DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Furney / Paul SG – A Song For Kong / Forever

2009

For today’s review we have the first in a batch of three Test Press only releases which had been missing for many years. I remember getting the news from Paul Bendall, about Matt Small having the three Good Looking (GLR077-79) and two Looking Good (LGR053-54) up for grabs. By the time I’d put my name in the hat, I managed to grab today’s TP and then both the LGR’s. I was also stretching the wallet out, moths flying everywhere, getting them, so I doubt I’d have reached bagging all five. They were not cheap. Money and vinyl, you know. 

    Furney has another of his ‘Furneyesque’ style of tunes with a pumping rhythm and a nice sounding strings intro to ‘A Song For Kong’. The chanted caveman wailing vocal adds a hint of the red Mediterranean heat, but the basic track is one that falls a little flat to be honest. The breakdown has its usual 30 seconds of rest bite, but plunges its head underwater without any noticeable effects. I’d put this into a ‘filler’ category if you just need something to drop when you can’t dive deep into the crate..in other words, more of an emergency choice. 

   On Side AA we have a guy who has continued to make a solid impact on the drum and bass world. Austrian based, but German originated, Paul Biegel is Paul SG. This was his first release on the wax of GLR and we have a few more of his coming up in the white label series too. The owner of Jazzsticks Recordings, his background is one of live bands, drumming, guitars (which I believe is where the ‘SG’ is from for ‘Solid Guitar’) and a profound love of jazz. ‘Forever’ takes the flare and eclectic merging of rapid, detailed beats and a hook that drives the wheel of the jazz cafe, around for the full spectrum of liquid frills and spills. The way the music was moving  into a quick fire beats-bass-looped sample, was becoming frequented more and more at the end of the first decade of the Millennium. The DJs were speeding up the beats and the mix selections, while the ability to truly recall particular pieces of music, was fading a little. From out of some of that fog though, you had some real talent. Paul SG is one of them. 

    Test Press time is done. Here are the next two test presses which I do not own, so will be skipping unfortunately:

GLR078 – Concept & Shnek / Utah Jazz – Kind Of Blue / Money’s One Thing – 2009

GLR079 – Furney / dRamatic – I’m Awake Now / Creation – 2009

   Tomorrow we move back into our Time Machine and skip forward to 2012, for the next wave of Good Looking Records, taking us from GLR080W to GLR095W and up to 2014, where the last of the label is laid to rest. 

   My blog continues, if you are interested in reading about nearly all the GLR releases on 12” singles. Plenty more still to come.