It's raining, man..

Once again the Future Vintage is in danger, this time because of the wrath of nature. Although I live in a beautiful place with baroque arches, it is situated damn near the bank of Vltava river which seems to be flooding the neighborhood as I write this. I'm not really worried to see the river at my doorstep but as I happen to be in the town in a state of emergency, I can expect electricity shutdowns and other troubles pretty soon. The last time the town was flooded, about 11 years ago (see above), it took a month to get it back on track, so today's batch can as well be the last post for a while. Ok, so much for meteorology, now let's go back to more pleasant things.

Some time ago I was having an interesting skype conversation with a lady friend of mine who used to be my girlfriend for a while back in the daze. The thing was, I gave her access to my files to serve herself to some old music. Some days later she wrote she couldn't really remember listening to any of the stuff, which of course gave me some surprise.

Well, yeah, I had to admit that maybe I'm just too focused on late 90s and perhaps I'm just too much into music styles appreciated by men, which also explains why the majority of Future Vintage readers seems to be male.

Remember the days when a good mixtape was the smoothest way to get some? Would I really play this music to my girfriend 20 years ago? Of course not. Who was I kidding? So I took a deep dive to come up with some true pearls to please our female companion. Perhaps your better halves will feel it the same way. May we be forgiven for our noisy hobby. Have fun and good luck!

Nicolette - Now Is Early (1992 Shut Up And Dance/1997 Studio !K7)

You probably know her as one of the Massive Attack vocalists, but back in the daze when we used to say rave instead of house party and vitamin E instead of ecstasy, Nicolette was a member of rave gang Shut Up & Dance and a voice of their early hits School Of The World and Single Minded People. The notorious couple PJ and Smiley of Shut Up & Dance also produced her solo debut Now Is Early, released on their own label. It was probably too early then, because the days had come for Nicolette after the Protection success. She was signed by Gilles Peterson and recorded Let No One Live Rent Free In Your Head for Talkin' Loud. Ironically, you can find the first version of No Government, the single that made her famous as a solo artist, here on Now Is Early. The album was remastered by Electrolux artist Chris Zippel and reissued with some bonus material by german label Studio !K7 in 1997.

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Shara Nelson - What Silence Knows (1993 Cooltempo)

She is notable for providing the vocals on the Massive Attack song Unfinished Sympathy, discogs says, but I think there's a whole lot more to this lady with a voice that reminds me of the best days of Shirley Bassey. That's why I decided to dedicate a FVV collection to her collaborations and guest appearences sometimes soon. Her debut album What Silence Knows has Motown roots and head in acid jazz clouds. The music was written by wide spectrum of musicians including Prince Be (of PM Dawn), Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs (of Saint Etienne), John Coxon (of Spiritualized and later Spring Heel Jack), Howie B. and Style Scott (of On-U Sound fame), and produced by Michael Peden, the head of Zomba Management, but anyhow.. it's mostly the voice.

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Drum Club - Everything Is Now (1993 Butterfly)

I remember waking up to that wake up, wake up, wake up phrase from Sound System because the girl I used to live with twenty years ago had never failed to put this CD in my stereo to play as an alarm clock in the morning. So when I got to listen to it again these days, I was surprised how good the album actually is. Charlie Hall and Lol Hammond (who is also responsible for the brilliant Damage album with Roger Eno) started on Guerilla Records in 1992 with floorfiller single Alchemy and soon were signed for Butterfly label of Big Life Records, a home of intelligent electronica back then. The line-up for Everything Is Now includes Steve Hillage, Emma Anderson from Lush and Kate Holmes, who is also known to Future Vintage readers as Scuba and was, by the way, a wife of Creation Records head honcho Alan McGhee. The booklet  includes pics by the late cult photographer Sally Harding. What else should I say about this album?

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Once again the blog is saved...

...thanks to.. no, it wasn't you but our reader Tim whose generous donation made it possible for Future Vintage to push a little forward. And, of course, I also want to thank all you 1-dollar donors including my fav reader from Chahya Garden in Belize. But don't expect I'm done nagging about donations. I'm sure there's got to be some fun way to make you help me kick this can down the road. Otherwise we're going to face this blog closedown situation again sooner or later. As always, I'm open to your suggestions of all kinds.

So what's in the bucket? There will some more FVV releases, some of them already finished and ready for upload (which seems to be my weakness these days as my connection is still far from decent). Also get ready for more albums and compilations. Some of you may have experienced the situation when you were searching for something that used to be on this blog for sure and is no more. Well, there's been a shitstorm of complaints followed by takedowns recently, mostly Ninja Tune and ntone stuff, so in the future I'll have to stick to less classic labels, perhaps even create something I call Dead Labels Society for myself. Have no fears, I've got records for years.

Enjoy the new FVV compilation below and stay tuned!

The Remix According To Future Vintage (2013 Future Vintage Vaults)

I wanted something special for this restart post so here it comes. The Remix According To Future Vintage contains 26 tracks produced or remixed by Future Vintage featured artists, or, in some cases, one Future Vintage artist remixed by another. None of the tracks appeared on previous FVV releases so don't sleep on it. Have fun!

101 Pauline Henry-Love Hangover (The 5AM Super Ministry Mix by Ashley Beedle)
102 Rinocerose-Le Mobilier (DJ Q Remix)
103 Silent Poets-Someday (Extended Spirit Remix)
104 Towa Tei-Let Me Know (Mighty Bop Remix)
105 Longineau Parsons-Funkin Around (Amalgamation Of Soundz Remix)
106 Visit Venus-Hurt Of A Nerd (Jimpster Rmx)
107 Rare-Killer (Mr.Scruff Mix)
108 Jay-Jay Johanson-Mana Mana Mana Mana (Bang Bang Remix)
109 Lightning Seeds-What You Say (Wiseguy Remix Instrumental)
110 Baby D-Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Cool Breeze Slow + Low Remix)
111 Bim Sherman-My Woman (Groove Corporation Mix)
112 The Aloof-One Night Stand (Baby Fox Remix)
113 Lewis Taylor-Lucky (Kruder & Dorfmeister Reprise)

201 Madonna-Nothing Really Matters (Kruder & Dorfmeister Mix)
202 Jhelisa-Freedom From Pity (The Amalgamation of Soundz Dub)
203 Ruby-The Whole Is Equal To The Sum Of It's Parts (Grantby Remix)
204 The Offspring-The Kids Aren't Alright (Wiseguys Instrumental)
205 Boom Boom Satellites-Push Eject (Howie B. Remix)
206 Psi Performer-1953 (Tom Tyler Remix)
207 Rare-Seems Like (Bang Bang Mix)
208 Sneaker Pimps-Ten To Twenty (Hefner Mix)
209 Lightning Seeds-What You Say (Psychedelic Beach Trip Part 3 by Ashley Beedle)
210 Trance Groove-Reebopped (Rmx By Karma)
211 Bim Sherman-Over The Rainbow (Coco & The Bean Mix)
212 Czech-I Do Believe (Wax Doctor Remix)
213 Aural Expansion-Vacuum Sucker (Remixed By Wagon Christ)

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Goodbye and thank you

Yes, I'm a lousy blogger and I'm not going to apologize or explain myself this time. I've spent the time since the last post on New Year's Eve wisely struggling for bare existence.

I always knew the time will come and Future Vintage will cease to exist, either for the lack of interest of the readers or by the hand of The Man. It's a miracle it took so long, with so little posts taken down (two, in fact). It was fun, wasn't it? Now it's time to say goodbye and thank you.

If you were wondering what's behind recent activity (see new posts below), it's because I decided to empty all the files left unposted in my RS account on you in one go. Grab it while you can (and you do - as I'm writing this, some of the new files were downloaded 10 - 25x). The account expires on April 25 and I'm not going to extend it simply because I'm even more broke than ever.

Don't worry, I'm not asking for donations this time. Last time I did, there happened to be no more than 3 (three) generous donors amongst thousands of you readers. You know who you are and I thank you again. No wonder I stopped believing that some miraculous sponsor will appear to help me cover the expenses.

Mission accomplished. The 500.000th happy visitor of Future Vintage is expected any minute now. Some stats: 458 files (53.25GB) were downloaded 264.209 times (yes, I counted it with my 1980's pocket Casio). You don't need a calculator to see that if there was 1 cent donated per file, this blog would go on forever.

I hope that that with the posts below I've fulfilled some of your request piling up in my email. Too bad the rest of the FVV collections will please noone but me and my friends. But life happens and who am I to oppose.

Stay tuned!