#kapp records

[soulmusicsongs]

You’ve Been Talking About Me Baby -The Latin Souls (Tiger Boo-Ga-Loo, 1968)

[bandcampsnoop]

3/21/24.

Thanks to my friend Camille for turning me onto so much great music that I would never have found on my own. A couple of months ago she told me about The Four Seasons alter ego LP The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette. Then last month she told me about the Mother Soundtrack. A couple of days ago, she told me to listen to Silver Apples.

I'm not going to lie and say I've enjoyed every song, but each of the above releases is so different and interesting from my normal fare. And the most different of them all is Silver Apples (New York). I listened to the S/T debut (see link above) from which "Whirly Bird" comes.

The full LP came out in 1968 and influenced the likes of Suicide and Spacemen 3. I can't imagine Brian Eno or Devo weren't listening to this.

This 7" was originally released by Kapp Records and was reissued in 2016 by Play Loud!

[stone-cold-groove]

Kapp Records catalog - 1960.

[oldshowbiz]

1970.

The Sound of East L.A.: El Chicano

[mymelodic-chapel]

Silver Apples- Silver Apples (Psychedelic Rock, Experimental Rock, Electronic) Released: June 1968 [Kapp Records] Producer(s): The Magical Theatre Partnership, Barry Bryant

[mrrubbersuitman]

https://www.etsy.com/.../1971-the-wonderful-world-of-doctor 1971 The Wonderful World of Doctor Dolittle record Excellent sleeve, NM Media. Available through the link for $15.00.

[joanofarc]

yr version of cool, mad planets (1997, 1999).

i’m tired of wanting what i don’t have fuck you for flaunting your version of cool

[thriftstorerecords]

Jose Jimenez Talks To Teenagers Of All Ages Bill Dana Kapp Records/USA (1962)

[randomvarious]

Today's mix:

Caught in the Act by John Thomas 2001 Techno

Good lord, this was quite an extensive journey, folks. Back in 2001, France's John Thomas, who'd been DJing since the late 80s, *finally* put out the only mix that he'd ever release commercially in his entire career: Caught in the Act, on French label Logistic Records. The way this story goes is that Thomas decided to start producing sometime around '96, and then in '97 Logistic would launch with his own debut release, soon followed by some records that he had also made with a guy named Olivier Micheli too, under the name of Static Drum. In fact, although Thomas didn't found Logistic himself, it was pretty much either he or Static Drum that was responsible for the label's first 15 releases altogether, until Detroit techno legend Robert Hood broke that trend in 2000.

And in the run-up to releasing his debut LP, Blackstage, Thomas also put out this simply wild mix that same year, which really seems to serve as a contemporaneously multi-flavored and super dense clinic of highly rhythmic and throbbing techno music. It's not much to start, but eventually, when Thomas decides that he wants to solidify in a dark and dystopian direction, this thing ends up developing into a total monster.

And this isn't one of those linear mixes where tracks simply fade into and out of one another, either; JT's doing some pretty sweet multi-deck blending here. For example, he lets this mix's very own crown jewel, Umek's "Mamomit"—a song whose melody sounds like you asked a robot to play the most fucked up kind of jazz that it could possibly come up with—bleed all the way throughout the succeeding track, S.B. Project's "Cultural Co-Operation (B2)."

Some people may balk at Thomas' choice to not stay in one lane here, though. I mean, 33 tracks is quite a lot for just a 74-minute mix, after all. And while nothing beats the extended section of sci-fi madness on here, which on top of those two aforementioned tracks also includes Robert Hood's "Moveable Parts Chapter 1 Untitled 2," Olga+Jozef's "#07 B1," "A4" off of Ben Long's Imperial Leather EP, and the stunning "So Big So Close" by Diskordia as well, it does feel a little bit off when he decides to keep going after venturing outside of that realm. Like, I'll never say no to Andrew Mc Lauchlan's Brazilian-sampled "Love Story," one of the most essential techno tracks of the early 2000s, but it really would've served as a nice bow on this thing, especially since Thomas opened up his mix with a different Mc Lauchlan track too; it just doesn't really feel like there was a need to keep going with four more tracks after that one.

But be that as it may, the long and meaty middle of this mix is where it really truly shines; it takes some time to get going, and then it takes some time to peter out, but between all that is some terrific techno music and mixing, and after you give this one a complete spin, it'll probably have you wondering why this is the only set that this long-seasoned DJ ever ended up releasing 🤔.

Listen to the full mix here.

Highlights:

Sterac - "Liteon" Percy X - "Track 2" Alkahest - "Elemental" Umek - "Mamomit" S.B. Project - "Cultural Co-Operation (B2)" Robert Hood - "Moveable Parts Chapter 1 Untitled 2" Olga+Jozef - "Olga+Jozef #07 B1" Ben Long - "The Imperial Leather EP (A4)" Diskordia - "So Big So Close" Oliver Kapp - "Bella Figura" Andrew Mc Lauchlan - "Love Story"

[dankalbumart]

Squawk by Budgie Kapp Records/MCA 1972 Hard Rock / Heavy Metal / Progressive Rock / British Metal

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

UFO - Live 1972 * (full album) Live is the first live album by the British rock band UFO, recorded in Tokyo, Japan, on 25 September 1971. It was initially released exclusively in Japan in December 1971 entitled U.F.O. Landed Japan. It was later released abroad from 1972 onwards with different titles, such as UFO Live in Japan and UFO Lands in Tokyo.

Phil Mogg - vocals Mick Bolton - lead guitar Pete Way - bass Andy Parker - drums

Tracks Listing

C'mon Everybody (Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart)

Who Do You Love? (Ellas McDaniel)

Loving Cup (Paul Butterfield)

Prince Kajuku / The Coming Of Prince Kajuku (Pete Way, Phil Mogg, Andy Parker, Mick Bolton)

Boogie For George (Pete Way, Phil Mogg, Andy Parker, Mick Bolton)

Follow You Home (Pete Way)

Loving Cup (single B-side,1972) (Paul Butterfield)

Cover art of the 1972 Decca edition

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its US label was established in late 1934 by Lewis, Jack Kapp (the first president of the Decca Record company of the USA) and Milton Rackmil, who later became American Decca's president too. In 1937, anticipating Nazi aggression leading to World War II, Lewis sold American Decca and the link between the UK.and US Decca label was broken for several decades. The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums in the musical genre.

Both wings are now part of the Universal Music Group. The US Decca label became MCA Records, which formed half of what is now UMG (Universal Music Group).

[soulmusicsongs]

High Flying Bird - Billy Edd Wheeler (Paper Birds, 1967)

[delux2222]

“Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” Kapp Records Mexico From the 1964 Film. With music by Milton DeLugg.

[illustratedalbums]

Illustrated Jack Jones album covers: WHERE LOVE HAS GONE (1964 - Kapp Records) and WHERE IS LOVE? (1968 - RCA Victor).

[oldshowbiz]

The John Birch Society, the far-right group founded by the Koch Brothers' father, was ridiculed by the Chad Mitchell Trio.

[mymelodic-chapel]

Linda Perhacs- Parallelograms (Psychedelic Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Chamber Folk) Released: April 4, 1970 [Kapp Records] Producer(s): Leonard Rosenman