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“Well, I wish it could be Christmas every day-a-ayy!” Yeah? I don’t. Christ. Quite apart from the rampant commercialism, the shite on TV and the family arguments, we now face just over a month of the same twenty seasonal pop songs and the same five traditional seasonal songs being played in shops, pubs, office parties, on the telly or even at home over and over. And over. And. Over
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Tag Archives: Tobias Kirmayer
TRAMP RECORDS: Santa’s Funk & Soul Christmas Party Vol. 2 (2013)
TRAMP RECORDS: Feeling Nice Vol. 2 (2013)
Rating: A new Tramp funky soul comp.? Feeling Nice Vol. 2 – chock full of superrare nuggets? We’ll just call it 5 stars yeah? Actually we won’t just do anything. Mainly because I wrote the press sheet for this back in the summer in which everything I could say about this release happily coincided with everything I wanted to say about this release – albeit with the kind of rhetorical
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LONNIE LESTER: The Story Of Lonnie Lester (2013)
Rating: And here is the latest drop on Tramp Records‘ excellent The Story Of… series – can we seriously expect the quality to continue? Of course we can it’s Tramp Records! Good god why would you even raise the question? You didn’t? Let’s hear no more about it then. Now – Lonnie Lester – there’s a man with soul CV. Went on the road with Junior Walker, opened for Sam & Dave
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TRAMP RECORDS: Movements 5 (2013)
Rating: …And it’s another effortless five star compilation from Tramp Records – the label that’s spent ten years keeping the funk flame of the sixties and seventies burning. In fact, not just ‘keeping burning’ but also lighting new ones – and I’m not talking here about contemporary funk, I’m talking about rarely seen and little heard of privately pressed funk-soul cuts of yore – some of
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JIMMY ‘PREACHER’ ELLIS: The Story Of Jimmy ‘Preacher’ Ellis (2013)
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The Story Of Jimmy ‘Preacher’ Ellis is the first album from Tramp Records this year and it’s yet another superb retrospective of a black American artist from the sixties and seventies – in this case Jimmy ‘Preacher’ Ellis. Frankly, it’s almost embarrassing, the regularity with which this label is able, even now, to track down black American
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TRAMP RECORDS: Ancestors Of Rap (2012)
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Boom-bap original rap, it came from the funk and that’s a cold, hard fact – and here’s 16 excellent reasons why as Tramp Records’ bossman Tobias Kirmayer finds another excuse to share the findings of his funky beat-mining with the public on Ancestors Of Rap. Not that he needs an excuse of course, the man’s a terminal funk-fiend, but this
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ROY PORTER SOUND MACHINE: The Story Of Roy Porter Sound Machine (2012)
The Story Of Roy Porter Sound Machine is the latest in Tramp Records’ The Story Of… series and follows on from its superb predecessors featuring slept-on funky-soul man Vernon Garret and the unbelievably slept-on super-heavyweight Texas funk crew Soul Bros. Inc. While there’s been a funk-soul link between the previous two efforts, Roy Porter is a slightly different kettle of fish. He’s
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VERNON GARRETT: The Story Of Vernon Garrett (2012)
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I’ve lost count of the times I’ve said that Tramp Records’ Tobias Kirmayer has done it again – but he has done it again. The Story Of Vernon Garrett is yet another quality retrospective look at the career of a funky soul legend who failed to get the recognition he deserved back in the day. And
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TRAMP RECORDS: ‘Movements 4’ compilation LP (2012)
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Another coup for Tobias Kirmayer – the digger with his finger on the funk trigger! Kirmayer is the man behind Germany’s Tramp Records – a label currently doing more to propagate original rare funky music around the globe than anyone else – so when he says he’s been working for two years on a compilation in his Movements series and, in his opinion, it’s the highlight of said series so far
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TRAMP RECORDS: Santa’s Funk & Soul Christmas Party (2011)
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Christmas songs really are the nadir of music aren’t they? Slade, Wizzard, Jonah Louie, Boney M, Wham, Bing Crosby, The Beach Boys, Shakin Stevens, Pariah Carey, Cliff fucking Richard…I don’t what’s worse – the same twelve songs played from at least December 1st every year, in every overheated, queue-ridden shop you go in or retail managers’ insulting notion that you’re such a dull
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