Track-By-Track: O/B #11
Frankie Bones is known for 'bringing rave to the US' after the experience he had playing a 25,000-person party called Energy in England in 1988. Acid house...
Track-By-Track: O/B #10 (Guest post by Bleimann)
Today's guest post comes from Madrid-based party starter and long-time friend Bleimann. Every so often you encounter a track which is so utterly Your Kind of...
Flamingo #27 (24/02/21)
February's Flamingo sees a new format: an hour of tunes introduced by me followed by a second hour with a talking-free DJ mix (my dad always asked me if I...
Track-By-Track: O/B #09
We take a left turn into the world of slamming tape edits and effects pioneered by a small crew of Latino musicians in The Bronx in the mid-80s. Chep Nuñez,...
Track-By-Track: O/B #08
Where Mtume talked down the life of dancing and partying on 'So You Wanna Be A Star', Touché revel in it, though not without some particular conditions. The...
Track-By-Track: O/B #07
It's difficult to put into words the lyrical achievement of this track, which functions not only as an account of the rise and fall of one ghoulish social...
Track-By-Track: O/B #06
"Lots of runway, room to spare. Trouble due to pilot error." Is this one of the best transport-as-metaphor-for-sex songs in music? There have been hundreds....
Track-By-Track: O/B #05
I first heard this tune by Trinidadian husband and wife duo Carl & Carl Jacobs played by Mário Valente, I think in Musicbox, and then another time in the Lux...
Track-By-Track: O/B #04
Where do we even start with Bruce Forest? He produced, mixed or post-produced (usually for the US market) Alexander Robotnick ('Problèmes D'Amour') Paul Haig...
Track-By-Track: O/B #03
Ben Liebrand gives the 1986 original a light-touch update, in which it loses its live feel and funky guitar licks and gains some shiny synth swagger and, uh,...
Track-By-Track: O/B #02
The producer behind this Armenta banger was Amir Bayyan, aka one of the Bell brothers from Kool & The Gang. He was a writer and producer for La Toya Jackson,...
Track-By-Track: O/B #01
This is the first entry in the Track-By-Track series for the live recording of my set at Ouro/Bravo in February 2018. Index Track-By-Track: O/B #02Track-By-...
Track-By-Track: BSU #16
I've spent enough superlatives about Huey Mnemonic's music over the past 18 months since I first heard 'D'waved Zone', so here i'll simply defer to one of...
Track-By-Track: BSU #15
'Ceased trading' is what it says on Spillway's discogs page, making its 6-volume catalogue a short but very sweet statement, not unlike Derek Carr's original...
Track-By-Track: BSU #14
There is not a single element out of place on this tune: sound palette, arrangement, harmonies, vibe. It's as pristine as they come, which also makes it...
Track-By-Track: BSU #13
Back in 1992, Three-Bu were among good company on Antima and Mystic Records, releasing alongside such classics as Omniverse, Oneiric and the supergroup...
Track-By-Track: BSU #12
Three years after the first Casa Sports volume and the label is still going strong. Last year saw a number of superlative digital releases, including label...
Track-By-Track: BSU #11
This particular tune has a unique and lateral logic that continues to reveal itself many plays later. It comes with happy personal associations – I bought...
Flamingo #26 (27/01/21)
The first Flamingo show of 2021 is dedicated to the listening habits of my late teens and early 20s. Made during the second lockdown in Lisbon, it's a...
Track-By-Track: BSU #10
From those short, sweet, unknowing weeks of clubbing at the start of 2020 there are a few moments that really stand out. Near the top of that list is seeing...
