I was sifting through a box of cds found on top of a cupboard recently- various bits of decorating and reorganising have been taking place which will eventually lead to a new storage solution for the overspill of records that has been taking place in the back room for a few years now. The box contained either cds I'd made myself or cds that came free with magazines. Some didn't the survive the process. Some got refiled in the box (but more neatly). Some got taken to the car. On the way to work on Tuesday morning I put a cd called Change The Beat into the player, a compilation that came free with Mojo in 2015 subtitled '14 tracks from Madonna's New York scene'. This came blaring out of my car's speakers and for 4 minutes and 13 seconds I was convinced it was the best song I was going to hear that day.
Coup
Everything about it is the maximum it could be- that taut, funky as fuck bassline (pinched by The Chemical Brothers at a cost for Block Rockin' Beats), those chanted backing vox, the horns, the timbales, the gunshot samples. Magical stuff from 23 Skidoo back in 1983. You just hit the jackpot.
amazing what you can find in a box of old cd's. Coup was the superb last hurrah from Skidoo. Their astounding high point has to be 'Seven Songs'. puts 4th world Jon Hassell, Fela kuti and Throbbing Gristle through the post punk shredder. Get the repress and you get the stunning Peel session, which I carried about on an old cassette for 3 decades.
ReplyDeletep.s. check The Crusaders 'Well's gone dry' for your 'Block Rockin' Beats'
-S.R.C
Ta, sounds good, I'll have a look out for the repress of Seven Songs.
ReplyDeleteAs advertised... Coup was all over the place in NYC in 83.
ReplyDeleteI have a Playlist called Throwing Shapes on my iPhone. It reflects a lot of what you would hear on a Saturday night on the second floor of Danceteria or late night at the Funhouse...
Lucinda - ACR
Funky Stuff - Lizzy Mercier Desclous
Coup - 23 Skidoo
Your Life - Konk
Cavern - Liquid Liquid
Atom Rock - Quando Quango
Confusion - New Order
Don'T Go Away - Affinity
Moody - ESG
So Hungry So Angry - Medium Medium
Optimo - Liquid Liquid