UTTERLY ECLECTIC ADVENTURES AT THE FAR SIDE OF GROOVE AND CHILL WITH THE STRANGE CARGO RADIO SHOW AND VERY SPECIAL GUESTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
PREFACE
So why the need for such a book and such a project with the world these days seemingly increasingly available at your fingertips and in most peoples cases on their phones? The idea all began with a normal late night, past midnight phone conversation with our old pal Darren Mcallister or "Dangey-Mouse"as he has become affectionately known through the back alleys of Magical musical madness that has become Strange Cargo's regular H.Q for a few years now.
This phone call in isolation wasn't an oddity or anything unusual in itself, although it did lead to be the inspiration for the very pages that you have graciously chosen to glance upon right this minute. As for specific call content relating to the books inspiration; I suppose you could call it yet another instance of trying to find the name / artist and locate a place you could grab that all illusive must have track (for a particular set you had already got 9/10th's completed in your minds eye) and not being able to recall where it was, what it was called or indeed hardly any useful details at all.
Although both DM & MG specifically knew and loved the track, The pair continued intimately recalling and singing various high points of the tune, spectacularly badly though, through smoke riddled rooms linked paradoxically through common goals infused with the smell of some musty post midnight liquor.
"Oh come on ffs!!! Exclaimed Dangey in frustration "I know ye know it ya bast!"
"Yeah I knew a fairy her name was Nuff so Fair enough" came the reply from MG as simply there was nothing sensible or usable to add at this stage he justified to himself whilst still using the majority of his brains capacity to try and extract some specific information relating to the track.
"Dum ti ti Dee Dee, Dum ti ti Dee Dee" continued DM
MG still with nothing to add throws in "This is Outrageous, this is contagious" mindlessly quoting "Jez" from C4's Peep Show series whilst picturing and simultaneously mimicking the dance just a little too well (and most obviously over practiced,) completing the dance routine only to exclaim (completely out of context and skipping over episodes of the same much loved show to) "Where's the F*cking Beef Gerrard you t*wat!" and then continuing almost compulsively with the now almost sung & rhythmically delivered ditty of "Tube up his nose, tube up his nose, man with a tube up his nose"
"Ha, tube up your nose more like" Retorts DM whilst taking another swig from "those poxy sized glass bottles" he hated so much.
"I am not putting my nose anywhere near your tubes you wrong Lord" continued MG then adding rather obscurely and most definitely disjointedly "Oh Nancy Don't marry those gays!"
"C'mon then ye fecker, dish up thy goods, I need that track for the weekends set, I've got the ideal "Boosh" sample just sat right there / here, waiting to tickle it gently like an amorous frog soaked in Absinthe" replied DM increasingly frustrated, yet still retaining his humour and fondness for off the wall nonsense often drenched with quotes from killer past TV shows of yesteryear.
DM had long since been posting up his own range of specialist YT videos to represent digs along the way and indeed MG had been posting up various favourite songs of Strange Cargo to help promote the show a little while prior. It remained however that no doubt the tune in question was definitely on numerous of the digging and collecting sites that we all frequent regularly we remained mostly in the dark regarding so many aspects / details of the track in question and as ever it was something we needed to hand and simply didn't have it, let alone know how much it would cost to purchase, if indeed it was still readily available at all?
The conversation meandered continuing with a barrage of with kind of less than occasional regularity were the obligatory comedy outbursts and randomly announced quotes that sprang to mind. These could be wide reaching and dependent from whatever nonsense had been viewed recently or pulled up from aging data banks stocked full of what most would term "useless knowledge" across a variety of subjects.
In the main a little obscurity and off the wall humour kept the pair comfortable and at ease with quotes ranging from Withnail and I to the much loved phrases of C4's Peep show anti hero legend "Super Hans" and then they eventually continued to get back here and there periodically to the original point of the conversation in the first place.
Only then to diversify even further from the main objective i.e. The name of the tune in question here and instead choose to reminisce that "we really shouldn't complain as much" as historically digging itself they mused as a concept remained "So utterly accessible as long as you had a computer and months of spare hours", to take up something so exquisitely addicting and rewarding for a relative low cost initial outlay.
The sozzled pair then continued to cast their minds back to the original inspiration of collecting music at all and further what led them to dare veering out of and away from the more readily available commercial mainstream music of the era's in question. Both recalled the prior pretentious attitudes of many a retro record salesman who sort of liked to indulge themselves in the fact that they no doubt knew infinitely more than us as merely rag tag teenagers and were quite happy to keep all the real information and great records to themselves.
With the birth of the internet, some wonderful record stores, numerous blogs and hundreds if not thousands of clued up leftfield music fans writing online things have unfolded exponentially for the serious music hunter or beat freak on the mooch for something to tickle their fancy.
One thing however did not yet exist and that was one centralised source that could just "plug in" a young or emerging fan of decent music, across the board and regardless of genre. Sure, there were some excellent shows out there, some fantastic groups even outstanding blogs in themselves where some dedicated dude or chick have spent countless hours of endearing effort to bring you a whole compendium of music covering some aspect or other.
As such we began considering how nice it would be to provide an "As all encompassing as we can muster" one stop shop that perhaps some youngster or 3 could stumble across and maybe just widely expand their musical tastes and horizons?
We are not ageist of course being no spring chickens ourselves and a little world beaten / well weathered to say the least. As such this book and resource is aimed to provide something for everyone, all ages, appreciating all genres and mostly especially for those prepared and wanting to leave their prior musical preconceptions / misconceptions at the door. For here we simply judge music as music, by hearing it and for the feelings it gives us in each particular instance.
We like nothing more than being pleasantly surprised and as such most genuinely hope that you too can find something to enjoy here. We'd just love it if any of the information provided inspired you to "keep on digging" just a little bit longer or just a little bit harder than the next person, as we know (speaking from experience) is the rabbit hole is literally never ending. This does of course bring its own obvious rewards which one can find most gratifying!
One can further easily dedicate his / her whole life to the pursuits and pleasures of crate digging, never exhausting all resources and consistently finding new music that just makes you go "Ooh F*ck Yeah!" Never a bad feeling to have and it's just as much fun when you get to share that moment with other appreciative fans of the same things / sounds.
With that in mind you are now furnished with the books underlying ethos and aspirations and finally ready to embark to our hand crafted, magical musical journey traversing time, space and genres with reckless abandonment and a serious love for the very best in way out beats and pieces.
Please sit back, relax and enjoy! We thoroughly recommend going to the mixes section (accessed via the icons / tabs featured to the left of this blog) where you can open sub-menus. Once there hover your mouse or arrow over the tab / icon labelled "Our Mix Vault" until it goes Black, then click it on and select a little background music to accompany you as you take a little look around this the blog aimed at documenting our work in progress as we aspire and perspire to formulate the ultimate coffee table companion for any serious eclectically minded record collector / DJ / Producer / Sample Hunter and Beat Freaks with ears for the alternatives throughout music.
MEET AND GREET THE REAM TEAM THAT MAKES IT ALL POSSIBLE
With a monumental task laid before us I suppose I should point out in advance that this is a not for profit project, entirely a labour of love and would not even have been possible without the help, influence, advice and contributions of numerous other madly obsessed fans of music across a wide range of genres and styles
This vagabond team of serious music collectors have been mainly found through our initial crate digging radio show THE STRANGE CARGO RADIO SHOW - Alternative Soundscapes for Sundays, which originally aired via Soul Legends Radio.
As such full credit must go to them in so many instances here and to make it easier to note who contributed what you will note that in the case of each submitted tune, in the text box the contributor will be denoted by their initials and a key-code to which is provided below. Should you wish to connect with them personally just send us an email with the header "I WANNA TALK TO THE DJ" and let us know who it is you want to talk to and / or what you want to say and we promise to get the message directly to them just as soon as we are able. All emails regarding the book and its contents etc can be sent via:
[email protected]
Contributors
MJG - Mark James Gardner - London:
DM - Darren Mcallister - Ireland:
THE REST T.B.C
As the project progresses we will seek to encourage further submissions from a whole range of guests to wider our musical horizons even further and hopefully get to bring you some of the best music that you have yet to hear!
All sections remain a work in progress at this time and it is both rough and pre-edited but we thought it would be quite nice to give both fans of the show and contributors an idea of how far we have got and how it is all coming together in real time format :-)
So why the need for such a book and such a project with the world these days seemingly increasingly available at your fingertips and in most peoples cases on their phones? The idea all began with a normal late night, past midnight phone conversation with our old pal Darren Mcallister or "Dangey-Mouse"as he has become affectionately known through the back alleys of Magical musical madness that has become Strange Cargo's regular H.Q for a few years now.
This phone call in isolation wasn't an oddity or anything unusual in itself, although it did lead to be the inspiration for the very pages that you have graciously chosen to glance upon right this minute. As for specific call content relating to the books inspiration; I suppose you could call it yet another instance of trying to find the name / artist and locate a place you could grab that all illusive must have track (for a particular set you had already got 9/10th's completed in your minds eye) and not being able to recall where it was, what it was called or indeed hardly any useful details at all.
Although both DM & MG specifically knew and loved the track, The pair continued intimately recalling and singing various high points of the tune, spectacularly badly though, through smoke riddled rooms linked paradoxically through common goals infused with the smell of some musty post midnight liquor.
"Oh come on ffs!!! Exclaimed Dangey in frustration "I know ye know it ya bast!"
"Yeah I knew a fairy her name was Nuff so Fair enough" came the reply from MG as simply there was nothing sensible or usable to add at this stage he justified to himself whilst still using the majority of his brains capacity to try and extract some specific information relating to the track.
"Dum ti ti Dee Dee, Dum ti ti Dee Dee" continued DM
MG still with nothing to add throws in "This is Outrageous, this is contagious" mindlessly quoting "Jez" from C4's Peep Show series whilst picturing and simultaneously mimicking the dance just a little too well (and most obviously over practiced,) completing the dance routine only to exclaim (completely out of context and skipping over episodes of the same much loved show to) "Where's the F*cking Beef Gerrard you t*wat!" and then continuing almost compulsively with the now almost sung & rhythmically delivered ditty of "Tube up his nose, tube up his nose, man with a tube up his nose"
"Ha, tube up your nose more like" Retorts DM whilst taking another swig from "those poxy sized glass bottles" he hated so much.
"I am not putting my nose anywhere near your tubes you wrong Lord" continued MG then adding rather obscurely and most definitely disjointedly "Oh Nancy Don't marry those gays!"
"C'mon then ye fecker, dish up thy goods, I need that track for the weekends set, I've got the ideal "Boosh" sample just sat right there / here, waiting to tickle it gently like an amorous frog soaked in Absinthe" replied DM increasingly frustrated, yet still retaining his humour and fondness for off the wall nonsense often drenched with quotes from killer past TV shows of yesteryear.
DM had long since been posting up his own range of specialist YT videos to represent digs along the way and indeed MG had been posting up various favourite songs of Strange Cargo to help promote the show a little while prior. It remained however that no doubt the tune in question was definitely on numerous of the digging and collecting sites that we all frequent regularly we remained mostly in the dark regarding so many aspects / details of the track in question and as ever it was something we needed to hand and simply didn't have it, let alone know how much it would cost to purchase, if indeed it was still readily available at all?
The conversation meandered continuing with a barrage of with kind of less than occasional regularity were the obligatory comedy outbursts and randomly announced quotes that sprang to mind. These could be wide reaching and dependent from whatever nonsense had been viewed recently or pulled up from aging data banks stocked full of what most would term "useless knowledge" across a variety of subjects.
In the main a little obscurity and off the wall humour kept the pair comfortable and at ease with quotes ranging from Withnail and I to the much loved phrases of C4's Peep show anti hero legend "Super Hans" and then they eventually continued to get back here and there periodically to the original point of the conversation in the first place.
Only then to diversify even further from the main objective i.e. The name of the tune in question here and instead choose to reminisce that "we really shouldn't complain as much" as historically digging itself they mused as a concept remained "So utterly accessible as long as you had a computer and months of spare hours", to take up something so exquisitely addicting and rewarding for a relative low cost initial outlay.
The sozzled pair then continued to cast their minds back to the original inspiration of collecting music at all and further what led them to dare veering out of and away from the more readily available commercial mainstream music of the era's in question. Both recalled the prior pretentious attitudes of many a retro record salesman who sort of liked to indulge themselves in the fact that they no doubt knew infinitely more than us as merely rag tag teenagers and were quite happy to keep all the real information and great records to themselves.
With the birth of the internet, some wonderful record stores, numerous blogs and hundreds if not thousands of clued up leftfield music fans writing online things have unfolded exponentially for the serious music hunter or beat freak on the mooch for something to tickle their fancy.
One thing however did not yet exist and that was one centralised source that could just "plug in" a young or emerging fan of decent music, across the board and regardless of genre. Sure, there were some excellent shows out there, some fantastic groups even outstanding blogs in themselves where some dedicated dude or chick have spent countless hours of endearing effort to bring you a whole compendium of music covering some aspect or other.
As such we began considering how nice it would be to provide an "As all encompassing as we can muster" one stop shop that perhaps some youngster or 3 could stumble across and maybe just widely expand their musical tastes and horizons?
We are not ageist of course being no spring chickens ourselves and a little world beaten / well weathered to say the least. As such this book and resource is aimed to provide something for everyone, all ages, appreciating all genres and mostly especially for those prepared and wanting to leave their prior musical preconceptions / misconceptions at the door. For here we simply judge music as music, by hearing it and for the feelings it gives us in each particular instance.
We like nothing more than being pleasantly surprised and as such most genuinely hope that you too can find something to enjoy here. We'd just love it if any of the information provided inspired you to "keep on digging" just a little bit longer or just a little bit harder than the next person, as we know (speaking from experience) is the rabbit hole is literally never ending. This does of course bring its own obvious rewards which one can find most gratifying!
One can further easily dedicate his / her whole life to the pursuits and pleasures of crate digging, never exhausting all resources and consistently finding new music that just makes you go "Ooh F*ck Yeah!" Never a bad feeling to have and it's just as much fun when you get to share that moment with other appreciative fans of the same things / sounds.
With that in mind you are now furnished with the books underlying ethos and aspirations and finally ready to embark to our hand crafted, magical musical journey traversing time, space and genres with reckless abandonment and a serious love for the very best in way out beats and pieces.
Please sit back, relax and enjoy! We thoroughly recommend going to the mixes section (accessed via the icons / tabs featured to the left of this blog) where you can open sub-menus. Once there hover your mouse or arrow over the tab / icon labelled "Our Mix Vault" until it goes Black, then click it on and select a little background music to accompany you as you take a little look around this the blog aimed at documenting our work in progress as we aspire and perspire to formulate the ultimate coffee table companion for any serious eclectically minded record collector / DJ / Producer / Sample Hunter and Beat Freaks with ears for the alternatives throughout music.
MEET AND GREET THE REAM TEAM THAT MAKES IT ALL POSSIBLE
With a monumental task laid before us I suppose I should point out in advance that this is a not for profit project, entirely a labour of love and would not even have been possible without the help, influence, advice and contributions of numerous other madly obsessed fans of music across a wide range of genres and styles
This vagabond team of serious music collectors have been mainly found through our initial crate digging radio show THE STRANGE CARGO RADIO SHOW - Alternative Soundscapes for Sundays, which originally aired via Soul Legends Radio.
As such full credit must go to them in so many instances here and to make it easier to note who contributed what you will note that in the case of each submitted tune, in the text box the contributor will be denoted by their initials and a key-code to which is provided below. Should you wish to connect with them personally just send us an email with the header "I WANNA TALK TO THE DJ" and let us know who it is you want to talk to and / or what you want to say and we promise to get the message directly to them just as soon as we are able. All emails regarding the book and its contents etc can be sent via:
[email protected]
Contributors
MJG - Mark James Gardner - London:
DM - Darren Mcallister - Ireland:
THE REST T.B.C
As the project progresses we will seek to encourage further submissions from a whole range of guests to wider our musical horizons even further and hopefully get to bring you some of the best music that you have yet to hear!
All sections remain a work in progress at this time and it is both rough and pre-edited but we thought it would be quite nice to give both fans of the show and contributors an idea of how far we have got and how it is all coming together in real time format :-)