Spring High

 

Voice Of The Seven Thunders – The Burning Mountain

Sheila Hylton – Falling In Love

Cotovia Twin – Consoloçao

Artu – Maresia (Bastos)

Elsworth James – Calypso Music

Shakeena – Reggae Music

Junior Wilson – No More Will I Roam

Sadi Lancreot – Dou Se Vou Ki Siwo

K Frimpong – Kyenkyen Bi Adi M’Awu

Rail Band – Nantan

Super Djata Band du Mali – Nama Djidja

Nkono Teles – Love Vibration

Man Jumping – Aerotropics

Sleeque – One For The Money

Shriekback – My Spine (Is The Bassline)

Hector Lavoe – Alejate

Cascada – Come Back To Me Baby

Kester Iyemere & The Good Samaritans – Patience Is The Answer

Charanjit Singh – Raga Bairagi

Syed Aref – Disco Syed 

Mark Seven – A Lesson In Love

Sarah Vaughn – The Smiling Hour

Floater

Thank-you to everyone who came to Little White Clouds last night, and thank-you to the LWC team. Musical selections not necessarily in order!

Shadowfax - Another Country

Tully - Trinidad

Musiccargo - La Era

Merge - La Madrague

John Cage - TT remixed by SFT

Crue-L Grand Orchestra - (You are) More Than Paradise (Luger E-Go Re-Edit)

Daniel Grau - Dejando Volar El Pensamiento

Dr Gohar - Musical Images

Andaz Group - Miti Diaan Murta

Orfando - Savannah

Chiwoniso - Zvichapera

The New American Orchestra - Memories of Green

Lena Platonos - Shadows of Blood

Cos/Mes - Heavenly Trax (Johnny Nash Remix)

Charles Cohen - Blue Krishna

Gianni Gebbia - Le Cou Oblique

The Willow Band - Willowman

Tobias - Don’t Look Back

Embryo - Nothing Is Impossible

Paris Holley - 10

J D Emmanuel - Reichan Trance

Don Cherry - California

VIP

Gonna be a quiet one

Selecta Selections 29/04/17

Bert Lynch - Mama

Kabasa - Happy Together

Those Eyes - Soca Hustle

Gayap Rhythm Drummers - Zion Gates

Coachhouse Rhythm Section - Nobody's Got Time

Obi Waru Out Dance Group of Ihiagwa-Owerri - Nwanyi Ma Obi diya

Ebenezer Obey & His Inter Reformers - Eyi Yato

Guillaume Lambert - Noel Bo Kail

George Amoah - Aposese (Rambling)

Sammy Massamba - Azuli

Moodymann - Music People

The Secret Weapon - Have No Way

Jody Fingers Finch - Short Fat Skinny Tall (Brian Heath Mix 1)

Cloud One - Disco Juice

Nikki-O - Gotta Believe

Ponzu Island - Super Koto

Focus - Hay-Hay

Splash - Vhobalelwa

V/O - Mashisa Dub

Carl & Carol - Jam Without Mercy

Gasolinn' - Tafia

Songs for Gods - Boss

As usual, sincere thanks to everyone who made last night special from the crew, sound guys, visual artists, bar staff and dancers; shouts to Andy, Laurence (Mr Knobs !), Pete, Dave, Mostyn, Colin, Julia, Sarah, Becca, Poppy, Anna, Tom, Andrew, Mark and Layla

Choose, consume, enjoy

https://www.facebook.com/events/1894647287438745/

The renegade masters of all things free and decent are back at The Blue Moon for an extended jam. Starting off with a record fair / DJ session at 5 pm then moving into dance party mode from 9:30pm.

As space will be limited please bring no more than 4 crates of records to sell / trade and be aware they will need to be out the venue by half 9.

DJs

Andy Barlow
Fred Naked
Rozeik
Purple Hands
Le Jazz
Crump
Fidget

 

Free Admission

The Blue Moon

Norfolk Street

Cambridge

In the red

Disco @ Relevant Records

Sizzle - Love Is All Around 

King Tutt - D-A-N-C-I-N

Mike & Mark - Obliviation Vol 1

Idjut Boys - Woman

Francis Njoroge - Nyinukia

The Ice Cream - Let’s Go Stomping

Sparkle - Disco Madness

Magnifique - Magnifique Pt 1

John Morales - Columbian Disco (Deadly Medley Sunshine Sound)

South Shore Commission - Free Man (FK Edit)

Gyedu-Bley Ambolley - Akoko Ba

Sammy Massamba - Azali

Ikuku Midnight Band - After A Lot Of Booze

Sleeque - One For The Money

Frank Murillo - Letting It Rest

Donna McGhee - Love Bug

Magic Disco Machine - You Don’t Know How Hard It Is

Don Pancho - Memories

Stratovarious - I Got Your Love

Don Armanado’s Second Avenue Rumba Band - I’m An Indian Too

Roberta Kelly - Zodiac Lady

Edwin Starr - (Get Up) Whirlpool

Massive thanks to Andy & Euan for producing another spectacular party

Catz n Dogz

https://www.facebook.com/events/410975512576187/

Euan Simpson and Andy Barlow will be joined for the evening by Matthew Stancombe. Expect disco in all its many forms. As always entry is free and this month we will be only admitting 70 people in an effort to make it a little more comfortable. As we've limited the numbers early arrival is advisory.

Friday 24th February 7.30pm till late, free entry
Relevant Records Cafe, 260 Mill Road, Cambridge

Left, right, repeat

https://www.facebook.com/events/372684929731402/

Selecta returns to The Blue Moon for another Extended Dance version.

The last party saw some incredible music played from across the spectrum - african obscurities, dancehall heaters, bad pop remixed into good shape, evergreen disco and everything to fill the spaces in between... Superbroad.

This time round, your resident selectors are joined by Darren Woods whose 50/60s jukebox jam 45s are guaranteed to make you buss a dance one time.

We hope you'll join us for our last dance of the year (it's free entry) and maybe even pop a few quid in the bucket for Romsey Mill who do excellent work for Cambridge's young folk.

Lineup:

Mr Woods
Fred Naked
Le Jazz
Crump

Happening at  

 The Blue Moon

2 Norfolk Street, CB1 2LF Cambridge, United Kingdom

 

Friday Dec 16th 9pm-2am

Glitters

https://www.facebook.com/events/1157388427644491/

Resident DJ's Andy and Euan Simpson have asked me to bring some disco records along for a night of dancing at Relevant Records Cafe this Friday. Obviously you're all invited. Sweet spot under the mirrorball, yeah?

Tonight

Andy's doing another Relevant Records Disco Party tonight, check it out!

After the success of the last Relevant Disco we've decided to do it all again.
This time joining Euan Simpson and Andy Barlow we have very special guest Mr B.
The party starts at 7.30 finishes at midnight and entry is free.
Coffee, cakes, cocktails and disco await you

260 Mill Road, CB1 3NF Cambridge, United Kingdom

Selecting

https://www.facebook.com/events/1715318365383624/

The Selecta! party version of the popular music session from Relevant Records is happening this Friday 1st July at the Blue Moon on Norfolk Street, Cambridge from 10pm onwards. It's free to get in. They've asked me to join them playing some records (presumably why they include 'afro' in the spiel). So yeah, I'll probably be playing some african records if that's your bag (and some other stuff too). It'll be groovy - so there's no point staying in and being bored on a Friday night. Andy Barlow, Crump and Le Jazz are hosting so crazy visuals from Andy and great music from all three - recommended session...

Basse

First time out for a while and I got loose behind the decks for a party deep in the 'Bridge; these sounded sweet;

King Sunny Ade - The Message

Tony Allen - Moyege (Mark's Mix)

K Frimpong - Kenkyen Bi Adi Manu

Orchestre Regional de Kayes - Kayi

Wareika Hill Sounds - One People Version
Bobby Aitken - Thunderball

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Che Che Cole Makossa

Tommy McCook & Supersonics - Alimawi
Jackie Mittoo & Sound Dimension - Sidewalk Doctor Version
Soul Bros - Freedom Sounds

Hortense Ellis - I'm Just A Girl
Roland Alphonso - From Russia With Love

Chief Checker - Possibility

Dominique Dumont - Les Basse et les Shakers

Nahawa Doumbia - Djine Mousso

Daphni - Mapfumo

Tabu les Rochereau - Hafi Deo

Cymande - Bra

Andre Tanker - Basement Party
Lord Creator - Such Is Life

Lord Echo - Thinking of You

UB40 - Reefer Madness

Skatalites - Sealing Dub

Aggrovators - Roots Jamaica Dub

The Specials - Ghost Town

360 (Ras Enoch) - Young & Foolish

Peter Tosh - Buk-in-hamm Palace
Bob Marley & The Wailing Souls - Feel Alright

Gregory Isaacs - Cool Down The Place
Bunny Wailer - Rule Dancehall

The Clash - The Magnificent Dance
Johnny & The Attractions - Let's Get Together

2Future4U

As discussed on this week's edition of Restless Funk, Andy's providing sonic grooviness at this art show on Saturday night. Recommended, yeah...

See you there

Last one for a while (could be a long break!), tonight (Friday 5th Sept) Ben and Pat return to the basement in CB2 Cafe, Norfolk Street, Cambridge from 8pm onwards hosting Cosmic Soup. Vibez guaranteed...! In anticipation of this event, Ben was a guest on this week's edition of Restless Funk; much abuse and frivolities ensued.

https://www.facebook.com/events/272731249601203/

Party Bag

Pre-Summer Storm outdoors party vibes a couple of weekends ago. Before the end of days tropical downpour began, I squeezed these out of the sunshine:

Black Harmony - Don't Let It Go To Your Head

Rafoot - Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Jennifer Lara - I Am In Love

Sheila Hylton - Falling In Love

Itopia - Never Could Love This Way

Glen Adams - Mad Blank

Shakeena - Dance Music

Shadow - Let's Make It Up

Joan Biblioni - El Cumpleanos de Jamito

Witch - To Be Felt

Shadow - De Hardis

The radio station had issues with streaming this week so no "real-life" Restless Funk with Andy and myself, however I did pop down to the studio and played a few records. The recording is a complete turd, but listening back I found it quaintly charming, the sound of my heavy breathing and records rustling as they are put back into sleeves. For information purposes only (and for the sake of something new for the blog!). I was listening on a plane last weekend and I must confess that the Arthur Russell moment at 37000ft looking down on the clouds is definitely an experience worth having:




Miracle And finally, just for fun:

It's Cosmic

Saturday night, private party, contact for invite: 

https://facebook.com/100006160563298

Cosmic Soup's Ben Saunders will be a guest on tonight's edition of Restless Funk, 

9-11pm BST, 97.2FM and http://www.camfm.co.uk

Good Friday Night

As usual, many thanks to Sarah and Mark for hosting another spectacular gathering of fabulous people. The kids were just gutted they couldn't stay for things heating up. Here's my selection from when it got hot...

Primal Scream - Uptown (Andrew Weatherall Mix)
Peter Tosh - Dubbin In Buk-In-Ham
Tambien - Overheater
Prince - Erotic City
Brand New Heavies - Shelter (Harvey's Disco Stomp)
Syclops - Nelson's Back
DJ Sotofett - Trans-Jungle-Ride
Liz Torres - Your Love Is All I Need (Dennis Kane Pampha Mix)
Cultural Vibe - Mind Games (Dub)
Parada 88 - You're Gonna Miss Me
John Rocca - I Want It To Be Real (Inst)
Incogdo - Simply Just A Ventage
Cos/Mes - Gomez Land (TBD Remix)
Abe Duque - Acid
Tevo Howard - I Won't Lay Back
Armando Gallop - Don't Take It (Johnny Fiasco Remix)
Carl Bean - I Was Born This Way (Better Days Mix)
Phase II - Reachin
South Shore Commission - Free Man (FK Edit)



Macho - I'm A Man
Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body
Kino-i - Kino-i
Two Of China - Los Ninos Del Parque (Corrida Mix)
Syclops - Mom, The Video Broke
Pepe Bradock - Mujeres Nerviosas
The Daktaris - Eltuhg Ibad Iasiti
Shadow - Let's Get Together
Kamuran Akkor - Ikmin Bir Fidaniz
Edwin Starr - Get Up - Whirlpool
Hieroglyphic Being - Ancient Echoes
DJ Sotofett ft. Madteo - There's Gotta Be A Way (Vision of Love)
Black Rascals - Keeping My Mind
Denaji - Wuhti (Sotofett's Bhakti Crew Mix)
Koloke - West African Guitar Groove
OPM - In and Out Of Love (12" Version)
General Lee - Magic
Jimi Hendrix - Third Stone From The Sun

Soup 4 One

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Another Day, Another Dollar

Good party. Thanks as ever to Sarah and Mark for excellent hosting, Andy for the music and everyone else for getting down, Julia, Steve and Clara in particular get gold stars. There's probably some photo's somewhere, but probably nothing suitable for the public...

I played these:

The Jellies - The Conversation (Version)

Mix Mup - After The Job

CF Funk - Ghetto Groove (Slam Mix)

Automagic - Smoking It (Nicky Siano Remix)

Dj Sprinkles & Mark Fell - Complete Spiral

Beppe Loda & DJ Fred - Propaganda

Prince Buster - Funky Jamaica

Francis Bebey - The Coffee Cola Song

Eddie Grant - California Style

Ghost Train - Ghost Train

Cos Ber Zam - Ne Noya (Daphni Remix)

Dinosaur L - Go Bang (FK Remix)

Sabu Martinez - Hotel Alyssa

Peverelist - Aztec Chant

Hunee - Re-Mida (edit)

Soichi Terada & Shinichiro Yokota - Sunshower (Larry Levan Remix)

Shari Muir - Bad For Me (Shelter Dub)

Silent Servant - Utopian Disaster (End)

Stephen Encinas - Disco Illusion

Metro Area - The Art Of Hot

- Andy's Ecstacic Experiment -

Elsworth James - Calypso Music

Shadow - Evolution Pt 2

Oto Gelb - Clair De Lune

The Pendletons - PPPT

Shadow - Freedom Street

360 Degrees - Money

John Talabot - Pional

Tambien - Dios

North Lake - Marlborol Noir

Jeremy Deller - Voodoo Ray (Optimo Dub)

Golden Teacher - Like A Hawk 

Pizzy Yelliot - Could You Be Loved? (Mungolian Jetset 303 Acid Mix)

Omar Souleyman - Leh Jani (Pt 1)

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Dig It

LTG Exchange - Waterbed (Rub 'n' Tug Edit)

Just play the hits...

Weekend's gathering got livelier than expected, luckily my records weren't too far away. Here's what went down:

Theo Parrish - Carpet People Don't Drink Steak Soda

TV Baby - New York's Alright (Dunks Downtown Mix)

The Jellies - The Conversation (Version)

Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up

Maestro - Dread Man

Elsworth James - Calypso Music

Ofege - Nobody Fails

Christie Azuma & The Uppers International Band - Din Ya Sugri

Secret Circuit - Moon Life

Syndrome - Roots (12" Extended Version)

Quiet Village - Circus of Horrors

Ricardo Villalobos - Tu Actitud

Tambien - Dios

Brian Ferry - Alphaville (Todd Terje Remix)

Leisure Connection - Jungle Dancing

Tambien - Campagnia

First Choice - Love Thang (Genius of Time Remix)

T-Kut - Let Me Show U (Keys Remix)

Unknown - Magic Body

Hamilton Brothers - Music Makes The World Go Round (Inst.)

Tirogo - We Like To Party

The Mole - Lockdown Party (Sprinkles Crossfaderama)

Moodymann - I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits

Dissidenten - Bajka's Gnoui (Extended Mix)

Rick Poppa Howard - I Won't Lay Back

James Mason - Nightgruv

Stardust - Blazin'

Billy Ocean - Nights

Try To Find Me - I'm Dancer

William Onyeabor - Good Name

Asiko Rock Group - Everybody Get Down

Moussa Doumbia - Samba

Camaro's Gang - Oh No (The Beast Day)

Velvet Season & The Hearts of Gold - Truth Machine For Lovers

K.C.C. - Future III (Richard Sen Edit)

Omar Souleyman - Shift Al Mani (Crackboy Remix)

Francis Bebey - Bissao (Pilooski Remix)

4 To The Bar - Slam Me Baby (X-Rated Remix)

The Rhythm Machine & Dr Dunks - Saffron

Lil' Louis - 6AM (Extended Mix)

Maurice Fulton - Sarah's E With Extra P

Adventure Party - The Globe

Rub n Tug - Scanners (Live Edit)

Neal Howard - To Be or Not To Be (The Gathering Club Version)