A large secondhand collection of NZ vinyl dropped at @realgroovyrecords at the weekend, worth a dig. It’s in the NZ section, lots of 80s and 90s Indie NZ, plus LP’s by the Chills, UMO (ok prices too), and albums, plus LPs and EP‘s by Screaming Meemees and Blam blam blam.
I made a zine. Ten years since Prince passed. Such an incredible artist. This is a bunch of articles about him, commissioned by the talented Jessica Hopper back when she was editor of MTV News website in 2016. Grab a copy from Flying Out or Real Groovy. Totally unofficial bootleg styles, limited run.
Yesterday was Record Store Day so naturally I left the house and bought a record. Found this in @flyingnun ’s secondhand goodies. Follow-up group from Rip Rig and Panic, plus a sax player from Pigbag. Been digging a lot of post punk/funk from this era recently.
Good mail day! Two more for the Ze Records pile, plus some p-funk. August Darnell aka Kid Creole produced the first two, and Malady d’amour is on both, but different recordings. He also reused it with a group called the Aural Exciters (a Bob Blank project from his Blank Tapes studio). There’s a few other tunes in Darnell’s catalog that got recycled, he was very efficient like that. The Brides of Funkenstein reissue is crisp, but didn’t realise its orange vinyl.
Scored the recently - Wise guy (aka Tropical gangsters). Apparently after the second kid Creole and the Coconuts album, main man Kid Creole aka August Darnell decided he wanted to make a solo album called Wise guy. He had written a few songs for it like Annie and Stool pigeon, but his record company Ze Records pushed him to make it a Kid Creole and the Coconuts album, and make it more traditional r’n’b / funk sound. He and the band hated the end result but it gave them 3 top ten hits in the UK. Ze needed a more commercial album as their distributor Seymour Stein at Sire, was refusing to release the advance for the album. Wild. Wise guy was the album title in the US and Canada.
