Making lists and ticking them off. Wishing you all a mellow Sunday.
This week's edition of "something great we heard this week that we love but can't sell you"™ was actually one we were hoping to send out to you last week, with NYC label Tompkins Square releasing a surprise posthumous record from Michael Chapman. Another Fish was released on what would have been Chapman’s 81st birthday and finds him in gloriously loose form.
You can listen to it and purchase it directly on the Tompkins Square bandcamp, we do hope to have some physical news for you a little later in the year.
+ Listen | tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/another-fish
Michael was a guest of ours at the 2017 Sea Change Festival and was a pure joy. Our good mate James Endeacott spent quite a lot of time with him that weekend and will testify... Chapman was a seasoned pro!
In the summer of 1977, a teenager writing under the name Snoopy published a list of 125 of the best albums in dub reggae on a single page of a music magazine called Black Echoes. It’s an irreplaceable guide to the golden age of a crucial genre of music.
Writer Max Abelson managed to track Snoopy down and interviewed him last year about one of history's sweetest musical eras. The list is extraordinary and we've only just started dropping in. Current most played is Bobby Kalphat's Zion Hill Dub, a copy of which could set you back some £600 sheets.
You can read the full list and the full interview on his excellent dubreggae Tumblr. We'd be tempted to make a playlist if Spotify didn't feel like such a deep dark hole right now.
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Another great read this week was an old post on Montreal-based website Music Is My Sanctuary, with a comprehensive list of every sample used on DJ Shadow's iconic "Endtroducing….." album. His magnum opus was produced over two years using an Akai MPC60 sampler and little other equipment, it's been a great one to revisit this week.
We did a feature in Deluxe once about the sleeve (shot at Amoeba Music), we'll have to look that out. As it would happen, Entroducing is currently out of stock, but we'll be trying to get hold of more as soon as pressing permits.
+ The Sample List [Read More]
+ DJ Mag | a masterclass in the art of sampling [Read More]
+ YouTube | Home Studio Footage 1995 [Watch Now]
+ Pitchfork | Endtroducing... [Read More]
Bella Union have announced an incoming gold vinyl repress of Midlake's all-time wonderful The Trials of Van Occupanther. It is a sort-of 15th year anniversary edition and arrives ahead of the band's forthcoming new For the Sake of Bethel Woods LP.
Back in 2014 we spoke to Bella Union supremo Simone Raymonde about the album, signing the band and how it all came together. You can read that here.
Now, how many copies of Van Occupanther do you own?