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And the following year, a two-CD set premiered titled Nu Balearica packed with Balearic Beat and Nu-Disco choons.
I spent the early 2000s compiling about one hundred and ten of the various mixes and sessions Fred had touched, right down to the demo cassette he'd recorded in the late nineties when running the club Impotent Fury. And in 2011 and 12 Fred resurfaced under the pseudonym Frank Eddie (once again due to uncleared samples) and issued five limited 7" singles in geometrically designed screenprinted sleeves.
The complete set was issued as a CD album called,
Let's Be Frank in 2012.
Fred also applied the Frank Eddie moniker to a special remix of English boy band, East 17's "Stay Another Day" for a heartwarming farewell music video to mark the retirement of their Airside design company. A gorgeous 296pp coffee table book,
Airside by Airside was published by Gestalten telling the story of their evolution and is certainly on my wish list for this year.
This project tapered off after the Jellyhead forum went dormant and things quieted down for a few years, until a few days ago when, on a whim, I revisited Fred's page on Rateyourmusic.com. There I noticed a curious title I'd not previously encountered - Come Dance With Me Sweetheart dated 2016. I did a little searching around and by the day’s end, (thanks to a fellow Jellyhead who has been archiving all Lemon Jelly material from the source tapes for nearly two decades), had 19 additional DJ sessions which had surfaced since I'd last stopped collecting. It was like Christmas! I quickly assembled a 25-hour playlist of all the new-to-me Jelly content and am having a blast exploring it all!
And revisiting
The Triptych, I began to research the deeper cuts from the mix and found one funky track, Billy Hawk's “O’ Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You)” appears on a sublabel comp of BGP (Beat Goes Public) Records. The label has issued three series that look worth a listen.
Super Breaks is a set of six double LPs and albums showcasing essential funk, soul, jazz samples, and breakbeats. There is also the SuperFunk series of twelve releases and a third set of four albums branded as Funk Soul Sisters. These might be just what I'm after for more deep cuts.
Another of my favorite classic Jelly mixes, Breezeblock - 20th September 1999, includes the Public Enemy / Herb Alpert mashup, “Rebel Without A Pause (Whipped Cream Mix)” which a quick search revealed was by The Evolution Control Committee, Mark Gunderson's plunderphonics project. Mark collaborated with The Bran Flakes on the
Raymond Scott Rewired project issued by Basta Records which I absolutely must check out, along with a deeper exploration of other related artists like Emergency Broadcast Network, Escape Mechanism, The Tape-beatles, as well as my complete archives of the works of Negativland, John Oswald, and selected works from People Like Us (who collaborated with Matmos and Wobbly).
It's truly remarkable to live in a time when a few simple Google searches yield days of rewarding listening. Here's my Lemon Jelly and related album collection to date, in addition to the 129 digital albums and DJ sessions I've collected that are so generously shared among fellow Jellyheads.
