#paul simpson

Care - Temper Temper (1984)

En 2010 Paul Simpson lider y cantante de The Wild Swans saca éste disco llamado Man In A Burning Anorak Vol 2, en CD : Download. Lo escribió íntegramente él y lo produjo Henry Priestman. Cuenta la historia que solo fué una edición limitada de 50 Cds con OBI Strip y que se vendieron solo en los conciertos de The Wild Swans. Les dejo una muy linda canción de este álbum que se llama Side Effects.

It's around 40-years since house music as a distinctive genre began to appear. Jesse Saunders track "On & On" was released in early 1984. "On & On" is regularly held up as the first Chicago house music track to be released (Jamie Principles "Your Love" is earlier but isn't released to the public, Chip E produces the first Chicago track to mention 'House', that comes in 1985). House wasn't just about records though, it is a culture. There were clubs, dances, and dress codes that appeared before Jesse Saunders' "On & On". The music that was played at these formative house nights to black Chicago teens was disco, Italo, new wave and synth-pop (punk out, preppy) ... tracks like Skatt Bros. "Walk The Night", Martin Circus "Disco Circus", “One More Round” by Kasso, and “Spasticus Autisticus” by Ian Dury & The Blockheads. Frankie Knuckles was playing New York disco sets as a DJ at the Warehouse and then The Power Plant, heavily influenced by his friend Larry Levan. This is why when it was asked 'Where did house music come?' from at the Chicago House Music Conference last year someone shouted out New York from the audience. As you can imagine this didn't go down very well in Chicago

The point was though records like the one above and other records by Paul Simpson, Winston Jones, Boyd Jarvis, Timmy Regisford, and many others on the underground disco scene in New York got rinsed by Frankie Knuckles as a DJ in Chicago. There is a New York connection. Tracks like the one above get referred to as Proto-house or Garage House nowadays (more recent Post-disco is thrown on too)

With all the drama of the League Two play-off semi finals now in the history books, Stockport County and Carlisle United will take the journey down to the capital to battle it out at Wembley Stadium for a place in League One. One-off fixtures like this are notoriously difficult to predict, but popular supercomputer FiveThirtyEight has run the data as to who is the most likely to emerge…

AMMETTO CHE SUCCEDEVA MOLTO RARAMENTE, MA QUALCHE VOLTA RICHARD LA METTEVA AL VELVET E A ME VENIVA SEMPRE DA PIAGNE.

My neighbours have been having their kitchen refitted this week so it's been too noisy to work from home. I will inevitably find myself looking at records if I leave my house and I've had a cracking week on finds. A few years ago I used to hear young uns (they're probably in their 30s) say "you can't find good records in second hand shops anymore" it was rubbish then and it is now

One of the records I picked up for £1 was Paul Simpson Connection - Use Me, Lose Me which became a hit in 1983. It was co-produced by then regular partner Winston Jones (Cultural Vibe, Tribal House) and mixed by Tony Humphries, Rozlyn Sorrell is the vocalist. Use Me, Lose Me was recorded at Fred Zarr's studio, mixed at Blank Tapes, released on Arthur Baker's Streetwise label, and it was played by all the greats in New York and Chicago. Some people call it disco others house, it's just a great track

Reprise Me

Vocal Me

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