Beat from Another World

 

also

King of the Ravers / drop the B-Bomb

 

from Owning Up by George Melly

The West End Jazz Club at 44 Gerrard Street - in Chinatown, just off Shaftesbury Avenue!

via Another Nickel in the Machine:

"In his autobiography Owning Up Melly described the end of a typical rave: “At seven a.m. the band played its final number and we’d all crawl up out of the sweat-scented cellar into the empty streets of a Sunday morning in the West End. Hysterical with lack of sleep, accompanied by a plump art student, her pale cheeks smeared with the night’s mascara, I’d catch the Chelsea bus and try to read the Observer through prickling red eyeballs as we swayed along Piccadilly, down Sloane Street, and into the King’s Road. Then a bath, one of those delirious fucks that only happen on the edge of complete fatigue, and a long sleep until it was time to get up and face the journey to Cook’s Ferry or whatever jazz club we were playing that evening.”

All all-night ravers, from whatever era, need a drug that keeps them awake. The drug of choice that allowed George and his fellow ravers to last the course was Benzedrine taken from broken up inhalers. The Benzedrine inhaler was intended as a decongestant, but you could break it open, remove the paper strip inside and soak the strip in a cup of coffee or tea. This was called a ‘B-Bomb’ and the preparation got so popular the manufacturers had to withdraw the inhaler from over the counter use in the early fifties."

Forget the Politics

 

I wonder what politics they are referring to? Scene politics or polititricks-politics? 

Respects to Noise Factory  - not just respect, but respects plural

Sledge Records - parent company of Stomp Records

Good tune anyway, with a riff that stirs vague pirate radio memories

If the stance is anti-politics, reminds me of these "fuck the government, any and all government" sentiments here

ruff sleepers

 

Endearing that DJ SS titled this track "Almshouse" when meaning "Armshouse"

Another tune that is not on Selectabwoy's "The Typo Mix", his selection of titularly bungled jungle. I suppose it's not a typo, strictly speaking, but definitely a mistake.  

(Or is it? Maybe SS actually was inspired by the treatment of the indigent during the Middle Ages.... Stranger things have happened in ardkore).