Info about REFORM!, DJ gigs and some other music related posts.
Our last party for 2012 is tonight at Kitcheners Braamfontein. We're up at 7pm playing some laid back luke until we warm up and hit it hard at around 10ish to 4am with our usual brand of soul/funk/townshipjive/disco/dub and rarities.
As always, check out various REFORM mixes here for a taste:
Who would have thought that REFORM! Sound System would have made 3 years in this fickle Johannesburg clubland!
Charles and I never thought out little night would have become so popular (all relative of course - it's still pretty underground but it has grown considerably since it's humble Thursday night beginnings). We're happy with what it's become and where it's at. Given that we do this for fun in our spare time we think it's good going. We've created a place we think is cool to hang out playing music that is mostly played nowhere else.
Please join us on Saturday 3 Nov at Kitcheners in Braamfontein as we kick it three times.
We're on from 7pm (to catch the market bar crawling hipsters) and will playing some mid-tempo drinking music and will turn it up from about 9ish or whenever the floor dictates.
Check out my mixcloud page for some cool REFORM! mixes to stream or download. I'll be adding some new ones in the next few days.
I'll be phasing the blog out in the coming months. Please check out my new homepage and sign up or follow via RSS for updates. Check the Reform heading for the Facebook group link if you'd rather follow that way.
My 4th CD compilation UNDERGROUND is finally available in music stores around SA! It's been a year in the making (only because it took time to track down the publishers of some of the more obscure tracks). I'm very happy with how it turned out. The sleeve is particularly magnificent!
Check out a more detailed posts here
It's been a slow road...so since over a year ago I've managed to complete the second draft of the story. I did this in a new program called SCRIVENER which I've found quite user friendly for comic scripts. I also wrote the first draft of a DJ course using a different SCRIVENER template and it worked out well.
To push myself to re-write the 2nd draft, I entered the SCRIPT FRENZY challenge and completed it!
BWTF has spawned a CD compilation. It's called UNDERGROUND and is a 2CD set being released in Aug/Sep 2012 through EMI. The idea and tracklisting came from writing the story and all the music is era specific. More once it's released. I'll be planting (read hiding) some BWTF references.
My new homepage has more on the album.
Please follow BWTF progress by following this blog or my above wordpress site.
The originator's of Sundays in the City are back in Maboneng with a
I've created a new site for all the stuff I'm involved in imaginatively called marc latilla dot com
which can be accessed by visiting www.marclatilla.com
Check out the Mixcloud link below for a promo mix for the party. Once in, look for the mediafire link in the info section where you
can download it. The track listing is saved in the lyrics section of the mp3 if using iTunes.
Charles & I have been invited to play the opening set at the next Sunday in the City event on 1 April.
Expect REFORM Sound System raregrooves but on the easy side. From 1pm on a downtown rooftop Main str Jozi
Sadly the run of HIGH FIVE parties come to end but they do so in superoverloadwildwater style!
On Saturday night, 15 of the DJs who've all had a hand in the previous parties (look, look, see what I did there...?) squeeze into about 7 1/2 hours of playing time giving each one a 30 minute slot to jam whatever HIGH FIVE moment they want.
Sad to see it go but have no doubt Ben & Ri will come up with some or other amazing concept soon!
March is upon us and it's a few days before our party. The fact that it's already March is decidedly fucked...but there you go.
Last week, Jo from Past Experiences wrote a piece on their blog about a weekend in Braamfontein that included some kindBraamfontein beckons once again as we prepare for our second REFORM Sound System of 2012.
Kitcheners Cnr Juta & De Beer str Braamfontein R20 cover from 9pm -12pm (R30 after)
We play 6 decade spanning soul, funk, townshipjive, raregroove, girlgroups, nigeria70s, reggae, girlgroups, new wave, indie, swingjazz and other oddities
Click here to join the Facebook group
The best part for me (besides hitting it with Charles on the actual night) is scouring the net and my own collection looking for new stuff to play. I'll sit up for hours listening to 100s of tracks just to find one or two little unknown or underrated gems to add to the already substantial set of danceable favourites and obscurities.
Here are two recent finds:
Andrew Oldham Orchestra - The last time
This is where The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony comes from. Andrew Oldham Orchestra was a side project of the original Rolling Stones manager and 'The last time' was an orchestral version of a Jagger/Richard song. The Stones label own all the publishing of the Verve track. One can hear why...
Delmonas - Peter Gunn locomotion
Cover mash-up from 1984 in a rockabilly 60s girl group style from trio of one time Billy Childish backing singers.
The coolest party planners on the planet have put together a positively pucker post-punk party and invited me to play. Expect a set of late 70s & early 80s pearls covering the above mentioned plus new wave and pre-goth with a few current purveyors of the scene.
Kitcheners in Braamfontein Cnr De Beer & Juta str from 9pm R30 cover Sat 21 Jan
As a bonus, here is an ultra/super/rare new wave megamix bootleg from around 85. I remember hearing this at Heaven around 87 and had it on a tape. I recently acquired a near mint copy and did a high quality vinly rip as there are none on the net. It's about 14 mins long and 36MB at 320K.
The 12" had 3 other mixes on it namely WHITE MIX (Barry White mega mix), RIMINI MIX (Disco) and KID MIX (Hip-Hop)
Charles Leonard and I on again this Saturday 14 Jan at Kitcheners in Braamfontein from 9pm R20 cover and all that.
Thanks to all our supporters and readers out there!
From time to time I add a few music pieces to these posts. This is one of those times...I recently got hold of the re-issue CD of Rockabilly Psychos and the Garage Disease. It's a comp from the late 80s featuring some ols school alternative dancefloor classics (here in Johannesburg at any rate) like Trashmen's SURFIN BIRD (check out my own little re-edit below), Sonic's PSYCHO and Meteor's MY DADDY IS A VAMPIRE.
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Of interest was the Legendary Stardust Cowboy track PARALYSED. I've had this track on a mix tape since the late 90s. It's pure freakout on the scale of Birthday Party's SONNYS BURNING but 20 years earlier (Early 60s vs. early 80s) I guess this was the punk/underground music of the time and as a genre has gone onto influence countless bands throughout the decades. The Rhino box set NUGGETS is also a great place to get an overview of the garage scene in 60s & 70s. I've only managed to find two other LSC albums from the early 80s but none of the tracks match this.
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Another favourite of mine is the Hasil Adkins SHE SAID. Although I prefer the more coherent Cramps version by far which I first heard at Le Club in 88. Hearing the orginal puts it into perspective. Haze (like Legendary) is a nutter who has also released an album full of songs about chickens. I've never seen it but love CHICKEN WALK which I picked up somewhere.
[[posterous-content:pid___3]]Other artists on the comp include The Novas CRUSHER (also covered by the Cramps), Link Wray, Guana Batz, The Gun Club and The Sting-Rays amongst others I've not heard of. It's also a great comp when looking for HALLOWEEN selections.
We play a whole lot of different music at Reform Sound System but the diversions very much depend on who is there and what is working on the night. Surfin Bird, the Crusher and Link Wray have been played a few times. The two above may get their turn soon.
Surfin Bird (Marc Latilla re-edit)
Here are links to two mixes based on my BEST OF 2011 post.
Indiebleep mix is for partying. Comedown mix is for..well, coming down. Swimming pool optional.
Both (and many others) can be streamed at www.mixcloud.com/marclatilla
Or get them here.
http://www.mediafire.com/?skfoaav4ljbwjtz
http://www.mediafire.com/?3u40bcg41a601ia
Tracklisting is in LYRICS when using iTunes. Both are 128K and around 50MB
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