[peel] Happy Otter Mixtapes

[RobF]

Yes - I didn't find it immediately, there was a fairly well-disguised "show
more" button, at which point there was a 3 page list of hip-hop songs that
have sampled the AWB song! Luckily you can sort by release date, so I found
it fairly quickly



On 24 February 2015 at 11:32, 'Stuart Brooks' stuartb@...
[peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>  Cheers Rob, funnily enough I came up with the Who Sampled site when I
> was searching for the Awesome Dre track but it wasn’t one of those
> suggested. I’ve messaged HO to see if he can remember any of them – it’s
> the only tape so far where the inlay was lost.
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>  *From:* mailto:peel@yahoogroups.com <peel@yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 24, 2015 9:59 AM
> *To:* peel@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [peel] Happy Otter Mixtapes
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>   Hi Stuart
>
> I just filled in a few of the unknowns on the wiki for this new Happy
> Otter mix (One Thousand Violins, Darling Buds and Awesome Dre)
>
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/HO_John_Peel_9_1988_1989
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> Still quite a lot of unknowns, most of which sound like grunge imports,
> and one that I'm sure Rocker must know as it sounds like a Talulah
> Gosh/Shop Assistants/Flatmates girl-fronted band with the chorus that
> sounds like "We need to dance more" repeated several times
>
>
> For the ID of the Awesome Dre track I used the brilliant whosampled.com
> site for clues if you've not seen it?
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> On 14 February 2015 at 21:10, Stuart Brooks stuartb@...
> [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> Its detective time! I've managed to date some of the tracks but some of
>> the first tapes aren't necessarily recorded in chronological order. But
>> there are enough tracks for some dates in later tapes to justify a date
>> page on the wiki.
>>
>> On 14 February 2015 17:47:26 GMT+00:00, "MARK LUETCHFORD
>> M.Luetchford@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>>>  excellent work ... are they dated or are we going to be watching the
>>> detective?
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>>>   ------------------------------
>>> *From:* "stuartb@... [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com>
>>> *To:* peel@yahoogroups.com
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, 14 February 2015, 13:26
>>> *Subject:* [peel] Happy Otter Mixtapes
>>>
>>>
>>> Keen wiki watchers and Facebook members of the John Peel Show Tapes
>>> group will already be aware of the Peel mixtapes from the late 1980s being
>>> shared by Youtube and Mixcloud user Happy Otter. I have his enthusiastic
>>> backing for tracklisting these mixtapes on the wiki, and have completed the
>>> first seven.
>>>
>>> These do not contain any links, and while the earliest tapes leave
>>> something to be desired in audio terms, they are still well worth a listen,
>>> and the sound improves markedly with later tapes.
>>>
>>> This is quite a fallow period and it is a while since anything has been
>>> shared from 1987 or 1988.
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
>>>
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