Vodka

Disco Village resident, friend and fellow booze connoisseur Mr Applin tipped me off about this lovely vodka a little while ago.

Whilst following my own advice and buying a crate of Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout I picked up a bottle of Snow Queen and it’s good. It’s from Kazakhstan and is distilled 5 times and uses organic wheat. Mr Applin says to keep a bottle in the freezer and enjoy it straight, this is where the 5X distillation comes in handy it’s amazingly smooth and surprisingly easy on the head the next day. Whilst I agree that straight it’s great, regular readers will know that I’m all about the martini’s. Ladies and gentlemen it is my pleasure to introduce the Cherry Park Martini

This delightful beverage was created by Jonothon Hunter when he was working at Martini Park in Chicago (now closed), it’s simple to create so off you go
50ml Vodka
A handful of cherries, or 25ml cherry puree
25ml champagne.
Firstly chill your martini glass well, then add a rim of sugar and chill some more. Next add the vodka and cherries/puree to a shaker with a few bits of ice and shake hard (if you are using cherries you may want to bash them down with a spoon) until blended. Strain this into your martini glass and float the champagne on top.

Here is an old track by Mr Applin and Mr Mang (proving there’s always been a bit of disco in the village)



Whilst searching for the Quakerman track above, I found stumbled upon this Marvin Gaye edit from Dan Idjut and wondered why i had never heard it before. It was the b side to a Phil Collins edit and I effin hate Phil



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Mix Central

It's mix central round the disco village this week, with new contributions from Joey Huavon and Andy B

Here's Joey's winter selection:

Slow Groove by Joey Huavon

And here's Andy's ambient trip from a while back:

is there any love vol 3 by andy b

Andy has also given us a special edit he created that became a bit of a favourite here in the village!

Baby I'm Scared of Bumblebee's:

Baby I'm Scared of Bumblebee's by andy b

 

3 Titans / Menahan Street Band

This came out early this year on a limited 7”, sadly I missed out. However today the postie brought me a lovely  12” version with Instrumentals, an alternate mix and acappellas. In the shops right now on Daptone US/Dunham.

Besides the very talented school children rapping, the backing is by the incredible Menahan Street Band; here is a track from them

and whilst I’m in the mood more Brooklyn styles

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Dancehall

Listeners to this weeks radio show were treated to a couple of dancehall tracks one of which was by Burro Banton.  Here is Burro in action with Tenor Saw, Cutty Ranks, Supercat, Nicodemus and Little John.

Looks like that would have been a good night out, shame I was 12 and several continents away.

Here’s one of my favourite Cutty Ranks records – “A Who Seh Me Done”

And a big UK dancehall winner from 1984 Jah Screechy- “Walk and Skank”

(Matt has the Roots Radics edit of this and I often beg him to play it when I visit Disco Village HQ)

And from Yellowman  we have this winner (also a Cosmic classic when played at the wrong speed)

and this live footage from 1982’s Sunsplash festival.

Thats enough from me, I’m off to polish my Clarks

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Booze, blogs and beats.

Whilst Matt was enjoying sunny SF, I was here on the river in the bitter cold. Luckily I had been drinking plenty of Breakfast martini’s and couldn't  feel my face let alone the chill. Truly the Breakfast Martini is one of the greatest things in the world. Bung together Gin, Vodka, Triple sec, a spoon or two of marmalade (I recommend one with ginger for an extra warmth) and lemon juice.

The Breakfast martini sadly isn’t my invention it was invented by my current hero Salvatore Calabrese. Here is a video of him explaining it much better than me

 

Honestly it’s very good, it sounds like a novelty but it works better than Homer Simpsons “Skittle Brau”. If you want to know more his website full of cocktail knowledge and here is the link

http://www.salvatore-calabrese.co.uk/salvatore-calabrese-cocktail-recipes.html

Chocolate booze is next. Again it sounds like a horrible novelty but stouts and porters often have chocolate and coffee notes to them so its not such a stretch.

 Brooklyn brewery Chocolate stout

This is lovely - it’s brewed in the style of an Russian Imperial Stout and as such weighs in at 10%. The taste of the chocolate comes through on the finish and lingers. This is one of the Brooklyn Breweries seasonal beers and is only brewed for the winter, and as such it can be a bugger to find (top tip for Cambridge readers Bacchanalia usually have some and should have had their winter delivery this week. Also check their xmas beers, the gulhkriek is ace).

Disco Village Blog Backscratching

Check out the mighty Juice blog spot brought to you by Disco Village residents DJ Crump and Chris Groove

http://juicenights.blogspot.com/

Mixes and links are there and should keep you entertained. Also doing good things in the ‘ village on the hip hop side of things is the Rhyme Pad Radio show 

http://soundcloud.com/rhymepadradioshow-105fm

or catch it live Friday nights 9-11PM on

http://cambridge105.fm/

More beats from the ‘village

http://soundcloud.com/daimon-johnson

http://soundcloud.com/skuff-2

  
If you are bored heres a couple of old mixes from me:

http://soundcloud.com/andy-b

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Harv and the Loft...

New DJ Harvey interview at testpressing, found here:

http://testpressing.org/2010/12/07/interview-dj-harvey/

And we all went to the London Loft Party with David Mancuso on sunday night; Steve, Clare Harriette and Layla danced hard, ate well and found monday difficult. Shout out to Shannon for the "Cake-away" (Mmmm!), good to see Cedric and Tim and much love to Jonny Nash's beenie hat!

A few records we danced to:

Bibi Tanga & the Selenites - Be Africa (Beg To Differ remix)
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Padded Cell remix)
Jimmy Cliff - Roots Radical
Salvator Santana - Don't Do It
Mission Control - Outer Limits
Yello - Lost Again
One Way ft. Al Hudson - You Can Do It
Pacific Horizons - The Forest Electric
House of House - The Rough Half
Third World - Try Jah Love
Populette - Mommy

Return of the Mack

The Restless Funk Radio Show 06/12/10

Playlist:

Joy Orbison - Ladywell
Storm Queen - Look Right Through
Crazy P - Fascination
Black Cow - Be Mine
Urban Tribe - Unknown (B2)
Bakey Ustl - It's Special
Johnny Osborne - Bad Boy
Burro Banton - Better Den Dem
King Midas Sound ft Pupajim - Frequencies
Slava - Dreaming Tiger
Begin - Velocity
Lee Fields - Honey Dove
Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
Sophie Zelmani - If I Could (Version Lindbaek)

Archive Streaming Link:
http://stream.camfm.co.uk/2010120621.mp3

Restless Funk is a radio show that is broadcast live at www.camfm.co.uk and 97.2FM every monday night from 9-10pm GMT