The girls had a fanzine that served as a entry into gigs and interviews with the bands, and were always able to fake the night’s entry stamp or rush a back stage entrance when that failed. Yes that’s right, Luscious Jackson’s In Search of Manny EP was Grand Royal #1 back in 1992.Īccording to Beastie Boy Mike D’s liner notes, the Luscious Jackson girls – Jill, Gabby and Kate – were one step up the ‘smarter-than-thou, young NYC teenage punk know-it-all’ food chain from the boys who became beastly. A very enjoyable show, grab it here.Īh, the ‘best of’ or ‘greatest hits’ album – fleecing fans with a few remixes and rarities, or offering an introduction to that band you always liked but not enough to buy the album? This example of the genre will hopefully bring more listeners to the group that inspired the Beastie Boys to found the Grand Royal record label. Wrongtom brought in various rare jems he’d picked up over the years and offered some great insights about music and the records he’d chosen to play. Wrongtom, another DJ who’s just released his mix ‘ Cassetiquette’ co-hosted another show for Rhythm Incursions. Its not often that radio show podcasts get continual rotation on my mp3 player this one has and will continue to for a while yet. However it isn’t really a mix, its something different, a collage, maybe just a radio show, whatever it is, its pure fucking genius. Buddy Peace decided to present a show focused on some of his favourite indie rock jems.īuddy Peace and the Rhythm Incursions crew pre-recorded the show and then Buddy mashed it up with spoken word samples and extra beats to present something that resembles a dj mix. Although most Rhythm Incursions shows focus on more beat driven and hip hop genres.
The first is hosted by a DJ named Buddy Peace. Two of Rhythm Incursions more brilliant shows are still available for download. Often, each week, Rhythm Incursions will invite a guest to co-ho a show with them. Rhythm Incursions deliver one of the finer radio shows this world’s radio waves have to offer. With Tom and I being off air for a few weeks I thought I’d take the time to present our readers with some of the radio shows I enjoy on a weekly basis. If you were seduced by last years excellent Freddy Cruger record, Soul Search, you’ll definitely need to get your hands on this set of mixes. Red Astaire may be Swedish, but he’s drawing on Latin, reggae and soul sounds rather than those staples of the Swedish Eurovision entry – pop, metal and pop metal.Īstaire is probably better known by the similarly altered nom de plume – Freddy Cruger – though there is little that separates the sound produced under each name.
It’s a ‘sand between toes, rocking in a hammock with a battered straw hat on sipping on beers’ type of sound. The cover copies the Red Stripe logo – a fine beer for summer lounging and, unsurprisingly, the music follows the lounging summer theme.
The new mix album from Red Astaire is most definitely a summer record. Sure, it makes sense to release this album when the majority of the world’s music buying population is checking the gas in their BBQs – damn Europeans and Yanks – but there’s a certain cruelty for us southerners.
One odd thing about living way down here under the equator is that we get ‘summer’ albums just as our summer is dying down.