From: Argo (argo_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 2003-08-15 08:25:24
About the Beat is no more... cd-wise Cue is definitely your best bet...
other options are 611 and maybe AKA in old city....
argo
On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 07:28 PM, steph99 wrote:
> 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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Argo
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