Heavy Vibes
1998 and beyond
http://www.garagenet.ndirect.co.uk/buzzdec.html#1998 Charts
30 November 1998 The Wire Magazine publishes a 1995 David Toop interview with Arthur Russell There are some other great articles at The Wire Magazine , a secret history of black science fiction in music, Incredibly Strange Music
29 November 1998 Only bought one record, but a good one: Tony Allen's 'Never Expect Power Always'
23 Novmeber 1998 Jepthe Guillaume with a link to Lee Perry.
17 November 1998 Jazz funk, space jazz and Fela Kuti, voila.
04 November 1998 'Little' Louie Vega presents his all time favourites.
03 November 1998 Tommy Boy has 4 CD/LPs on the market with liner notes by Brian Chin. The complete tracklist can be found on CDnow.com, stand out track is Together Forever
25 October 1998 Nuphonic's Faze Action's with 'In The Trees'
23 october 1998 The Classic House Page
15 october 1998 Larry Heard page Can You Feel It?
13 October 1998 One Way records
05 October 1998 Africa The roots of so many musical genres and styles ...
01 October 1998 Check out OrJAZZmic a site dealing with fine jazz of Pharaoh Sanders, John Coltrane and ...
24 september 1998, added a John Morales, (M(orales)&M(unzibai) page
13 August 1998 added info on Ron Hardy and the Music Box
10 August 1998 Inside story on a vocal performance Loleatta gave at Better Days, recorded by Bruce Forest
22 July 1998 Michael Brody and Larry Patterson get their own page
14 July 1998 a little info on Doug Wimbush of Funkanova fame
07 July 1998 added some titles to the Loft/Garage/Shelter page
29 June 1998 found Walter's mix of Strafe's 'Set It Off' and Sun Pallace 'Rude Movements'
22 June 1998 a little Tracks special
15 June 1998 Updated the Shep Pettibone, First Choice, Rochelle Fleming, Jocelyn Brown and made pages for Joe Clausell, Body & Soul and New York pages
15-05-1998 Updated David Mancuso and Loft
30-04-1998 Opened the Heavy Vibes Hall Of Fame and a links section on Sun Ra
22-04-1998 Opened a section on music journalists
10-04-1998 Added a page on "Red Greg" Carmichael
Click here for a picture of Tee Scott
09-04-1998 Claes Widlund Patrick Adams tribute page, with sound clips
26-03-1998 A Tee Scott interview by Daniel Wang Thanks a million to Melanie Scott
20-03-1998 Opened a page on Dave Hucker, world groove music conoisseur, and grabbed a page from the Acid Jazz archive: Sleeve notes of THE GARAGE SOUND OF
DEEPEST NEW YORK, Republic Records 1988, written by Manny Lehman of Vinyl Mania
13-03-1998 Added a page for ESG and one for Frankie Foncett
10-03 -1998Opened a little page on Rochelle Fleming
Want to reach a permanent high? with Pictures!
Vince Montana's site is now in the air
23-02-1998 This weekend has been good to me. I found Loleatta's 'Strong Enough' on the Active label, featuring Francois K and Larry L mixes. Also found Juggy Murray Jones' 'Inside America' on Jupiter records, Hugh Masakela 'Don't Go Lose It Baby' 12" release, David Josheph 'You Can't Hide' (Larry's mix), Class Action's 'Weekend', Harlequin Four 'Set It Off', and 55 other 12inches.
20-02-199 Neil Rushton, the man who brought Detroit techno music to Europe.
12-02-1998 Today Heavy Vibes proudly presents the Clubs section. Entirely devoted to clubs in the US in the 1975-1985 time frame.
11-02-1998 Check out Claes' tribute to Larry Levan!
11-02-1998 What Kind Of House Party Is? A new book on house music featuring interviews with crème the la crème of house DJs
02-02-1998 Added info on Shep Pettibone, Arthur Baker and Tony Humphries, bought two albums by Tabou Combo
26-01-1998 I have compiled an alphabetical list of Coqui's garage records
19-01-1998 Just bought Techno Bush, Hugh Masakela's 1984 album on Jive Afrika. Including 'Don't Go Lose It Baby', a garage classic, this is a great record. It really does soundsa little bit techno-ish. Here is an amusing and informative Hugh Masakela page.
15-01-1998 I recently discovered a really amusing service by Altavista. Their Babelfish translation service is a good idea with, for the time being, a poor implementation. Try it out. It translates house (the music) as la casa in Spanish ;)
29-12-1997 Heavy Vibes would like to find out who are the performers of the following tracks
29-12-1997 Opened a NYC Peech Boys page. Added to the Larry Levan and Francois Kevorkian page with info I found on the french Techno lexicon (http://www.virgin.fr/html/cyber/tnt/dico/l.html )
24-12-1997 I installed freestats on my index pages. Freestats is a counting/statistics service that can tell you the referring page of every visitor. I have to find a way to get rid of the annoying geo-popups. Sorry for that!
17-12-1997 Ultimate Breaks and Beats series of records, volume 1 to 25 by a Japanese music lover. And on Takeshi's page you can view them all at once.
15-12-1997 Compiled the essential dance tracks list
15-12-1997 Vinylmania have published their discography and also opened a Classic Vinyl section
15-12-1997 Syncopation(maq)one Makoto Sugawara's big collection of Larry Levan mix tapes
12-12-1997 Gene Leone Gene Leone is the recording/mix engineer that cut hundreds of sessions with Vince over the years... at Alpha, Sigma, Victory etc
10-12-1997 Japan Today I opened a new section, devoted to music and art links in Japan
09-12-1997 http://www.ingress.com/~garage2/pg/coquis/cpre76.html
Coqui, real name is John, is an avid record collector, and more in particular, he collects the records larry levan used to spin at the Paradise Garage. These lists are chronological from pre-1976 to 1987. An indespensible resource for dance music aficionados
04-12-1997 While looking for the Peech Boys at Metacrawler I discovered this great house music timeline: http://www.miraged.com/gallery/html/gabberpages/gabber01.htm Not quite what you would expect from a gabber page.
House of Diabolique Great site with real audio fragments of cool electro and house and disco classics
Tuesday, November 22:
- Added a page on Winston Jones with a couple of noteable tracks he produced or mixed.
- Bought Isaac Hayes' original of Love Can't Turn Around by Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk
- bought a Rams Horn record. I normally do not buy them because of their uniform and ugly sleeves. Made the exception because it is Use Me, Loose Me by Paul Simpson, originally recorded on StreetWise records in 1982 (same year Simpson remixed Heavy Vibes)
Wednesday, November 12: Nick Martinelli of 'Do It To The Music' fame has his own webpresence. Follow the link.
Sunday, November 8: Bought 20 maxis for 500 belgian francs
- StreetWise records 2214 Cuba Gooding Happiness Is Just Around 83 Usa, produced by Arthur Baker and Fred Zarr
- My first NIA record (The Fantastic Aleems)
- Funky Sensation, a fabulous Kenton Nix penned track
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman on West End records, produced and arranged by Vince Montana Jr, not his best track but nonetheless
- Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five on Enjoy records: Superappin' Theme
- RY-11 on Supertronics records, involving Boyd Jarvis
- Prelude records Visual's Somehow, Someway, also by Boyd Jarvis
- a Tee Scott remix of Love is the Message by MFSB. Love is the Message probably is the granddady of club music
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Saturday, November 7: Bought 'Sweet Tears' on Urban (UK), a track by Roy Ayers covered on Nuyorican Soul.
- Also bought Ma Foom Bay by Cultural Vibe on Easy Street, produced by Tony Humphries
- There is now a Rough Guide on Reggae, written by Steve Barrow who is famous for compiling reggae for Trojan records.
Sunday, October 27: Added a page about dub by John McCready; also found a new Japanese music lover at here
October 25: - Today is Saturday. Went to check in my local record store and Serge had an Arthur Russel track on Sleeping Bag put aside for me.
- SLX-23 Indean Ocean Tree House / School Bell 1986
- Produced by Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo
- Mixed with Love by Walter Gibbons"
- Great percussive track with chanting vocals
- bought Quark QK-029/Quiet Storm/Dreams/1991
November 22: Went to Brussels during work, found Hot Melt number 5, something on Kult records, Bas Noir 12" on Atlantic, Reachin' by Phase II on Movin' records
November 19: Today I bought Roy Ayers' album "Fever" on UK Urban label. This is the album with "Love Will Bring Us Back Together". It has a very groovy version of the classic "Fever". On the same record buying trip, my regualar dealer (Vinyl in Antwerp) presented me with Black Ivory's 1972 album on Today records, produced by Patrick Adams, entitled "Baby, Don't Change Your Mind"
November 16 Added to biograpy and discograpy info to the Arthur Russel, founding father of Sleeping Bag records
Vince Montana Jr Send fan-mail to Vince Montana Jr.
September 30 1997 Added a little page on Bert Reid know primarily from Crown Heights Affair
30 september: added about 46 titles to the Larry Levan Remixography A big thank you to Roqui977@aol.com who is a Paradise Garage record collector
20 september: guess who passed by my Montana page. Yes the man himself, and he left his biography.
1st of September. I have been completing many pages and made a couple
of new ones. Tony Green/France Joli pages come to mind.
Reggae, written by Steve Barrow who is famous for compiling reggae for Trojan records.
Sunday, October 27: Added a page about dub by John McCready; also found a new Japanese music lover at here
October 25: - Today is Saturday. Went to check in my local record store and Serge had an Arthur Russel track on Sleeping Bag put aside for me.
- SLX-23 Indean Ocean Tree House / School Bell 1986
- Produced by Arthur Russel and Peter Zummo
- Mixed with Love by Walter Gibbons"
- Great percussive track with chanting vocals
- bought Quark QK-029/Quiet Storm/Dreams/1991
November 22: Went to Brussels during work, found Hot Melt number 5, so235 killer tracks! Fumihiko Sato's musical tastes 01/07/1996
Naoki musical tastes Link added 01/07/1996
Greensleeves 12" Discography for all you reggae-disco lovers out there
Steve's top 25
Cult Dance Record Poducers & Remixers
Jah Sonic's top ten
Spoonie Gee: long, but informative. just the
facts, no opinion
The history of the 12" single Informative and well written by Al Bottcher
Alex Edwards News on a Paul Simpson remix on Electric Ice Records