('x' is a variable, so it changes, but the battling aspect remains. Next time, I swear that I am shitting you not, is 'French pseudo-New Wave' Battle! EEEEP! Get excited OH WAIT you ALREADY totally are!)
Since I've already given you a taste of some Def Dames, and I just got this other record recently, the scene is set for an EPIC Battle between.....
Another well-sniffed out piece of vinyl!
The hints this time were:
A) it's on the ffrr label
(which I recalled put out LTJ Bukem's classic: Logical Progressions)
----- 1) And then I learned that ffrr was founded by none other than Pete Tong?!?! Hey Koob!!
----- 2)and also learned that ffrr stands for "full frequency range recordings"
----- 3) and that both the label's logo and it's name were both bitten from Decca!
:Stealing is fun!)
FFRR was not really founded by Pete Tong, in fact I'm not sure how it came to be a mostly Dance etc. label. I know this because my Mum had the soundtrack to the film "Kismet" on FFRR (same logo, same tagline, part of London Records) when I was a kid. The film was made in 1955, so the soundtrack was probably released the same year.
You know, I just took that info straight offa Wikipedia- I should have known better. My understanding NOW, after doing a little more research, is this: Decca used to have a sub-label called FFRR. They don't anymore. Tong's FFRR is a sub-label of London Records. London Records used to be the American arm of Decca- that is, Decca records were released here under the "London" imprint. BUT!- London and Decca are now separate companies- Decca owned by Universal; London owned by Warner. Confusing, yeah?
So I think that Tong just took the name and logo of a then-defunct old label and revitalized it. You see a lot of that in rave culture- you know, these kids today, they have no respect for other people's property. Or, we can say that have creative appropriation in their digitalized DNA.
Music; musing; must-haves.
The curatorial agenda. Sealing up a void whose vacuity was a source of distress to no one. The seed I am most likely to sow is a certain jargon. Built on tilt. The center of a new universe of counterfeit. Increasingly random and increasingly increasing.
THE SNAPBACK, ISSUE 1
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I created Soul Sides 20 years ago because I wanted an outlet to write about
my favorite records. The blog era feels bygone — and I clearly stopped
regularl...
Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History?
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The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose
history is (and isn't) being taught.
Following on the heels of a recent and ...
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Good stuff here.
Btw, you may want to weigh in on this: Most Important Hip-Hop Albums in History?
FFRR was not really founded by Pete Tong, in fact I'm not sure how it came to be a mostly Dance etc. label. I know this because my Mum had the soundtrack to the film "Kismet" on FFRR (same logo, same tagline, part of London Records) when I was a kid. The film was made in 1955, so the soundtrack was probably released the same year.
You know, I just took that info straight offa Wikipedia- I should have known better.
My understanding NOW, after doing a little more research, is this:
Decca used to have a sub-label called FFRR. They don't anymore.
Tong's FFRR is a sub-label of London Records.
London Records used to be the American arm of Decca- that is, Decca records were released here under the "London" imprint.
BUT!-
London and Decca are now separate companies- Decca owned by Universal; London owned by Warner.
Confusing, yeah?
So I think that Tong just took the name and logo of a then-defunct old label and revitalized it.
You see a lot of that in rave culture- you know, these kids today, they have no respect for other people's property.
Or, we can say that have creative appropriation in their digitalized DNA.
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