Roxy Music - Do The Strand (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1973)

Tasty live version.

Of the many things I could've chosen by Roxy Music, I've posted this because of the instrumental break about two minutes in where the piano emerges and leads a brief avant garde tango with the saxophone.

Good song too, of course.

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Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - The Night (Pilooski Re-Edit) (Tamla Motown, 1973)

Awesome taut funk and harmony. Re-edited.

Great record on a Northern Soul tip. Rumbling, alomst threatening, bass. Insistent, slapback drums. Shaka-shaka-tambourine. Expansive harmonies.

Re-edit adds some extra layers of rhythm and the odd sound effect. Doesn't detract from the track.

Dancefloor magic.

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Edo Lobo - Vento Bravo (EMI Brazil/Odeon, 1973)

Simply a mental track - drum'n'bass vamps in 1973.

Borne of the Bossa Nova scene, Edu Lobo is a bit of a genius. 'Vento Bravo' is from his 1973 album 'Missa Breve' and, to me, I can hear a massive amount of dubstep/drum'n'bass/Warp-type complexity in it.

When you listen deep into the maelstrom of rhythmic piano lines, metronomic drumming carefully placed brass and wandering bassline, it's easy to get lost with its exquisite, hypnotic structures.

Anything you can get your hands on is worth picking up as far Edu Lobo is concerned. The two new Bossa compilations of Soul Jazz - Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazillian Music in the 60s and Brazil Bossa Beat: The Story of Elenco Records seem to have spurred a bit of a reissue programme so I will be replacing my dodgy mastered-from-vinyl Brazilian CDs for shiny new ones.

Insanely good.

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