[peel] Happy Otter Mixtapes

[Rocker]

Also couldn't spot any of those more grungey tracks, but some of them sound so similar I suspect there may be at least part of a session, or at least tracks from an album, in there... maybe early Sub-Pop like Green River or Mudhoney, Tad etc - wonderful hearing Nirvana's first appearances, a year before they broke!

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From: Rocker rockerq@... [peel] <peel@yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 5:02 pm
Subject: Re: [peel] Happy Otter Mixtapes


    
   
    
     
Yes I recognised the track you refer to - it's the one at 20min30sec on file 9b 1989 - It's "Just To Be Seen" by the Darling Buds - the b-side of their first single "If I Said" from Feb 1987, and about as punk as they got!
 
 Odd, as the DBs track a few minutes earlier on the tape is Hit The Ground - from early 1989.
 
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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              
             
             
 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?            
           
           
            
            
 On 14 February 2015 at 21:10, Stuart Brooks             stuartb@... [peel]             <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:             
             
                            
               
               
 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:                 
                                     
                   
                   
                    
                     excellent work ... are they dated or are we going to be watching the detective?                    
                    
                     
                    
                    
                     
                      
                       
                        From: "stuartb@...m [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com>
 To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Saturday, 14 February 2015, 13:26
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 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