Track-By-Track: O/B #20
I mentioned Strobe Records in this previous post when talking about Hi-Bias, Bigshot and Blast. Hayden Andre Brown and Ron Allen's label stands alongside...
Track-By-Track: O/B #19
Ostensibly a response to Salt-N-Pepa, L'Trimm's diss of 'Push It' misses the mark somewhat – they seem to think it meant 'push it away' rather than, uh,...
Track-By-Track: O/B #18
This was the first of a one-two combo of response records I played at O/B. Produced by The Unknown DJ and Professor X from Techno Kut records, it was an...
Track-By-Track: O/B #17
“What? You talking to me? Surely you jest. I thought I made myself perfectly clear. Get on out the door. Listen, hon, read my lips. Get out my face. Get out...
Track-By-Track: O/B #16 (Guest post by Prosumer)
Today's guest post comes from one of my all-time favourite DJs, Prosumer. This record transports my mind right back to being in my early teens at the...
Track-By-Track: O/B #15
I was turned on to the Canadian house labels Hi-Bias, Bigshot and Blast by Tama Sumo and Prosumer playing tracks like 'Get Into The Music', 'Got U On My...
Track-By-Track: O/B #14
This must be one of the last tunes that Chep Nuñez worked on before his untimely death, and the credits dedicate the record to him. Eric Kupper, an unsung...
Track-By-Track: O/B #13
I've written about this multiple times before even though it's essentially indescribable – you just have to hear it. I've told the anecdote about getting...
Track-By-Track: O/B #12
Anyone losing their shit over the Warhol photo of Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Fela Kuti and Basquiat (and rightly so), get a load of this one. Hashim ('Al-...
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,...
