Three on a Thursday #76

Oops – missed one.

Sorry guys, life got in the way … means I’ve dug a bit deeper this week though

If you like the tunes I drop on the blog, then pop down to Mr Wolfs this Saturday night for a 4 hour sesh of the finest bouncy beaty tunage to make you dance. G’wan, it’ll be ace.

First up this week is some jazz – nice.

I’ve been a fan of those boys from the deep South (of Brixton), the Alabama 3 for a good few years now, and one of their tunes references ‘the sweet sculptural rhythms of Charles Mingus‘ and I realised I’d never knowingly heard any of his music. So Spotify in hand I had a quick listen and out popped II B.S a.k.a. Haitian Fight Song.

Love the sound of the bass on this – I used to have a deep seated dislike of ‘pure’ jazz music, largely as I associated it with atonal trumpet wankery but this is fantastic stuff, with a proper groove to it. Break out the rollneck and jazz fags and get your ears around this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmE8T09-G4

As well as running the consistently fantastic Wah Wah 45’s label, Scrimshire dropped his debut album, The Hollow towards the end of last year, and as ever ,I totally missed it. I remained in total ignorance until I heard Huey Morgan drop Ascension on the Radio 6 Music this weekend. If you like jazzy soulful beats then this should be right up your street.

Last up this week is a full-bore funk wig-out from the Third Degree, with their cover of erm, Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out of my Head. Seriously it’s ace – especially now that Smoove has had his grubby Northern mitts on it, and made it into a dancefloor stormer.