Scuse me mate, have you got that one that goes nah nah nuh nah nah nuh nah?!?

MATT MAson

BROADSIDE
I thought everybody on Dissensus probably had at least one record in the back of their head that they've never found - You know, that track you hear three times in the same rave and then never again. I thought there must be some good stories. I've been tormented since 2004 by a funky house track with a fucked up electric guitar sample and a female choir singing "I feel good" repeatedly, and then a woman talking in an American accent over the track. Despite calling in radio stations who played it, running up to the decks in clubs when it was on and interrogating the staff in various Soho record shops, I never tracked it down. I even heard Bam Bam use it as a music bed on Kiss once, yet still the fucker remains elusive. It haunts my dreams.

Who feels my pain? Who has a story like this with a happy ending? Who is still searching for their own Animal Chin-like record?
 

zhao

there are no accidents
i-man still looking for Cham tune (tink brand new) with american girl rapper on it (tink someone famous)... aroun' 90 BPM or so if ganja riddled memory serves...

i-man pray that this tune will soon be in me i-pod.
 

martin

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When I was 12, I taped this fucking amazing song off John Peel which sounded like someone yelping through a radiator, with jackhammer beats and splintered fuzz guitar. I thought it was incredible and regretted not writing down the band name. I especially felt gutted when the tape snapped. It was only when I was 19 and took a chance on Big Black's "Songs About Fucking" LP I realised it was "The Power Of Independent Trucking".

Ditto after spending ages asking people 'Have you ever heard that reggae tune with the two blokes riding round on the motorbike laughing their heads off?' Thank God Blood & Fire bother to produce extensive sleeve notes, reading the back of 'If Deejay Was Your Trade', I was like "It HAS to be 'The Barber Feel It'"

Still, some records which I've given up all hope of ever finding -

a) unknown LS Diezel track with King Stitt samples and psychedelic electro breakdown in the middle - circa '92

b) field recording of African girls playing a drum while pouring water over the skin and laughing in the background - one of the strangest sounds I've ever heard

c) gabba jungle track with sick bass, lots of gunfire and a sample of a ferocious sounding American woman repeating "Crush you like a fucking insect" - circa '96?

d) indie group with fucked up Big Black production, circa '95 - sort of like Therapy? but much better, obviously - very bland, generic lyrics - "I know you can't hear me speak - I know you can't hear me" went the last line. Taped off a late night pirate station in London in 1995. For some reason I think they might have been called "Air ----(something or other)'

e) a record by, er, 'Sackgasser'? Called 'Devos Alt'? Not a clue as I caught this on World Service, years ago- starts off with what sounds like a Welsh choir doing some mournful song, before bursting into some choppy, angry punk number with yelled HC-style chorus- I think the band might have been Eastern European - pretty glorious stuff

f) records by bands called 'Fad' and 'New Girl Art Riot' which are Google-proof

g) jungle tune from '94 with killer bass and sample "Jah warriors are coming" - minimalist but effective

h) drum and bass tune from '95 which I have on a tape of an Eruption FM broadcast which is terrific, but absolutely nobody I've played it to has been able to identify it

i) Also, I've never ever been able to find that '666 mark a de beast / turn it around and you get the police' track which may well be Anthony B (see 'What's that reggae track?' thread) but been unable to find it to verify (though the 999 reference suggests it may be a UK artist) (unless Jamaica's emergency services number is also 999?)

j) Two tracks I've never been able to find in any shape or form - Sharon Forrester - 'Which craft is witchcraft' (lovers) and Grace Kennedy - 'New Love Affair' (disco)

Also, does anyone know if the first ever Cornershop Peel Session ever got released or bootlegged?

I know, I know, I should have forgotten about all this shit years ago, but....
 
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STN

sou'wester
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Also, does anyone know if the first ever Cornershop Peel Session ever got released or bootlegged?

I know, I know, I should have forgotten about all this shit years ago, but....

The chap from Cornershop lives in Stoke Newington, and can be seen in various pubs/parks round there. If I see him, I shall accost him though he probably won't know, will he?

My own personal one is this ragga tune with a guy who sounded like Red Rat (though I'm sure he said 'Red Light') talking about his dislike of informers. It was kind of half-solved in as far as it may have been a Ricky General tune played far too fast, but I'm still not sure.

There's also this aching Sidney Rodgers rocksteady track that I heard in a taxi in London Bridge once. Lovely. Can't bloody find it now though. Another one from a taxi was this 80s soul one that sort of sounded like Alexander O'Neal but was by some guy called Darren someone-or-other that I found curiously affecting.

Oh and one on a nervous gets weeded twelve with DJ Riz and Kenny Dope called something like Bounce, anyone remember what that's called? (Not that enigmatic this one, I know).

Good thread, by the way.
 

swears

preppy-kei
Loads of them. Because I'm too lazy to keep up with all the latest electro/techno/minimal releases, I'll go out to a club or get an unmarked mix-CDR and be baffled as to what 80% of the tunes are. Once I went to see one of the Micronauts DJ and he dropped this fucking amazing 2-steppy house tune, I had to find out what it was. But when I asked him, his French accent was so strong and the music was so loud I couldn't understand what he was saying, but I didn't want to grill him on it further, so to be polite I just smiled, said thanks and let him get on with his set.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
The chap from Cornershop lives in Stoke Newington, and can be seen in various pubs/parks round there. If I see him, I shall accost him though he probably won't know, will he?

Our kids play together sometimes so I shall try to remember to ask him [TCTF! - Tenuous claim to fame]. Someone else I know bootlegged their own peel sessions so I guess it's not impossible!
 

martin

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It's frustrating, but do any of you think it's sometimes a good thing for these songs to remain mysteries? Fleeting moments of beauty, like so many butterflies flitting past the specimen jars of jaded record collectors
 

john eden

male pale and stale
I think you're right, martin - and surely everyone has tracked down one of those tunes only to find that it's rubbish compared to their own memory of it?

Having said that, this:

b) field recording of African girls playing a drum while pouring water over the skin and laughing in the background - one of the strangest sounds I've ever heard

sounds very like the sort of thing that early On-U sound would get up to?
 

john eden

male pale and stale
There's one I remember from a couple of years back which was a real rockstone deejay over the backing track for Tweet's "Ooops".

Plus something which Hardknox used to play which was like a jungle version of a Massive Attack track, but the vocals weren't actually a Massive Attack vocal.
 

martin

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sounds very like the sort of thing that early On-U sound would get up to?

I think it was a genuine field recording in a village - either Peel or Kershaw, can't remember now, read out the sleevenotes afterwards explaining the water drum bit - it was completely ethereal, almost psychoactive...maybe even a BBC library record? Still, I could dedicate the next 15 years to trawling through African recordings and still not come close...

Massive Attack-style tune one rings a distant bell though
 
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STN

sou'wester
There's a sample of one of his tracks here - http://www.lionvibes.co.uk/search.php?mode=quicksearch&search_string=Sidney Rogers

If it is the one, it's going cheap...

Good lord! A happy ending before your very eyes, dissensians. That is indeed the one and for a quid as well!

I first heard it when me and the (then newly) Ms STN were on our way from the Wetherspoons in Elephant and Castle to Efes in Stoke Newington on an especially fine night out. So it has a special resonance for me. Cheers Martin!
 

zhao

there are no accidents
and also once heard, about 8 years ago, and actually recorded onto tape (long lost), on the radio a japanese melodic percussion music... have been looking for it ever since -- sounded like a very slow and sedated gamelan... maybe some kind of rare form of gagaku? shit i would love to find this music...
 

Gabba Flamenco Crossover

High Sierra Skullfuck
There's about 3 tunes off 90s Weatherall mix tapes that I've given up hope of finding. He used to play really obscure stuff. Techno isn't very easy to sing either, so the 'have you got the one that goes...' technique don't work too well.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I think it was a genuine field recording in a village - either Peel or Kershaw, can't remember now, read out the sleevenotes afterwards explaining the water drum bit - it was completely ethereal, almost psychoactive...maybe even a BBC library record? Still, I could dedicate the next 15 years to trawling through African recordings and still not come close...

Massive Attack-style tune one rings a distant bell though

I'd like to point out that martin's post is the 1,000,000th Dissensus post.
And the fact that it mentions John Peel and includes use of the word 'psychoactive'. Quality. :)
 

Freakaholic

not just an addiction
ok, this could be trite and easy, but an old buddy i used to spin with had this house track that went "here in the twilight". thats mostly what i remember. i couldve sworn that the record said MAW on it, but i havent been able to find any tracks of theirs under that name. also, he couldve had it in the wrong sleeve, who knows. this was back in 98-99ish.
 

MATT MAson

BROADSIDE
I think there is something to be said for never finding these lost records. There are plenty I did find, which I now own, and as beautiful as they are, they definitely lose some of their allure once they become tangible entities.
 
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