Alex Macpherson wrote a great piece about Cassie on the Guardian music blog. I agree with everything he says - Cassie’s brilliant.

This track has a freestyle sound!

CASSIE - TURN THE LIGHTS OFF

Girls make me lots of cake these days but I don’t think I’ve got any of this pie.
AMG - JIGGABLE PIE

BONUS ULTRA LO-FI TRACK
Pimp C, RIP, had some interesting talents…
UGK - I’M SO BAD

I think Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac get a really bad press. My friend Pickles is the band’s biggest fan but even she can’t deal with with the old blues material. I’m not so sure if that’s fair. OK, you probably can’t play Albatross and Man Of The World on Friday night at Catch but they’re still pretty good.

What do you prefer?

Late 60s

Late 80s

BTW My Dad almost killed Peter Green when he came out of a gig and ran into on coming traffic in 1968.

I’ve been having really bad luck on eBay.  I’m going to stick with just ordering nitrous oxide for my fellow bloggers because 12” singles are proving to be a big no.  Almost every record I’ve ordered recently has  either got lost in the post or come to me scratched, warped or worse. One girl sent me a 12” of Joyce Sims’ All And All beautifully wrapped in brown paper and bubblewrap but without any cardboard backing – it arrived in several pieces!

So thank god for this freestyle 12” that came all the way from America undamaged.

WILD MARY – NO ONE KNOWS (VOCAL EXTENDED MIX)

All the clothes in this video are perfect.

THE JETS - CRUSH ON YOU

I don’t have an MP3 for that sadly so you’ll just have to deal with this.

DJ GODFATHER - IT’S YO BIRTHDAY

BTW Sorry for both the mains hum and having the disco shits.

OMG! You’ll never guess who this funky fresh poppin’ prince grew up to be.

All the old original b-boys would talk about Wild Style, Style Wars, etc like they were Citizen Kane, Jules and Jim, and The Godfather all rolled into one. They’re wrong. Beat Street’s only got two good scenes.  One of which is a 30 second clip of Brenda K Starr performing Vicious Beat. I’m guessing, like almost everything else in the film, it’s produced by Arthur Baker. I can’t find the track anywhere on 12″, MP3 or tape. Does anybody on the world wide web know where I can find it?

The other good scene, The Roxy battle,  features Rock Steady Crew and the NYC Breakers in a breakdancing contest. I’ve already blogged about that before. So here are the NYC Breakers a few years later wearing tight trousers.

I don’t say much on this blog these days. I use the word this a lot too. I’m playing records like this one at Top Nice on Friday. It’s going to be wild.

DOMINATRIX - THE DOMINATRIX SLEEPS TONIGHT

Rory gave me this banger ages ago but I thought posting it would be rude. It’s all over the internet now so hopefully he won’t get mad if I tell the world how good it is.

EINE KLEINE - FEUERPROBE (RORY PHILLIPS NACHTVERSION)

I’ve wanted to play this track out for seven years but rather pathetically I’ve never been sure if it’s cool enough. Lame.

DEBBIE HARRY - RUSH RUSH

I’ve loved this band for years.

BODENSTANDIG 2000 - PARTY GANZE NACHT

Next time I do karaoke I’ll pass on Enter Sandman and give this a try in honour of Kevy B.

KEVIN BLECHDOM - PRIVATE DANCER

A friend told me that when you’re old enough to remember a fashion first time around you should quit. I’ve lived through the birth and death of both rave (sort of) and nu rave (lol). I’m not sure if it will be a good or bad thing if I’m still living and breathing music 24/7 when it’s fashionable again.

DREAM FREQUENCY FEAT DEBBIE SHARP - FEEL SO REAL