prince - sign o times ****
warner, 07/1987

Disc: 1
1. Sign 'O' the Times
2. Play in the Sunshine
3. Housequake
4. Ballad of Dorothy Parker
5. It
6. Starfish & Coffee
7. Slow Love
8. Hot Thing
9. Forever in My Life

Disc: 2
1. U Got the Look
2. If I Was Your Girlfriend
3. Strange Relationship
4. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
5. Cross
6. Gonna Be a Beautiful Night
7. Adore

1987 was a good year in pop. Michael Jackson released Bad, George Michael Faith, Pet Shop Boys Actually, the charts were overloaded with Madonna (True Blue, Who's that girl?, You can dance) Genesis was touring with Invisible touch and there's this double LP by Prince still fresh and funky. The title song's just like a prehistoric trip-hop electro, Play in the Sunshine happy rockandroll for the parties, The Ballad of... with loveley false notes, It minimal eightees track, Hot Thing funk and break in one... Really cool record, do not hesitate if you can get it for reduced price in Camden Town... or anywhere else.

quantic - apricot morning *****
www.tru-thoughts.co.uk 2002

Apricot Morning
Transatlantic
Brand New Watusi
Search The Heavens
Wider Than The Sky
Primate Boogaloo
Blackstone Rock
Sweet Calling
Trouble From The River
Not So Blue
Off The Beaten Track

another iZborn fave. the reason why this record was chosen as today's editor's choice, is that quantic and doublex inc are gonna dj tonight at Café Mokka Cuka. i have to confess that i know this record just since 3 months but since i am mad about it, always makes me smile, especially the Blackstone Rock how it starts ''the beat goes on... and the beat goes on...'' :)) funny, light summer jam. five star experiment. ten out of ten. i dont wanna write anything about the tracks... hear it yourself.

cuica - city to city ****
ubiquity recors, 2003

why not samba
cuidado
meierising pt 2/3
trommel monster
afrique
double blues
meierising pt 1
nights over vauxhall
slipping away

another average so called nu jazz... i've got tons like this. mr. hermano, jazzanova, at jazz etc. if you like those, you probably'll love this one too. well, three stars and a half - cos i'm full with these kind of records. quite possible that i'm gonna be mad about this one after a while, but now... i'd say well done, nice background music. the meierising part one is the best one i think, really professional ... that's it

soul of man - the drum / acid punch *****
Fingerlickin Records, 2003
the drum
acid punch

in february, the first time I heard this track i was shocked by the drums. since then nothing's changed. acidic nu skool tribal breaks or whatever... one of the greatest party tunes ever made.
(oh, yeah... acid punch. that's o.k. average tune. just the bonus. you don't buy the record for this.)

mark rae - rae road *****
grand central, 2002

1. Lobster
2. Lavish
3. Make No Mistake
4. Skio
5. Bamburgh Dunes
6. Candystripe
7. Dime Train
8. I Need a Fix
9. I'm Fast and Hot
10. Fold or Flower
11. Sick Chick
12. Throne

what a great vinyl record I do have!!! based on hip-hop downtempo, flavoured with afro beat, dnb, dancehall, funk, r&b and most of all jazzy thoughts... oh my god, why i didn't listen to this record? it's a masterpiece. the same feeling i had with R&C sleepwalking. I had to listen to this more time (firs check it was alright... nothing special) til the songs became my good known friends. same as with a friendship. you have the sympathy at the first sight but the real feelings you get after the third meeting. i bought this one in london and after a month i have to realise the sparkling diamond i've got in my LP-case. i love to love a record like this. tomorrows wurli tracks.

trio elétrico - return of the coconut groove remixes ****
stereo deluxe, 2000
raw deal mix
raw deal dub
walkner moestl mix

i bought this one today... i mean yesterday just for 4 euro's/1000 HUF. a cheap hit song you can play. i actually wanted to get the original tune too, but there were misunderstaning at the order. everybody knows this tune. isn't?

big bang - arriving soon ***
goya music, 09/2002
01. Spanish Portrait
02. Pressure feat. Jessica Lauren / Alexander
03. Clouds feat. Jessica Lauren
04. Speak Low IG Culture Re-work
05. Negotiator
06. The Workshop feat. Earl Zinger
07. Speak Low - Original feat. Alexander
08. Neptune Rising

how do you buy records? in a regular vinyl store on a sunny saturday? i must say... that's the average way. would you buy a vinyl 1AM in the morning without listening to it? would you buy a vinyl cos you like the DJ who's playing right there and who made the record? would you ask the resident DJ cos you can't buy it at the bar? would you act like an idiot running from desk til bar to ask these? would you borrow some money to get that extraordinary cheap record? cos i did.

here it is ladies and gentlemen!

B R E A K I N G . N E W S
It's quiet possible that I get +-70 vinyl LP's from the eighties.
More details after 8PM

Sergio Mendes - Easy Loungin' ****
polydor, 2002
1. Mais que nada
2. The joker
3. Laia Ladaia
4. Masquerade
5. Scarborough fair
6. Constant rain
7. Slow hot wind
8. Cinnamon and clove
9. Batucada
10. Wichita lineman
11. Viola
12. Like a lover
13. Roda
14. Wave
15. Pradizer adeus
16. Upa, Neguinho
17. Lost in paradise
18. Look who's mine
19. What the world needs now

Classic tunes as background music. Everybody knows the Mais que nada, the cover version of Scarborough fair, and the other ones. My fave tune is the Cinnamon and clove, most of all the first 10 seconds, sampled by the Avalanches. Well worth to have, kinda dopaminfave almost a musthave. Trendy.

Electronic Basics Fine Selection - vol.3. ****
? 2002

01. Aim Feat Kate Rogers - the Girl Who Fell Though Ice
02. Daily Soda - Vim De Gym
03. Westpark Unit - Selected Related
04. Rocko Schamoni - Diskoteers Die Demaskierung
05. Justus Koehncke - Lucienne
06. Ramin Ramazotti and the Stickmen - Toronto Dream Boy Blues
07. Roeyksopp - Remind Me
08. Freischwimmer - Unsere Stadt
09. Roman IV - 14x7x4
10. Ricardo Villalobos - What You Say is More Then I Can Say
11. C-Rock - Harzard
12. Ilana - Selway (Lightwave Remix)
13. Zoot Woman - Its Automatic
14. Westpark Unit Feat Victor Davies - Fade Away
15. Mj Cole Feat Elisabeth Troy - Crazy Love

Since days I'm listening to these tracks. My first idea was "whats this electronic crap" ? (Except Aim's and the Daily Soda's lovely wonders) After the third try I had to agree, I am depending on these chilled ones mixed with housy technoid beats and german lyrics.

- Rocko, Ich muss mit dir reden.
- Okey, was ist, mein Schatz?
- Also es ist so... ich... langweile mich sehr in unserer Beziehung.
- Was?
- Ja, ich finde unsere Beziehung, unseres Zusammenleben tot langweilig. Ich meine wir sind nie unter Leuten, wir sind immer zu Hause...
- Ich verstehe das nicht. Ich meine... wir haben hier alles... Ich hab'ne Werkzeugkammer, du hast hier dein Zimmer, kannst fernsehen...
- Ich meine das ist Öde, das ist das Problem! Wir sind seit 3 Monaten zusammen und es kommt vor wie 30 Jahren...

IKEA - HEJAN *****
storage bag for your vinyls.
yepp, you're right,
"I'm just an IKEA boy" (fc)

it's a finger lickin' sampler vol 2 ****
Fingerlickin Records, white 2003
4 track LP, 2 fast and funky breaks and 2 fine hip-hop downtempo grooves. matt cantor rinses out 2indabush's 'nutty drumstick', cut la roc reminisces over 'the lick' by 2indabush, rennie pilgrem converts soul Of man's 'love... There's deffinitly a twintrack of PMT's Gyromancer. I don't know, I just bought this one today, cos I couldn't get the tickets for Friday/Saturday 's Soul on ultra loud party.

dynamo productions ''analogue'' ****
Illicit, 2003

Hey, Yeah
Back To Basics (feat. Profile)
Three Dimensional
Slip Inn
Steppin' It Up
The Sonar Sound
Dynamo Royale
Airwaves
Think (feat. Profile)
Gotta Groove
When Bop Comes Back
Showtime full track
A Message From The King
We're Through


I've been waiting so long a funny record like this since Mr Scruff and Mint Royale came out. Now, ladies and gentlemen, here it is, let's laugh and dance, ''dedicated crate-diggers Andy Smith and Scott Hendy drop the debut album blending funky hip hop and rare soul breaks into a brilliantly cohesive artist album. ''

pet shop boys ''behavior''
EMI, 1990

1. Being Boring
2. This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave
3. To Face the Truth
4. How Can You Expect to Be Taken So Seriously?
5. Only the Wind
6. My October Symphony
7. So Hard
8. Nervously
9. End of the World
10. Jealousy

One of the best album of the 90's. It's glam, sentimental, OD-emotional. This album means to me the beginning of the new decade. A classic favourite.

Something for the OLDIES
starts on 45 - six for 300HUF

• some arabic wonder
  metrophon 45 - ME 2509
  I haven't got a clue what the hell this is. Everything's written with arabic letters.


• the hollywood bowl orchestra ''jalousie/dark eyes''
  conducted by carmen dragon
  capitol records
  in the suburbs of buenos aires about the beginning of this century the tango was born out of a marriage of the spanish habanera and Argentina milonga. A jazz element sneaked in, influencing its rhythms. Soon,though branded immoral, the tango was swept the world..


• hofi géza ''lazitani/söprik az utcát''
  Malek M - Hofi G - Szenes I
  Pepita, 1978
  side a: classic stoned release from the hungarian humorist Geza Hofi. Best cut on the end of the parties. side b: hungarian blues about the everyday problems of the streetcleaner guy. love this one


• ljubisa samardzic ''hot wind(adio)''
  vojkan borisavljevic - magdi bezdan
  Bravo, 1985
  the title song of the world famoust yugoslavien series hot wind. serbian and hungarian version of the same person. great.


• selmeczi istván ''on jazz-organ''
  Qualiton, 1964
  A:
  Zöld volt a mező
  Csókolj meg Casanova
  Csing-Csing Twist
  B:
  Jánosbogárka
  Hindu dal
  Ritmusban
  The male Rhoda Scott.


• detre annamária ''rabszolgasors/pesti isaura''
  Favorit, 1987
  The hungarian version of Suba ''samba degringo (remixed by ZeroDB)" That was the first idea i bought this one. Well, I was wrong. Totally. This is a totally different record. And the worst you can imagine... Landed in a Trash can somewhere in the 7th district

be aware! tons of new music are comin'

madredeus ''electronico'' ****
Nettwerk, 2002

1. Haja O Que Houver
2. Vem (Alem De Toda A Solidao)
3. Ecos Na Catedral
4. O Paraiso
5. O Mar
6. O Sonho
7. A Lira-Solidao No Oceano
8. A Andorinha Da Primavera
9. Oxala
10. Ao Longe O Mar
11. Ainda Insect
12. Anseio (Fuga Apressada)
13. Guitarra

Dead Can Dance meets Enya and the Peace Orchestra. The group's doing their thing since 1985. This record is electronical, down-tempo jazz like Tosca, AtJazz, Peace Orchestra or Dz+K but there's the voice of Teresa Salgueiro. It's perfect to chill out, take a deep breath, or just listen to it in the background. Madredeus made the soundtrack for the 1994 Wenders movie "The Lisboa Story"

groove armada ''goodbye country, hello nightclub''
Jive, 2001

1. Suntoucher
2. Superstylin'
3. Drifted
4. Little by Little
5. Fogma
6. My Friend
7. Lazy Moon
8. Raisin' the Stakes
9. Healing
10. Edge Hill
11. Turning In
12. Join Hands
Today's classic record. Sometimes I'll mention one of my fave recordings ever. So this is the first of them. Five star - of course.

Maybe I should comment this log. But I can't. There's so much to say about every song on this record. Suntoucher - how it starts, how it gives you everyday energy. Superstylin - the song that makes every party goin high ''joooiiinddaaai'' :) by bb) Little by little - listen to that old blues singer. My Friend - voice by Brandy, and the memories I have to this song, Tuning In - how I love the vocals. And the wonderful Edge Hill - the most emotion that a downtempo hit can give you... The Masterpiece of Groove Armada.

plump dj's ''donna kebab''****
2003 remix of donna summer's evergreen ''i feel love''. the first club song ever has got a brand new stylish coat ny bow, but she was better, when she wore nothing. let live the nudism! buy the original 12''

neil halstead - sleeping on roads *****
4AD, 2002

01 Seasons
02 Two Stones In My Pocket
03 Driving With Bert
04 Hi-Lo And Inbetween
05 See You On Rooftops
06 Martha’s Mantra (For The Pain)
07 Sleeping On Roads
08 Dreamed I Saw Soldiers
09 High Hopes
This day's got strange thoughts, sentimental emotions. This CD has been the perfect one to picture this. I wouldn't like to write anything about this record.

Summer bootleg house (Deep)

• michael jackson ''remember the time'' (2003) ***
  white label
  Classis one taken from the 1991 Dangerous album, freshed up with some house beats. No + no -. (I remember how I loved the vocals in the track back in 1992)


• michael jackson ''billy jean'' vs whitney houston ''it's not right'' *
  white label
  A dreadful bore record. This isn't right and isnt o.k. The idea mixing Jacko and Whitney is so average, it sounds like the first try of a 14 y old bedroom DJ.


• prince ''let's work'' (dark dancer rmx) / prince ''soul jammings'' ***
  white label
  breaky 80's, you should play this record if you wanna turn the 80's oldies party on.


• diskaos ''preachers man'' (phat &phunky remix) ****
  dikaos@hotmail.com
  loveley track. really fat and funky.I should recommend this record for people they wanna make a trendy party for friends from the faculty of arts.


• twist vs diana ross upside down / nicensmoove running freak (2003) ***
  white label
  average summer souse record. maybe i've been expecting more of that diana ross remix. next one please.


• bootyshaker: bootyshaker 2003 vol 2 ****
  (unknown label)
  Bitter Sweet Seduction
  Heavy D acappella
  Heavy Luvin
  JB Shake (BS 002)
  Oh I loved this one as well. There's the first track made from Felix the Housecat last years succes vs Grandmaster Flash oldies. And there's that sweet house hit. And the Heavy D acapella. Great record.


• twisted funk vs farlez cant turn around / pulse 8 ****
  white label
  "This white label works very well using a sample of Oliver Cheathams Get down saturday night, with the classic house vocal over the top." I agree.


• j-walk: another lover *****
  warner
  A1 influx remix
  AA1 rjd2 remix
  AA2 rjd2 instrumental
  one of the greatest leftfield releases of the year. smooth soulful vocals by Pete Simspon. slow, clever downtempo, rjd2 knows how to do it. (on side ''A'' there's some dNb version for the teens.) it should have been probably the choice of the day, but there were that white labeled one...


• colonel abrahams vs evil 9: trapped (2003) *****
  white label
  iZborn's choice. Awesome track. Energic, massive beats forced up with one of the blackest voices of the 80's Colonel Abrahams. It's like celebrating a breakbeat-gospel mass, with the hands in the air, reverend abrahams makes the gospel-party goin mad. I'm so proud of this vinyl. And yeah, I'VEGOT IT!!!

sidestepper ''more grip'' *****
palm, 2000

Andando
La Bara
Hoy Tenemos
Bacalao Sala'o
Linda Manigua
Me Muero
Chevere Q'Chevere
Sidestepper
Campo
Tremendo Vacilon
thank you dopamin. excellent latin sound mixed with breakbeat drum and bass. there's nothing to say. musthear and you can't resist to move. (and they've got a brand new one. check out their site). And yeah, I'VEGOT IT!!!

plump DJs ''squeaks and bleeps'' *****
fingerlickin, 2003

1. In Stereo 
2. Mantra 
3. Squeaks & Bleeps 
4. Nylon Radar 
stereo sound stereo sound. sampler from the Plumps' forthcoming album, 'Eargasm' . three of the four songs gives you the average breakbeat quality, but the first song ''in stereo'' makes you feel the rhythm, it's electro, retro, funk, disco, breakz, everything... a great ''pumping up the volume'' song to make the party goin' high

mardi gras bb
is coming to A38, Budapest on the 12th of June!!! Trombones on a Ukrainian ship, wow!

mardy gras bb ''supersmell'' ****
hazelwood, universal jazz, 1999

1.Psychoflute
2.Tijuana 65
3.Dreamtime in Memphis
4.Erotic City
5.Baby Elephant Walk
6.The Cape and the Crown
7.One More Try
8.Under Control
9.No 9
10.Meeting Isaac
11.Glass Tiger
12.Riders on the Storm
13.Draw me something
14.Sphincterludi
15.Let it shine
boban markovich goes funk. trombones, trumpets, flutes, heavy drums all you can blow, all you can beat, they're on this record. take care, it can harm your stomach, it's so heavy. this one's almost three years old, and since they've got a new one too (zen rodeo, 2002), so it'll be the next one to check. downloadable cover version of '' baby elephant walk '' :))

dj miss bliss ''search to lose'' *****
In the last days i've been takin' a trip to the countryside, and this music was the only one, i've been listening to. Miss Bliss knows how to play sentimental breakz. The sound's so clear, so girly, and in the same time real deep dark and threatening. Probably a must be downloaded file, and it's got a chance, that it'll be my most frequently listened breakbeat record in the summer. A summer breakbeat (!!) And yeah, I'VE GOT IT (you can have it too)
(FAQ: breakbeat means to me winter 's music)