Sunday, June 4, 2023

toytown tekno 13 + 14 + 15 of ?


Proj X is an alias of Gavin Cheung - better known as Nookie 

 

I do not remember this 1970s kiddy cartoon at all

All Bod episodes

Sgt Wilson aka John le Mesurier is the narrator on the original series

But it's a different - smarmier - voice used on the record 






Gavin C he had a lot of aliases and scrutinizing those names I suddenly saw like a flash another toytown tekno contenda - Windy Milla, based on Windy Miller, a character from Camberwick Green  - (itself a spin off of Trumpton - Camberwick Green being a village in Trumptonshire. Or is Trumpton a spin-off of Camberwick Green? Hauntology cru will know)

Sure enough the "Windy Miller" song is sampled and sped up in "Windy's Theme" 


Brian Cant at 78 rpm



Windy Miller get mash up on scrumpy



Late addition of another piece of Bod-y music via yt in comments: 

Grant Nelson, aliased as Ruff Rider, put out this track "Move Ya Bod" on the Shaggy Ridims EP



Whole EP 





3 comments:

Ed said...

These posts have been bringing on a strange kind of double nostalgia: for the original show, and then for its mutant second life in a hardcore track.

I remember watching the first ever episode of Roobarb and Custard, and laughing harder than I have ever laughed at anything in my life, before or since.

And I remember Bod because it was for younger children - roughly speaking, the Teletubbies demographic - and at my primary school we used to laugh at how unsophisticated it was.

Answering your question: Camberwick Green was the original, followed by Trumpton and then Chigley.

yt said...

Bods theme also sampled on the Shaggy Rydims EP: https://www.discogs.com/release/184672-Ruff-Rider-Shaggy-Ridims-EP

This one is pretty decent!

SIMON REYNOLDS said...

nice one - will add that to the post

good to know about the sequence Ed - and I completely forgot about the existence of Chigley

funnily enough "Chigley" used to be nickname that we and a UK friend of ours used to describe our children when they were toddlers, like "well, I think it's high time the Chigleys were dispatched to bed now, don't you?" But I'd never realised that's where the name came from.