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found this on friday afternoon, for £3, in a second hand shop. what a bargain. "soul, disco & rap from harlem's P&P records". P&P was a legendary new york label run by peter brown and patrick adams that had many sub-labels. a quick look around discogs/popsike showed me i could buy the original records on this cd for $2000! there's a sealed copy on discogs for £8 or you can get it new from amazon for £6!. all the tracks were selected by dj friendly himself, nick the record. it's hard to pick a stand out track from 12 outstanding tracks because this compilation is fucking brilliant.
okay...it's not as long as the u.s. promo version (by about 30 seconds), it has a different ending, it has a grubby mark from a previous sticker and it's only in VG condition. i did have a dimitri from paris triple cd with his own edit of this on it. unfortunately, i sold it without hearing it. that'll teach me. anyway, this copy plays fine and that's all that matters.
are your eyes deceiving you? no, that is a pair of tits on a record cover. there'd be another pair on the right hand record too but someone saw fit to censor the picture. i can only assume one of the bigger record stores in the 1970's said "no boobs on our shelves" and magnet records obliged. i bought my first copy earlier this year and found the censored version yesterday. the back picture is also with/without boobs as well. silver convention are most famous for "fly robin fly" which is on the previous album to this (discotheque volume 1 - MAG 5010). the lady on that cover is also handcuffed and nude. the best track on volume 2 is a slo-mo beast called "you've turned me on (but you can't turn me off)". they are the entire lyrics of the song. can't find it on youtube so you'll just have to believe me when i say it's ace. if you want a better look at those tits just click on the picture.
i've never seen this before and was completely unaware of it's existence until i dropped into a chazza whilst on my lunch break today. there were quite a few other good records but they were all scratched. sybil thomas was a backing singer before she appeared with raw silk, and after just one solo record (this one) she seems to have disappeared. if you don't like her vocals there's a hot instrumental on the b-side. there's some fantastic guitar work on this too. west end records are normally a sign of quality and this is no exception. when you add production by nick martinelli and david todd you know you've picked up a belter. so for lunch i had a pie, a sausage roll and a bottle of pop. i was going to have some crisps but i got this instead. they're the sacrifices you have to make if you want some great records in your collection.
i came across a fantastic wedge of disco this week. got myself a few bits of house/techno i'd missed over the years as well. once again i had to trawl through about 1500 naff records to find the good ones. don't be thinking that i skive off work to do this. i sometimes rock up only an hour or less before these shops shut. i get stuck in straight away and hopefully my luck will be in. some of you may wonder when i'm going to show some real hard to find nuggets that are worth a small fortune. those records can wait, because i want to show you stuff that you may have missed. this record is a classic example of something that pops up all the time but is ignored. it goes for pennies everywhere because most people see the lipps inc track and dismiss it. there's 2 tracks on the b-side which aren't worth bothering about either. the gem is danielle's "let's have a party". there's horns, squelchy synths, strings and scream your head off vocals. maybe i've got no taste but i can't understand why this track isn't more popular. no one on discogs wants it and there are loads for sale. which means the next time you see it you'll probably be the only one who knows what it is. as for mick, i've no idea who he was.
