#street sounds

[muttball]

Street Sounds

#amsterdam #musicians #trio #street sounds #travel photography #travel europe #amsterdam entertainment #music makers

[grrl-operator]

Hi-Energy

#Street Sounds #Hi-Energy

[house-a-day]

Equip - XXX0

#Equip #Electro #Greg Wilson #Street Sounds

[c-40]

A-T-3 305 Street Sounds Electro 1 + 2

Street Sounds Electro was a very important record series for me growing up. I was our Motown Chartbusters or Tighten Up. The Electro compilation series was the brainchild of Morgan Khan and released on his budget dance import label Street Sounds, an offshoot of Khan's Streetwave Records which he founded after leaving R&B Records (PYE/PRT). The volumes came out in rapid succession, 1 and 2 were released late 1983, 3-6 were released in 1984 and so was the 9xLP Essential Electro boxset, series favourites Crucial Electro volumes 1 + 2, and UK Electro which has it's own story... Over its lifetime Street Sounds Electro became Street Sounds Hip Hop Electro and then just Street Sounds Hip Hop. 22 volumes were released between 1983 and 1988 as well as the aforementioned Ultimate Electro boxset, 3 Crucial Electro comps came out before 1988, UK Electro was joined by New York V L.A. Beats and The Best Of West Coast Hip Hop. The series continues to be reissued every now and again, as much, or maybe more, for the children of the eighties who once had or wanted the original series at the time. This audience now very much middle-aged and several branded beers were launched to celebrate the 40th anniversary https://www.electro.beer

Does everyone have a moment when they find something that is their thing removed from their parents or other family members tastes? Could we call this transformation becoming music consumingly mature? This happened to me way before pubity. Electro/Freestyle/Hip hop was my music, not my parents, not my uncles. In 1983 at the age of nine I was completely unaware of the Street Sounds Electro series but I loved the tracks that were breaking into the mainstream Shannon's Let The Music Play, Herbie Hancock's Rockit, Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five's White Lines, and Chaka Khan's I Feel For You the following Year. By the time Entering senior school (is that high school?) coincided with kids in the school playground going from punch-ups to breakdance battles (there were still plenty of fights.) My best friend was also into hip hop and the older boys used to call me "Scott La Rock" after Scott La Rock! I tuned into Mike Allen's National Fresh radio show every week (I think I still have the tapes I made of the show) which is where I heard about Scott La Rock's murder. Taped copies (and copies of copies) of the Street Sounds Electro series got passed around at school. I used to reproduce Jon Carver's Street Sounds sleeve artwork in my bedroom. The sleeves for later entries to the Electro series featured graffiti by Artful Dodger of The Trailblazers (Chrome Angelz) and Terice and it was copying the artwork on these albums that got Mark and me into graffiti writing

The Electro series was mixed, for volumes 1 + 2 (and 3) this was by Herbie (aka Mastermind) and I love those mixes (not everybody does and yeah they can be a bit shonky but I do) it might have been my introduction to a dj mix. When I hear tracks which are on these compilations out or used on tv/film/games I hear the mix and the track it's mixed into. For instance The Show will always go into Bad Boys and Craig G's Transformer will always go into Chuck Chillout's Two, Three, Break - although I own all these records individually now (that's another part of the legacy) the versions mixed on the Electro series are burnt to my aural memory

Morgan Khan has said something along the lines of the UK record industry had been blindsided by its own racism which left him with an opportunity. Making licensing deals with American labels like West End and Salsoul was very similar to Rams Horn Records had done in the Netherlands. We had had extremely popular black music compilation series in the UK like labelcentric comps Motown Chartbusters, Phillybusters, and Tighten Up. Trojan and Pama, who developed into Jet Star, and their rivals Greensleeves were probably the closest thing we had had to Street Sounds but of course those labels dealt exclusively with Jamaican music. 1983 was the year EMI got together with Virgin to reinvent the pop chart compilation with the NOW! series. NOW! albums covered a bit of everything but the thing that tied the tracks together was that they were all domestic top 40 hit singles and you got a lot of them around 30 tracks. In contrast to this Street Sounds first compilation Street Sounds Edition 1 released in 1982 only had 8 tracks and they were remixed and extended versions of seven underground disco imports and The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five which went mainstream everywhere. There were a lot of these types of comps offering the latest underground dance music from the US after Street Sounds but I've been trying to think if there was anything quite like it in the UK beforehand. A couple of Prelude comps like 98.7 Kiss FM Presents Shep Pettibone's Mastermixes and Beat The Street: Hot Mixes By Francois Kevorkian were released in the UK, Ze/Island Record's Mutant Disco, but again these were label comps. Island had put out the excellent Genius Of Rap compilation which could be considered a precursor but its focus is on rap

Street Sounds, especially the Electro series, had a massive impact on British youth culture. There was a spin off live event, UK Fresh '86, and with its success inevitable copy cat comps. Scratch Tracks on the Netherland's High Fashion Music label, also in 1983, looked a lot like Street Sounds Electro and is probably the earliest imitator but for a year or two Street Sounds was a few steps ahead. I'd like to find out when Street Sounds distribution deal with PRT ended because its first major competition came from Serious Beats 1 followed by the Up Front series distributed by PRT for Serious Records in 1986. Champion Records began its Ultimate Trax series in late 1986, Paul Oakenfold was an A&R man for them at the time and had a hand in Ultimate Trax 3. 1986 also saw the release of The House Sound Of Chicago in the UK by London records and their A&R man Pete Tong. Tong had begun as a writer for Blues & Soul Magazine, he compiled the album Best of British Jazz Funk in 1981 before joining London Records. The House Sound of Chicago was Street Sounds Electro but with the new sound coming from Chicago. Up Front and Ultimate Trax saw which way the wind was blowing and but house tracks next to hip hop. A&R for Cooltempo Trevor Nelson introduced its Fierce series with the same formula. Morgan Khan launched Westside Records in 1987 to release house on the labels flagship Jackmaster series but they were outspent by London and Champion Records. With this going on the Electro series remained hip hop. Dave Pearce writes the liner notes *WORD released by Jive in 1987, it's a comp of Jive hip hop artists and it's credible stuff, real competition albeit a label comp. I rate Dave Pearce from his hip hop days, he would go on to produce Electro 20 which was had US acts on side-a and a showcase for UK rap on side-b. The same year Dave Pearce becomes A&R for Urban/Polydor. Telstar from telemarketing into dance music with it's Deep Heat series in 1988 (I'd like to know more about Telstar's ownership of Big Life Records.) Finally also in 1988 Kool Kat A&R Neil Rushton compiles Techno! (The New Dance Sound Of Detroit) for Virgin/10 Records. Dance music is now challenging pop music sales in the UK and at their height in the 1980s pirate radio stations were rivalling the popularity of legal stations. I think it's fair to say the bulk of the UKs pirate stations in the 1980s played a similar diet to Street Sounds (soul, rare groove, jazz-funk, hip hop) with the addition of reggae, then when rave hit a new wave of stations came in proliferating exponentially like fractals. If you look on the official Street Sounds Facebook group people post their favourite dance music from the late 1980s, there's a lot of underground house in there

The Street Sounds Electro series ended in 1988 that same year Street Sounds went into liquidation. By the early 1990s you could pick up a second hand Electro album for one or two pounds. I was a poor school kid when they originally came and I couldn't afford to buy them at the time so scooped up the lot when they began turning up in quantity second hand replacing my taped copies with originals. The prices you sometimes see them being asked for now leaves me boggles my mind, they're not the most expensive but they've never been rare. There's been a copy of Electro 3 in a cabinet in Oxfam on Smithdown Road listed for £29.99 for six months now, Electro 3 is particularly good but £30 that's the upper end of a discogs listings? sure some sucker will buy it eventually

I've made and continue to make friends through Street Sounds Electro series going all the way back to Electro 6. I've shared most of the tracks from Electro 1 + 2 already so here is Street Sounds Electro 1 Side 1 in its entirety

#1983 #street sounds #electro #morgan khan #uk #80s music

[thingstol00kat]

#sounds #mexico city #cdmx #sonidos #street sounds #city sounds #article #interactive article #2023reads

[crybaby-bkg]

new dad Bakugou who’s going back to work full time almost a full year after his daughter his born and he now has to grapple with the fact that….goddamn, he’s spoiled the shit outta her.

well, he doesn’t think it was spoiling her. in actuality, he just created a routine with her, gave her every bit of his attention, held her when she cried, scolded her (yes just at eight months) whenever she’d babble for more puffs even though she’s had enough already. it wasn’t spoiling, it wasn’t. he vowed to never be that dad, to raise a snot nosed brat, one similar to himself.

but here he is, on a Tuesday morning three weeks after her first birthday. he’s standing halfway between the front door and the living room in full uniform, with his still sleepy baby and her even sleepier mama. she’s gripping his neck like he promised to abandon her, wailing and crying so loud and dramatically, that you can’t help but chuckle at her antics and how he wavers ever so slightly.

“You promised you’d go back to work,” you scold him gently, rubbing at your daughters quivering back when she whines again the moment he acts like he’s gonna pull her off. Bakugou frowns at you, and you shrug, smoothing her unruly blond curls away from her sticky forehead.

“But you guys need me.” He pouts, eyebrows downturned as he pulls her away enough to wipe at her wet face. she blubbers again, whimpering out a small dadaaaa noooo, that absolutely breaks his heart.

“And so does the world.” You smile at him, gently pulling your daughter away from the matching glassy red eyes who watch her go. “We’ll be fine, my love. Promise.”

Bakugou looks unconvinced, especially since your daughter reaches for him with another cry of his name. you don’t say anything when he sniffles discreetly, quickly reaching down to the coffee table to snatch up his utility belt that he dropped when she waddled out of her room in tears. he snaps it on wordlessly, and you go to turn to the kitchen when he wraps you both up in his arms.

“Love you,” he whispers against your forehead before pecking it, leaning down to kiss your lips next, and then your daughter’s fat little cheeks. He whispers another love you to her, and wipes away at her rosy cheeks when she pouts at him.

“Rub you.” your daughter pouts, the both of you freezing in shock.

“Oh my god,” you whisper, grinning. “She said I love you back!” Bakugou matches your grin, laughing under his breath as he presses another torrent of kisses all of her face. for the first time since she’s opened her eyes today, she laughs, loud and joyous and familiar. he thinks that maybe going back in today won’t be so bad after all. not if this is what he’ll be coming home to.

#I have been tormented with dad bkg thoughts again I fear #he’s too loveable for his own good #but also the thought of bkg becoming a dad and vowing he’d be this certain way #but then his kid comes out and he’s like. yes. values. parenting skills. life lessons. discipline and love. #and then all of it goes out the window when they just look at him #and they look so much like him and they’re just so cute and annoying and. now he’s brought them everything they’ve ever wanted LOL #also I love toddlers who speak like non conventionally/stereotypically #like my youngest niece turns all of her consonants to ‘h’ for 2 syllable words #and it’s so funny bc everything sounds like ‘huh hah huhh’ #but she’s also VERY clear when she wants to be lol she just gets excited sometimes and forgets to enunciate #okay rambling sorry but I love babies LOL #—new treat in the streets! 🍫 #bakugou treats! 🍬 #dad bkg

[ryllen]

Was giving these analysis a read [ x , x , x , x ]

#twisted wonderland #twst #trey clover #jamil viper #kalim al asim #jade leech #and then i gave his mentioned vignettes a read #it's true #he has a back street way to get stuff he wants #but thankfully the things he wants always borderline normal #the best thing about him laying low is to strike when people are totally off guard around him #which is what happened to riddle #fsdshd i guess if he did turn someone's bone into a jelly he would overblot in an instant fhsdhs #that sounds just as scary as avatar's blood bending #i was focusing more on his wanting to be normal side bcs i was not through yet with all stories involving him #but i'm not sure if i could be sly enough to write him as clever as he should be #somehow reading him being described as clever makes me a bit happy #like woah he really is! #fsdhsdh but he can really be a henchman of mafia group if he really wants to; this trey #fshdshdshdsdh OH no now i'm imagining the leech's mafia family #but i think leech's dad would respect trey's choice not to get his hands on any of these shady business #but it's assuring to know trey might have something up in his sleeves if anything ever happen to his son #anyway happy birthday trey! #also this doujinshi strips where trey doing a back street way of casting his nets over jade #https://twitter.com/CfEo95iwr/status/1715992373686362213 #i like to think he is confident he could do it without such a thing #but that sly way i understand now it's totally him

[nobeerreviews]

The sound of the rain needs no translation.

-- Alan Watts

(Roma)

#rain #streets #translation #alan watts #travel photography #rome #roma #italy #street photography #quote #sound of rain

[kaereth]

Me wrow I'm so excited to finally have some more freetime for the next few weeks!

also me taking in a new 2 week old foster kitten suddenly:

#his mom left him for no reason? #we have a semi feral cat colony living across the street and my mom saw him this morning crying left out alone #2 hrs later he was still there so i went and got him #mom saw her again and tried to lay him out and see if she'd get him #while I went to the store to get formula #but no go #so now I'm syringe feeding a little baby #his name is car alarm cause thats what he sounds like #txt #i have fostered many kittens atp so its nothing new but does suck a little cause its tons of work when they're this young

[sydneighsays]

I was just thinking about how this quest probably looked from the outside 💀💀

Jee and V needa be more subtle

I got some cute screenshots out of it though so I'm not complaining.

#fanart #cyberpunk #cyberpunk 2077 #johnny silverhand #V #my V #I know he usually talks to him in his head but there's no way that he didn't do that middle finger externally #that poor monk probably thinks he just hired some schizo to take on Maelstrom #cbp2077 #when that sickly twink you hired off the street isn't as sound of mind as you assumed

[thistransient]

Tokyo 2023

#where does the gate of life lead to #sounds kinda ominous #streets #japan #tokyo #photography

[tanya-veldenmir]

I came here to post a sketch, but then saw the news.

So I dedicate this post to Netflix being slashed by Lockwood’s rapier, to Netflix being ghosted by everyone, to Netflix burning in a cold fire of the Other side.

#lockwood & co #lockwood and co #lockwood and co netflix #art #lockwood #lockwood & co netflix #lockwood art #lockwood fanart #lockwoodandco art #sketch #I’m so done that even ready to protest on the streets #while crying #good job not promoting the show at all and then cancelling it #sounds logical innit netflix #not sure how soon I’ll manage to recover from this #Portland row will forever be my home #renew lockwood and co

[skitskatstudios]

In my language, “PK” is a curse word. So to me, Saiki and his friends all go to ‘Fuck You Academy’.

#In Cantonese it means ‘Fall in the streets and die’ more or less #It doesn’t sound as vulgar when literally translated tbh. #But it’s a real bad curse phrase. Hella common. You’d hear it all the time. #Tbh I don’t really swear in Cantonese. English on the other hand? #Here are some more interpretative translations (based on vibes mainly) for your consideration #‘Eat shit Academy’ #‘Drop Dead Academy’ #‘Why won’t you just die Academy’ #‘Damn you to hell Academy’ #‘Crime against humanity Academy’ #‘Everyone wishes you were dead Academy’ #Don’t quote me on how accurate any of these are. Because none of them are accurate. #But this is so flipping fun to do haha #saiki k #languages

[generic-doomsday-villain]

these specific scenes made me lose my shit so i made them into looping gifs

#first one is named andfrederickkruegerisnofriendofmine.gif and the second is named pinball.gif btw #i was debating making and sharing a sped up version of The Thrust #jason looks like a wasp trying to escape a plastic cup #gmod ragdoll sound effect #also absolutely no credit needed if you use/share them anywhere. i just wanted to share #jason voorhees #freddy krueger #freddy vs jason #fvsj #fvj #a nightmare on elm street #nightmare on elm street #anoes #friday the 13th #ft13th #(i think i can add those tags since it has both freddy and jason in it) #slasher #gif #looping gif

[lloydfrontera]

lloyd 'survived on one meal per day for years' frontera would absolutely see sharing food as a love language and javier 'lived in the streets for months as a child' asrahan would be fluent in it

i do believe there is a point in their lives where they both heal from the trauma of going through severe food insecurity but neither of them ever quite really forget just how important food can be. and when the other shares their food with them, they appreciate it as the show of affection it was meant to be

#i talk a lot <3 #tged #the greatest estate developer #lloyd frontera #javier asrahan #i've talked before about food as a love language in tged which mostly affects the relationship between marbella and lloyd #but i do think it would bleed over to other aspects in lloyd's life #and there's a scene in the hell arc where javier figures out something is wrong because lloyd complains about the food #something javier notes he never does. no matter the quality of the food how plain or unpleasant it is lloyd never complains about it #and he explicitly calls it out as the way someone that had been starving for years and knew the preciousness of food would act #which if you then take into account that this is been said by a person that survived on his own as a five year old child in the streets #in the middle of winter... well. it sounds less like speculation and more like someone speaking from experience. #anyway. all this to say lloyd would peel an orange and then give half of it to javier and javier would absolutely swoon #and when they're on the road and they sit down to eat javier will always give the fuller plate to lloyd #and lloyd will have to swallow the knot in his throat before he can start eating #llojavi #yeah fine i'll tag it

[velvetjune]

[alan wake voice] oh, tor and odin. they were in my musical :)

#one of the funniest conversations in the game with kiran going ‘immediately less optimistic :\’ #alan wake 2 #alan wake #Alan sounded SO matter-of-fact and pleased responding with that #thinking about the good ole days (when he got to do a little dance and song for fun) #do you think Alice and Alan ever took a stroll in manhattan and Alan stared longingly at the broadway ads on the streets