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Plaese to song check garage/disco related

edited September 2005 in Strut Central
Call me stupid, but who does this On The Right Track?K in Canada.
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  • Sounds like it's either Ultra High Frequency (dub / instr) or Blue Magic on Atlantic. Beware that Ashley Beedle released a 12" w/ 4 versions of the song earlier this year which were probably slightly tweaked- sounds like its from there.

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    Nope, it's an old mix tape of a freinds' father. Dude was blowing me away with garage tunes.

    K.

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    We're ont he Right Track - Blue Magic sounds like it.

    Thanks, k.


  • Intro sounds exactly like the u.h.f. / south shore commission version though

  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
    how is that garage?

  • how is that garage?

    Paradise Garage / Jersey Garage- read up on your read ups,

  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
    thats just getting into too many labels. count me out

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    Intro sounds exactly like the u.h.f. / south shore commission version though

    Noted.

    K.

  • ayresayres 1,452 Posts
    thats just getting into too many labels. count me out

    that's where the term "Garage" came from though - early 80s downtown NY parties. it's like Northern Soul - describes a specific scene and the records they played more than a genre.

  • hah,
    this was also a question of mine! cheers k for sorting that out!! i hope i have this laying around somewhere. anyone know which blue magic lp this is on??

    scotland's al kent put this song first on his "northern disco" set which is still up on milliondollardisco.com go there and check out the rest, damn good!!

    peace-

  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
    i thought garage applied to rock, like garage-rock?

  • LazerLazer 796 Posts
    think again.

  • anyone know which blue magic lp this is on??



  • thanks!
    i need it.

    sure one will blow in the shop soon.




  • that's ONE early 12"!

  • AaronAaron 977 Posts
    Sorry, I can't really see the details from the scan. Is that thing legit?


  • ayresayres 1,452 Posts
    i thought garage applied to rock, like garage-rock?

    nah not in this case

    garage-rock = rock that sounds like it was made in a garage on a four track.

    garage = loft classics = eighties disco, housey, vocaly music djed by Larry Levan and them at the Paradise Garage. Big Gay Black Scene.

    Grace Jones, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan, Karen Young, Colonel Abrams, Gwen Guthrie, Loose Joints, Taana Garner, Evelyn Champagne King, Cerrone, etc

    get your read on:

    http://www.disco-disco.com/clubs/paradise.html


    also, to confuse things a little more, in the UK the term Garage pretty much means commercial house, as in Speed Garage or 2-Step Garage. Ravey, poppy vocal stuff and fast Ragga stuff, popular after Drum & Bass and before Broken Beat.

  • PEKPEK 735 Posts
    K -

    That indeed is the South Shore Commission version - around '78 or so...

    For those w/ a buddin' interest in garage, here's a doc from the UK (poor RealMedia quality so be forewarned) about the evolution of (Ware)house from garage/disco -

    http://rapidshare.de/files/4879240/pumpofthevolume.ram.html

    It's episode 1 (not sure what channel across the Atlantic screened this)...


  • AaronAaron 977 Posts
    K -



    That indeed is the South Shore Commission version - around '78 or so...



    There's a 45 of this on eBay. Says it's from '75.



    Barnes and Noble says it is the South Shore Commission. Good call.



    Now if we can only find a 12" (yeah right).

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    MErci all, K in Canada.



  • Now if we can only find a 12"

    As far as i know, it's 45 only- no commercial or promo press (which is weird, didn't Wand do one of the first 12" when Mel Cheren worked there?)

    It's a cheapie btw: under $5 is certainly doable.

  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    thats just getting into too many labels. count me out

    that's where the term "Garage" came from though - early 80s downtown NY parties. it's like Northern Soul - describes a specific scene and the records they played more than a genre.

    Oddly enough, that UHF joint got played in Northern Soul clubs. I have a UK 45 of it (on Pye Disco Demand, I think). At the Blackpool Mecca, they used to spin a lot of records like that; early Philly Int'l-style, proto-disco records, which got played as a counter to the rougher, more traditionally Northern, 60's-sounding records that the Wigan Casino crowd preferred.

  • thats just getting into too many labels. count me out

    that's where the term "Garage" came from though - early 80s downtown NY parties. it's like Northern Soul - describes a specific scene and the records they played more than a genre.

    Oddly enough, that UHF joint got played in Northern Soul clubs. I have a UK 45 of it (on Pye Disco Demand, I think). At the Blackpool Mecca, they used to spin a lot of records like that; early Philly Int'l-style, proto-disco records, which got played as a counter to the rougher, more traditionally Northern, 60's-sounding records that the Wigan Casino crowd preferred.

    Yup. another prefect example of such a tune is Archie Bell and the Drell's "don't let love get you down" (a monster)

  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    thats just getting into too many labels. count me out

    that's where the term "Garage" came from though - early 80s downtown NY parties. it's like Northern Soul - describes a specific scene and the records they played more than a genre.

    Oddly enough, that UHF joint got played in Northern Soul clubs. I have a UK 45 of it (on Pye Disco Demand, I think). At the Blackpool Mecca, they used to spin a lot of records like that; early Philly Int'l-style, proto-disco records, which got played as a counter to the rougher, more traditionally Northern, 60's-sounding records that the Wigan Casino crowd preferred.

    Yup. another prefect example of such a tune is Archie Bell and the Drell's "don't let love get you down" (a monster)

    Indeed, although that's more yer modern soul/rare groove kinda tempo. Still, Archie Bell got a grip of Northern classics, most notably "Soul City Walk" and "Here I Go Again".

  • p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
    how is that garage?


    Do you do garage music mate?
    You got any of that Urban?
    (Urban, urban, urban)
    House, do you do Garage?
    Ga-ga-ga-garage
    What do you call it?
    Garage?
    What do you call it?
    Garage?
    Garage
    What do you call it?
    Urban?
    What do you call it?
    Urban?
    Urban
    What do you call it?
    2step?
    What do you call it?
    2step?
    2step
    Tell us what you call it

    Garage I don't care about garage
    Listen to this - it don't sound like garage
    Who told you that I make garage?
    Wiley Kat'z got his own style s'not garage
    Make it in the studio but not in the garage
    Here in London there's a sound called garage
    But this is my sound, it sure ain't garage
    I heard they don't like me in garage
    Cause I use their scene but make my own sound
    The Eskimo sound is mine recognise this
    It's mine - you can't claim what's mine
    It's my time to beat you up
    I don't hate you but some of you have got a problem
    I'm puttin you outta business why is that a problem
    What's your problem?
    What the heck my name is problem, remember

    [Chorus]
    What do you call it garage?
    (What do you call it garage?)
    What do you call it urban?
    (What do you call it urban?)
    What do you call it 2step?
    (What do you call it 2step?)
    What do you call it, tell us what you call it then

    Why do that think I'm stupid
    I got brains I could never be stupid
    You can never use my name to make your raves 'n' jam
    I won???t turn up, I'll stay at home with my girl 'n' jam
    Can't threaten me with that bad boy talk I???m not scared sorry man
    I've seen too much I don't give a monkeys
    Swing from tree to treejust like monkeys
    Who influenced me to be funky
    Who influenced me to make Eski beat
    I've made Eski girls 'n' Eski boys
    Movin there feet to the sound you can hear

    You can hear I hear you tryin to stop my record sales
    Record deals like the belt can't hold the waist in
    (the waist in)
    If it gets too big and it's tremblin those pots
    It blows up and we win (I'm winnin)
    Ready to say my goodbyes
    Goodbye to the man who don't like me
    Goodbye to the woman who don't like me
    Goodbye to the fingers pointin at me
    Goodbye to the promoters that hate me
    Goodbye to the people that's hasslin me
    I'm turnin over a new leaf
    Get sharp like a knife in the streets

    If you don't cut the strings I won't breathe
    See I get the impression I'm not wanted
    So I'm givin you the sound that???s not wanted
    *Motorbike*
    I'm on my way now
    Wish me luck I'm doin my thing now
    To the bikes let's go everyone who likes this let's go
    Everyone who likes that go that way
    Go that way, go that way, go that way
    Go that way, go that way, go that way

    Everyone who likes this come this way
    (come this way) let's go this way
    Let's go this way, let's go this way, let's go this way
    Let's go this way

    I'll break everyone down
    Take everybody down
    Any crew any sound
    Any MC who's in my way I break down
    I'ma show you now it's all changed round
    I remember when things were the other way round
    When the world got colder and it changed round
    I put to any man who had it changed round
    I want everybody to follow this sound
    So don't deny the power of my empire
    When I'm hit I'm straight back to my empire
    No more crew so what we got an empire
    Roll Deep empire high flyer high power
    I'm a compulsive re-buyer
    Go to the shops and I spend them buy what I want and
    This is for Roll deep empire
    If you work hard then you can be a buyer
    Like me

  • Garage is a tricky one to pin down...I've always looked at it like this: there's the whole Paradise Garage scene, which is really more on the disco soul tip and covers the Dave Mancusos and Larry Levans and then there's more generic New York 'garage', which is more like mid to late 80's soulful proto-house.



    Turntable Orchestra - You're Gonna Miss Me is a pretty good example of what was widely seen as NY Garage in the late 80s early 90s...also think Blaze, Eddie Stockley, By All Means etc... it's all about the handclaps




  • thats defo South Shore Commision, available of their S/T lp, also has Freeman which is excellent, philly proto disco. Label is wand i think, can check when I get home.
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