Sidewalk Sounds Vol. 1

The first mix set exclusively from the box of 45s I found on the sidewalk a few weeks back. Plenty of 80's B-side oddness and edits. 

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Sidewalk Sounds Vol. 1
Let Loving Start - Thompson Twins
Paint a Rumour [edit] - Eurythmics
Don Juan [edit] - Pet Shop Boys
Fade to Grey - Visage
Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' - Jermaine Jackson feat. Michael Jackson
Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie
Automatic - Pointer Sisters
Tour de France (Francois Kevorkian remix) - Kraftwerk
Push It 7"remix [edit] - Salt-N-Pepa
Sombody's Watching Me (Instrumental) - Rockwell
I Like Chopin (instrumental) [edit] - Gazebo
Symphony for Michael Opus 2 - Eddie Grant
Piano - Midge Ure
The Search - Larry Carlton and Michel Colombier
This is Not America - David Bowie & Pat Metheny

Jewels in the dust

Man, I have been cashing-in on some record-digging karma lately. I randomly stopped by one of those sketchy old TV-repair places you see around Montreal. Tiny dark box of a storefront, shit stacked high to the ceiling, full of cigarette smoke. A surprised-looking owner, visibly annoyed to actually have to be selling something to someone.

A few choice dollar records - mint.
Bobbi Humphrey - Flute-In. Fantastic cover design on this Applause Records release.

Different Bobby, same label, same cover designer. Really smooth Bobby Hutcherson sound, gets deep, and better with each listen.

This one's hot. Silk was Stanley Clarke, Ronnie Foster, Ndugu, Tom Browne, Stanley Turrentine, Eric Gale, George Benson, Dave Valentin, Wynton Marsalis, Todd Cochran, Sammy Figueroa, and Manolo Badrena.

With an instantly recognizable cover from photographer Pete Turner - Who did all kinds of classic jazz record covers

Not bad for a few bucks.

Record Shop Day 2011

Record Shop Day 2011. Felt good to be in a real shop and get the fingers flipping again.

The budget is tight at the moment, but I was happy to make an exception for International Record Shop Day. Stopped by Aux 33 Tours in Montreal, great to see a line-up to the cash register! (First time I've said that about a line-up)

A real gem from original Afro-Latino bad-ass Joe Bataan
This is one of those records that convinces you that it's been around longer than it really has. I figured it was an early 70's reissue till I saw the Neil Sugarman credit on the back. It's Gabriel Roth with his Daptone Studio doin' what they do best in Brooklyn.

Y tambien, que rico este disco! Got that rough Cubano edge of a live one-room, one-take recording. Perfection - can't fake it. Heard that same sound in the Yucatan, Mexico. You'd see big groups of old-school musicians -lots of brass, percussion, bass, guitars - They'd gather in the town squares on weekends after dark, they'd bang-out tunes just like this, with all the folks dancing.

A couple dollar bin specials too at another place on Mont-Royal

A nice early 80's George Benson album, some dope synth basslines and chord-progressions. (Easy on the makeup George)

Score! Abandoned vinyl in Montreal

Ah, signs of spring in Montreal:
Folks are wearing shorts when it's 5 degrees above freezing; All the frozen dog shit that's collected over the last six months melts on the same day.
And people chuck stuff - glorious stuff - onto the sidewalk:

I've found a lot of good records on the street over the years, but never a score like I found this afternoon.

This shit is *mint* and obsessively well organised. They're organized by label, CBS, Capitol, RCA... The guy wrote the date and location of purchase in pencil on each sleeve. Freaky...

I'll have to edit the best tracks and do a mix, there's some great stuff here:
Sylvester, Chic, Odyssey, Blondie, Eddy Grant, weird french disco, Philly Intrtl All in original colour sleeves
Instrumental of Rockwell "Sombody's Watching Me" on Motown, some tight Quincy Jones productions too.
A Francois Kevorkian Remix of Kraftwerk Tour De France, Little Louie Vega mix on Tommy Boy from 1988. There's a quebec produced 45 here from St-Leonard that could almost be Air...