Entertainment For Lively Minds
Crate Digging Tales- or Tracks Re-united
Usual apologies if there is a thread on this, but I wanted to share a moment. Back in the late eighties one of the first albums that got me into what was then acid house was Balearic Beats Vol 1 - compiled by 'Razor Tong, Oakey and Trevor Fung'. It's brilliant, and as I was a latecomer to CD I bought it on tape in a HMV sale for 2.99 or something, and loved for at least a decade. I didn't transfer it to mp3 when I caught up with that in the early noughties, and sometime in house moves, tidying up etc chucked the tape away when I decided having records, tapes, minidiscs and mp3s was just too many formats.
Long since deleted and never re-ssued either physically or digitally, I've tried looking on ebay or amazon for a CD copy but the prices have been ridiculous (£149.00 second hand on amazon!). On Monday after a meeting I popped into our local Oxfam in Moseley after a meeting, and there it was sitting on the shelf....£2.49. Some surface scratches, that was all. The Residents, Woodentops, Thrashing Doves, as well as (cough) a brilliant Mandy Smith remix. So over to you for your Crate Digging Tales - not so much music you never knew you wanted until you took a chance, as music you heard and never thought you'd never find again. Youtube clip included so you can enjoy the cover art.
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I also have it on cassette, iirc there was a problem with the vinyl pressing. Was my introduction to the wonder that is the Residents. Will have to have a scratch around in the garage. Had some crazy sleeve notes as well?
It's available
On t'net.
I am not at liberty to say what would happen if you googled 'Balearic Beats Vol 1' and mediafire together.
Thanks Spidey.
Also found the liner notes by Terry Farley.
balearic beats by farley
"wot shall i file this BALEARIC BEATS under?" so young joe public, y.t.s., go-getter at yo-price megastore hits his first problem in pigeon-holeing the black vinyl. now seeing that the only "MATEY" joe's "EVER GOT RIGHT ON" is the rubbery balloon type his guv'nor sells, i think we should explain this happy, happy, groove a little more.
now while it's true that the balearic beat was born in IBIZAN clubs, such as AMNESIA and PASHA, it's breeding took place in a small, sweaty, strobby, smokey south london club called ..... THE SHOOM. the hardcore original shoomers, along with another london club THE FUTURE, had discovered the JOY'S of balearic beats, during several previous "summers of love" (sic), and had brought the music and the attitude back to london with them. the kinectic style of dancing now associated with balearics ugly brother, ACID HOUSE, is pure ibizan in origin. The loudest screams at SPECTRUM are always reserved for NITZER EBB and the RESIDENTS while hearing ENZO AVITABILE booming through the smoke at JOY is an ecstatic experience one step away, (some say forward) from sex.
THE FINI TRIBE and MANDY SMITH have become anthems all over clubland, whilst my personal faves are the fast euro-rhythms of CODE 61 and the post-punk thrashing of THE WOODENTOPS. every track of this album will fill floors and put smiles on faces, Throughout the balearic underground. look, i wonder if poor joe's getting the gist of all this, for joe and the yet uninitiated, balearic is the following and much, much more.....
.....loads of hugs and kisses ... smiley t-shirts and happy faces.... feeling saucey instead of sauced......eating fruits on the dance floor....bashed up converse trainers.....lovely girls with blinding accents.....ice pops.....hedionism....sparklers at the future....indian belly dancers at the shoom....almost everyone finally realising that "only love can conquer hate"....watching the sun set at the café del mar....watching the sun rise on primrose hill....the karma collective....poncho's pony tails and body paint....dj alfredo....new friendships....loads more hugs and kisses....just let this piece of warm anglo-ibizan club culture rush over you, enjoy it mateys!!!
loves & respects to OAKEY, THE RAMPLINGS, GARY HAISMAN, JOHNNY WALKER, STEVE PROCTOR, NANCY NOISE, and to all those out there who truly "shoooom!!!"
xxx hugs and kisses xxx - farley.
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Eat - Skin
I was crate digging last week and completely forgot I'd had the 12in of Skin by Eat - revamp of old blues riff with bizarre lyrics ('skin ain't got no finger (?) pockets').
Virgin Fugs
I found it last year on CD at at long established hip second hand record store..got it for $8.00..when I got home to check it out online I discovered it was out of print and copies were going for a pretty penny...None available on Amazon America.I felt like I made a good score.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Virgin-Fugs/dp/B0009JPVA6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid...