{"id":398,"date":"2011-12-22T20:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassdress.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/22\/what-i-bought-this-week\/"},"modified":"2019-03-10T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T19:09:58","slug":"what-i-bought-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/22\/what-i-bought-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What I bought this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was browsing the wonderful Discogs.com<\/a> looking for some old house records, when I suddenly realised I didn’t actually own a copy of Class A’s disco house classic “Street Life”.  I couldn’t let this go unresolved, so I quickly added a copy to my basket, and breathed a sigh of relief.  This is where things start to get interesting – you see the record was only 99p, but postage was \u00a33.50.  Not wanting to pay more in postage than my record was worth I went on a wee browse of the sellers catalogue to see if there was anything else worth picking up.  There wasn’t – but he had listed a whole bunch of records at 50p, and who can resist a lucky-dip?<\/p>\n

I ended up buying a few more at random (in the legitimate use of the word).  I bought in total 5 records.  Two of which turned out to be run-of-the-mill trance, not really my scene.  Another white label was some kind of Paul Van Dyk \/ Jamiroquai mash-up.  Since I’m a fan of neither, this was a bit of a waste.  The last of the bunch was Wildchild \u2013 The Unreleased Project EP.  Now, everyone know’s the wonderful ‘Renegade Master’ classic, but I’d never actually heard anything else by Wildchild.<\/p>\n

I put it on the platter, dusted it off, and dropped the needle.  The A-side was shit.  Two uninspired, amateur house shit.  Bleh.  Instinctively couting up just how much money I had wasted on this endeavour, I flipped it over.  The b-side is a single track called Bad Boy (Renegade Master Mix) Featuring \u2013 Jamalski.  Sounded heavy gay to me.<\/p>\n

To my surprise, hidden in this unknown little EP, lives a twelve minute monster, a house classic.  Utter brilliant, plodding old school house.  For the full twelve minutes it grooves and flexes, never dropping for a break, or a breath.  The cut up vocal hook throws me into a world of 90’s nostalgia; you just don’t get records this fun any more.  I love records, I love independent music, and this little release reminds me why;  one man, in his bed room, creating a masterpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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