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Thanks once again to Boris for providing a recording of the show to share with y’all, my timer screwed up and the stream decided to st-st-stutter until I got back home to reset it. I’ll work it out… eventually.
01. | 0:00:00 | Jaymz Nylon - Crave
02. | 0:06:27 | Matt Hinton - Baffled (demo)
03. | 0:13:09 | ? - For Life (Stephy Remix) (demo)
04. | 0:20:49 | ? - C’est La Vie (demo)
05. | 0:28:10 | ? - Fusion (Mix 2) (demo)
06. | 0:32:59 | Kate Simko - Gamelan
07. | 0:40:21 | Sten - The Essence
08. | 0:44:24 | Kim - ?
09. | 0:47:21 | Nicuri - A Thousand Points Of Light
10. | 0:51:24 | Kris Wadsworth - High Roller (forthcoming on Hypercolour)
11. | 0:59:19 | Kris Wadsworth - MoTown Revival (forthcoming on Hypercolour)
12. | 1:05:49 | DJ Joey Anderson - Oval
13. | 1:09:39 | Matt Hinton - Aqua Dreams (demo)
14. | 1:15:36 | DJ Qu - Somethin’ Ta Feel
15. | 1:21:36 | Kate Simko - Gamelan
16. | 1:28:03 | ?
17. | 1:32:27 | ?
18. | 1:35:49 | ?
19. | 1:39:02 | ?
20. | 1:43:54 | ?
These posts serve purely as an archive of the shows for sleepy househeads who can’t stay up that late on a school night or anyone else that may have missed any. I only link to discogs when a) I’m sure what the track is and b) it’s been released and is in the database! If you know any of the unknown tracks, please feel free to spread the word by leaving a comment and I’ll update the post. You can catch Ed broadcasting the Underground Quality Radio Show live every Wednesday on MyHouse-YourHouse.net, 1900EST, 0000GMT & 0100CEST.
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Was released in September but didn’t seem to hit the stores until late October, like most pressings these days, is in limited numbers so don’t hang around if you’re into it and wanna piece of black wax action. Introduced to San Soda via Jus-Ed’s UQ radio show where the two tracks from his debut release on We Play House Recordings were getting regular plays. Just In is both the deepest and my favourite cut on this four track release, constructing an introspective melancholy atmosphere with a mostly constant slightly changing chord in the background and a repeated simple keyboard melody, it’s entrancing. Got Me Jumpin’ In My Car, the second track on the B-side, qualifies with an honourable deep mention and I like it’s slightly distorted percussion and low bassline rumblings. This is a strong release that deserves support so WPH can continue to press and serve up the deepness.
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Weekend before last I was at ck’s and he dropped this audio bomb on my ear lobes. Sounding like Mtume had decided to reform and release new material, ck introduced me to Dâm-Funk’s world. Ck and Keith have specialised more into hiphop than I ever have but their tastes mean they acquire material like this, boogie funk or modern-soul (whatever you want to call it), which I needs to get me into and stock up on. It’s got that West Coast L.A. early eighties vibe thang goin’ on, totally nails it and I’m saying that despite not even visiting the States, let alone Los Angeles. On the flip side, you have the more uptempo but equally retro-sounding Galactic Fun, bringing to mind the productions of the Belgium outfit Spirit Catcher who forge a similar path with a love of eighties synths but more from a house angle.
Dâm purrrdy sleeve as well; released earlier this year but still widely available and h-h-hot, so grab a slice of this boogie pie and support the artist. Looking forward to checking out his forthcoming long player on Stones Throw in the new year.
ck’s all over it - he also played me this promo vid Dâm-Funk put together to publicize his Funkmosphere parties in L.A. - check out the sassy eighties vibezzz. When I eventually get to visit the States and hit L.A. I’ll definitely be visiting to hear all the black wax original pressings, analogue goodness, and to cut some shapes on the floor.
Boris to the rescue! The archive continues… and between Boris and I, if we can work out the timer function on Audio Hijack, we need not go without Quality nourishment in future!
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01. | 0:00:00 | ?
02. | 0:14:29 | Izmo - Spaceman Funk (unreleased)
03. | 0:19:58 | Ernie - ?
04. | 0:26:37 | ? - Deeper
05. | 0:32:51 | Levon Vincent & Nick Chacona - Invisible Bitch Slap (unreleased)
06. | 0:39:13 | Levon Vincent - Women Is The Devil (unreleased)
07. | 0:50:24 | Nick Chacona & Anthony Mansfield - ATC 009 (forthcoming)
08. | 1:02:08 | ? - Skeeta? (Jus-Ed stripped down remix)
09. | 1:08:55 | Thomas Frölich (Froelich) - Home (unreleased?)
10. | 1:16:33 | ? - Happy (Remix 3)
11. | 1:24:20 | ? - Inside Out
12. | 1:31:13 | Benjamin Brunn - Developers Developers
13. | 1:38:19 | ? - Voices (another remix, unreleased)
14. | 1:45:38 | Sten - The Gate
15. | 1:50:30 | DJ Jus-Ed - Sweetness (unreleased)
These posts serve purely as an archive of the shows for sleepy househeads who can’t stay up that late on a school night or anyone else that may have missed any. I only link to discogs when a) I’m sure what the track is and b) it’s been released and is in the database! If you know any of the unknown tracks, please feel free to spread the word by leaving a comment and I’ll update the post. You can catch Ed broadcasting the Underground Quality Radio Show live every Wednesday on MyHouse-YourHouse.net, 1900EST, 0000GMT & 0100CEST.
Maaaaaaan! www.myhouse-yourhouse.net www.undergroundquality.com
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Ed was gallivanting across Europe last week so there was no show. Thanks to Boris again for this one, I got in late and the stream was a bit sketchy near the end so I lost the last quarter of an hour as well but Boris was on the case.
01. | 0:00:00 | Steinhoff & Hammouda - ? (unreleased)
02. | 0:12:17 | ?
03. | 0:19:11 | Izmo - ? (unreleased)
04. | 0:23:42 | Move D & Benjamin Brunn - New Horizon
05. | 0:29:46 | DJ Jus-Ed - Sweetness (unreleased)
06. | 0:38:49 | ?
07. | 0:46:50 | Izmo - ? (unreleased)
08. | 0:56:16 | Steinhoff & Hammouda - You Are
09. | 1:02:18 | DJ Jus-Ed - Some More Shit (unreleased)
10. | 1:10:15 | Efdemin - The Pulse
11. | 1:14:15 | DJ Jus-Ed - New Life (unreleased)
12. | 1:22:48 | Efdemin - America
13. | 1:27:08 | DJ Jus-Ed - ?
14. | 1:34:09 | ?
15. | 1:41:30 | Theo Parrish - I Can Take It
16. | 1:48:47 | ?
These posts serve purely as an archive of the shows for sleepy househeads who can’t stay up that late on a school night or anyone else that may have missed any. I only link to discogs when a) I’m sure what the track is and b) it’s been released and is in the database! If you know any of the unknown tracks, please feel free to spread the word by leaving a comment and I’ll update the post. You can catch Ed broadcasting the Underground Quality Radio Show live every Wednesday on MyHouse-YourHouse.net, 1900EST, 0000GMT & 0100CEST.
Maaaaaaan! www.myhouse-yourhouse.net www.undergroundquality.com
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A short mix but still enough time to induce feelings of peacefulness and tranquillity, more familiar to some for the techno rave Pure Energy mix on the A side which now sounds a little dated. Plan to incorporate this into an ambient mix in the near future.
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A new Bond film is out and this wouldn’t be out of place in one of the films from the sixties. I see the chanteuse as an unwilling accomplice to the cat-stroking villain, probably imprisoned against her will in some undersea lair of villainousness until rescued by 007. Naturally unable to help herself in the presence of her rescuer, it would be the music of coitus as their escape pod awaited rescue, bobbing about in some Asian sea somewhere.
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Berwick Street in Soho has always been home to a few shops for vinyl junkies even if the area as a whole has seen a decline in their number; I was there recently and noticed the building at the end of the street had been demolished. This was the former location of the Ambient Soho music shop although it had ceased trading at that actual spot some years previously (they may be appearing online) and it was also where I got this release. Colin Dale pushed this track on his Kiss 100 show and, if I recall correctly, mentioned that Ambient Soho as one place to get it, so off there I went. The bassline and beats have been lifted from Hall & Oates - I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do), another track that is also a personal favourite of mine but transformed here into a mellow electronica excursion by Erik Van Den Broek.
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In brackets, the title in Italian - La Storia Di Un Soldato.
One of my favourite movies with an outstanding soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. An huge brush-stroke of a film that has Clint Eastwood as one of three gunslingers searching for Confederate gold, with the backdrop of the American Civil War; what more could you want? A melancholy tune that I tend to play when feeling a little maudlin myself.
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The Ambient Collection, the album this track is from, along with The KLF’s Chill Out, were possibly the first two releases of the early nineties ambient era that I came across that built on my then fledgling taste in this genre of electronic music, adding to some of the possibilities that I had been introduced to by the German electronic outfit, Tangerine Dream. The whole album is a high quality tapestry of sounds from start to finish but, when forced to choose, this aural evocation of a desert isle with the crystal clear sea lapping gently at shoreline, transports me instantly in my mind’s eye. A brief free holiday, which is no bad thing living in the UK.
Notes from sleeve:
With the advent of the nineties a new decade of clubs and DJ’s have floated into our conciousness. Their trip is a journey into peace. An ambient ecstasy. The creation of a new musical travelogue. A minimalistic embrace of everything good about the hard and uncompromising trance-dance of house and the surrealism of ambient instrumentalism.
Ambient or ‘chill-out’ rooms have been set up in clubs all around the country as an alternative to the dancefloor. Pure ecstasy escapism. Rooms for day-dreaming, fantasising or hallucinating.
This ambient collection is a sound step into the future. A collection of tracks alternatively known as ‘New Age House’ or ‘Ambient House’. Everyday sounds, noises and atmospheres we’ve imagined and heard all our lives but never consciously listened to. An unfocused daydream with no background or foreground. A sense of not being yourself, of being apart from what you’re listening to. A drift into tranquillity, in and out of reality.
Oft played and more than often sampled the Art Of Noise have long been torchbearers for this form of ambient instrumentalism.
This collection has been compiled, defiled, remixed and generally ‘presided over’ by producer ‘Youth’. His thanks go to those who worked after ‘nights high noon’.
So…..chill out.
The sleeve notes above are interesting in that the concept of the ‘chill out’ room has disappeared in clubs, perhaps coinciding with the commercialization of club/rave culture. The youth movement had been co-opted, re-packaged and sold back to the generation that spawned it. The reaction of the establishment in the face of the moral panic that was provoked by the first wave in the late eighties, meant that licenced venues had new rules to abide by and these didn’t include providing rooms with cushions for people to lie down, relax, dream or talk in. Bloody chillers didn’t buy many alcoholic drinks anyway…
Underground Quality Radio Show 19.11.08
