Tiger People - GIMMEWACHOOWAN (Polydor 2065 240DJ)

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Good Day Music Fans!

Well I have spent the last week paying in sweat for taking the long weekend off for the Niagara Scooter Rally last weekend. It's been a gruelling week at work so don't hate me if I haven't hit you with some musical love recently. So what did you think of the Irie mix I posted for FuFu Stew? I did a variation of it for my scooter friends on the weekend....well actually I played forever.... propelled by beer and my favourite fungus (wink wink nod nod) I played with my friend on the wheels of steel till 6am on Friday night. By that time I was practically crawling on the floor but as the Dells said "Oh What a Nite!". I tried to recreate that the following night but to no avail...my body just couldn't take the punishment I had dealt it during the previous 30 hours or so....Besides, the were other DJ's as well and my hats off to Gene from Scooters Originali who had some VERY deep crates of Northern Soul. It was a pleasure to listen to you play sir.

I've posted a track I picked up recently, that I can find absolutely NO INFORMATION on the interweb about. It's a Canadian DJ Promo from 1974 called "GIMMEWACHOOWAN" by Tiger People....ring any bells? Well if it does, let me know. I'm curious as #@*% to find out more about them. This track is a double A Side in Mono (wierd for '74) and sounds like it belongs in a good Blaxploitation movie. The Bass line and the backup vocals are a joy to hear, so while I toddle off to bed, crank it up and SHINDIGGIT!

- Jason X

**NOTE** I had another try at seeing what was what with this single and stumbled across this website (CLICK HERE). I wonder if this is the SAME Art Phillips who arranged the track for today? Not to mention, did he design a cool sleeve for it as well....LOL.

I'm Diggin' The Kitchen....

Hi Kids, One of my favourite sites in this small (but expanding) world of Music Blogs is FuFu Stew. Vincent has been cooking up some great stuff for my listening pleasure in the past couple of years. I hoped to return the favour by submitting a mix for his "Come On In My Kitchen" posts. Well I got the nod today and if you pop on over to his site you can download a Jamaican mix I did a couple days ago. Click on the picture above to take you there. Remember to say Hello to Vincent over there. I'm off to the Niagara Scooter Rally this evening, so have a grand weekend and I'll be back soon with more tasty morsels on the way.....

-Jason X


Mix Songlist:

1. Jackie Mittoo - Groovy Spirit (Summus)
2. Byron Lee & The Dragonairres - Here I am Baby (Dynamic)
3. The Maytals - Feel So Good (Trojan)
4. Dandy Livingstone - Reggae In Your Jeggae (Trojan)
5. Desmond Dekker & The Aces - It Mek (Trojan)
6. Ethiopians - Train To Skaville (Record Corner)
7. Eric "Monty" Morris - Sammy Dead (Kentone)
8. Prince Buster - Rough Rider (Prince Buster)
9. Peter Tosh - Them A Fe Get A Beatin' (Attack)
10. Heptones - The Magnificent Heptones (Attack)
11. Mad Lads - Ten To One (Coxsone)
12. Augustos Pablos - Lover's Mood (Hot Shot)
13. Augustos Pablos - Lover's Rock (Hot Shot)
14. U Roy - King Tubby Skank (Jackpot)
15. Derrick Harriot - Brown Baby (Trojan)
16. Ken Boothe - Is It Because I'm Black (Wild Flower)
17. Adoms Treo - Reggae Exprence (Nu Sound)
18. Max Romeo & The Upsetters - Chase The Devil (Island)
19. Jennifer Lara & Soul Vendor - Tell Me Where (Coxsone)
20. Roots Radics Band - CHART (African Museum)
21. Hortense Ellis - I Don't Have A Wooden Heart (Imperial)

Let's Go Baby (Where The Action Is) - Robert Parker (NOLA 721)

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Hi Again Kiddies,

I've been trying hard to fit in the time to make posts on this here Blog but since we're relandscaping the front lawn and having terribly busy schedule at work, it's been pretty difficult. I decided to force myself to get in front of the information machine tonight to give you something new...er...old to chew on for a bit. I have lots more up my sleeve for the coming weeks.

This weekend marks 10 years I've been attending the Niagara Scooter Rally up here. They have it every May two-four weekend (which is Victoria Day weekend for the un-initiated, That's Queen Victoria's B-Day). It's a weekend full of drinking, Vespas, Lambrettas, drinking, music, drinking and drinking. Some might say I'm too old to have fun like that anymore....but you'd be wrong. It seems as though I may be DJing a set or two Friday and Saturday night if all goes well, so any locals who're attending may see me spinning the wax fantastics. Come on over and say hello.

To get me pumped for this occasion (2 sleeps left!!) I thought I'd post a staple of mine and a classic single for most. I mean if you haven't heard this tune, well.....maybe some of you haven't. It's been a MOD/Scooter run standby for a long long time...So as my good friend Robert Parker says (whilst Barefootin')
Let's Go Baby....Where The Action Is........

I hope You all shindiggit and I'll see you next week for another installment of........well...you get my meaning.

Keep The Faith!

Jason X

Niagara Scooter Rally Info: CLICK HERE!

Max Romeo & The Upsetters - Chase The Devil (Island ILPS 9392)

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WOW! ,you ever have one of those days where everything kinda sucks, then something happens which elevates you to cloud nine in about 2 seconds flat? This happened to me yesterday. Had to do an overnight....back in again about 4 hours after I get home.....just flat tired man. So I'm on my way home and hit up one of my local record shops. I don't know whether my spidey senses were working overtime or not but I see a stack of vinyl sitting waiting to be sorted and I just new there was something waiting there for me. Boy, was I right. I picked up 26 LPs from said pile. 95% were Jamaican LPs from the 70's. Beautiful labels like Trojan, Coxsone, Harry J, Studio One, Wolf and more. Here's the list of my finds:

I Roy - Many Moods of (Trojan)

Burning Spear - Garvey's Ghost Dub Album (Wolf)

John Holt - Magnificent John Holt (Channel One)

Tradewinds - Sexy Lady (Penny)

Winston Hewitt Band - Snapshot (Corner Store)

Derrick Harriott - Born To Love You (Crystal)

Ken Boothe - Everything I own (Wild Flower)

Bob Andy & Marcia Griffiths - Kemar (Harry J)

Heptones (Studio One)

Heptones - On Top (Studio One)
Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon (Island)
Stranger Cole & The Col Sister - We'll Meet (Record Corner 12")
Bob Andy - Songbook (Coxsone)
Maytals - From The Roots (Trojan)
Toots & The Maytals - Reggae Got Soul (Island)
Hortense Ellis - The Queen Of Rockers (Imperial)
Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - Rock Steady Explosion (Trans World)
Various - Heptones & Friends 2 (Attack)
Judy Mowatt - Mellow Mood (Tuff Gong)
John Holt - One Thousand Volts Of Holt (Trojan)
Derrick Herriott - Greatest Reggae Hits (Trojan)
Dennis Brown - How Can I Leave You (Gibbs)
Clifton Chenier - Black Snake Blues (Arhoolie)
Tyrone Davis - Turn Back The Hands Of Time (Cotillion)
James Brown - Hell (Polydor)
Fred & The New JB's - Breakin Bread (People)

Now THAT's quite a haul for me....OBVIOUSLY I'll be digitizing this stuff in the near future (I've already done some for the portable music machine) so keep a look out for it.
One of the LPs I picked up was Max Romeo & The Upsetters "War Ina Babylon". This LP contains the track "Chase The Devil" which has been on my want list for ages....so I decided to include it here for you all to hear. If you know it already, listen to it again....if you've never heard it before? You're in for a treat.....some may remember the Prodigy sampling this song back in the early 90's....SHINDIGGIT!!!

-Jason X

Joe Cuba Sextet - El Pito (Tico T-470)

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BONUS! DOWNLOAD THE B-SIDE (Aricebo) HERE!

Whoaaaa! Man, I have been neglecting my friends in the Blogisphere. However, those of you who emailed me now know that it was due to the calamitous demise of my Blogatrix (aka Computer). Ya I know, I work in the IT feild, what happened...well when a motherboard decides to pop it's capacitors, it's game over baby. I secretly think I blew it's mind with all the great tunes I was recording at the time......So I finally parted ways with a significant amount of scratch et voila! I'm back! I didn't forget about you....honest.

So let's get that heavy ball rolling again with a tune I constantly have stuck in my head every time I play it. This track is EXTREMELY addictive. As the band name hints, this is a classic Latin groove. Not terribly rare but a stonker nonetheless. I had previously posted a Joe Cuba Sextet single (Find It Here!) and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Granted that was a much rarer tune than this but man, if it's a good slab o' wax, I can't resist. Joe Cuba is known to most as the Father of Latin Boogaloo. This is really his first BIG hit (1965) with a couple more to follow 2 years later (Bang Bang and Sock It To Me Baby). Have a listen and just TRY to put it out of your head for the next few days...I DARE ya!

I'll be back with some more great platters soon. I've also got a TON of new stuff to record....look for it and SHINDIGGIT!