A week ago we had our Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume 2 launch party at Stranger Than Paradise in Hackney. It was by all accounts a very good evening and well attended. I couldn't make it due to work commitments- nor could Martin or Dan- but the album got played in full, Baz (below, right) and Mark (below, left) both DJed and Richard Fearless played a superb two hour set which got people moving. It was recorded and as soon as that surfaces I'll share it here.
The first fifty copies came with a beautiful free art print, designed by sleeve artist Rusty. The first copy sold on the night was to S- Express main man Mark Moore who was passing through, heard the unreleased Sabres Of Paradise track on our album, the eleven minute dub- house splendour of Lick Wid Nit Wit, and bought a copy on the spot. Mark is a huge Sabres fan. Back in 1991 when Mark Moore's path crossed with Andrew Weatherall's, this barnstorming, outside the box remix was the result....
Find 'Em, Fool 'Em, Forget 'Em (The Eighth Hour Mix)
Back in spring 1988 I was seventeen years old. I can clearly remember watching S- Express gatecrashing Top Of The Pops miming to their smash hit Theme, my head turned by its brashness and day glo brilliance, Mark and his friends cavorting round the studio, the cut and paste sampling a million miles from The Smiths, The Wedding Present and The Primitives...
The idea that thirty seven years later the front man of that group would be buying an album that I'd put together with four friends, that I wrote the sleeve notes for, would have caused my seventeen year old head to spin round and detach itself.
Theme From S- Express is of course one of the greatest dance records ever made.
This weekend we have a northern launch party for Sounds From The Flightpath Estate Volume 2 at The Golden Lion in Todmorden. The Golden Lion is the epicentre of the whole thing- we first talked about making an album while DJing there and Golden Lion Sounds is the record label it came out on. Volume 2 went in the post last week and copies have been arriving at people's homes ever since as well as copies at various record shops. If you haven't got one you can buy one at GLS, ten tracks exclusive to the album- along side Sabres Of Paradise there are Red Snapper, Dicky Continental, A Certain Ratio and Number, Unit 14, Richard Fearless, David Harrow, Richard Norris, Bedford Falls Players and Sleaford Mods. Mark's twenty five minute sampler mix of the ten tracks is here.
Our launch party takes place in the back room with me, Martin and Dan DJing from 2pm though until 8. Free entry, fun for all the family, no requests etc. If you're in the area, feel free to drop by and say hello.
At the same time and into the early hours there's a Lion collaboration with The Gun, Hackney with a huge cast of DJs on in the main room including Decius Soundsystem, Vladimir Ivkovic, Lena Killikens, Nathan Gregory Wilkins, Psych Williams and Luke Insect.
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