Wah Wah
45s celebrate the joy of the cover version! The label has always had a keen ear
for a re-working of a classic piece of music, whether it be an unexpected brass
take of a soft rock or hip hop cut from Hackney Colliery Band, or a sultry
rendition of a soul nugget from Stac, with the only conditions being that the
cover takes the original piece of music somewhere new, fresh and exciting.
The
label's 15thanniversary seemed like a good time to not only re-visit a number
of very canny covers from over the years, but also to throw in a couple of new
and exclusive ones for good measure too and as a way of saying thank you for
all your support over the last decade and a half. So, as well as well loved
renditions of Bill Withers' The Same Love That Made Me Laugh from Ashley Thomas
and Part-Time Heroes' gorgeous re-imagining of The Boss' Dancing In The Dark,
you get a spine-tingling, pitch shifting, electronica flavoured take of Rose
Royce's ballad Wishing On A Star from Stac x Blue Daisy and The Gene Dudley
Group's fierce dance floor funk version of Richard "Groove" Holmes No
Trouble On The Mountain (itself a Wah Wah 45s release back in the day!)
featuring the rasping vocals of Anne Frankenstein.
Add to
that Lea Lea's recent cover of Talking Heads' Psycho Killer, Scrimshire's
updating of Tammi Terrell's version of All I Do, with Stac on vocal duties, as
well as club classics from Henri-Pierre Noel, Bev Lee Harling, Alister Johnson,
Richie Phoe and a couple of big hitters from Hackney Colliery Band and you've
got one heavyweight haul of version excursions on your hands.
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