Skull Snaps - Skull SnapsWidely available for the first time in forty five years, featuring Its A New Day, one of the most sample breaks in history. Official Mr Bongo reissue. Record collectors, producers and crate diggers like a good creation myth, and Skull Snaps self titled debut had it all. A mysterious funk trio, who recorded one album under a curious name, housed it in a sleeve that looked more like a proto metal album, and released it through a label (GSF Records) that

The theme was originally recorded by Newley

What‰۪s also astonishing is that none of this - the variety

All of the tracks were personally selected and sequenced to give you the feeling of one great night on tour

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keeping alive a large cross-section of underground ephemera

Pitchfork gave ‰Û÷Apologies To The Queen Mary‰۪ a 9

‰Û÷Same Things‰۪ and ‰Û÷Beggars Can‰۪t Be Choosers‰۪

continues frontman Isaac Wood

where a whole scene grew up around clubs that spun these obscure tunes from ten and twenty years earlier as an antidote to the frantic

but the sound systems quickly grew in size and legend

‰ÛÏEven now sound bewilderingly

A double CD that‰۪s long gone in the world of incredibly strange music