Ah, I almost forgot. The McDonalds of Swedish rock clubs - Debaser - are doing their superp music documentary/tribute club En Afton tonight in Malmö. And this time they’re having a tribute to Nina Simone.
This bootleg house remix of Feist’s cover of Nina Simone’s “Sea Line Woman” was released last year in a very limited edition of 500 ex only. The people behind it were Swedens own house combo Marymary (guess you can figure of their real names, because there ain’t that many combos in Sweden that are into deep, latin influed house music).
As usual the food loving Swedes are doing a real good job transforming Feist’s trademark Starbucks jazz into a perfect deep groover for the late night hours.
This working week ends early in Sweden. What better reason to dig up Class Action and Chris Wiltshire’s late version of Leroy Burgess and James Calloways classic tribute to the weekend hedonism (or bad relationships if you’re in that mood). The bad thing for me is that I’m the one who’s staying home tonight. So enjoy yourself kids.
The greatest cover version of all time? Maybe. Late latin percussion legend Ray Barretto’s 80s disco version of one of Stevie Wonder’s greatest tracks is just sooo good.
– Va?! Kommer Donk Boys från Malmö?!? Ni måååste presentera mig för dem!
Mer än en lokal klubbarrangör har tvingats förklara för sina influgna gäster att Donk Boys var de smånördiga snubbarna de skakande hand med redan i början av kvällen.
Talesättet att man aldrig blir profet i sin egen hemstad har aldrig passat bättre än på Martin Abrahamsson och Thomas Jaldemark i Donk Boys.
Utländska DJ-stjärnor som Fedde Le Grand (han med ”Put Your Hands Up For Detroit” – Sweet Freds stekarhousefavorit från förra året) och Claude VonStroke öser superlativ över duons färgsprakande och lekfulla technoproduktioner och slänger upp dem i topp på sina spellistor.
I Malmö har Donk Boys gömt sig i Retros källare. Ja, när de inte har blivit orättvist placerade som uppvärmningsakt på något undanskymt golv på någon större klubb.
På fredag ger vi dem chansen skina allena på Oh, Baby – I Like It Raw. Se dem nu. Inom ett halvår kommer duon vara alldeles för stora för Malmös klubbar.
I was on a rollercoaster of ups’n’downs for 24 hours this weekend. First on Friday, a pretty boring PR-gig that later transformed to a real inspirational session with Malmö musician Sebastian Lilja. Then a tremendous concert with French reggae band The Dynamics. The next three hours or so included a visit to Deluxe at Jeriko and Klubb Kollo at KB who hosted Anton Qlint who played the forthcoming release of Jens Lekman on Rollerboys recordings. You better watch out for that one. It’s going to be huge.
Saturday was dedicated to some traditional crate digging involving everybody from yesterday. Emil Broomé of Stephen Hawkins, Simon Åberg of Deluxe, Jakob Hultman, Anton and myself where fighting over Will Powers, Annabel Lamb among others.
One good thing was that we finally managed to solve the mystery of that A Mountain of One-edit of Mott the Hoople that been bothering us since we first heard it because no one managed to get hold of a original copy of the song.
Now it seems that it wasn’t a Mott The Hoople track but a Ian Hunter solo recording that you probably could find on your local flea market for a dollar.
My friend and also the more “sunny” side of Versus, Ali Payami, has invited the french electro house ace Etienne De Crecy to play at Jeriko tonight. Go see!
If I’m not mistaken this was used by Metro Area on their debut. Nice disco groover. I’ve been forced to have Madonnas new album on repeat the last days (if you read Swedish you can find a review in Sydsvenskan today) so I needed something more laidback.
Update: I just noticed that I seem to have recorded “I Like What You’re Doing To Me” in the same file. So you got two great songs from the album for the same price here.
There’s millions of singles and edits floating around where someone out an R&B or hiphop accapella over a vintage Studio One riddim. Much of it is crap but some of them could actualy compete with the original recordning. Angie Stone are visiting Malmo tonight which is a good reason to post this roots remake of one of the greates soul songs of this decade.
I just noticed that this is out on a twelve inch on Heavenly. Ashley Beedle extend Edwyn Collins modern blue eyed soul anthem from this fall. This was earlier included on the “Love From The Heavy Disco Crew” CD I talked about before. So it seems that we could expect to hear some more of those edits in a near future. Fantastic song what so ever. From a fantastic singer.
You can buy the twelve inch at Piccadilly if you’re going to play it out. If you are the creator or copyright owner of a song posted here and would like it removed please email info@ohbabyilikeitraw.com and we’ll do so.
