Hey I'm Tom.
I'm Josh we're from Jungle and we're here at Amoeba Records picking out five each
and we're gonna be taking you through them.
One, two, three, show.
I copied you.
No you didn't, that was paper.
Was that paper? Let's see a rewind.
Two, three, show.
First record I picked today was Moby's 'Play.'
This is the first album I actually bought ever, physically, and that was a tape
back in... something, '99 there we go.
Hold on one second.
They're approving of Moby 'Play.'
They're like, yeah, brn, brn.
So to move on from your classic
I've gone for something that I kind of grew up with, that was always being played in my house
which is Buena Vista Social Club.
It just kind of always reminded me of like a Saturday morning.
Something my parents would put on, just breakfast it reminds me of.
Know what I mean? Newspaper
Newspaper with their orange juice.
It's a great record, beautiful record.
I remember learning all the bits on 'Chan Chan.' It's the opening track
I used to be able to play it on guitar. There you go.
Harry Nilsson, 'Nilsson Schmilsson.'
This is another record that I was given to by my parents
and that's a good way of describing that event.
Yeah, just something that we always used to listen to
in the car, on like family car journeys.
And listening to my dad singing 'Coconut' quite loudly is quite amusing.
But yeah, he's an amazing songwriter, and wrote incredible pop songs
but they were so kind of unique in their presentation. So yeah, Harry Nilsson.
I got this selection of disco mixes by John Morales.
He's a mix engineer. He's based in New York.
He did a lot of edits of these classic disco tunes.
When we first started DJing, we used to play those.
I like how it's like the IBM font.
Yeah.
I'm gonna go for another record that I... I guess I sort of found it at university.
But I don't have it on vinyl. And it's 'The Pretender' by Jackson Browne.
Yeah just really like a unique take on Americana, and great songs.
I mean 'The Fuse' is a great tune. So I'm looking forward to sticking that on later.
We got in an Uber yesterday, and I was playing you a track.
And then the Uber driver just goes, hey yo, have you heard this?
It was like he heard something in there and then he played us this track
which was called 'Superman Lover,' and it was by Johnny Guitar Watson.
This is live in Hamburg 1976.
So it's gonna have a little bit of a different flavor, I suppose, to the original recording.
There you go. And I'll put it back in my pile.
Neu!, with their second record, '2.'
Very krautrock way of naming your records, which I quite like.
One of my favorite record shops in London is called Sounds of the Universe.
It's where Soul Jazz Records to do all of their compilations out of.
I just like randomly went and bought a compilation of krautrock.
'Deutsche Elektronische Musik Vol. 1'
Neu! and Can in particular really stood out to me.
So yeah, I've never owned a Neu! album on vinyl yet, so it's in the bag.
Something a little bit more modern. Earl Sweatshirt, came out end of last year.
And what I quite liked about this is it was kind of gone back to this really kind of
tight little 1:30 track lengths, and they're just these little ideas.
And it kind of feels like it's completely unfinished, but so finished at the same time.
That's obviously just an iPhone photo, blurred. It's kind of really throwaway.
And I think that y'know a lot of people kind of take a lot of time trying to make a perfect record.
Sometimes it can be the quickest thing and there's a beauty to that.
So thanks Earl. Obviously it's not his name.
So my last choice is a classic.
I'd like to just go for something really random that I've never heard of before.
I love how it looks, quite like the description. Edits and rarities.
That's what hooked you in, I think. Those two words at the top.
Edits and rarities. Maybe.
But I like the illustration. That's how I found the first Tame Impala record.
I just walked into a record shop and I was like, what's that artwork?
and then I put it on and it was great.
And look at them now.
It's all down to me.
Seeing as you picked something at random you picked something that you know
but more random for me, which you're going to have to explain.
So Late Nite Tuff Guy is a remixer/editor. He's done some amazing stuff.
What's this one called?
This is called 'Dance Your Ass Off.'
I mean, your random choice, by me.
Is there something about edits that you guys like in particular?
I think edits are kind of fun, especially when you're taking older music
y'know we like hip-hop and obviously we like kind of disco.
It's kind of a mix of those two worlds, just taking a little loop
y'know the best kind of 4 or 8 bar groove that keeps you in the groove, I suppose.
I think a lot of our favorite music has got that element of either like samples
that's why I picked up Moby as well, when I was a kid
because there were so many...
Y'know it was the first time I'd sort of experienced electronic music
as something that wasn't purely like techno.
Because techno is quite intimidating when you're 10 years old.
And so it was the first time that electronic music had felt human
and I guess a large part of that is down to the fact that
they were using snippets of songs that are y'know written and recorded
with soul and emotion and not just like a kick drum and a bass line.
Awesome. Thank you guys so much.
Thanks for having us.