its a been a hard week. maybe because i’ve actually been really applying myself to the job that pays the bills while trying (and sometimes failing) to keep up with the fun stuff too. and its starting to feel like there’s some great new music finally coming out for oh-7 which goes to show i should be more patient, since just when i think theres nothing new to like out there some rich new vein opens and i end up worrying about how i’m ever going to find the time to listen to it, let alone assess and write & post about it… but hell we’ll get round to it soon, so expect some gems from ongaria, the awesome and soon to be released great lake swimmers new album next week amongst other things.

in the meantime (though this is by no means a stopgap) here’s a little sumthin-sumthin’ for you to get your feet shuffling to ce weekend.

a certain mr teacakes (monsieur gateaux de thé to our friends across the channel) has emerged from his dark and somewhat dubious cave to hand over another precious chunk of re-editry chiselled from two, most incongruous sources. selflessly seducing the wordy rappinghood of run dmc’s 1986 classic my adidas, stripping it bare and and laying it down on a springy jazz futon before unleashing some of that teacakes magic (no, i have no idea what i’m talking about either). anyhoo, gone is that poppy, rick rubin, 808 backing track and in its place a headbobbing surf guitar, soulful tambourine shuffle and melodic jazzy breakdown of the sort that causes an involuntary shoulder dip in eight out of ten listeners with its complicated 3/4 magic (jaksoul told me to say that bit… i wouldn’t know a time signature if my grade 4 piano teacher rapped me repeatedly across the knuckles with a metronome).

doubtless this joint will be playing out at the elbow rooms in shoreditch at somepoint on saturday night when those multi-talented basilika boys (featuring the long overdue return of the northern contingent, the musically well-endowed illa lloyd as well as our own jaksoul and stablelad the teacake) hit the town with their own brand of get-up-and-dance.

right kids, the weekend starts here…

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