Festive-stress getting you down? Glide through the streets with this Parliament/Funkadelic cut in your phones.
‘E’rybody say BADD…’
Undisco Kidd
Cashmere Sheets
“About to get my end away but first some cognac and an olive..”
Some musical aliases and album concepts are so perfectly conceived and executed they compel the listener to just count to ten and play make-believe within the world of the author’s own creation. And so it is with Patrice & Friends.
I am willfully ignoring that the diminutive ‘yacht-juke’ artist and all round stone cold player ‘Patrice’ (supposedly featured here to our left) has anything to do with the London-based, Liverpudlian production talent Slackk. Instead, you’ll find me eyes closed and headphone-deep in the freaky, patron-drenched sex-narnia of ‘Cashmere Sheets’, the debut LP from Patrice & Friends.
Sounding very much like the playlist to a party round at Morris Day’s house sponsored by Four Loko, ‘Cashmere Sheets’ is a sexual boogie assault on the ears, delivered at one hundred and sixty low-dipping beats per minute. The palette will be familiar to anyone with an ear for early eighties boogie and electro funk (think Rah Band, O’Bryan etc) but it’s been chopped and thrillingly re-imagined with equal parts love, respect and disregard. A perfect formula for dancefloor chaos.
Currently available on pre-order for an ambitious £1000 (since confirmed by Patrice as ‘just a placeholder like’), you can pick up a copy from mid October time here.
In the meantime you could do a lot worse than check out Patrice’s hilarous, live-from-the-yacht updates on his twitter page.You’ll find some stand out quotes from said live feed to your right, as well as the excellent video to ‘Obvious’.
Patrice & Friends – Words of Wisdom
‘If I don’t get arrested by the time dusk rolls around then I will be very disappointed’.
‘Feel free to pass that onto anyone who likes really fast songs about sex. Also the release date is wrong i should fix that’
‘It’s actually more romantic than I’m letting on. Some tracks are on some singing in white shirts in a fountain surrounded by doves shit.’
‘Today I invented a bong that is also a USB stick and also a new sandwich that women will love’
‘Going to try and ring for a pizza later through the talkbox and play the riff from Sexy Dancer by Prince with my voice like a fucking boss’
Rebel Music
Extended hiatus complete, on with the music.
To begin, a slab of Chicago house from ‘Da Rebels’ a.k.a. Curtis Alan Jones & Liddell Townsell, recorded in 1989 and released on the Clubhouse label.
Tough love.
Feelin Moody
Here’s an excellent cover of Emerald Sapphire & Gold’s ‘Moody (Spaced Out)’ by Glasgow’s J-Jems via the ever-interesting Optimo label. The track bumps along nicely until the vocals reveal that the performers in this case, J-Jems, are two 10 year old twins.
Optimo grand fromage JD Twitch has assembled a thoroughly endearing comp of classic punk, funk and rock cover versions performed by the community at Glasgow’s Green Door Studios, entitled Musical Yooth. As part of a series of musical workshops at the studio, local kids on the Youth Music Summer School course worked with a bunch of older, more experienced musicians from groups such as Mothers & The Attics and Michael Dracula, and got involved with mixing, engineering and producing this release. All a far cry from recorder recitals of London’s burning and the theme from Eastenders.
Quattro Stallioni
Équipe Ulysses in the mix on NTS Radio, fourth time lucky. Two hours of inane chat and petty squabbling, soundtracked by a probably-peerless selection of great music, new & old, heavily skewed toward all things Detroit Techno and early-80′s boogie with some disco, house and hip hop thrown in for good measure. Discussion points:
- Paging Mr Flügel
- Accents of the World and conversational German
- Jimmy Edgar presents: A Beginner’s Guide to P0rn0graphic Morse Code
- West Side Story vs East Side Detroit – Everyone Wins
Track Listing –
1. High Hopes – The S.O.S. Band (Tabu)
2. L.O.V.E. – Onra (Demo)
3. Body Wörk – Black Viking (Bootysounds)
4. Jam Sess1 – AD Bourke (Demo)
5. Samolero – Sunclef (Sunclef)
6. Brasil (reprise) – Roman Flügel (Dial)
7. Wires (Theo Parrish Remix) – Owiny Sigoma Band (Pias)
8. Blame it on the Boogie – Rick Wilhite (StillMusic)
9. Moonwalk – Blaze (Nuphonic/Funky People)
10. Wrap You Up –L.A. Boppers (MCA)
11. Whistle Bump – Deodato (Warner)
12. Love You Down (Jimmy Edgar Lip Kiss) – INOJ (Demo)
13. Cleo’s Apartment – Marvin Gaye (Motown)
14. Ghosts (Part 2) – Quaid (Firemusic)
15. If I Could – Chicago Damn (Wolf Music)
16. Multi-Purpose Girls (Équipe Ulysses re-jig) – Klymaxx (Solar)
17. You Want Me (Never) – Marcellus Pittman (Seventh Sign)
18. Late Drive – A Made Up Sound (Philpot)
19. Cosmic – Black Cock (Black Cock)
20. Never Fade – Chow Daddy (Moxie)