Sock Free Hideaway

 BEATS OF LOVE 

139. Afro Disco by Vincent Arthur & Dagomba

BIGGED UP Sam Don before, but he's since started a label. Sweet Free Association. 

I was lucky to bag one of two left on his Bandcamp page as the og was too pricey. Sam was onto it prior to its price sky rocketing and has kindly licensed three choice cuts. I was also lucky enough to bag one of the two left with his debut release, the impossibly rare Carter Lake by Carl Moore. A grower that peaked just in time for a tonne of Christmas plays. The pitfalls of coming off social media is I'm consigned to blogs and forums to hear fresh music. The only pitfalls. 

As a failed DJ, I appreciate the idiosyncratic self-imposed rules the successful DJs create to box themselves into a particular style. A style they can then harness. Comparatively speaking, I'm like the massively overgrown hedge way found outside derelict buildings.

Case in point, before deciding this record creates a brilliant atmosphere for dancing, I was pitching the idea, largely to myself, that Tony Ogden and John West's Man, Myth and Music demos, should be professionally recorded. They're so good. Not by AI, but by the compilation artists' Imaginary records were so good at finding. I've also been entering the hallucinatory world of my mother's surviving partner. A fatiguing world that reminds me that life can change in an instant. 

This year, I must stop filling notepads with ideas that never get realized and act on some instead. Cheers Sam and Ted for today's lesson.