Once upon a time I reg­is­tered a domain with the inten­tion of cre­at­ing a specif­i­cally music-targeted blog. The name I went for was Extended Play since that was the name I’d done a radio show under for some five years, but that dot com was of course long gone. So I set­tled on extplay.com and duly paid my twelve bucks to put my tag on that.

That was some years back and — as with a bunch of other domains I own — it sim­ply sat there as a when­ever and I paid my retainer auto­mat­i­cally each year.

Then I decided I needed to spin my musi­cal pas­sions away from this blog, which had evolved into some sort of odd amal­gam of ran­dom — often extended — thoughts and ram­bles about travel, music copy­right, music indus­try, pol­i­tics, food and more, with the orig­i­nal musi­cal rai­son d’blog being lost in the morass.

Thus, it was time to spin that off and Extended Play finally found a life:

This of course, doesn’t mean I’ll kill this blog — quite the oppo­site, it means it will still be the place I’ll post any thoughts other than those devoted to the music itself, includ­ing music indus­try stuff. Extended Play will be the play I throw up the links I may come across as I trawl the net look­ing for the stuff I love, and — irreg­u­larly — post about an album, a sin­gle or an online mix that I like.

Mostly for no other rea­son that I do, and like so many peo­ple that love music I like to tell oth­ers about it — and be told about it. So every now and then I might get some­body else to write some­thing about a record they regard as rather special.

LCD Soundsystem-Disco Infil­tra­tor (Fran­cois K Infil­trated Vocal)-DFA-2005
George McRae-I Get Lifted (Tan­goterge edit)-Supreme-2005
The Impressions-Fan The Fire-Chi-Sound-1981
???-Run Disco Run-Moxie-2005
Lil Louis & the World-Nice’n’ Slow (Supreme Re-edit)-Supreme-2005
Teenage DJ-I Was a Teenage DJ –DISCO-2005
Woolfy-Oh Missy-Rong-2005
The Others-Crying Underwater-White 7”-2005
Jah Wob­ble / The Edge / Hol­gar Czukay-Snakecharmer (FK Snake Dub)-Island-1981
Abe Duque & Acid Maria-Turn Down The Lights-White-2005
Kerri Chandler-Return 2 Acid-Large-2005
Maurice-This Is Acid-Trax-1989
Kraftwerk-Radioactivity (Fran­cois K mix)-Capitol-1991
Plant Life-The Last Song (Chicken Lips dub)-Gut-2005
The Ragga Twins-Hooligan 69-SUAD-1990
Tomi D & Blake Baxter-Living in the City-Mix Media-2005
The Juan McLean-Titos Way (Lind­strom & Thomas mix)-DFA-2005
Jerome Sydenham-Stockholm Go Bang-Ibadan-2005
Kym Sims-Too Blind To See It (Slam Atlantis mix)-WEA-1991
Leon Huff-Tight Money-Philadelphia Int-1980

self indul­gent as can be today but what the hell, its the last one for a while

Ian Dury & The Blockheads-Reasons To Be Cheer­ful Pt 3 (12”)-Stiff-1979
West Street Mob-Breakdance-Electric Boogie-Sugarhill-1983
Willie Colon-Set Fire to Me (Latin Jazzbo Version)-A&M-1986
Roach Motel-Wild Luv-JBO-1994
Urban Soul-Alright (Orig­i­nal vox)-Polar-1990
Ster­ling Void-Alright (House Mix)-DJ International-1987
Plantlife-Why’d You Call Me-Gut-2004
Lil Louis-You Called Me-Diamond-1990
Houz Neegroz-What is House Music-Nu Groove-1992
Shay Jones-Are You Gonna Be There (House mix)-ID-1991
Raze-Break for Love-Grove St-1988
Phuturescope-What is House Music-Emotive-1994
Kraftwerk-Numbers (Live)-King Klang-2005
Inner City-Hallelujah (Left­field High on Vocal mix)-Ten-1992
Rhythim is Rhythim-Strings of Life (Carl Craig mix)-Transmat-1994
U Roy & Fran­cois K-Rootsman-Deepspace-2005
Saint Etienne-Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Ken Lou dub)-Warner –1991
Bam Bam-Give It to me-Westbrook-1988
Kenny “Jamin” Jason & Fast Eddie-Can U Dance-DJ International-1987
Tyree-Acid Over (Matey mix)-DJ International-1988
Paul Rutherford-Get Real (Happy House mix)-4^th & Broadway-1988
Seven Grand Hous­ing Authority-The Question-Simply Soul-1993
Disco Evangalists-De Niro‘-Black Sunshine-1993
Ralph Falcon-Every Now and Then-Miami Soul-1992
Under­ground Solution-Luv Dancin (Extended Vocal)-Strictly Rhythm-1991
Doug Lazy-Let It Roll-Grove Street-1988
Hardhouse-Check This Out-Easy Street-1988
Inner City-Ahnongay (Dave Clarke mix)-6X6-1993
Fin­gers Inc-Mysteries of Love-Jack Trax-1988
BT-Relativity (Carl Craig Urban Affair dub)-Deep Dish-1993
Michael Watford-Holding On-Atlantic-1991
Green Velvet-Flash-Relief-1994
Ron Trent-Altered States (South Side Terrace)-DJAX-1991
Golden Girls-Kinetic (Frank de Wulf mix)-R&S-1993
Fallout-The Morn­ing After-Azuli-1990
The East Vil­lage Loft Society-I Wanna Sing Sunshine-Black Sunshine-1994
FK-Hypnodelic-Wave-1996
Dream Team-Love is What we Need (K Dope Soup mix)-Freeze-1994
Paper­clip People-The Floor-Planet E-1996
The Beatles-Tomorrow Never Knows-Parlophone-1966