “This is a fucking hellscape,” Jimmy sings. “This is real life / this is happening.”
That may sound like punk nihilism, but The Search for God is anything but. Every lyrical acknowledgment of how fucked things are right now comes with a promise that we can still make positive changes. Jimmy calls it “God”; you might call it Love or Peace or A Place In the Universe That Makes Some Kind of Sense.
Will The Search for God deliver whatever that is to you? Of course not. At its heart, it’s still just a really good pop album. But maybe that’s enough. For a minute or two at a time, Jimmy’s music cracks open a space where the divine can enter our lives. The utopia we’ve all been dreaming of is already here if we’re just willing to build it. Jimmy Whispers is there, ready to add his voice, whenever we want to reach out.
Recorded with his longtime friend Ziyad Asrar of the band Whitney (and re-recorded after a hard drive incident destroyed the original files), The Search for God was created in the wake of Jimmy’s COVID isolation, and returns to some teen influences that are out of step with the chill/lo-fi LA indie rock scene he’s found himself lumped in with. Created mostly with two vintage synths, a single Roland CR5000 drum machine, and a busted karaoke machine, it channels Midwestern emo, the Beach Boys’ Smile, subtle nods at hyper-pop production, and forgotten jewel-box era college radio of the early aughts into a pure pop sound that transcends easy categorization.
The album’s standout single—and its statement of purpose—is “Hellscape,” which packs more into a minute and 40 seconds than you’d think possible: multiple immediately-unforgettable hooks, kaleidoscopic keyboards, and a bracing reminder that even the most transcendent moments are rooted in a world full of suffering. “This is a fucking hellscape,” Jimmy sings. “This is real life / this is happening.”
That may sound like punk nihilism, but The Search for God is anything but. Every lyrical acknowledgment of how fucked things are right now comes with a promise that we can still make positive changes. Jimmy calls it “God”; you might call it Love or Peace or A Place In the Universe That Makes Some Kind of Sense.
Will The Search for God deliver whatever that is to you? Of course not. At its heart, it’s still just a really good pop album. But maybe that’s enough. For a minute or two at a time, Jimmy’s music cracks open a space where the divine can enter our lives. The utopia we’ve all been dreaming of is already here if we’re just willing to build it. Jimmy Whispers is there, ready to add his voice, whenever we want to reach out.
TRACK LISTING
1. Ice Cream Truck
2. Stray Dogs
3. The Search For God
4. Swimming
5. True Love Is Freedom
6. Hiding In The Basement
7. Meditiation Song
8. Hellscape
9. The Search For God (Reprise)
10. The Right Time To Leave
Orange Tree bossman Jimmy Rouge gets his shears out for another round of evergreen edits from deep in the depths. Soundsystem crunchin new wave and synth pop sounds, sit side by side with mind expanding downtempo melters for this all hitters, no critters four tracker.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Bay Leaf
A2. Rounders
B1. Night Train
B2. Fever Dream
'It Ain't Easy Living In The Ghetto' 1980
Produced by Phil Pratt
Vocals: Jimmy London
Bass: Aston 'Family Man' Barrett & Robert 'Robbie' Shakespeare
Drums: Carlton Barrett & Lowell 'Sly' Dunbar
Lead Guitar: Bertram 'Ranchie' MacLean
Rhythm Guitar: Radcliffe 'Dougie' Bryan
Keyboards: Ansell 'Pinkie' Collins & Bobby Kalphat
Tenor Saxophone: Tommy McCook
Alto Saxophone: Felix 'Deadly Headley' Bennett
Trombone: Vincent 'Don D Junior' Gordon
Percussion: Christopher 'Sky Juice' Blake, Noel 'Scully' Simms & Uzziah 'Sticky' Thompson
Recorded at: Channel One Recording Studio, 29 Maxfield Avenue, Kingston 13, Jamaica
Engineers: Ernest Hookim & Oswald 'Ossie' Hibbert
Produced by Phil Pratt
Vocals: Jimmy London
Bass: Aston 'Family Man' Barrett & Robert 'Robbie' Shakespeare
Drums: Carlton Barrett & Lowell 'Sly' Dunbar
Lead Guitar: Bertram 'Ranchie' MacLean
Rhythm Guitar: Radcliffe 'Dougie' Bryan
Keyboards: Ansell 'Pinkie' Collins & Bobby Kalphat
Tenor Saxophone: Tommy McCook
Alto Saxophone: Felix 'Deadly Headley' Bennett
Trombone: Vincent 'Don D Junior' Gordon
Percussion: Christopher 'Sky Juice' Blake, Noel 'Scully' Simms & Uzziah 'Sticky' Thompson
Recorded at: Channel One Recording Studio, 29 Maxfield Avenue, Kingston 13, Jamaica
Engineers: Ernest Hookim & Oswald 'Ossie' Hibbert
TRACK LISTING
It Aint Easy
Rock And Roll Lullaby
Jimmy Say Hello
You Know What I Mean
Running Wild
Got To Change Your Ways
Family Man
Moving On
Peggy My Love
Loving You
Jimmy James & The Vagabonds / Sonya Spence
This Heart Of Mine / Let Love Flow On (RSD22 EDITION)
Deptford Northern Soul Club Records
Continuing further into the music of 1970s East Africa, Soundway present a limited edition 10" of raw, bluesy garage-funk-rock from Jimmy Mawi.
Jimmy Mawi was a Madagascan guitarist based in Nairobi in the mid 1970s. He cut only three 45s for EMI East Africa on their Pathe imprint that have virtuallydisappeared from sight in the nearly 40 years since they were recorded. Soundway reproduce four of the best tracks here on a super limited edition 10". Fuzz guitars, raspy vocals and metronomic drumming combine for an exhaustive afro-rock workout.
Earlier this year Soundway released their compilation 'Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings' from the 1970s & ‘80s. Accompanied by a limited remix 12” these releases represent Soundway’s first releases from the East African country and follows from their much acclaimed African ‘Special’ series that to date has focused on the highlife and afrobeat output from 1970s Nigeria and Ghana.
Jimmy Mawi was a Madagascan guitarist based in Nairobi in the mid 1970s. He cut only three 45s for EMI East Africa on their Pathe imprint that have virtuallydisappeared from sight in the nearly 40 years since they were recorded. Soundway reproduce four of the best tracks here on a super limited edition 10". Fuzz guitars, raspy vocals and metronomic drumming combine for an exhaustive afro-rock workout.
Earlier this year Soundway released their compilation 'Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings' from the 1970s & ‘80s. Accompanied by a limited remix 12” these releases represent Soundway’s first releases from the East African country and follows from their much acclaimed African ‘Special’ series that to date has focused on the highlife and afrobeat output from 1970s Nigeria and Ghana.
TRACK LISTING
Black Dialogue
I Want Get Up
Black Star Blues
Let Me Keep Away From You
Following his eponymous album release earlier this year Jamie Lidell drops remixes of album favourite ‘Big Love’ PINK 12” vinyl .
Riding high on the release of his new album 'Vapor City', Machinedrum (also of Sepalcure, Jets, OM Unit and Dream Continuum) delivers a tough steppers version that combines early dubstep rhythms, acid synths and snapping 808 percussion. Next we have Lidell band member Lorenz Rhode combines 80s electro-funk synth riffs with a tougher 2013 sound. On the flip multi-talented Detroit-based electronic producer, designer and photographer, Jimmy Edgar hits us with a wicked 80s proto-techno / electrodisco version. Crackboy goes his own way with a slammin' house refix of other album track ‘You Naked’, which pitches Jamie's vocal down for a sleazy robot soul style.
Riding high on the release of his new album 'Vapor City', Machinedrum (also of Sepalcure, Jets, OM Unit and Dream Continuum) delivers a tough steppers version that combines early dubstep rhythms, acid synths and snapping 808 percussion. Next we have Lidell band member Lorenz Rhode combines 80s electro-funk synth riffs with a tougher 2013 sound. On the flip multi-talented Detroit-based electronic producer, designer and photographer, Jimmy Edgar hits us with a wicked 80s proto-techno / electrodisco version. Crackboy goes his own way with a slammin' house refix of other album track ‘You Naked’, which pitches Jamie's vocal down for a sleazy robot soul style.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Big Love (Machinedrum Remix)
A2. Big Love (Lorenz Rhode Remix)
B1. Big Love (Jimmy Edgar Shout Edit)
B2. You Naked (Crackboy Remix)
Debut single on Clown Prince recordings, from this Wigan based singer / songwriter who cites influences as diverse as Johnny Mathis and the Sex Pistols. His songwriting encapsulates his thoughts and feelings on life with a blend of pathos and tongue in cheek humour, in the most English, self-depreciating way.
Three great tracks from Dublin's The Redneck Manifesto. "Loopy Lou Meets Jimmy Joe" is cleverly cut, melodic yet disjointed rock. "OK Frenchie" is a much different affair as a warm fuzzy vocal floats over a soothing backing track. "Pat Sherrill Jokes" ebbs and flows full of time signature changes and dynamic guitars. For fans of Billy Mahonie, Papa M, Black Heart Procession etc.
Jimmy Eat World are currently riding high at the moment with their critically acclaimed new album "Bleed American" selling by the truckload and
the band's video for "Bleed American" on MTV. This CD compiles singles, comp tracks and unreleased demos plus the three tracks from the bands split EP with Jebediah. Remastered classy stuff.