Acid Jazz Records is a Turntabling favorite. The east London-based label doesn’t play around–from the mighty Gregory Issacs to awe-inspiring compilations like Exile on Hammond Street, Turntabling speakers are shaking to Acid Jazz grooves quite often.
Exile on Hammond Street is not a new release–it’s many years old now, but eluded Turntabling until only recently. Now that it’s in the player, let’s cut right to the chase. This is a must-own CD for any fan of mod and funk sessions featuring that classic Hammond organ sound.
If you’re not familiar with this sub-genre, I’m sure you’ve heard the Hammond sound plenty of times, usually there’s a 60s biker or acid-head movie featuring Bruce Dern sitting in a coffee shop somewhere having a casual conversation before things go really haywire with the cops, an acid flashback or a whacked out bar patron. That groovy organ wailing away in the background? This is a whole CD of those tunes.
It’s rarely possible to judge a CD based on the first thirty seconds of the disc, but in this case, just slide in Exile on Hammond Street, listen to the first half-minute of Can’t Hold Me Down by The New Mastersounds, and if you’re not hooked instantly there’s no hope for you to enjoy the rest. In instant favorite here in the Turntabling studio.
–Joe Wallace
