Re: [acid-jazz] philly cd shops? / marvin gaye / leon ware

From: Argo (argo_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 2003-08-15 08:25:24

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    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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