Fifty numbered promo Got-Ta-Scatta CDRs and roughly 500 vinyl 12″s of A Wonderful Thing/Still I Rise are somewhere out there from the distant past but although Discogs notes no copies of the CDR being available a few copies of the 12″ are.

 

Terry Farley, DJ and co-founder of the legendary dance label, Boys Own, said of the 12″, ‘What a brilliantly original double A-side this is. Think of Grace Jones meeting Augustus Darnell in a Fela Kuti tribute band. One side is sensually sinister, the other happy happy in an end of the night Shoom kind of way. Essential black music – buy it.‘ ***** (Muzik, Nov, 2001).

The ‘legal fuzziness’ of the tune(s) partly spawned our moniker and if the song lyric ‘Everybody run run run… ‘ means anything to you (the track will get an outing on the podcast at some point), that was the other source. File under eclectic / jazzy / soul / house / beats etc. Still I Rise was the first of the tunes to make it to 41 Rooms (at show 28) and A Wonderful Thing got there further on. A tune called Safe Train subsequently made an even rarer appearance on CDR after A Wonderful Thing and further on we did a remix for the wonderful Beth Hirsch and her Indelibly You and one for Rod ‘Bright Light Bright Light’ Thomas, though that didn’t surface… but he’s rightly ‘broken through’ a bit since, so it hasn’t held him back. Other Got-Ta-Scatta tracks and ideas have piled up and two new tunes (even more of said ‘fuzziness’) were going to surface on a 7″ but they and other bits have gotten test runs on the podcast at some point and we’ll see what gives. I’m confident we’ll put out another piece of vinyl, though.