Podrophenia Live and Unlocked

Podrophenia back in action tonight, with the power trio of Piley, Lord Steven Hastings and m'self - we gather together from our collective cloudbases for a socially distanced run through of tunes, chat, news stories and triv'. 

ho are the IAI Association? Why was Danny Kirwin sacked from Fleetwood Mac, do The Monkees retain their Monkee Magic five decades on? Alongside these conundrums we'll be spinning in newbies from Sparks and buried treasure from Jimmy Winston and Brian Auger ...

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The Southend Jazz Five

Dave Jazzy Dawson not pictured

This month's Podrophenia is a jazz-off with all shades and shapes of the form's modal tones gathered together - and includes something for everyone from beatniks to boppers, or even newbie jazzers who don't know their Acid from their elbow.

We've also got - replace the word 'love' with 'jazz' in song titles. And as a centrepiece - four live tunes from the American Songbook delivered by Dave Woodcock and Hannah Marsh ..

All contained hereabouts - dig in jazzers

Radio Podrophenia - Jazz

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Radio Podrophenia - Jazz Club...

Broadcasting live from the Podrophonic HQ (or upstairs at The Railway as some say), the March edition of Radio Podrophenia is fitted around the theme of 'Jazz'. Nice!

Expect to hear jazzed up Fabs, Trad, Mod, Bop and Acid Jazzers on the playlist. There may even be an exclusive preview from the James Hunter Six new album, an appearance from Pellicci legend Jukebox Jimmy.

And we've even got live music for you from jazz-age Journo Hannah Marsh accompanied by Southend's premier piano man Dave Woodcock.

All live from 9 on Radio Novalujon - tune in and tell a pal!!

A trio of home-grown jazzers - but who'll make tonight's edition?

Tommy Chase - Killer Joe

Blockbuster, Sparman, T.E.S.C.O

It's an Anne Summers now you know! Gives Blue Plaque a different spin doesn't it

Are just a few of the 'shopping bands/songs' suggestions pitched into our first live Podrophonic run-out over at our all new Radio Novalujon lodgings.

What a fine ol' time was had last Wednesday, with Dave Jazzy Dawson working his multi-media magic - manning the desk, checking the levels, fading the mics and suchlike. And hurrah 'n' hats in the air to see the Pod Squad regulars regrouped for the first time since June..

There's even a Quinn Martin style epilogue - we've kindly been offered a monthly spot on Radio NJ. So from November - the last Thursday of every month will be Podrophenia night.

Should you fancy lending an ear to Radio Podrophenia - Shopping - bung it in your bagging area below...

Radio Podrophenia - Shopping

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Monkees, Mother Earth, Moroder and possibly even Manfred Mann

After a bank holiday break, Piley and I are installed back in the Chance Radio bunker for the 13th instalment of the Podrophonic Alphabet - the Letter M. There'll be a couple of pop quizzes, Piley's Newsround - and Fi Jacobs from The Railway Hotel joins us for a Railway Round-up. Dig in here from 9.


The single edit of a magical Moroder moment..

Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity

Spot the sample? Which Essex band borrowed this horn riff for their own use? And is it my grizzled old ears or do the Manfred's sound frighteningly like The Charlatans here..

 

We've Got You Covered

Refits, reworks and retreads are the themes for tonight's Radio Podrophenia - an all suggestions special of cover versions built around a playlist handpicked by the Podrophenia Panel from.... Simon, Drakey, Marmite, Dave Wright and Dog Faced Boy.

Tonight's opener will be a Simon says suggestion

Sandie Shaw - Love Me Do



Mystery Track Alert: I'll be pitching in possibly the most spectacularly unexpected chunk of funk from a mystery artist midway through the evening. On a similar riff - tuck in to a reamped versh of a Northern Soul classic from Cliff


Should you fancy lending an ear to last week's radio run-out, grab the take away edition below

Radio Podrophenia - Charity Shop Classics

The Village Green Preservation Society (DMCA bods please note this post contains no Kinks tunes - it's just the name of a local festival 'Village Green' - see below!)

Phill Jupitus, Block (head)rocking Chalkwell Park last year

Tomorrow sees the third Village Green Arts Festival pitching up in Chalkwell park. A one day free event bulking up from 5000 festival go-ers in it's first year, to a borough-busting 20,000 in 09. And with the word of mouth buzz still spinning from last year - I'd expect to see that total topped this Saturday..

The tone of the day is a park-sized, polite picnic with tents and events: comedy, films and kiddy bits - soundtracked by live music from the main stage. Almost a louder, large-scale companion to the Leigh Folk Festival, wrapping up with a sensible 10pm turn in.

Home-grown talent always adds some local muscle to the bill. The Blockheads, Billy Bragg and Phill Jupitus for '09, and Snowboy and the Latin Section, The Famous Potataoes and The Dirty Fairies for '10

Grockles a go-go on the lineup include Carlene Anderson, Carter USM's Jim Bob and ex-Beta Band and Aliens man - Steve Mason whose set is top of my to-do list, having been looping his Boys Outside album for the last couple of months.

If only Wilco or Eddie and The Hot Rods to could be tempted to take the stage while the sunsets over Oil City for next year, that would be something truly special for us seasiders..

In the Teepee Tent with Billy Bragg - yes I am in here somewhere, and in the clip below

Lineup, maps and directions are available here

All Vinyl Fridays - Viva Boys Wonder

In the years BC (before Corduroy) Addison brothers (Big) Ben and (Great) Scott were the creative wonder-twins behind power-pop art, mod-rockers Boys Wonder - a high kicking explosion of Spock crops, polka dots, futuristic fashion student chic, Carnaby Street chords and Anthony Newley style show-vocals.

After only a handful of singles Boys Wonder made a stylistic switcheroo, trading in the Clockwork Mod clobber and space-punk sounds for shuffling dance drums, choppy house-style piano patterns and wah guitar riffs - along with a new wardrobe of long sleeve tees and British knights trainers. The Boys Wonder version 2 tunes were bubblegum with muscle. Cut and pastiche pop, borrowing from soundtracks, TV ads, other bands lyrics, horn riffs and guitar parts or rebranding corporate logos into Boys Wonder designs.

While other indie-kids were making woeful Mini-Morrisey moans, dressing in black DMs and floppy bobs, Boys Wonder were preempting the indie/dance crossover and Brit pop's cocky posturing. By the time the rest of the runners and riders had finally caught up, the trail had gone cold and the brothers Addison had moved onto Anglo-flavoured acid jazz (several steps ahead of the mid-90s lounge revival). But that's another tale for another time.

The first two tracks are from the Radio Wonder mini album. The third is ripped from the extremely limited white label only release of Keep It Up

Boys Wonder - What Makes You So Good


If the guitar riff sounds famil' - lend an ear to this

Boys Wonder - Eat Me, Drink Me


If the horn riff sounds famil' - lend an ear to this

Boys Wonder - Keep It Up (white label - Steve Proctor mix)

Sax and the City

We dropped into one of the many London Word Festival events last Friday - Avant Noir 'A night of criminal fiction, comic art and music of a darker hue'. An evening that saw four contemporary crime writers reading extracts from their late night tales to a live music soundtrack from contemporary jazzers.

Ray Banks was a new-to-me author, now fast-tracked to my 'must read' list. While opening the show was Cathi Unsworth delivering a chilling piece from the excellent Bad Penny Blues accompanied by the sharp suited four piece - Get The Blessing.

Almost hidden amongst the listings, Get The Blessing were an unexpected treat. Featuring the Portishead rhythm section of Jim Barr and Clive Deamer (bass and drums) who lock and load with business end of the beats, while Pete Judge and Jake McMurchie (trumpet and sax) handle all the huffing 'n' puffing - occasionally relaying and delaying it through effects pedals for enhanced other-worldiness.

Get The Blessing are almost Bernard Hermann scoring Beastie Boys instrumentals, gear-shifting between cop-show soundtracks and Zappa instrumentals or using Acid Jazz's sprightly style offset against John Bonham's heavyweight wallop.

A special mention must go to drummer, Clive Deamer, who, during the end-of-evening, double-whammy jazz-off with Led Bib used hands, maracas and both head and handle ends of his padded drumsticks to devastating effect during a stunning, free-piece finale.

Get The Blessing - Music Style Product





Also featured: the excellent artwork of Huzzah Noir - which, can be found here...

Funky Friday - A Chip Off The Ol' Blockheads

Artwork by Peter Blake - yes him of the Sgt Pepper cover

The Blockheads come to sunny Southend this Saturday, heading up a bill that features Camera Obscura and Billy Bragg's Big Busk (I'll be taking my Martin DX1 along for that. Although live music is just one segement of an all day arts festival known as Village Green, taking place in Chalkwell Park - literally a five minute walk from home.

Last time I saw The Blockheads dear ol' Ian Dury was still out front and on his final visit to Southend during the Mr Love Pants tour. For all their punk/pub rock roots and associations the Blockheads are really proto Acid Jazzers (fatback drums, squealy synths, soaraway solos and finger-blistering basslines) twinning the free form flow of Jazz Funk with the sweaty energy of Punk, and able to switch between either without missing a beat. They are simply the finest set of sizzling of musicians you'll ever see live. So if you're round and about Southend way this Saturday why not pop along - the full programme of events is available here.

Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Wake Up And Make Love With Me




Ian Dury and the Blockheads Dance Little Rude Boy



And you can grab Macca's Blockbusting version of I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra right here..

Have a peep at Norman Roy-Watt's incredibly heady bassline for Rythm Stick - stunning stuff.

Finders Groovers

Had a couple of new-to-me nuggets appear on the radar last week..

Blogger-my-neighbour Coop dropped The Dead Weather (Jack White and new playmates) rewiring of 'Are Friends Electric' into my inbox.

The Dead Weather - Are Friends Electric



And found on Drew's always excellent Across The Kitchen Table, The Third Degree's slick-hipped Mercy. Although don't ask which is the cover and which is the original - Third Degree or Duffy - I couldn't tell you.



In return for The Dead Weather tune, I gave Coop the Third Degree tip off, which, he's now ordered up on 7" - phew it's like a Möbius meltdown.

And The Stars Look Very Different Today

What was I thinking? No space-posts! And me a hard-coded astro-nutter from the minute I knew what any of it meant..

A couple of questions though, and don't get me wrong these aren't in any way conspirasist cyber-babble. Just general confusion, a blind-spot on the mechanics of the act, and not having read anything more detailed than the usual timeline of events..

How did the Eagle blast of when it was so low on fuel? Were there landing and take off tanks?

How did Eagle dock with the control module?

Is Moon Dust worth a punt?

David Bowie - Space Oddity (very early demo version)offline

Paul Weller - Kosmos offline





23 comments:

Davy H said...

1. Yes
2. Skill and gravity
3. Very much so
July 21, 2009 10:37 AM
bleecher said...

some great high res pics here on google-moon
http://www.google.com/moon/#lat=0.655754&lon=23.471664&zoom=18&apollo=a11

its used to show cheese on full zoom in...but sadly the googleboffins have lost their GSOH
July 21, 2009 10:39 AM
bleecher said...

oh and secondly ... blasting off in a very low gravity environment wouldn't take much thrust/fuel

a fart in a space suit wud just about do it i rekon .....
July 21, 2009 10:43 AM
Planet Mondo said...

I'll be nipping to Camomile Library to grab MD today Davy - have a top space-walk on your day out today..

A - Google Moon!!! Where did that come from? Can you visit the dark side?

B - Must steam up your visor though?

PS have you checked the super-duper early Bowie tune - great pre-amble 'some of it is being considered as single material, but we'll leave that up to you'
July 21, 2009 11:31 AM
Davy H said...

I've already given my copy of Moondust away, otherwise could have sent you it.

Tip-top Davy Jones demo Houston.
July 21, 2009 12:05 PM
bleecher said...

google moons been about for .... ummmmm .... moons.... the appolo series landing and exdedition plotting is amazing tho....all high res photos and mostly in colour too ... you soo have so look

oh yeah the music.. wat can i say? mr bowie and mr weller in one post? i think i just came a little
July 21, 2009 12:17 PM
Planet Mondo said...

Speaking of Bowie I must check his young'uns new film Moon.

Have you been at the Space Dust today Bleech?
July 21, 2009 1:04 PM
Mrs Mondo said...

C'mon Mr M - even our kids know about Google Moon! (They were just talking about Google Mars over tea the other night - I think you must have been on another planet..?) ;-) xx
July 21, 2009 1:48 PM
Keith said...

I've always been intrigued by space. I was really interested to see all the stories yesterday about the 40th anniversary of man walking on the moon. Cool tunes by the way.
July 21, 2009 2:29 PM
Planet Mondo said...

Google Moon! Google Mars !?! what about Google Mondo? x

Thanks Keith today's post was a last minute switcharoo, If you were here earlier you'd have seen a diff' post for about 30 mins (my first vinyl rip)- I'm going have to do a more planned post, perhaps Funky Friday - 'Moony Tunes'..
July 21, 2009 4:07 PM
Furtheron said...

You know that second picture - the one of Neil Armstrong on the moon... just makes me think maybe the "it was all fake and shot on a set in the desert" may be right... :-)
July 21, 2009 4:09 PM
Planet Mondo said...

It was a fake F-RON check the 'conclusive proof' here.
July 21, 2009 4:18 PM
Simon said...

Oh dammit, who mentioned spacedust? I love that stuff. I had a crunchie ice cream the other day, and to get that thank crunchie it's friday fizz the chocolate on the outside has space dust in it!

As Mrs Simon says 'it's the little things...'
July 21, 2009 5:20 PM
Gabbi said...

Wonderful space post! Amazing photographs and music...

I know all the conspiracy theories are out there, but I still like thinking it's true. Such a great bit of history.
July 21, 2009 10:15 PM
Planet Mondo said...

Loved spacedust Simon - did you ever try holding as much as you could, at the back of your throat for as long poss? No! You should. Did you ever get a bit on your eye though..yikes!!

I've no doubt about the landings happening Gabbi, that link above is to a fab send up of the conspiracy theories - have a peep, fantastico..
July 21, 2009 10:35 PM
Mick said...

Loved that Bowie demo. Space Oddity was my favourite song 40 years ago and this version makes it sound fresh again.
July 22, 2009 6:13 PM
Planet Mondo said...

I've got the Demos of Ziggy Stardust and Lady Stardust with just Bowie on Guitar for ZS and piano for LS

Drop a line Mick if you want copies
July 22, 2009 7:31 PM
Mick said...

Thanks for the offer. If they are from the Ziggy Stardust CD with bonus tracks I've got them. In fact, your post made me consider posting them. The Ziggy demo is particularly nice. I think LS is one of the other tracks and I can't find the CD at the moment.
July 22, 2009 8:09 PM
Planet Mondo said...

Those Rykodisco reissues were fab - have you checked the Transformer remastered edition (I got it for 2.99) comes with the demo of Perfect Day - just Lou and an acoustic

Here check these out Mick - top quality unreleased Bowie demos from 1970..
July 22, 2009 9:20 PM
Mick said...

Thanks for the links, PM. One thing I forgot to ask - what year is that Space Oddity demo from? It sounds more like the finished product than the Love You Till Tuesday version so I'm guessing 1969.
July 22, 2009 10:34 PM
planet mondo said...

I think you're right Mick - hard to find definitive dates and info on it - but 69 seems to be the year

There's some details here , but the version I've posted is taken from the Sound and Vision box set - well worth a grab if you haven't yet..

I had a fab Bowie booty somewhere where he's demoing something and John Peel walks in
July 22, 2009 11:07 PM
Blank Stares and Cricketclaps said...

Is this post a tribute to that lovely film Capricorn One?
July 23, 2009 5:39 PM
Planet Mondo said...

I've no doubt it happened - my Q's are rooted in confusement not conspiracies
July 23, 2009 8:03 PM

Funky Friday - Let Your Fingers Do The Walking

Phil 'Wolfman' Harvey plays the ex-Island Records studio piano, now at Reazor in Putney - Photo by Bleech.

We've said before, how satisfying it must be for highly polished pianists to breeze away at the keyboard. Galloping or gliding through cascades and clusters of fluid-fingered key strokes and free flowing notes. Today's FF features several shades of glowing genius : heavy handed hammond, Jack-be-nimble piano and a continental combo of both..

Enri - The perfomer
Hammond anthems just don't come no funkier - and wait for those punchy trumpets at the one minute mark. Stomping.



The Keith Mansfield Strings - Soul Thing
More hooky horns (with a touch of The Kinks Lola about them) and the slick-fingered style of Keith Mansfield - King of the London Swingers..



Bernard Estardy - Vertigo Leitmotiv
Bernard grunts, groans and generally yelps his way through this high speed shuffle, that keeps tapping up the tempo, but, feels about two minutes too short to me

Funky Friday - On The Jazz

How To Embarrass Yourself and Alienate People

I had a night out tucking a few scoops away at Filthy McNasty's last year and got chatting tunes to a chap with a 'Rooster Cut' roughly along the same lines as mine. Actually it was the day I posted this - as we were talking about Tom Jones and how this mystery mod had met Tom while DJing for Paul Weller, and reminded the Jones of a funky forgotten B-Side from his early doors days. Next up was when he bumped into Roger Daltry backstage somewhere and shifty whispers about a possible Who reunion soon.

"Blimey you're well connected - what do you do then?" I asked

"I'm Eddie Piller I started Acid Jazz records"

*Cue theatrical gulps, the cringing of shoulders and desperate attempts to back-peddle through time*

That'll be the same Eddie Piller then that signed bands like these and....

James Taylor Quartet - Mrs Robinson



Mother Earth - Wham Bam, Thank You Mam



The New Jersey Kings - Spinning Wheel

Spring Has Sprung

A few months after we'd moved in together, Mrs PM and I bought a soft top 'Jeep' - not a real Jeep you understand - no, no a Romanian version - the Dacia Duster 'Roadster'. Sleek as breezeblock, and tough as a Tonka Toy. Spring and summer weekends were spent spinning around country lanes with the roof off, and pitching a tent somewhere rural. Although the Roadster could be hopelessly unreliable to the point of near fatality, and any sunny fun was always tempered by moments like: screaming down a hillside in the Brecon Beacons, a lead-foot on the brakes, the smell of steaming brake pads,and no slow down as a high altitude hairpin bend blurs towards you.

A handful of top-off tunes soundtracking our Duster days came from Corduroy's debut album Dad Man Cat, and if there's any track completely that captures the swing of spring it's.....

Corduroy - Skirt Alert



Or this from the first Frank album I picked up - Sinatra at the Sands. Arrangments by Quincy Jones, and backed by The Count Basie Orchestra.. it is for me, still the definitive Sinatra performance..

Frank Sinatra - You Make Me Feel So Young (live at the Sands)

Funky Friday - Watching The Detectives (UK)

For a full list of 'Letraset Super Action Transfers' click here

While sprouting from tot-to-teen during the seventies, I was a terror for TV Detectives - both the US variety covered (here), and the Brit-Cop shows that employed an almost off-the-peg parade of villainy..

Rough stuff street toughs
Hi-Tech International Terrorism
Corrupt Senior Civil Servants
Crooked Aristocrats in country houses and/or golf clubs (usually Stoke Park - a Goldfinger location)

I've still got my pick 'n 'mix library of original crimebusting Annuals stored in the loft, collecting together - The Persuaders,The Protectors,The Professionals, The Sweeney (surely The Sweeney were a bit too rough and ready for an Annual readers catchment audience) and The New Avengers..

Laurie Johnson's New Avengers (a flared and swishy refit of his sixties original), is surely the template tune for almost every Acid Jazz track, and gets worked over here by Southend's very own Snowboy...

Snowboy - The New Avengers Theme



Another Laurie Johnson anthem, and perhaps the greatest car-crashing-glass-smashing action theme ever.. - shouldn't Lewis Collins really have been the follow-on-Bond from Roger Moore?

The Professionals



Finally, can you decode this mystery title tune - and work out which show it's from??



The inner spread of The New Avengers Transfer set seems to be based on Heatherden Hall, part of the Pinewood Film Studios - which appears in The New Avengers, The Professionals, The Persuaders, UFO and Space 1999

Funky Friday - The Ghost Of Christmas Past

This fantastico bespoke hand-made illustration was kindly created by Paul McDonald of Odd Sock Illustration

I don't know about you, but while I was sprouting up during the seventies, Christmas in our house was a typically traditional ritual that followed a similar tinsel-plated template from year to year.

The same medley of decorations were randomly scattered about the tree mixing classic seventies pieces - felt baubles in orange or pink, super-modern amber plastic hoops filled with some sort of shiny sci-fi tape loops that dangled alongside retro-deco's from the fifties - cough-candy style twisted aluminium strips (purple or red on one side, silver on the other), real glass baubles and Japanese lanterns. All finished of with Woolworths candyfloss-type-fibreglass to add some soft-focus embellishment to the lights.

The Martini (red) and the drinks cabinet would be cracked open on Nan's arrival, and when it came to lunch, stalagmite style red candles, the candlebra and 'special cutlery' from an embossed box had their annual day trip to the table. Which, was typically centred around a Christmas cake wrapped in fancy band of gold foil and frilled red paper, with, perhaps a snow scene on the icing.

If you're wondering what in the name of Jacob Marley is the point of this winterland ramble? Well, it's that, the cosy essence of Christmas was the familiar similarity of the occasion. And, in much the same that way we'd fire up this Frank album while Martini's were a'pouring - I feel it could become,perhaps a seasonal tradition, to repost my homemade winter mixture created for Christmas last year....

A Mondo Funky Mixmas



Marc Bolan - Christmas Message
Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa
Keith Mansfield - Snowman Stomp
Jingle Bells - Booker T and the MG's
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Here Comes Santa Claus
Oscar Peterson - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Stu Hamm - Sleigh Ride
Up With the People - Jingle Bell Beat
Anita Kerr Singers - Jingle bell rock
Soulfoul singers - Santa Claus is coming to town
Soulful Strings - Sleigh Ride
Edwin Starr - Snowflake Boogie
The Rhodes Kids - Winter Wonderland

Funky Friday - Lazy Sunday

Well I'm off again next week - no plans as such, just a bit of buzzing about, hoofing around and putting the handbrake on so to speak. And, if the evenings heat up, I may even have a stretch out and sip to this 'Lazy Sunday' mix - a medley of modish, acid jazzy, lower tempo beats and bobs - hope you do to.

I've also reloaded the 'Summer Sounds' mix up on the other side if you fancy grabbing that.

See you soon pop pickers.

Lazy Sunday



Mother Earth - Jesse
Patricia Marx & 4Hero - Menino
Jackie Mittoo - Stereo Freeze
Little Barrie - Just Wanna Play
Paul Weller - Always There
Corduroy - Ponytail
The New Jersey Kings - Dream Waves
Beastie Boys - Ricky's Theme
Handsome Boy Modeling School - Sunshine
Lloyd & Devon - Push Push
Pete Jolly - Plummer Park
Aim - Original Stuntmaster
DJ Z-Trip – 3rd Gear
Soundhog - A Day In Tracy's Life

'brilliant green' photo by Chocolate Girl 64

Brazilian Wax

Really... who wants to be working on a day like today when you could be sitting and sipping in the sun. So, should you feel like popping some bottle tops for a splash of something soothing why not try these tunes as a musical mixer..

And speaking of mixes I'm working on a new comp' for Matt's The Right Side Of Funky blog ( you really should check out the new 'Quel Organ' Mix on there right now) which I'm trying to keep as tight as pair of snug fit Speedos but just can't seem to tuck these tunes into the tracklist...

Sergio Mendes and Brazil 77 - 'Superstition'



Patricia Marx - 'Menino'



Azymuth - Jazz Carnival

Funky Friday - Aciiiiiiiiid Jazz

Can you believe it's over 20 years since Acid Jazz first dropped into circulation with its juicy loose grooves and scrapbook look of Carnaby Street chic, Caine flick cool and bohemian beards? Aside from AJ's Anglomania retro referencing (beating Britpop to similar source material by several years) musically Acid Jazz seems to be a composite of these three elements ..

Early Santana - Latin shuffles with squealy and/or wah guitar

Jaco Pastorious - all Acid Jazz bass cadets had red hot handskills.

Robin's Nest theme tune - a riff that Jamiroquai's been riding and rewriting for his entire career.(Out of all the Acid Jazzers - why is HE the only one that's endured? )

So what acid drops are we taste testing today?

Corduroy - (formerly known as those moonage mods - Boys Wonder more on that here) laying down some skinny trousered split screen funk - there really is some great editing on the 'E Type' vid. I've spotted 'Blow Up' and 'Hawaii Five O' - but I'm sure there's more

Corduroy - E Type




Mother Earth - headed up by Matt Deighton (Santana influence) and their 'can't believe it wasn't a monster hit' piece of perfect pop- 'Jesse'. Mother Earth's album 'People Tree' features Weller as a backing vocalist on 'Mr Freedom' which acted as the perfect framing device for Weller's first (acid style) solo album and Modfather revival. Deigton later stood in for Noel Gallagher at the occasional Oasis gig.

Mother Earth - Jesse




The New Jersy Kings - (Robin's Nest and Jaco influence) The James Taylor Quartet had been riffing on spy high soul for sometime, before bizarrely going into hiding as space age funkateers The New Jersey Kings when Acid Jazz kicked in.
New Jersy Kings - Dreamwaves



If you're in the mood for more contempory Acid Jazz style sounds check out The Bongolian , who keeps his synthy sizzlers spiked with an acid flavouring..