In the late 70s a teenager named Kim Nazel was spinnin’ some of the most floorkilling records around at hi skool dances in Inglewood, Los Angeles making boys and girls go nuts! He soon listened to “Numbers” of Kraftwerk, he bought his first Roland TR-808 and named himself Arabian Prince. In 1988 Street Kut released Arabian Prince’s 12inch single titled “Situation hot”. The rest is simply history… Enjoy!
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A few months ago I decided to make my diggin’ habits a little bit spicier by searching for records with tasty butts on their covers. So when I bumped into Le Pamplemousse 1977 album Le Spank for AVI there wasn’t any second thought. While looking at the back cover my surprise was growing bigger and bigger. Written, arranged and produced by les enfants terrible of disco scene, Laurin Rinder and Mike Lewis, with the addition of The Jones Girls on vocals Le Spank became an underground must have. Among the tracks of the album there was one of my favorites, the Roy Ayers inspired Get your boom boom (around the room room). Enjoy!
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Formed in 1974 by Alain Mion and Alain Gandolfi, french jazz funk band Cortex soon turned to be a mythical combo mainly because of their debut album “Troupeau bleu” one year later under the label of Les Disques Esperance. In 1976 the band released a 7inch, which didn’t appear in any of their albums, for Esperance including two jams for which Alain Mion took over the vocal parts. I tracked the single in a dusty crate somewhere in Portugal a couple of years ago and since then Les oiseaux morts haunts me with its dark vocals, with its groovy synths and the dreamy sighs. Enjoy and keep on diggin’.
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