Spring has sprung and just to show all y’all that we too can move with the times, we have an exciting new feature. Discussed over Moretti beers and Bison Grass Mojitos at the remodelled BFI in our most recent catch-up this section is a play on Saturday Live’s Inheritance Tracks. The general theme is what tracks do you feel have been passed down to you from another, older, scene or generation – and what track would you want to pass on to the next generation from your own times. Musical Time Capsules if you’re twee.

We’re not. We call it Hand-Me-Downs.

A cursory glance at Saturday Live’s guest selections throws up all kinds of dancefloor bombs, such as Tina Turner’s ‘The Best’, Monty Python’s ‘Bright Side Of Life’ and Elton John’s paean to early 90s NYC Vogue & Drag Balls “I’m Still Standing”…which is a shame because I was planning to choose some of those.

Nevermind.

All the more reason to kick off the first post with a guest selection.

I contacted the man known as Mark Seven of Juswax Online Store . Possibly one of the friendliest vinyl dealers out there and definitely one with his finger on the pulse. If you’re looking for it, and it is on vinyl, chances are he has it, or will get it for you next time he is Stateside. A personal service that keeps on giving. And who better to ask about what track he most remembered from his childhood and what track he would most like to pass on?

He had this to say about what music he got from his parents:

not easy, my parents listened to some shite I can tell you! if i never hear doctor hook again it’ll be too soon. but that’s why you get so heavily into your music at that age, because of that gap. some of that ‘shite’ i’ve grown to appreciate in these mellow years: elo, james taylor…. but if i had to say a record that i actually, physically got from them? i have fond memories of us all singing along to “alexander beetle” by melanie and i still have that seven inch somewhere

And about passing the torch:

i thought about this for a long time, too long…probably because i don’t have any kids! something rare & valuable? something deep & insightful? anyway, i realised that i’d want to give them a song that represents for me the pure joy of the music i love in the hope that it might inspire the same joy in them. it expresses in the most basic terms the possiblities of what club music can mean to a room full of people from all different backgrounds.

the song i picked will always be associated with a particular time & space in my mind but like many ‘classics’ it has become something of a cliché over the years. still, as i listen to those first synthetic cowbells i get goosebumps and the magic works all over again. kids i give you…

The Nightwriters-Let the Music Use You