Hello this is Gerd Janson. I'm at Amoeba Records, for 'What's in My Bag'
The first one. I don't know if I'm actually allowed to say who's behind this.
Does anyone know? Is this anonymous? Kind of anonymous?
Ok, it's anonymous but it's really good.
And the track I like the most is not 'Woman,' that is on the b-side, but
'YahYah' on the a-side.
And it's very typical for that anonymous producer
disco-ish, drum-y, great bassline
puts people in a state of joy and despair at the same time.
It has samples on it, and the good thing is
I have no clue what he or she sampled for this record
that's maybe why I like it so much.
He's a great...
uh, he or she is a great guy.
Ok the next one is a record from the UK.
It's by Japan and called 'Visions of China.'
1981.
I really like visions of China.
It was kind of... was it prog rock? Or new wave already?
I don't know, they were kind of treated as
wannabe intellectuals at the time, I think.
The next one is a record by the very famous group Department of Sunshine.
No one actually knows anything about them
and this is the only record I've ever come across.
It has 'Space Tropics (Rapp-sody)' on the b-side and it's
that kind of weird
dance/not-dance stuff
with a punk or new wave edge
which is highly recommended.
Now for something that's a bit more funny
It's 'Limb by Limb' by Cutty Ranks.
There's actually the Hip-hop Raga Mix on the b-side
and the typical super heavy bassline
soka, whatever, dancehall groove on the a-side.
I could never decide for myself who I like the most
Shabba Ranks, Cutty Ranks or Super Cat
but I guess they're all pretty good DJs.
The next one is called 'Drums of The Caribbean'
A Study in High-Fidelity Sound
I've never seen this before
yet it sounds super-interesting, and it's a 10" and it has a great cover
I'm not sure if you could really play this in a contemporary nightclub but you could try.
I like drums and sound effects
and if you put drums and sound effects together, you have a great song.
I found this Instant House 'Lost Horizons' record.
It's actually a test pressing, although it has a full cover.
It's on a label called Jungle Sounds and it's very typical of
early 90s, lots of drums, jungle stuff
eerie keyboard melodies.
The next one is a Salsoul record.
It's by Jimmy Briscoe and The Beavers.
It's from 1979, and it's called 'Into the Milky Way'
A mix by Bobby "DJ" Guttadaro
and it has a really nice kind of spaceship/outer space intro
long percussion parts.
It's a disco space record, not a space disco record.
And the last one that's in my bag is by The Quick
called 'One Light in a Blackout'
It's a promo, and I think you can only find the long mix
on the promo release of that.
It says mid-tempo disco but I would say it's a proper slow jam
because it's even below 100 bpm.
I owe this one to my friend Lex from Zurich
We DJ'd together at this very nice club called Zukunft, which means future
and it was the last track of the night.
Yeah, and it's perfect for that. Go and look for it.
I'm flattered that I got asked to do this. Thanks for having me.