| WAH WAH 45S / Music Blog |  | | March News Update | 1. WAH WAH 45S LABEL NEWS
ANOTHER NEW WAH WAH SIGNING!!
Following on from the announcement of HARDKANDY and ASHLEY THOMAS last month, were continuing to behave like a certain West London football team and are delighted to tell you that we shall be putting out the debut album by THE PART TIME HEROES later on in 2008. Weve obviously been working with these boys for some time under their PTH PROJECTS guise, and were over the moon when they agreed to join the Wah Wah family full time! The album will drop in September, and itÍs a corker!! In the meantime expect the Ready For Change EP, featuring the vocals of PETE SIMPSON and BRIDGETTE AMOFAH, to appear in June, and that too, of course, is an absolute cracker!! More news soon.
OUT SOON!!
MARCH 31ST
The new Jamie Finlay 7 incher, Step Forward, will be dropping on March 31st, with both the original version and reggae style Mr. Fraziers Mix on the vinyl; and the much anticipated Aaron Jerome minimal house mix of Warm Sound by Scrimshire will be out too (here it on Aarons podcast with GP here http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/podcasts.php ), with brand new Scrimshire cut When The World Was Young on the flip too. Watch out!
These will be followed up by the new Wah Wah 45s compilation Underground Hits and Exclusive Bits : Three, which should drop on April 7th, and will feature exclusives from Stac, Ashley Thomas, Talc, Luna & Bazis, Scrimshire, Hardkandy and Middlewood Sessions. Then itÍs all about Hardkandy as we bring you their debut single for Wah Wah, and title track from the album, the Curtis Mayfield flavoured Second To None, on 7 inch vinyl (backed by the afro jazz club nugget Dunks). Then on April 21st we unleash the full length album; a collection of classy tunes mainly on the soul tip and featuring the vocals of Fink, Martin Harley and Laura Vane amongst others!! Soon come.
OUT NOW!!
FEB 11TH 2008
Middlewood Sessions / Red Waters b/w Astro Blue 12Inch / Digital Download
Wah Wah 45s present the brand new single from Middlewood Sessions in 2008!! The outfit from Sheffield, of Fallback fame (released on Brownswood Recordings) debut on Wah Wah with a double headed jazz monster!
Reactions
Really enjoying both sides of this release. Red Waters maybe tips the scales as standout cut, but both tracks capture the true emotive essence of fusion music in its literal sense. Something new for Jazz dancers surely. Spiritual South, Raw Fusion.
Astro Blue for me matey!!!! Hmmm puts me in mind of 4hero 2 Pages era....but for now!!!! Many thanks, will spin on de radio and club for sure! Domu, TrebleO / CoOp
Many thanks for the tracks...really strong. Its hard to pick a winner as both tracks are dope. Proper! Mad Mats, Raw Fusion, Sweden.
A gorgeous double header...a stone cold brass rocking masterpiece with some lovely ivory tinkling towards the ending with Red Waters and some foot shuffling loveliness on the flipside with Astro Blue. Played Red Waters in Japan in December and sounded great on the system. Nik Weston, Mukatsuku Records.
I absolutely love Astro Blue. For me its sounds like a positive spring anthem. Spiritual brothers of 4 hero....Red Waters is a very good uptempo mover too..lovely...Florian Seyberth, Boozoo Bajou, Germany.
Monster tunes. They are so good I'm planning a visit to Sheffield in Feb to check out the live show. Of course Red Waters has been play listed and Astro Blue is on next weeks show. Simon Harrison, Basic Soul radio show.
Thanks for the Red Waters track, really excellent stuff, possibly my fave Wah Wah track so far... Anyways, gonna play it tonight on our new radio show http://www.phonic.fm. Pete Isaac, Jelly Jazz, Plymouth.
Yep, another sterling release from WW (I'll no doubt end up purchasing the vinyl of this one!). Both tracks are strong with Red Waters about to get some stress on my dance floors this weekend, and Astro Blue destined for immediate airplay on my show next week. Sammy Goulbourne, The Other Side Radio Show, Birmingham.
Milic and me love it and cane it all over the place! This is how things should sound in 2008. Great release. A real dance floor monster with a jazzy edge. Killer arrangements, killer structure, very dynamic all the way through, no boring copy-paste jazz-bossa patterns, this one is really fresh! One of the twelves of the year for sure! DJ Jazzmate, Belgrade.
Hello Love! Got the Middlewood 12. Really like both tracks. Upstairs at Bang Bang this weekend, Middlewood loveliness. Snorre Seim, Butti49 / Bang Bang, Norway.
Nice one! Feels like a breeze from Curtis Mayfield camp.. really digging the Astro Blue.. lovely little tune to make me feel like I am still in the Carribean, Zilvinas Stumbras, Bagpak Music, NYC, USA
The Middlewood Sessions twelve is absolutely awesome! Astro Blue is a masterpiece! DJ Vesa, Wahoo! Finland.
The Middlewood sessions track by Red Waters is an outstanding jazzdance track, which made me do spontanous homemade jazzdance lessons in my living room. I am playing this after Mau Mau by Art Farmer and the crowd at HiFi Terapi will go wild style. Wicked! Eivind Olsvik, HiFi Terapi, Norway.
I just played Astro Blue last Friday on Eavesdrop. HEAVY tune. Junior, Recordbreakin.com, USA
Killer new 12 inch on Wah Wah. Pure class. DJ Nicky Moet, Melting Pot, Norway
Radio support from The Unabombers, XFM, Manchester; The BBE Radio Show on Ministry of Sound Radio; DJ Jazzmate on B92, Belgrade; The Futureboogie Show, Kiss 101FM; The Fuisanova 021 Radio Show on Ibiza Sonica FM, Ibiza; Kev Beadle on Solar Radio; Michael Stukes on Mystic Vybes, NYC; Junior, Record Breakin, Philly USA; Simon Harrison, Basic Soul; The Goods Radio Show, Montreal, Canada; Sammy Goulbourne, Birmingham; and Meno Jager, Sound of Swound.
Coming soon : singles from Jamie Finlay, Scrimshire (Aaron Jerome Mix), Hardkandy, Talc, Ashley Thomas and Stac. Plus albums from Hardkandy, Talc, Ashley Thomas, Jamie Finlay, The Part Time Heroes and the next Wah Wah compilation!!
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2. CLUB NEWS
WAH WAH @ CARGO
Wah Wah Live returns to Cargo on Friday March 14th with OneTaste favourite MC Xander warming things up for the mighty Middlewood Sessions and Ashley Thomas (two new Wah Wah signings) to do their thing on the stage. Residents Servini, Goss and Capstone will be on the decks too of course to round off another top notch Friday night!! Essential!!
OTHER CLUB SESSIONS
Look out for a special Hungarian flavoured Wah Wah Sunday Joint session at THE VIBE BAR with Hungarian soul specialists The Ka-Boom! Band performing live, with support from Servini & special guest DJ from Hungary DJ PFunk, on March 3oth, and its FREE!!
And news from the FAVOURITE THINGS camp is that we will be back for a one-off at the brand new PROUD GALLERIES on MONDAY APRIL 28TH!!! Much more news on that one next month. | | 2008-03-28 15:18:10 | | | who wha we? | The brainchild of dj's simon goss and his brother chris, that sprung to life way back in 1989, the hey day of acid jazz, in the form of the first proper wah wah session at the old albany (the venue where the Chemical Brothers started too!!) in london.
After some serious underground parties, the session returned to the albany in 1996, and its quality selection of wah wah jazz,funk, latin and the best of the new skool sounds impressed the Jazz Cafe's Adrian Gibson so much that he headhunted Simon and Chris to run their friday night sessions, along with (over the years) DJ's Billy Whizz and Oscar Goldenchild. The wah wah sessions remained at the jazz cafe for another four years, seeing off all in their path, and keeping the good folk of Camden happy with far too many legendary parties to remember. Over the years wah wah played host to the likes of pucho and the latin soul brothers, donnie, fred wesley, common and nathan haines to name but a few. Guest DJ's varied from phil asher, a man called adam, bob jones, ig culture and dj's from around the globe including the kyoto jazz massive, espen horne, eivind olsvik and dj spider from france. In 1999, simon and chris enticed mouseorgan's dom servini to join them on their quest to find the perfect beat. Due to Chris' pivotal role in London Elektricity (Hospital records) his involvement in wah wah has become less pronounced, leaving Simon and Dom to run most of the club sessions and the record label alike.
The wah wah 45's 7-inch imprint's first release was the massive dancefloor latin/nu-jazz anthem magnetica, by long time wah wah associate Espen Horne (the bobby hughes experience/stereo deluxe). The fantastic reception that the single received on the camden dancefloor, as well as from dj's worldwide, spurred the crew on to more and more releases. Since then, the label has really made its mark, releasing a number of 12s from the likes of Alison Crockett, Unforscene, Max Cole, Aaron Jerome and 12th Floor, as well as 7-inch and even 10-inch pressure (check the incredible Talc release!). Artist LPsfollowed from Max Cole and Talc, as well as the first wah Wah compilation. More to come in 2007 from Scrimshire, as well as the second Wah Wah comp, and another Talc album!
Since leaving the jazz cafe in 2001, the crew ran the popular i love wah wah party at Catch, in london's fashionable shoreditch, followed by their wah wah night at Clockwork in north london, and are now holed up at Cargo witrh thier bi-monthly Wah Wah Live! sessions, whilst expending most of their energy on getting lots and lots of records out!!
Wah Wah..all the right records, not necessarily in the right order. | | 2007-04-17 16:01:49 | | BLOG ARCHIVE
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