SPACE RADIO SHOW playlist
07/04/2009

Looking into some old stuff...

This is a radio show i did in 2001 in London, for the former Space Radio based in the Truman Brewery. I remember walking into the loft-like office and being pointed to a little hut placed in the middle of the space. It was a sort of sauna-looking hut. Funny, and boiling hot. 

I can't provide the detailed playlist for this session because there are some obscure b-sides i can't remember about. So i will do my best here for a general reference.

1. Check the Playhouse records opening track "A lovely day" (this was back when they were still within their first ten releases), and

2.After it's a Clip Recordings tune, just beat.

3.  Matthew Herbert following with his "Bodily Functions" album, which blew me away when i first heard it.

4. Then comes "A lovely day" again, flip-side on Playhouse records too, Blaze remix (one of the grandmasters of NY vocal house doing a dark minimal move).

5. From this minimal tune we move to "Star Suite", Blaze's remix of Mondo Grosso, one of the first records i ever owned of this style which was to overflow my life later on, NY vocal house. Long laid-out flute solo over a rich background. I certainly wasn't used to this!!

6. Now comes a minimal house/techno track that was unlabelled, so will take a while to retrieve it.

7. And also can't remember the next one coming, i think it's a Groundhog Records tune...

8. Now we go back to Matthew Herbert's "Bodily Functions", with my favourite tune on the album.

9. Followed by a deep house track i can't remember, sorry!

10. Now comes this remix of an old Ferenc tune that i loved, it came out on Northcott Productions, my cousin Howard gave it to me when i went to visit to NY back in 2000.

11. Then is this track that is some obscure b-side.

12. Followed by idem.

13. "Hold It Down" by 4Hero, the head tune of the new sound called broken-beat. Broken-beat, which was also called the West-End sound, since it came out of London's West End, having it base at the Coop night in the Velvet Rooms. Last time i went to it, it was being held at the ICA, to a roaring public.

14. Another Clip Records tune follows in a deeper move in the session. It is "Flying the funky path" by The Producers.

15. And it finishes with an awesome track that i am going to use right now again in my sets, shame it is cut in the middle in this first part of two. It is "I will lead" by Problem Kids, on Paper recordings.

If anyone can remember what some of the tracks are, hit me back please!

Enjoy...