Egyptian Lover and various...from The Scene

The End of this warm June month presents a few vids that will include...

...Eygptian Lover playing ya Girls...

Funky Fresh Boys - will play ya...

John Rocca - I Want To Be Real (version mix)

Quest - No Way Back

Adonis - No Way Back

Eddie "Flashing" Fowlkes - Goodbye Kiss

Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk - Jack The Bass

John Rocca - I Want To Be Real (original version)

 Have an awesome hot and stinking end of June month!

Desert trax vol.1 - Algerian Raï...."Oh Yeah!"

Raï originates from the Oran region of Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture. Raï basically means - 'opinion' but is colloquially used as an interjection along the lines of "oh, yeah!.." simply put...a great form of protest music with "yeahs" and shouts and psychedelic brass instruments emulating the elements of nature and social awareness within song.

Bellemou Messaoud - Le Roi de la Trompette Raï w/ Gana el Maghnaoui

Bellemou Messaoud is known as the King of the Raï movement or maybe the father of the Raï movement. Either way Bellemou, Sghir and others introduced 'pop-raï' to the consciousness of the population but Belloemou coined the term. It was never known whether he was ever called a 'cheb' since he has been around for such a long time. Just before and after the post independence of Algeria, the French Yé-yé craze was just happening and along with Bellemou young instrumentalists like Cheb Zergui, Cheb Fadela and Cheb Khaled will bring along a new range of instruments most particularly like guitar effects pedals - most notably fuzz and wah-wah and drum machines. Though the had grown seeing the chebs and chebas singing the raï he also moved with the times! Below is a tune Bellemou sang with another great Raï singer Cheikh Benfissa.

  01 Li Maandouche L'Auto` by incamummyboy 

Groupe El-Azhar

Acid drenched fuzz trip into the night desert - Groupe El-Azhar (translated as the Flowers Group) stuff is really hard to find which why I haven't got any of there records, which i wish i did but don't despair, the awesome people at Sublime Frequencies have a vital compilation with the essential start to Raï. The group was founded by the soon to be famous Cheb Mami during the 1980's!, they started singing about what there previous masters would sing about - Love affairs, alcohol, owning a car and other possessions! Probably one of my favorite groups during this period.

02 Mazal Nesker Mazal by incamummyboy

Boutaiba Sghir

Bellemou may have been the King of the Raï movement, but Sghir is the Godfather! One of the precursors of the modern Raï movement coming out of the traditional chant roots and griot style and many a influence to the 'cheb' and 'chebas'. He was most definitely one of Bellemous influencesand a precursor of the old styles of Raï which consisted of the styles of al-andalus (Spanish guitar influence) and many other derivatives and could have accidently found out that psych fuzz by accident. Oh Well!

  05 Dayha Oulabes by incamummyboy 

Noteable mentions...

And along with the Raï - a few notable mentions to the amazing shit that I have picked up along the way from the great music of that region including...

Groupe Azenzar - (Nekwini) s iyennaten agi...

Group Azenzar were an Algerian Raï-Psych Pop band with styles that range the spectrum of influences from the Muzik Komische period to the American Go-Go and French Yé-yé  styles.They were mainly hot groovy Arabian folk written tracks with heavy percussion, Middle Eastern guitar, electric bass, organ and great voices, lyrics sung in Berber. They were exactly like the Turkish psych equivalent of Mogoller. The clip is taken from a French independent film 'Les Taxicomane' - about a Alegrian youth who struggles to work by day in a restaurant and evening as a cab driver. the following tune is called Smaïl Chenoun by Groupe Azenzar.

Les Abranis - Self-Titled 

For a more western outlook but more of the french psych influence of people like J.P Massiera and Jean-Claude Vannier you have Les Abranis - a young group of psych kids into fuzz cheesy pop and go-go style videos. I like this one...There's something cool about it but everything else just seemed to be quite bland to me...

Graffiti Island - Perverse Savage...love yous lot!

love it...

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Summer Nights...

Volcano

This week and the last...millions of people are pissed off with the volcano...it's pee'd on everyones holiday plans, its pretty much annoyed me because i'm playing a show with Chain & The Gang without the awesome Sticks! (stuck in Portugal, I hope the guys get home soon, so I'm pretty nervous today), but in other news, recommeded 12"s!!! shit i have been hooked on for weeks which I will be using soon!

Hipnotic - Are You Lonely?

Canadian only of this classic from 1983! Definatly one that crosses the streams for the hip-hop/soul/disco guys and gals! re-issues from Downtown so don't go hunting for the real thing (but if you can afford, go for it!)

The Whole Darn Family - Seven Minutes Of Funk

What can I say, it's pretty much a classic and break on this used from EPMD to Alkaholiks to Jay-Z, full of the awesome vibes and flavours! The original would be taken, mixed by the original b-boys of the 70's and the 80's and rapped all over! some of the meanest bass-lines of all time!

Marley Marl - Marley Marl Scratch feat. MC Shan

Ultra-Fucking Rare!!! featuring MC Shan, This classic is a great party record! but unfortunatly, not very known...could be an advantage for some! But again a hard one to pull in a party, so warning...

Force M.D's - Let me Love You (Remastered)

 80's Rare groove killer, One of them really rare Tommy Boy releases which I kind of got into pretty late and then later on started to appreciate! on the flip it's Tears and i have no idea if this one is highly available! but again it's a classic, used by tonnes of people! One to check!

Lil Louis & The World - I Called U / Conversation / Why'd U Fall

Well I could have put some Virgo stuff on that Chicago house feel but Lil' Louis is so underrated and this 12" has the great cuts of I Called U / Conversation / Why'd U Fall. Jesus this get's all the girls on the floor! Nice One!!!

Check this shit!

Well the next post might be something on Moondymann, or Theo Parrish or maybe i might think of putting up one of them rare hardcore 7"s and 12"s....Shit son! I dont know...Well now off to play with Ian Svenonius and shit!...

PEACE!!!

Could be worse...

Malcolm McClaren dying had a big impact to many of us in the creative community but let's not forget the great achievements and explore more of his work! he will certainly be missed...

This has made me smile this week!

viewing some great records that have inspired me to DJ more with I stumbled upon this one!

To this one...

Well all I can say to that is...Chillin'!

To a long lost favorite and I don't care what you say at all!...

Have a nice day Kids!...

From Bad To Worse...

You get the good...

and then the damn right shit awful, still this Dee Dee King is a very expensive collector's item. get it for the novelty...

It's going for a lot, could be worth it...you decide...

CHAPTER SWEETHEART BLOG...

OUT SOON...

...BECAUSE BOOTSY SAY'S SO!...

rokken...

Dilemmas n' ting!

I've had a shit year...so far - want it to get better though. I hate that feeling of where you want to be felt sorry but it all seems ridiculous, I also hate the fact that when you like someone - very, very much, you can't spit out the right words, or make and effort because of shyness...FUCK THAT!!!! kept these posts themed with the classic crate digging exhibits or west coast wordsmithery and this has been making my week!

I've also been thinking about the whole Arabian Prince vs Eygptian Lover thing and the I found Brother Arab and could not believe whole underated this was...

but to end it all, something from Andres, I hope the week gets better for me and all the things you and I want come true!