Malcolm Mclaren - Double Dutch
2007-01-03 by Kevvy K
Dear lord, the long arid weeks of the January detox stretch in front of me in all their desolate splendour. Not only will we not be boozing, but also laying off the caffeine, dairy, sugar, refined flour, and general deliciously lardy affairs. all this in an effort to give the liver, kidneys whatever a bit of a break, shed some of the paunch and resist the insiduous curse of the moobs (man-boobs). I am expecting it to put pay to the shrivelled vestiges of my social life too, for what it was worth.
Anyway, the good news was that I managed to get higher than I had ever been in the Horse Meat Disco and to the most awesome set of tunes to which I looped the froot, including Love Hangover, Change’s “The Glow of Love”, Sylvester’s “Over and Over”, Chaka Kahn’s “I Know You, I Live You”, Angela Bofill’s “People Make The World Go Round” (the last four of which have graced these pages at one point or another) and many many wonderful others. And three guys of varying bodytypes in matching lycra Spiderman outfits voguing against the walls. It rocked out loud.
Reader, I digress. This is a wonderful tune from Malcolm Mclaren, back sometime just after he had finished inventing punk and was still busy inventing hip-hop. It’s just the ticket to banish the Winter blues, coming across like a burst of South Afircan sunshine crossed with a dose of Bronx ‘tood, with Malcolm Mclaren’s occsional dribbles of nonsense being largely irrelevant to the proceedings. I remember Alboy back in his pre-serato days threatening to play this at Dilate if he ever got a copy on vinyl, but alas, twas never meant to be. I think there was some half-baked house track sampling this a few years back, but surely some sort of more tasteful edit sans Mclaren is in order. How many skips can you do?
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Double Dutch was 90% Trevor Horn who produced and mixed a series of Mclaren tunes done with ace South African musicians. There was a 12" of Double Dutch with more S.African content.
Here's a YouTube posting of one of the brilliant Soweto mixes…has Malcolm babbling in the foreground but the music is great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkMSzHBB7xk
Haven't seen 'Double Dutch' on vinyl but I did manage to get a 12" of the 'scratch mix' of 'Buffalo Girls' by "Malcolm McLaren and the Worlds Supreme Team" in Clacton-on-Sea for 50p in a charity shop. It's very silly, and very good. Includes instructions for how to scratch on the back sleeve! Quote: "two manual decks and a rhythm box is all you need. Get a bunch of good rhythm records, choose your favourite parts and groove along with the rhythm machine. Using your hands, scratch the record by repeating the grooves you dig so much. Fade one record into the other and keep that rhythm box going. Now start talking and singing over the record with your own microphone. Now you're making your own music out of other people's records – that's what scratching is." Nice!
instead of praying for an edit, track down the terrific 12" mix, which is 8+ minutes long, and has plenty of malcolmless content
this is one of my alltime favorites.
thanks for a great site/
kenny in brooklyn
just posted the abovementioned 12" mix!
http://dilate.choonz.com/index.php?id=1073
sorry i've not been in touch for a while Kev- will drop you a line soon. Hope the detox is going good ;) Happy new year to you and Nacho, big love x