Tracks of the Week

Paul Raymond continues his super disco breaks series with volume three re-editing Chicago's street player and re-tempoing it for modern beat mixers (like me). For those of you who haven't heard the original, chances are you have heard Kenny Dope's Bucketheads project cut up 'the bomb'. The horn stabs, melody and vocals all came from street player. One to stay in the box as an intelligent and classy crowd pleaser.

Los Hermanos have recorded a very melodic techno record called Influence EP featuring 'my mothers guitarra' on the a-side. Pitch this down on the 1200s and you have a really good quality deep house groover. This is out on Underground Resistance (or you can go to United Rentals and check out some heavy plant.)

Disaster has struck, the nice people at the vinyl section in Fopp (corner of Earlham Street and Shaftsbury Avenue) are losing their space instore, this to allow them to sell more DVD's. In preparation for this three of the listening stations have already been removed. Now I like my DVDs but this is real loss:
- The guys down there are the most helpful record shop staff in London (well now that Anthony@Flying has disappeared on a Far East odyssey)
- They had really competitive pricing and a really good selection
- Many of the customers wont go and support other independent shops but are likely instead to go to Virgin or HMV

I have been been told by insiders that the beast of mammon (otherwise known as head office management) are intractable in their decision.