Why British DJs From the ’60s and ’70s Kept Their Best Records Secret: There’s a great Marvin Gaye single from 1967 called “This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It’s Killing Me).” It’s classic Motown. All energy and style and the kind of driving backbeat that made the Motown Sound so iconic. Marvin is giving it his all on this record, his voice a breaking growl, soaring over the music. It’s soul at its finest and we, the lucky listeners, just get to sit back and enjoy it. Or at least, now we do. Unless they were top brass over at Motown HQ, soul music lovers in the U.S. at the time probably never heard this song. It went unreleased for years, and only reappeared as a bootleg in the late 1970s, with a noticeable difference: Marvin Gaye’s name was nowhere on it. When the record resurfaced years later, it was under the name J.J. Barnes, a purposeful deception by obsessive record collectors and DJs known as a “cover-up.”
Manahawkin, NJ | The “Red Rocker” Bruce Ciangetti Honored on Sunday: The Manahawkin area honored Bruce Ciangetti, the “Red Rocker” on Sunday at the Manafirkin Brewing Company site. The Brewery is located in the rear of the former Red Rocker Record store. Music lovers who grew up in the Manahawkin and LBI area in the eighties and nineties regularly shopped at the Red Rocker Record store on East Bay Avenue in Manahawkin. This was back in the day of vinyl records and cassettes. Bruce’s friends came out on Sunday, June 24. The people seemed to have a good time reminiscing and chatting with the “Rocker.” “Bruce Ciangetti, turned all of us onto awesome music from thrash metal and punk to classic rock and early 90’s grunge,” wrote Chris Fritz who worked for the Rocker as a teenager in his store. “Bruce, quite frankly is a music legend in this area.”
There’s a hidden 5th LP in the packaging of Kamasi Washington’s new album: Over the weekend, jazz lord Kamasi Washington dropped his epic new album Heaven and Earth, and oh boy, it’s an experience. With a sprawling two and a half hour run time, the double album is available physically as a four LP vinyl set. But apparently four LP’s just aren’t enough… The hidden fifth LP is concealed in the album’s centre gatefold, and you’ll need to use a pair of box-cutters (or something sharp) on the perforated cardboard line to access it. Be careful though, you don’t want to cut too deep and damage the record below. The LP is a 40 minute long EP called The Choice, which hauls the album’s run time up to three hours and ten minutes long.
Luke Cage Season Two Original Soundtrack released on “smokey yellow” vinyl: Created by A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad and composer Adrian Younge aka The Midnight Hour. The original score for season two of Netflix show Marvel’s Luke Cage is being released on limited 2xLP, via Mondo this June. Luke Cage stars Mike Colter in its titular role, a former convict who develops superhuman strength and skin, and returns to Harlem to fight crime. As with the critically acclaimed score for season one, Luke Cage’s music was composed by Ali Shaheed Muhammahd and Adrian Younge. Younge and Muhammad recorded Luke Cage’s soundtrack in the winter of 2018 at two studios in Los Angeles, Blakeslee and Linear Labs. Accoridng to Mondo, its sounds “explore the vast sonic cultural landscape of Harlem” with the new addition of “a dub reggae motif for the character of Bushmaster.”
