I recently found myself in London's fashionable Peckham, as you do, so I took the opportunity to pop into the Alex TLC charity shop on the High Street. It is an old school charity shop; slightly chaotic but run by nice people for a good cause and you can usually find a bargain or two.
So it proved on this occasion. It seems that a local resident has recently woken from a twenty year sleep and decided to offload all the free CDs they got from music magazines before they dozed off.
I came away with a very good haul, the centrepiece of which was six Songlines CDs from 2004/05. I will probably share some of those in due course, but today it is the turn of "Wire Tapper 8" which was given away with the January 2002 edition of The Wire and was also in the haul.
Like most of these sort of compilations 'Wire Tapper 8' is a bit hit and miss but when it hits it hits hard and does so right from the start. The compiler leaps off their stool and unleashes this lethal opening salvo. These are no mere taps, these are hefty wallops.
"Kundalini" - 23 Skidoo
"Shout At The Devil" - Jah Wobble & Temple Of Sound
Temple Of Sound were an offshoot of Transglobal Underground and that is the great Natacha Atlas on vocals. Here is some more of that sort of thing.
TGU were really good, a vital little piece of the late 80s/ early 90s
ReplyDeleteI got charity purchases of Natasha and TGU in the unlikely setting of Pitlochry many moons ago.
ReplyDeletePitlochry is famously cosmopolitan
DeleteHad a wee holiday there recently and it really is.
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