Bobby Reed, "Foxbase Alpha" y los primeros Saint Etienne

Con el transcurso del tiempo he llegado al convencimiento de que "Foxbase Alpha" es mi lp favorito de St Etienne. Eran tiempos en que se podía samplear con impunidad y que las limitaciones musicales acentuaban la imaginación de los no músicos. Se podía grabar un disco a base de trozos de otros y el resultado solía ser realmente sorprendente. Lamentablemente en un par de años aparecieron los abogados y se terminó la fiesta. En el segundo lp de Saint Etienne (y en todos sus discos posteriores) ya no hubo más sampleados de otras canciones y algo se perdió por el camino... Es cierto que a este arte se le puede llamar en principio robo, pero cuando lo que realmente haces es construir canciones con bases de otras, el resultado puede llegar a ser realmente personal, como "Foxbase Alpha".

Estos son algunos de los sampleados (verdadera joyas):

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD/BABY WASHIGHTON: "I Can´t Wait Until I See My Baby´s Face" en "Nothing Can Stop Us"

GLENN BROWN & KING TUBBY "Melodica International" en "Carn´t Sleep"

FOUR TOPS "I´m in a Different World" en "She´s The One"

y por encima de todo, BOBBY REED, "The Time is Right For Love" en "Spring".

Esta última es una rareza soul:

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Amazing sweet soul single recorded by bobby reed in 1970.

I don't have much information about B. Reed, but I know that the track "the time is right for love" is in my Soul Top 50. I've tryed to list all his singles but If you know further information about him, please let me know.

Bobby was a popular soul singer out of Washington. In 1966, he worked with the producer "Clay Roberta" for the rare shrine label where he recorded a few Northern Soul tunes such as caldonia brown / baby don't leave me . These songs were unreleased at that time and a few decade later, "Goldmine Soul Supply" (UK) issued a single including the both soul tunes.

As "Bobby Reed "and "Clay Roberta" couldn't issued on "Shrine", "Clay" founded his own label "Clay Town" and recorded a single you are / i'm not coming back.

From 1968, Bobby Reed began to work with the great Washington arranger, producer, singer, ... "Van Mc Coy" on the loma label where they released the single i'll find a way / i wanna love you so bad. Don't miss 'I'll find a way".

2 years later, when "Van Mc Coy" joined the bell label, Bobby recorded this single including "the time is right for love". Unfortunatly, the original copy is very rare but luckily the UK label "Expansion" has had the good idea to re-issued this single in 2003.
Besides, for information, this track has been sampled by "Smif N Wessun" on "Crystal Stair".

In 1972, Van & Bobby released together the Bobby 's last single (I guess ?) on the label abbott : you / home is where the heart is.