Pre-party music post #4

REFORM! has an extra party this Wednesday 30 June 9pm Kitchener's Carvery R10 cover

 

While I work out how to transfer the REFORM! DJ mix to MP3 so I can post it, here are a couple of gems:

 

Mercury Dance Band - Kai wawa

 

This is from the excellent Ghana Special on SOUND WAYS soon to be available in good music stores in all it's special packaging glory. Since all my 'official' teams are out of the world cup and since Ghana are the last African team left and since I was really impressed with their game against Australia in Rustenburg, I though this would be a relevant post

 

Snatch and the Poontangs - Hey shine 

 

Found this on a download compilation on eMusic by pure chance...checked it out becasue the name was cool! Turns out it's a filthy R&B/rock n roll tune that could've been sung by Pulp Fiction era Samuel L Jackson. Wiki says otherwise...

 

Snatch and the Poontangs

From Wikipedia

Snatch and the Poontangs is an album of sexually oriented blues songs released in 1969. The album features bandleader Johnny Otis on piano and drums, his son guitar player Shuggie Otis and vocalist Delmar "Mighty Mouth" Evans as The Hawk, Prince Wunnerful, and The Mouth, respectively.

More than half the songs on the album are based on well-known African-American folklore.

• "Hey Shine" tells the tale of the RMS Titanic, focusing on the legend that black boxing champion Jack Johnson (boxer) rescued all the black passengers.

 Now to track down the whole album.

Please check back for the DJ mix in the next few days. It clocks in at just over an hour.

 

 

Kai Wawa - The Mercury Dance Band by The Mercury Dance Band  
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1-01 Kai Wawa - The Mercury Dance Ba.mp3 (2935 KB)

Hey Shine by Snatch And The Poontangs  
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10 Hey Shine.mp3 (5269 KB)

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Upcoming June/July gigs

Bonus REFORM! party on Wed 30 June at Kitchener's Carvery

 

Adidas Originals 3 July. I play the indie/electro floor with Sassquatch, Data Takashi and Double Adapter

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Music from REFORM!

Here is more of what we play at REFORM!

I am working on 1 hour DJ mix for the next post, In the meantime though...

 

Dynamics - Thugs

First time I heard Thugs by The Dynamics was at the Junction. I also got it on a tape I recorded sitting next to the speaker one night with a boombox in a kitbag! 10 years later, I found out who the song was by thanks to a re-issue of the original album by Fresh Music. A few years ago I met Harvey...there was much praise and adoration about the song. There was a great article in the M&G about the song a few weeks ago. Stomping jive/ska with 80s SA social commentary.

 

Sharon Tandy - One way street

Just another great track I should have included in the orginal post

 

Sobabamba - Udokotela shange namajaha

Found this on the INESTRUCTIBLE BEATS OF SOWETO compilation. There are many internationally compiled SA music albums of great quality and rarity. Strut records and Sound Way are doing some amazing work in this area and with music from other north African countries. The Ghana compilation is particularly good

 

 

Thugs by Dynamics  
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01 Thugs.mp3 (11958 KB)

One Way Street by Sharon Tandy  
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06 One Way Street.mp3 (5983 KB)

Udokotela Shange Namajaha by Sobabamba  
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06 Udokotela Shange Namajaha.mp3 (5692 KB)

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REFORM! in June

Thu 10 June from 9pm. R10 entrance
DJs Marc Latilla & Charles Leonard

AND an EXTRA World Cup party on:

Wed 30 June from 9pm. R10 entrance
DJs Marc Latilla & Charles Leonard

Expect 50's - early 80's funk//pre&postpunk//townshipswing//raregroove//sapop&radiorock//disco//nigeria70//girlgroups//reggae

Kitchener's Carvery at the Milner Park Hotel
cnr Juta & De Beer Str Braamfontein

REFORM is open every 2nd Thursday of the month...mostly, unless something changes

 

A bit of history:

 

The seeds of REFORM came from a combination of the Junction tapes I compiled some months back (details of which are posted on myspace.com/marclatilla) and a book called ‘Last night a DJ saved my life’.

The magic of the Junction was being able to play wildly different music almost back to back like it belonged. Nowhere else could you hear 10CC, Doobie Brothers, Alien Sex Fiend and Marianne Faithfull in that order and all this back in 1989.

The book traces the history of the DJ from the beginnings of the phonograph record and radio right up to the superstars of today. What interested me was the middle bit being the story of Jimmy Saville and his early tea room romps, the Northern Soul story and the mish-mash that was the 70’s and early 80’s.

Going through the set lists of the different clubs and their infamous DJs I felt like a philistine only recognizing less than a third of the tracks. So I hit the music and blog sites trying to find as much as I could. What I found was mind bending. How could some of these tracks have evaded me for so long? (beside the fact that I was 3 when all this was going down…) What struck me again was the Junction principle where these DJs played seemingly unrelated music back to back…Clash into Grandmaster Funk into Rolling Stones into Manu Dibango into Blondie into Iron Butterfly. There was also a strong African influence across the lists, especially Nigerian funk/pop. This got me thinking.

Would it be possible to put a night together playing elements of proper Northern Soul, Motown, Disco, 70s/80s alternative/pop/rock, 60s girl groups/garage and 50s rock n roll interlaced with South African township music, popular ‘white’ radio hits and some North African funk?

With the combined force of Charles Leonard – respected journalist and DJ – it could be done.

I remember sitting for hours on end at Abelarde Sanctuary in Brixton and early Tokyo Star listening to Charles play his eclectic mix of soul/jazz/funk/hip-hop and reggae. We’d both have to make some adjustments, but we’d be the perfect match to pull this off.

Law of averages says:
There were probably parties like this in Johannesburg in the 70s/80s and they were probably raided and closed down. It’s so much easier these days.

The only question now is will anyone come…

***people did come. About 50 showed up for the opening night in November 2009. That was good enough for us to carry on.

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