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