Four Crates: Episode Six

This was a weird batch. I guess I must have just shoved a bunch of records I liked or had already sampled into a random crate because each one of these are keepers ('All bangers, no clangers', a phrase I came up with the other day). I also didn't have time to make beats (if I hadn't already) nor give you snippets, but I'm sure if you're cunning with Google/Youtube you can sort yourself out. Walk with me...

Stereovox Sampler


Yeah this is first day stuff I guess. In fact it's probably one of the first records I ever bought when I started my own collection. Mainly for the sound effects: Civil Defence siren, Times Square crowd, Sonic Booms etc. But now I'm really holding on to it for the cover. I think if I saw this today I'd pick it up.

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Behind The Fridge


When Dudley Moore died I was picking apples in the South Island. For a week, Newstalk ZB played Dudley Moore bits and I was rolling in between the trees. Funny, funny dude. Anyhow, this was a definite pick-up for me, plus it's on Atlantic and I find that most stuff on Atlantic is great. If not, you know it's going to be heavy grade vinyl. A sample from this record is on one of the beats in Episode Five.

Parchment - Shamblygan


Shamblygan what the eff does it mean? It means Schooly D's got a loaded magazine. Myrrh are one of my favourite record labels for christian LPs. Myrrh were home to Amy Grant before she crossed over into popular music and they also put out the 2nd Chapter of Acts records (breaks for days). Their packaging is always well done, heavy grade card and the like. I'll have to post up my Nancy Honeytree collection one day for you to see for yourself. Anyhow, this record is highly recommended. If you can close your ears to the praise, you'll be treated to some great samples, a break here and there and some Feature02 original samples. Sidebar: Something weird going on with the three of them on that cover.

Jimmy & Carol Owens - Show Me! Jesus



Show me Jesus! Or Show me! Jesus. Either way, great design - you just know it's going to have samples on it. Which it does. Some great spoken word on this thing. It's a soundtrack to a musical (these can be goldmines for drum breaks [I guess the musical director wants to give the drummer some?]) and the whole premise is two Christians who want to convert the star quarter back and show him that Jesus is really cool and hip and happening. The drunken lout/jock friend making a mockery of Jesus is actually pretty funny but it's the instrumentation that is making me hold on to it.

Get By In French


I already have a beautifully presented box set of French lessons on the shelf but I had to keep this one just for the hilarious phrases that are used. It starts off with the usual "Hi, can you tell me where Gate 4 is please?" etc, but then starts getting seriously left field with some "Yes, your wife has put on weight hasn't she?". Just plain crazy. Also gets bonus points for having ambient noise and sound effects to add to the realism of the phrases. A definite keeper. Also beginning to find that MFP is a label I need to look out for.

Bert Kaempfert - A Swingin' Safari


For some reason my camera played up with this cover, but no worries as I'm sure you've seen this a billion times. I seem to find this all the time. I pulled this out of the crate and thought "Jeez! This must be heavy grade vinyl" as it weighed a tonne. Turns out it had three copies of the record in one cover. I've sampled this before when I was first making beats in Fruity Loops, so that's about seven years ago. I'm mostly keeping it for the happy African safari songs. Plus I like singing "In The Jungle" to my sons to annoy them. Do I recommend the record? It's not a must-have by any stretch, but certainly nothing to sniff at.


So there you have it. Bit light on the beats sorry. The next lot is pretty decent. Got some beats, some stories, an incredibly rare Barbara Streisand and a video to prove it.

High on funky shoe fumes





I went strollin for some records the other week. That little outing could be summed up by the fact that I stood in some of that ol fashion footpath dog shit. Keep your chin up, spirits high, walk tall… yeahh, but then you won’t see that dog shit where your happy foot is about to touch down.

Picked this one from out of a box of Christian records, It stood out like a… well… like the odorous dog shit smell that was filling the room when I entered.

(shitty photos sorry, i am no a good a the techno yeah)
You can see why this one stood out. Firstly, it’s on Playboy records, and secondly the dude is holding a gun and yelling!?! It's a pretty bad ass record. They Goon affiliated (/in a motorbike gang or some shit). this track is a fav from it:


From the same day, and a lil closer to home, I picked up this wild card. The B-side is truly something special. It has some sexy 80s “saxa-ma-phone”, which in the past may have driven me to jam a sharp object in my ear. But today, it almost seems to be quite tasteful and not so overdone and all up in your face like the usuall… “IT’S SEXXY FUCKIN’ SAXAPHONE!! YOU LIKE THAT HA? OH YEAHHH!”

The Five Stars doing it Samoan Style. This is their first album from 1980 released on Kiwi Pacific’s Hibiscus Records.


From those blue shirts, to these blue shirts, another one from the Kiwi label – doing it bluegrass style. Now this is country music I can hoe down to! Some beautiful ballads. I think these guys are still performing.

I have one more I was going to post about. But might save that for another day and combine it with others of its kind. $1 records are ruley as, but remember, future classics can be purchased today! Support those who are pressing up, look after your records, and watch out for dog shit.

Four Crates: Episode Five

Morning. Bit of a rush last night to get these all uploaded and encoded and whatever else. Between my son spilling a bag of flour on my 'chuck out' pile and having to rewire my radio station's transmitter - twas a frantic night. But here we are, let's proceed...

Carlos Ramonos - Sounds Latin

Sometimes I want to keep records only for the cover. This one was the opposite. I really wanted to get rid of it because the cover grossed me out. The photograph doesn't really capture how filthy that belly is, but ah well. The music contained on the record is actually pretty banging so it's going into the 'listening' shelf. Made a beat for shits and giggles:



Craig Scott - In MacArthur Park

This LP is full of bangers. Great New Zealand pop music and some pretty good covers too. The drummer is heavy handed and the string section is doing it's thing. I've made three beats from this previously - one used by an amazing New Zealand MC called Feature02. I did this one as a Dollar Brand Bonus Exclusive Street Sweeper Mother Lovers Exclusive:



Various - Loxene Golden Disc 1972

I have multiple copies of the two Loxene Golden Disc records I can find (5 of one and 6 of the other). I just love picking them up. They are the easiest way of getting hold of B.L.E.R.T.A and Quincy Conserve on vinyl without paying a lot of dough. I'm currently reading a book about the history of New Zealand rock n roll and I'm currently up to the chapter that talks about this era so it was timely to pull it out of the crate. Either way, I decided to finally tackle this song I've been putting off for so long. I could do better but I'm going for quantity not quality at the moment:



The Imperials - The Very Best Of

I love, capital letters, LOVE The Imperials. If you ever see some of these guys records, which you will, consider dropping 50c or $1 on one. Not only will you get some great cover art of a bunch of white disco suits with medallions and hair chests (pause) you also get a hidden drum break or ridiculously ill sample. It's my dream to play some sort of Youth Town disco or something and pull out all the great Christian Disco and Funk I have in the stash. This a two part beat called 'Clove Oil pt 1' and 'Clove Oil pt 2', named after the substance that saved me from a night of pain from dry socket. Thanks Clove Oil:



Jon Stevens - Jezebel

The cheese factor is there, sure. But if you really put all of that aside and listen to it, you'll hear one of the best mixed albums in New Zealand pop music history. Don't believe me? Chuck this on the headphones and do a comparison with something off Atlantic or CTI. The mixing and mastering is second to none. Anyways, I called this beat 'Kawerau' because I always get Jon Stevens mixed up with John Rowles:



Harry Nilsson - A Little Touch Of Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson has a great album - the one with the fridge light. When I picked this up I was gassed because the design is fantastic not to mention the stock the album is printed on is real heavy grade. It's just a well designed cover front to back. The first time I put the record on and was not feeling it. Luckily I didn't chuck it out straight away as this second time around I'm really liking it. String arrangements are very, very well done. Not to mention he covers a song that The Mills Brothers did and I am a super Mills Brother stan. No beat, 'listening' shelf bound.

Kayak - See The Sun

I've made a beat out of this record before. True story, I pulled this out and made a beat three years ago when there was a lunar eclipse. It was a big coincidence. Anyways, I gave this another listen and it's going to the 'listening' shelf. See, usually I put records I've sampled into a crate and put them down in the shed. I saved this one from a dusty, damp, neglected life. PS: Kayak spelled backwards spells 'kayak'.

Shade Smith - Star Blaze Soundtrack

Do you guys always see this when you're digging? I do. Great New Zealand space music. Well worth picking up and full of great samples.

This Is The Joost de Draayer Show

There are a lot of things to like about this record. It's basically some Dutch radio jock doing his radio schtick over the intros of songs. It's a glorified hits of the 70's record or something like that, but Joost is going seppo in Dutch over the top. The best thing about this record, to me, is that all of the hit songs are redone by other bands (as is the case on most records like that) but they name the bands that replay the songs. I love that. I wish they would do that on other records I have.

Wes Harrison - You Won't Believe Your Years

This record is mis-labelled. Side one is actually side two and vice versa. So when I listened to side one it didn't really appeal to me. This time around I checked out side two and was blown away. I really didn't believe my ears. I also couldn't believe the condition the cover was in. Someone loved this to death.

Chuck Girard - Chuck Girard

Chuck Girard is your one-stop shop for space talk, alien ballads and spooky synths interspersed with Praise songs. I love it! Some of Chuck's records are well worth the $1 but there are one or two, be warned, that are like he's going through the Lionel Richie Hagen Dazs phase.


If all goes to plan you'll be reading more on Friday. See you then.

Four Crates: Episode Four

Morning.

Throughout this exercise I've been trying hard to fill up my crate of duds. I don't know what I'm going to do with these records. I was thinking of selling them as a lot on Trade Me (boo hiss!) or possibly taking them to the opp shop to see if they would swap three for one? If you see anything that tickles your fancy, comment below.


(L-R & Top to bottom) 1: Ill Latin record but I'm trying to have all killer no filler in the Latin section. 2: A square Dutch couple trying to sing the world to sleep. 3, 4, 5, 6: Weird Korean classical records for the infantile genius in your life. 7: A mind-blowing illustration but classical music from a period I cannot like no matter how hard I try. 8: Ridiculously bad pop music - ridiculously awesome pink latex pants on the back cover 9: The White Sisters throw down on Word Records to mind-numbingly boring results.


1: If you're the guy playing musical cues during NZ Breakers games, pick this up. 2: KLF-era British rap that is so bad it's terrible. 3: Tears For Fears are 'Top 5 Pretentious Douchebags' to me. 4: The title of this 12" is 'I don't think that man should sleep alone' - think about that for a second. 5: The Allman Brothers in relatively excellent condition - not my cup of Dilmah. 6: Artist Proof - been in the listening shelf for the longest time but I've outgrown it. 7: Once she left American Idol the value of this album plummeted. 8: Count Basie and his band rip on this like their lives depends on it - the Alan Copeland Singers crap all over it. 9: Hint - album covers like this either contain break after break or life-changing levels of cheese.

1: True story - I'm getting rid of this in the hope I can replace it with a better quality version. 2: This album was awesome until I put it on and realised it was Peking Man (worst New Zealand band ever [narrowly beating Sal Dub]). 3: Lionel Richie lost his voice for years by eating Haagen Dazs ice cream and going to bed straight afterwards. 4: I bought this for the ironic factor but found myself hiding it whenever someone came over to look at my records. 5: She only has one good album, to me, this isn't it. 6 & 7: Sure, you can ham it up on your record cover and your session musicians are throwing down in the background but at the end of the day, you're Leo Sayer. 8: Bought this amongst a huge lot of French Funk - someone will love it. 9: If I was allowed, I'd keep this for the cover.

1: German bore at its finest. 2: The amazing mis-leading record cover. 3: I wonder if there is a band called The Real Funky Kings? 4: You'd think with this cover it'd be some sort of 70's rock with breaks - you'd think. 5: Bought this for one song which, especially with a double LP, is against the rules. 6: Anyone into Chicago House and sped up Funky Drummer breaks would love this. 7: I got a stack of 70's Disco 12"s at the Nelson Market once and this just wasn't hitting it. 8: Shinehead does his best to bite every single BDP song ever recorded - with a Jamaican accent. 9: This record has seen way too many Intermediate discos - BANGS on 33 though.

1: I've tried to sell this record on Trade Me three times (three times!) 2: The cover is too perfect - the music is not my glass of vodka (racial!). 3: True story: I listened to side A and said "This sounds so much like John Farnham" before realising that LRB stands for Little River Band. 4: This is actually quite good if you're into hilarious blurbs on the back of sleeves ("This band is so great, I started dating the bassist").

1: Found out what this record is by Google-ing some lyrics. I wish I had the other record, the sleeve and it was the UK edition!

1: The usual joke is that if a record is beat up, it's been to too many parties. The fact that this record is Cat Stevens makes that joke not work.


See you on Wednesday - same wax time, same wax channel.

Primal Scream

I don't know why I haven't given Maynard Ferguson a listen before. I am a big fan of that jazz that came out in the mid to late 1970s that includes such great musicians as Bob James, Steve Gadd, Eric Gale et al. It has connections with all the things I love from this period - disco, progressive rock, and Steely Dan (Steve Gadd played on Aja). That period has the feeling of a tight community of musicians all playing on each other albums. The hay day of the session musician.

My first exposure to MF was through listening to Primal Scream (1976) a couple of days ago. The title track starts with a scream from the horn section and progresses into an energetic funk workout. Check out this clip of Primal Scream live at the 1977 Canadian Stage Band Festival. So many highlights - MF dancing and conducting, the audience nodding heads, the conga solo - too much.

Arthur Janov wrote his book Primal Scream in 1970 outlining his experiences of practicing Primal Therapy. John Lennon is probably the first musician to show the influence of Janov's work in his song Mother (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, 1970). Lennon had worked with Janov (pictured left with Lennon and Ono).




Influence can manifest itself in a variety of ways - Lennon putting therapy on record, MF's seriously funky horn display - not to mention the band Primal Scream (formed in 1982). All cathartic and therapeutic in their own way but perhaps progressively moving away from the true meaning of the source.


Four Crates: Episode Three

Morning.

Had a bunch of fun with these ones. Lots of beats from records I've held on to for way too long.

Frankie Laine - Hell Bent For Leather

First off, his face says it all: Swag. I've got a soft spot for Western themes. It all stems from a record I was lent when I was 12 or 13. It was one of the first records I ever made a beat out of and I searched for years and years to find my own copy. In the process I picked up every Western soundtrack album I could find (Rio Bravo FTW!) until I found that elusive platter. I really need to shed some weight in the Latin and Western departments so it was either make a beat or get rid of it. Here's one I prepared earlier:

Randy Stonehill - Celebrate This Heartbeat

I make a point to pick up anything on Word, Pasture and Light records. Whether it's Moira belting out the solo on 'God Takes Care of His Children' or Randy going ape shit on the synthesizers, you're always bound to find something funky. I realised I had already made a beat out of this record but found something else that I thought could become a beat:

Los Norte Americanos - The Band I Heard In Tijuana Vol. 2

My Nana Olive rescued a box of records from one of her friends house. Most of it was Richard Clayderman and Solid Gold Hits but amongst it was Volume 1 and 2 (doubles!) of The Band I Heard In Tijuana. Is it any good? I'm not sure. But I held on to it just in case my tastes change. This time around I heard something weird that could be turned into a beat (Big Pun sample for good measure):

Various - 2o Great Hits Of '73

Holding onto records because of the cover is something that I do and feel a lot of guilt about. Every time we move house and I rope my friends and family into lugging crates from house-to-truck then truck-to-house, all I can think is "Maybe I should have chucked out that James Last with the topless woman on the cover". Ah well. I had never listened to this record despite owning it for about 8 years. Awesome. Upon listening, I wasn't convinced it was a keeper until I listened to one track on 45. I came up with this:

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence

I've picked this up twice and I don't know why. The first time around I wasn't really into it. For some reason the name Manfred Mann is etched in my brain from looking through my Mothers trunk of records as a youngster. She didn't have this record, that I know. I think I may have softened in my older years and after being pummeled by the local commercial radio station playing 'Blinded By The Light' day after day. I decided to hold on to this record and muck around with this loop to make myself feel better:

Eddie Lund and his Tahitians - Echoes From a Distant Lagoon

This was really the jewel in the crown of this lot. A totally beat up cover but the actual record wasn't as bad. It's on Viking Records which I've realised I have a lot of. I'm not too up on Viking but I will say that what I do have of theirs is pretty interesting (Tauranga Girls College end of year concerts and the like). Anyways, I though I'd give this an honest crack and made this.

I must point out, with most of these beats, they're made in two minutes or so, so sometimes the drums are out of time or the same bass sounds are used. What I usually do is go back and tidy them up if I ever decide to make anything out of the beat draft. With this beat, I'm definitely coming back to this to tidy it up and add more to it:


Thanks for playing. See you next Monday.

Welcome to Cosmic YOUniversity

Imagine my excitement when I came across the 12" of The Crown by Gary Byrd and the GB Experience at Real Groovy . They had me at 10 minutes and 35 seconds (in my world size does matter and apparently this was one of the longest tracks to ever chart in the UK) and closed the deal with produced by Stevie Wonder. Why have I never heard this 1983 rap classic before?






Opening lyric:

People of the world wherever you be
Welcome to Cosmic YOUniversity
Where life is the journey and love is the trip
The Study of them will make you hip

The B-side is instrumental only and is pretty beaten up. I like to think this is because a DJ pushed it to the limit rather than it was used as a frisbee. The sales person at RG was shocked by the condition and said he wouldn't play it on his equipment. Clearly I have no respect for my needle.

I can imagine Theo or Vanessa Huxtable sitting in on Gary Byrd's class.

For your listening pleasure (Stevie jumps in around 5:15)...



Four Crates: Episode Two

Morning.

More records to go through - some good finds in here.

The Alan Parsons Project - I-Robot

I have doubles of this but never really listened to it. I thought that in order to justify having doubles I better make a beat. Just something simple:




Scott Walker - Scott 2

This record is weird. Obviously it's been too a few parties because it's in pretty bad nick. Either way, I wanted to keep it so I made these beats:








Ronnie Aldrich - Melody and Percussion for Two Pianos

If you ever see this, pick it up. I highly recommend it. I used this one 22 22's so no need to justify keeping it.

Tamburlaine - Rebirth

My cousin was getting rid of this so I picked it up. Full of great tunes, great samples and 70's hippy singing. I didn't realise at the time but this is a New Zealand record. Pretty funky there fellas. I've used this on 'Giant One', off the FAR OUT zine, which you can hear here:




The Polyphonics - Zounds! What Sounds

I originally picked this up for the pyschos on the cover. Upon listening, it's pretty hit and miss. If you like cheeseball harmonica then you'll love it. The cover art and the design is just so good, so I made this beat out of it so I could keep it:




Paul Mauriat - Greatest Hits

Trying very hard not to just keep stuff for the cover. With this record it was hard. But, I managed to get two beats out of it so now I'm safe.








See you next time.

80s Garbage!

I have been hooked into the sound of the 80s.

A couple of months ago I found a gold vain of records running through a mountain of Richard Clayderman, James Last, Nina Scacooshki and Kamahl. It was 80s gold! Jheri curl funk, 80s hip hop etc..
I’ve often sneezed on the 80s steez, writing the whole decade off as a jo

ke. But when brining these records home and playing them, my eyes were opened and I saw the light. The instrumentation is insanely cool. So many well placed subtleties, slappin bass lines, riffin synths and electric drums. Why could I not hear this before! I’ve liked Prince since I was a kid. But I had little idea there were so many other artists out there doing a similar thing. The energy of the 80s is infectious!

Now I am working on a very special 80s set to DJ. Not to be like “hey look it’s an ironic 80s party, laugh it up!” oh no (well a few chuckles, because the 80s was about having fun), but more for the value of the music.

I have DJ’d other genres, namely soul and rippin’ rock’n’roll. I still love these genres and will continue to DJ them, but man, you don’t find soul in the record bins no more, unlike that 80s garbage.

This was one of the five 45s I picked up at the D.O.C fair. The seller sung a part of it for me and laughed as I walked away. This group apparently was put together by Prince. Great song and a cool ass B side.

Bonnerrific!

Check out a video here

Also, I’ve been thinking of a suitable DJ name for when I bust out this set. So far I’m thinking Sexy Dancin’ or DJ Ayeshay (it’s also my 80s singing alias, made a name logo and everything). I'm open to suggestions or votes.

-Sexy Dancin’

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D.O.C Record Fair


(My first post. Doing it bloggy style!)

A couple of years ago I went along to a little record fair at D.O.C bar on Krd. I think I picked up a Dr John record for 10 bucks. Can’t remember what else I got, but the whole event was soo different to other record fairs I had been to in the past. It was just regular folk making the chop on their collections. No record nerd pretention, no forced price negotiations, no condescension. I decided then and there that this would be the best way to part with records if I ever had to do so.

Recently, I was reacquainted with many records that had been in storage for some time. After the back braking car boot scraping favour taking dramas of transporting them from one part of the country to another, it became apparent something needed to be done to address the issues around mobility, storage and quantity.

I planned that after i had sorted all the records (using a similar method to $1 Pies i.e. can I listen to this record in its entirety and enjoy it? Has it got at least one song that is soo bangin’ it justifies its existence?), I would contact the people who organised the last D.O.C record fair and see if they would want to do it again. But, as chance would have it, before I even got around to making contact, they had put up an add for another record fair. I insisted I had to sell at the fair (the perfectly timed opportunity) and they kindly allowed me to do so. It was meant to be.

I filled four crates to part with, and arranged them in price. Whipped up some signs $10, $10, $5, $2 (and half prices on the flip). I wanted to have prices on them, because in my record fair experiences I hated digging through un-priced boxes, pulling out something you really want like a Joe Tex LP and the guy being like “ahhh… hhmmm... I don’t know if I want to part with that, maybe for $40”. Anyway, I was surprised at how many people commented in appreciation on me having the prices stated, expressing the same annoyance I found from record fairs.

It was fun times! The other sellers were real nice people. I managed to accumulate about half the amount of which I sold, totally defeating the purpose, annnd I came home with less sold than I would’ve liked. Now I have to store them for the next record fair.

I picked up a few classic hip hop “12s + two LPs including Reflection Eternal – Train of Thought (everyone’s on serato now). I also got a Cameo LP, and a Lakeside LP (a lil too crackly though) which I traded for a Donovan LP (“wear you love like heaven...”).

Surprisingly, the highlights were the 45s I picked up from a box labelled “soul”. Looking through, none of them fitted with what I’d personally describe as soul. In previous times this may have disappointed me, but now, all them dorky song titles and 1980s dates appealed greatly. I picked out as many as I could afford, and those that had the closest dates to 1985. I paid $10 for 5, and just as I was walking away the seller stopped me and gave me $2 back saying “I can’t charge you that much for those!” I think (this is presumptuous), he guiltily thought I was suckered by the misleading ‘soul’ title on the box, and I was naively buying his 80s garbage. But as this blog may soon reveal, I love 80s garbage!
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Four Crates: Episode One

Morning.

After going record shopping with my cousin the other weekend, I decided it was time I refined my record collection. Just in time for winter I moved my 'unsorted' crate into the lounge and started to sort through them. Fortunately or unfortunately, since I started this project I found three more crates around the house.

So I've started sorting. The rules are, if I want to keep it either has to be listenable front-to- back or I have to be able to make a beat out of one of the tracks. So, here we go...

Terry Snyder and The All Stars - Persuasive Percussion

This isn't rare by any stretch. When I just started out collecting, a guy dropped off to two boxes full of records that he'd picked up at the Salvation Army Book Fair in Whakatane. There were all sorts of gems in there, not to mention a tonne of crap. But this one I could never get rid of, mainly because of the cover. To justify keeping it, I made this beat:

Jan And Dean - The Very Best Of

I have no idea who these guys are but they sure do love covering Beach Boys songs. I'm a sucker for the Beach Boys (especially the cheese ball singles) so I had to keep this. But to make myself feel better I made this beat:






Hugo Montenegro - Hang 'Em High

My Mother used to always comment on my Grandfather's whistling. She used to say that he had the loudest whistle, but not only that, he could whistle anything. Opera tunes, old war songs, Top 40 singles. I don't know if it's from him, but I love whistling. The act of whistling is something I really enjoy but recording whistling is a pain because of the amount of wind hitting the microphone. So when I found this record that combined my love of funky Western themes and whistling I was stoked bro! No need to make a beat out of this one as it already features on 'Farewells'.

Horst Jankoswki - Return to the Black Forest

All I know about Horst Jankowski is that he is German, plays jazz piano and rocks the shit out of that coat. I've had this sitting around for a long time but had never played it. I played it the other morning while ironing shirts for work and had to stop what I was doing. This guy gets down. No need to make a beat, it's going straight in the listening shelf.

Benediction Moon

I've bought this album three times and chucked it out. The first time I got it without the cover and listened to it and hated it. The next time I had the cover and record and didn't realise it was the same one as last time. The third time I left it in my shed and didn't get it out until the other day. First off, I didn't realise this was a New Zealand record until I saw it in the NZ section at Real Groovy. Weird. I was about to chuck it out when my wife told me that I shouldn't. We never know when we might want to listen to some nice, relaxing Krishna music. I'll take her word for it.