Due next week is this 45 double-header of hip-hop booty, Wack 20 the latest in an occasional series of cheeky business from the man they call Berry Geordie – well, the monkey does anyway. And who should be partnering him on this release but that DJ with the most distinctive glasses – a.k.a DJP. And it seems the latter has got the vapours. Must be the effort of splicing legends Biz Markie
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SMOOVE/ DJP: Wack 20 – I Like It / Vapours (Vinyl 7″)
SMOOVE: Multitrack Reworks Vol. 5 (Vinyl 12″)
So successful are Smoove’s multi-track reworks, he should probably be in charge of the UK rail network because it’s time for Multitrack Reworks Vol. 5 already! And this time the man they call ‘Berry Geordie’ (or at least the man the monkey calls ‘Berry Geordie’) trips to the disco with Everyman, doubly exposing his A-side source material via the medium of the remix. It’s a
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SMOOVE: Multitrack Reworks Vol. 4 (Vinyl 12″)
Smoove gets, well, smooth, once again with the latest in his run of slick soul-disco-boogie-80s funk edits Multitrack Reworks now up to Vol. 4. And the two sides of this gold hand-stamped white label 12″ affair are occupied by tracks simply named Live and Egypt. Contemplate those for a while and at some point during the first 30 seconds of each you might twig that the former is
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SMOOVE: Multi-Track Reworks Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 (Vinyl 12″)
The British rail network might be a fragmented privatised disaster but northern funkster Smoove is all up together with not one but two of his Multi-Track Reworks arriving in a timely and efficient manner for the people. Vol. 2 sees him donning his disco hat to give three 70s and 80s giants some proper time and investment and, indeed space, since this is on the largely forgotten wax
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SMOOVE: Redropped 1: String Island / Boogie Island (Vinyl 7″)
See? This is exactly what I was talking about last week when posting about Smoove’s Multitrack Reworks Vol. 1 disco 12″ – this man never has just one iron in the fire. Next up is this vinyl 7″ Redropped 1 with Smoove delivering two different but equally ‘force’ful versions (see what I did there?) of that ol’ Strong Island sound. First up is the mellow one. That’ll be String Island then, on
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SMOOVE: Multitrack Reworks Vol. 1 (Vinyl 12″)
One man who’s always got numerous irons in the fire is the man the monkey likes to call ‘Berry Geordie’. And so busy is Smoove (for it is he) that, in fact, it’s difficult to stay on top of all those releases – September’s Wack Records release Queensbridge vs Brooklyn hip-hop booty 45 for example which passed with nary a word from the monkey. He was last heard of around these parts
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WHIRLWIND D: Without Music (feat. MICALL PARKNSUN) b/w Labels (SMOOVE Mix)(Vinyl 7″)
It’s a doubly nice slice of vinyl 7″ from B-Line Recordings next with this new single from Whirlwind D. On A-side Without Music, ‘D and another Brit-hop veteran, Micall Parknsun, go head-to-head on the subject of the redemptive power of – well – music over a soulful midtempo Djar One beat with cuts by Specifik. Flip it over meanwhile and you get a remix of another ‘D
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SMOOVE: Friday’s Funky 45 Vol. 9 (Vinyl 7″) + Wack Records 19-22
I don’t know, nothing for ages and then four come along at once – well five technically, though one is a re-release. I’m on about Smoove mash-ups of course – the very thing, in fact, that our Berry Geordie set Wack Records up for back in the day. And so it is that Wack Records 19-22 (a.k.a. Sunny Juice, It’s All Good, Skeelo Wonder and Hall & Soul) get a simultaneous release. Well – when you’ve made a special mix of tracks for BBC 6
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SMOOVE: A Quest Called Tribe (Vinyl 7″)
You can’t accuse Smoove of letting the grass grow under his feet when he’s not engaged on Smoove & Turrell business, for here is epic new vinyl 7″ cut n paste mix A Quest Called Tribe which tops even his previous Main Sourced 45. Where that project saw him take a mere three months to splice together every sample on Main Source’s first LP Breaking Atoms in order to fill two sides of wax, A
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SMOOVE: Recorded Delivery
Eight years after his original Jalapeno Records remix comp. First Class dropped, Smoove finally follows up with the sequel, Recorded Delivery. Eight years! Why the wait? Well that’ll partly be the small matter of writing, producing and touring the three Smoove & Turrell LPs that have come out in that time, all those live DJ sets and many of the remixes which are collected on this – so many in
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