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Logic of Smithy – “Barry” “Terry”

It’s been a long time since I posted a tune, so here’s a seriously rare obscurity… some might say obscure-for-the-sake-of-obscure 🙂 It’s a bit of a novelty single, using samples from the Harry Enfield show in a manner similar to classic first-name-shouted tracks like Johnny Jungle “Johnny”, Subnation “Scotty”, and Remarc “Ricky”. Despite that, the tunes are decent, especially the “Light” mix. The two B side mixes were both produced by UK Tribe, who did some OK singles on their label Ava Aura.

What surprises me most about this EP is that it’s a full picture sleeve release, with color label etc. No one-off hasty test press or promo business here! With that in mind, I’d think that they must have pressed at least 1000 or more of these. And yet, I’d never heard of this EP or seen any copies for sale up until a single copy went on discogs last year (via Craig/Crugga). Googling for it didn’t turn up any old results either. Every now and then a single will “slip through the cracks” liek this despite being somewhat plentiful, not getting propery listed simply because no one wants to bother adding it. But usually stuff like this still shows up in some form – on other sites, mentioned somewhere, etc. The fact that this one never did, leads me to wonder if either the pressing was cancelled, or somewhere in the world there’s a big cardboard box or two filled with hundreds of copies of this. If anyone knows the deal, please fill me in

Logic of Smithy – Barry Terry

Finally, out to everyone in the Beautifully Crafted Jungle facebook group, where I posted a short clip of this record and watched the “wants” on discogs jump almost instantly from 2 to 15. Good to see some people are still trying to track down vinyl in this day and age 🙂

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