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Blow Up - A Go Go!

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Blow Up A-Go-Go! - James Clarke

I posted this one for the friends of Licorice Pizza last summer...but now it is out of print and we can offer this groove fest to the masses. Not my rip and thanks to the original uploader. I try to find out who was the original poster by checking the tags (there weren't any - but now there are. My pet peeve is tagged music.) and also on the Fuzzy Search, but it doesn't show up. Picked up back in 2005 I think. This one is similar to Instro Hipsters and Bun Hunga Combo.

A club compilation featuring classics both new and old that have filled the Blow Up Club Dancefloor over the years, from The Quik's 60s mod classic 'Bert's Apple Crumble' to the 90s spaceage beats of Soul Hooligan's 'Sweet Pea'.

"...Really, there's not a single duffer on here. Seeing The Kinks and The Spencer Davis Group on the track listing gives you an idea what you're in for - think Mary Quant clothes, Chelsea boots and Mini Coopers - but there are also names here that you'd never think of as cool, like Georgie Fame and Andy Williams, both of whom turn in shimmy-inducing corkers. Some of the songs are actually modern (Soul Hooligan and Karminsky Experience weren't even born in the Sixties) but fit in perfectly, while some tracks are so obscure (Mongo Santamaria? The Quik? Jacques Dutronc?) you'd have to be an A1 trainspotter to recognise them. But the that's the whole point of the thing..."SL

"London's famous Blow Up Club has been shaking dance floors on a weekly basis since the early 1990s. This collection gathers together some of its most popular favourites, a funky mix of Northern Soul, Latin jazz and 60s psychedelia. Wah-wah's, bongos and Hammond organs collide with tight basslines and bright brass, an unrelenting groove that will cause even the most cynical hips to shimmy. An assortment of never-forgotten classics--the Spencer Davis Group's "I'm A Man" (featuring a younger, funkier Steve Winwood on vocals), Andy Williams' version of "House Of Bamboo", the Coaster's "Love Potion No. 9"--mix with lesser known gems like the Quik's "Bert's Apple Crumble", the Incredible Bongo Band's "Bongolia" and James Clarke's "Blow Up A Go-Go"." Robert Burrow