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april.15.2005 - # 1302
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artist : Mr Scruff
album : Mrs Cruff
year : 2005
label : Ninja Tune
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : ZENCD112
url : www.ninjatune.net
quality : CD lame VBR 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard
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01.Sea Mammal 08:20
02.Tubby Mechanical Friend 06:01
03.Bass Baby 05:57
04.Bonce 05:00
05.Chicken in A Box 08:26
06.Night Time 06:01
07.After Time 02:32
08.Limbic Funk 05:30
09.Bobby's Jazz Pony 05:04
10.Jazz Potato 06:05
11.Crisps 06:27
12.Wail 03:46
12 tracks | 69:09 mins | 87,9 MB
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The album brings together the best of the first Mr Scruff 12"s
previously released on Pleasure Records. The re-issue contains nine
tracks on triple vinyl, and the cd has the original track listing,
with the addition of 'Bonce' and 'After Time'. All the tracks have
been remastered.
This first 4 track EP was recorded in two studios, 'Soundstation'
and 'Primetime', owned by Andy Robinson. It was at this latter
studio that I came up with the name 'Mr.Scruff'. Prior to this
moment, I had been using the name 'Funky Scruff', so I entered the
world of grown-ups with a 'Mister'.
The 'Hocus Pocus' EP was released on Rob's Records in March 1995.
By now I was using the labels writing room, a rough and ready
set-up in a local Ancoats-based studio complex. Once these tracks
weren written, I would take them down the hallway to 'Zombie'
studio, run by ex-Yargo drummer Phil Kirby.
The first fruits of these sessions were released as the 'Frolic EP
part 1' in September 1995, on the newly formed Rob's subsidiary
'Pleasure' and contained my first big tune, 'Chicken in a Box',
alongside 'Bass Baby' & 'Scrough'.
The following EP, 'part 2' released in February 1996 contained a
remix of 'Chicken in a Box' by my writing room associates Martin &
Liam, using the name 'Programmer's Revenge', as well as a remix of
'Sea Mammal' by a young Andy Votel & Rick Myers. Two new tracks
were included, 'Tubby Mechanical Friend', and 'Slug Beats', an
accompaniment to the track 'Fat Slug', which was released on the
Grand Central compilation 'Frying the Fat'.
Release number four in July 1996 was 'Limbic Funk', which also
contained 'Bobby's Jazz Pony', 'Night Time' & it's mellow reprise,
'After Time'. These last three tracks were collaborations with the
talented Cornish love god
Josef Ward, who lent his keyboard & trumpet skills.
May 1997 The fifth & final final chapter in the Pleasure Records
story was the double EP 'Mr. Scruff', the vinyl of which contained
a second issue of 'Chicken in a Box', as well as new tracks 'Jazz
Potato', 'Bonce', 'Crisps',
'Wail', plus a remix of 'Jazz Potato' by Nightmares On Wax, and
fellow Pleasure artists Strangebrew's mix of 'Crisps'.
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