Re: [acid-jazz] philly cd shops? / marvin gaye / leon ware

From: steph99 (beleza_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 2003-08-15 01:28:05

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    Yup! first stop Cue on 4th just south of South St, also try 611 across the
    alley, and you can try About the Beat on Pine b/t 10th and 11th, but i haven't
    been there in a while and they've since changed owners, so i'm not sure what's
    there. Write back privately for more!

    On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, De Angela Duff wrote:

    > I have moved from NYC to Philly, and I was wondering is there a CD
    > shop(s) that sells broken beat releases and other music we discuss on
    > this list in Philly. In NYC, I frequented Other Music and Academy
    > Records like a crack fiend, and I was wondering if there are
    > comparable CD shops here.
    >
    > Thanks for any help!
    >
    > To contribute something to the list, I'm so happy that universal
    > finally released the deluxe version of Marvin Gaye's I want you. The
    > 2nd disc includes alternate mixes of the entire album. (Now, I'm
    > waiting for a deluxe version of Here, My Dear). Of all the deluxe
    > versions that universal releases, the marvin gaye and bob marley
    > bonus material has always been superb. In particular, the deluxe
    > version of let's get it on. (They also just released a deluxe version
    > of diana ross' diana and donna summer's bad girls. The diana release
    > is interesting because they have the original mix by chic that had
    > never been released until now in addition to the released album mix
    > by Russ Terrana)
    >
    > A great marketing ploy, Leon Ware's Musical Massage was released on
    > the same day as I want you. It contains 5 demos of songs that
    > eventually became Marvin Gaye's I Want You. A version of "come live
    > with me angel" originally titled "comfort" contains background vocals
    > by Minnie Riperton. The same musicians who worked on I want you play
    > on musical massage because it was basically recorded at the same time.
    >
    > The new releases haven't been doing it for me. I've been digging in
    > the crates lately if you can't tell (Marvin, Minnie Riperton's Come
    > to my Garden, Ultra Nate's "Twisted", D'Angelo's "Cruisin", anything
    > Jeff Buckley, and everything the Mizell brothers produced). I keep
    > going back to the seventies. I always go back to the seventies. Even
    > D'Angelo's cover of Funkadelic's "I'll Stay" on Roy Hardgrove's The
    > RH Factor only got me wanting to listen to the original. Bring me
    > back to the new millenium; Can anyone recommend any new releases that
    > you are truly blown away by?
    >
    > I was disappointed with Rima and Truby Trio's Elevator Music. Don't
    > get me wrong they are good, but not on my gotta listen to this every
    > hour list. Madlib's shades of blue is good, but not great; i was
    > expecting more obscure songs from the blue note catalogue. Dudley
    > Perkins is good, solid, but not wow! And I've heard snippets from the
    > upcoming Verve Remixed 2, and now i'm not even looking forward to
    > that. The Gotan Project's remix of Sarah Vaughan's "Whatever Lola
    > wants" is abysmal to me; I know someone else will disagree, and love
    > it, but that's my two cents. All I know is where is luke vibert when
    > you need him? He's way over due for an avalanche of new stuff under
    > his many monikers.
    >
    >
    >