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  1. Ian Dewhirst
    No probs Davie. I can see you're a busy guy. Those pics are amazing by the way - that's some of the most beautiful country on these shores. I may go up there for a nice peaceful driving trip to get away from the madness down here..... Where was the club out of interest? I ask that 'cos one of the best gigs I did (with Paul Schofield) was in the middle of Scotland (for a guy called Tony Cochrane) sometime in the late 70's where he ferried coachloads of customers from all parts of Scotland in. I actually have an early VHS film of some of the gig with a HUGE crowd doing a line-dance to "Shante" by Mass Production. Has to be seen to be believed......... Ian D
  2. Ian Dewhirst
    Also, our PR guy just found this cracking 'lil film from circa 21 years ago featuring a very young looking Gilles P...... https://vimeo.com/27940835 Ian D
  3. Ian Dewhirst
    And it just gets better and better...... Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #430 in Music (See Top 100 in Music) #6 in Music > Jazz #6 in Music > R&B and Soul > Soul #14 in Music > Dance & Electronic https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acid-Jazz-25th-Anniversary-Box/dp/B009DW5Z2Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1349970481&sr=1-1 Ian D
  4. Ian Dewhirst
    Yay! With 4 weeks to go........ 1,920 in Music #28 in Music > R&B and Soul > Soul #72 in Music > Jazz #72 in Music > Dance & Electronic https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009DW5Z2Y/ref=s9_simh_bw_p15_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=10796YA8XA9KXBC4RCQ6&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=323735287&pf_rd_i=229816 Ian D
  5. Ian Dewhirst
    Yep, for sure. Gilles Peterson went from Acid Jazz to Talkin' Loud. We tried for around 4 Talkin' Loud tracks and got 2. The other two got refused for inexplicable reasons. With projects like this, the main obstacle is always the licensing. We were lucky to get what we did as everything that cleared was on the original wish-list! Ian D
  6. Ian Dewhirst
    Que? I take it Groove Thing was a club in the far North Davie....? Ian D
  7. Ian Dewhirst
    Cheers Jocko. Only about 25% is Acid Jazz and that includes the 2 unreleased Brand New Heavies songs on the exclusive 7" (one of which is a Brand New Heavies instrumental version of Aretha's "Rock Steady"). It's amazing the appeal of that track! It seems to have crossed a few boundaries since loads of people seem to love it. Yep, Dean did a bang-up job in documenting the scene I believe and does some exemporary sleeve notes (with original pics too). Even looking through the 50 page artwork book is like looking at a slice of UK history. If it comes out like it should, then it'll be proud to grace any shelf I reckon...... When you coming down for that drink....? Ian D
  8. Ian Dewhirst
    Yep, we had to license in a lot of outside repertoire from numerous sources. We figured there's been ample Acid Jazz label comps over the years, so this more to document the overall scene as opposed to just the label only. We didn't lose much and we managed to track down 98% of everything we went for, so we're pretty happy with the track listing. Ian D
  9. Ian Dewhirst
    More information about "Acid Jazz - The 25Th Anniversary Box Set"
    OK, it may not be up everybody's street, but there's some seriously great stuff within this beautiful package..... Harmless Records proudly present another superlative box set celebrating the 25th anniversary of one of the most iconic UK independent labels of all time… Acid Jazz, the brainchild of Eddie Piller and Giles Peterson was born in 1987 and immediately hit a chord in the UK by appealing to a cross section of serious fans from old school Jazzers, serious Jazz-Funkers, passionate Soulboys, sharp-dressed Mods, nodding Hip-Hoppers and even laid back Dreadas. Before long the tentacles of the Acid Jazz movement were spreading throughout the world and what began as a bedroom label between two mates soon became a mecca for various tribes who had become disenfranchised from other scenes. From international breakthrough successes like the Brand New Heavies, Jamiroquai and the Totally Wired series, Acid Jazz cemented it’s image as one of the most iconic and unique UK record labels of the last 3 decades. Harmless Records is proud to present a beautiful collectors box set featuring:- 1 x square secure box with the Acid Jazz logo in embossed silver foil * 4 x Audio CD’s + wallets * 1 x video DVD + wallet featuring an exclusive interview with Eddie Piller & Dean Rudland plus 12 vintage Acid Jazz promotional videos * 1 x 20 page booklet featuring the Acid Jazz story with unique pictures written by Dean Rudland and Eddie Piller * 1 x 52 page booklet featuring the Acid Jazz artwork throughout the last 25 years * 1 x 7” vinyl record featuring 2 unreleased original Acid Jazz recordings exclusive to the box set Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009DW5Z2Y/ref=s9_simh_bw_p15_d1_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0AJETA6F38J1Y4P5TNB4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=323735287&pf_rd_i=229816 Eddie Piller & Dean Rudland have compiled over 5 hours of music across several genres which scans the key periods in Acid Jazz history…… Track Listing CD1 — Put It All Together and What Do You Get 1. Golden Lady - Jose Feliciano Original Album Version 4.20 2. Love The One You’re With - The Isley Brothers Original Album Version 3.39 3. Lady Day & John Coltrane - Gil Scott Heron Original Album Version 3.34 4. Is It Something You Got - Tyrone Davis Original 7” Single Version 2.34 5. Don’t You Care - Alice Clark Original Album Version 2.48 6. You - Spanky Wilson Original 7” Version 2.10 7. Light My Fire - Erma Franklin Original Album Version 2.39 8. Right On - Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers Original Album Version 4.39 9. Bert's Apple Crumble - The Quik Original 7” Version 2.11 10. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe Part 2 - Jimmy Smith Original Album Version 4.58 11. Milestones - Mark Murphy Original Album Version 2.27 12. Smokey Joe’s La La - Googie Rene Original 7” Version 2.53 13. Black Whip - Boogaloo Joe Jones Original Album Version 6.46 14. Murriley - Charles Earland Original Album Version 6.28 15. Expansions - Lonnie Liston-Smith Original Album Version 6.05 16. Go Bang # 5 - Dinosaur L Original Francois K 12” Mix 7.33 17. I’m A Man - Chicago Original Album Version 7.38 18. I Can’t Dance With You - Small Faces Original 7” Version 3.11 19. I Don’t Do This (To Every Girl I Meet) - Sydney Joe Qualls Original Album Version 3.12 CD2 — Something Happening At The Dance 1. Blacker - Ballistic Brothers Original Album Version 6.09 2. The Masterplan - Diana Brown & Barry Sharpe Original 12” Version 7.05 3. Hot Music - S.O.H.O. Original 12” Jazz Version 5.06 4. Know How - Young MC Original 12” Mix 4.01 5. Don’t Scandalize Mine - Sugar Bear Original 12” Version 4.13 6. The Nervous Track - Nuyorican Soul Original 12” Ballsy Mix 6.28 7. Earthly Powers - A Man Called Adam Original 7” Mix 4.55 8. I'm Gonna Love You - Jestofunk Original MC Turbo 12” Sax Mix 4.20 9. Super Strut - The Apostles Original Album Version 4.20 10. Jazzy John's Freestyle - Stonebridge Original 12” Dub Mix 3.38 11. Helping Hand - Arthur Miles Original 12” Mix 4.39 12. From The Ghetto - Dread Flimstone Original 7” Version 4.35 13. Bonita Manana - Espiritu Original 12” Mix 4.06 14. If The Papes Come - A Tribe Called Quest Original 12” Mix 4.14 15. BNH - Brand New Heavies Original Album Version 5.52 16. Frederick Lies Still - Galliano Original 7” Version 4.59 CD3 — How’d We Get Us Here…? 1. Jazz Thing - Gang Starr Original 12” Mix 4.48 2. Get Yourself Together - Young Disciples Original 12” Mix 5.23 3. Dream Come True - Brand New Heavies Original 12” Mix 3.45 4. Love Will Keep Us Together - The James Taylor Quartet Original Ian Green 7” Mix 3.41 5. The New Avengers - Snowboy Original 12” Mix 4.32 6. Fresh In My Mind - A Forest Mighty Black Original 12” Mix 4.38 7. Oh Shit - Pharcyde Original Album Version 4.29 8. Black Whip - Chapter & Verse Original 12” Mix 3.59 9. Back By Dope Demand - King Bee Original 12” Mix 3.35 10. Theme From Starsky & Hutch - James Taylor Quarter Original 12” Mix 5.52 11. Always There - Incognito Original John Morales 12” Edit 3.34 12. Too Young To Die - Jamiroquai Original Album Version 6.03 13. Apple Green - Mother Earth Original Album Version 4.24 14. Love Sick - The Night Trains Original 12” Mix 4.26 15. Beads Things & Flowers - Humble Souls Original 12” Mix 4.05 16. The Ladder - One Creed Original Album Version 5.03 17. Funky Jam - Primal Scream Original 12” Mix 5.25 CD4 — Smokers Delight 1. Cosmos SX 2000 - Paul Weller Original 12” Dub Mix 7.19 2. Non Corporealness - Mother Earth Original Album Version 6.04 3. Rassellas - Mr Scruff V Manasseh Original Album Version 5.55 4. Movements In Dub (Roots) - Roots Radics meets the Scientist Original Album Version 5.08 5. Render Your Heart - Dread Flimstone Original 12” Mix 5.02 6. Chase The Devil - Max Romeo Original 7” Version 3.27 7. You Never Get Away - Delroy Wilson Original 12” Dub Mix 7.22 8. Leaders & Believers - Emperors New Clothes Original UNKLE Album Mix 5.14 9. Astralisation - Snowboy Original 12” Mix 6.10 10. The Groove - Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Original 12” Instrumental Mix 5.33 feat Grover Washington Jr 11. I Wanna Get High - Cypress Hill Original 12” Mix 2.56 12. Galactica Rush - Jhelisa Original 12” Instrumental Mix 6.01 13. Nothing - Sandals Original 12” Dub Version 8.02 Out on Bonfire Night — 5th November 2012. Should be fireworks! Ian D
  10. Ian Dewhirst
    OK, it may not be up everybody's street, but there's some seriously great stuff within this beautiful package..... Harmless Records proudly present another superlative box set celebrating the 25th anniversary of one of the most iconic UK independent labels of all time… Tap to view this Soul Source News/Article in full
  11. Ian Dewhirst
    Oh....did someone mention my name......? Oh yes LOL. That would be the time when I had a very viscous cold and had to clear my lungs of mucus over the Lincolnshire countryside, rolled the window down and attempted to do an impressive spit whilst going @ 60mph. The way that snot left my my mouth and immediately blew back into the open rear window hitting Arthur Fenn directly in the mouth could probably never be replicated. A work of art really and a moment I know Arthur will cherish forever...... Exploding balls and exploding snot. It's all the same to me Steve. As long as it explodes that is. Ian D
  12. Ian Dewhirst
    No that's THESE days Ric Tic. Back then I used to pushbike it from Leeds. The journey back was always a nightmare trying to balance my record box on my lap.......... Ian D
  13. Ian Dewhirst
    Can you imagine getting there from Leeds then? Ian D
  14. Ian Dewhirst
    Nice one Keith. Some guy called Frank was on LOL. What year was the 4th year Easter Monday All-Dayer then? '74 or '75? Ian D
  15. Ian Dewhirst
    The first time I met Soul Sam was at a Whitchurch All-Dayer. I thought he was the caretaker for the hall at first until someone clued me in. I also remember seeing the first copy of "I Can't Help Loving You" with Paul Anka's name scratched out the same day. Happy times... Ian D
  16. Ian Dewhirst
    I bet there's a huge amount of collectors who won't want the 12" under any any circumstances and vice versa. Also, as I think I've said before, some 7" mixes are almost totally different songs to the 12"'s. The 12" of Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis's "Shine On Silver Moon" is a brilliant 12" Disco mix which sounds sensational over a big system whereas the 7" is a beautiful piece of Modern Soul IMO... I've had Disco collectors turn their noses up @ 7"'s and Northern/Modern collectors do likewise for 12"'s....... Ian D
  17. Ian Dewhirst
    A lot of it depends on the context of where you were hearing the song though. There was a world of difference hearing the full version of "Mainline" at say, Paradise Garage in New York in the 70's then hearing it in the context of a small UK club with a so-so system in the 80's. DJ's in the 70's would often do "running mixes" which would often run for 2 minutes as one song blended into the other and which could sound sensational at the right clubs, so there was a fashion for many songs to be over-extended in the 70's purely for that reason. For the most part I agree with you though. I never need to hear the full versions of "My Baby's Got E.S.P." or "Barely Breaking Even" again in my life! Ian D
  18. Ian Dewhirst
    Eddie Holman was a relatively short 12" coming in @ circa 5.50 so it fitted better than most. "Janice" clocked in @ just under 7 minutes but both are brilliant records which had definable hooks and were uptempo enough for the times. I bet some people still complained that they were too long though........ Ian D
  19. Ian Dewhirst
    I think it always has been on this scene Barry....7"'ers rule for most I believe. You could never get decent fidelity on album cuts in the 70's on regularly crap equipment and 12"'ers were often too long for an audience that was used to getting their fix inside 3 minutes........ Ian D
  20. Ian Dewhirst
    LOL, instant death indeed. I was never a fan of extended 12" Jazz instrumentals at the best of times but least of all @ Northern venues. The ones that worked for me, were the 12"'s which had a singable song attached - "This Will Be A Night To Remember", "Praying", "Nine Times", "Spead Love" etc, etc. Weirdly, these days, I seem to be selling a lot of the shorter 7" mixes of popular 12"'s because they tend to be a lot rarer than the 12"'s! Some are ridiculously hard to find these days........ Ian D
  21. Ian Dewhirst
    That record's like a 'who's who' of Northern Soul....... Chester and Gary Pipkin and Brice Coefield (misspelt on the labe) wrote the song and Mike Post produced it........ Ian D
  22. Ian Dewhirst
    Promos also royalty-free! Ian D
  23. Ian Dewhirst
    Yeah, I hear you George, but compared to the non-stop barrage of numerous million-sellers that Columbia and Warners were scoring it was small potatoes at the time. I realised this loud and clear when I was running Simply Vinyl - a heavyweight vinyl album re-issue company in the late 90's. We did "Surrealistic Pillow" - Jefferson Airplane, a couple of Lou Reed's, a slew of Elvis releases and some other bits and bobs, but RCA was kinda sparse compared to Warners and Columbia where there was almost an embarassment of riches for that market. The whole C&W market is another that I don't know much about. Over the years I've maybe suggested that EMI and RCA were lacking in terms of mega-sellers in Pop and Rock, only to have someone come back at me and say stuff like, "oh but they were HUGE in C&W" etc, etc. But I've never really known exactly how huge the C&W market is. The only way that I could ever gauge it, was by the sheer amount of Merle Haggard and Ferlin Husky releases I had to plough through when I was looking for Soul. When I went to House Of Sounds in Philadelphia, I didn't stick around long as the numerous amount of huge crates which seemed to be filled with C&W releases meant that I would have wasted hours going through C&W crap just to get to anything decent. I remember thinking at the time, how many f*ckin' C&W records could they possibly make? The sheer amount was staggering. If they got a C&W hit could they sell half a million in Tennessee alone I wondered........ Ian D
  24. Ian Dewhirst
    Not to my knowledge. Cottillion only. Did this record ever get a following anywhere? Like crossover status or something....? Ian D
  25. Ian Dewhirst
    Similarly, the Cherry People's "And Suddenly", Keith's "Daylight Saving Time" and Gary Lewis & The Playboy's "My Heart's Symphony". Some people just can't hear records brimming with soul ay.....? However, I won't hear a bad word about Wombat's "I'm Gettin' On Life" for some bizarre reason........ Ian D


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