bibbly-o-tek » Scritti Packaging http://bibbly-o-tek.com the Scritti Politti source Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:20:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Snow in Sun Single http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/08/17/snow-in-sun-single/ http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/08/17/snow-in-sun-single/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:30:30 +0000 John http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/08/17/snow-in-sun-single/ Snow in Sun Single

I found this item on eBay. Bid early, bid often as they say. This confirms the fact that it is the next single.

–John

]]> http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/08/17/snow-in-sun-single/feed/ 14 A collection worth having http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/06/20/a-collection-worth-having/ http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/06/20/a-collection-worth-having/#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:47:11 +0000 Ellen http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/06/20/a-collection-worth-having/ This might be the most complete Scritti Politti collection i’ve ever seen, ranging from the very first singles to special editions of Anomie & Bonhomie. Multiple versions of each single, album, cd limited editions, posters… even a gold record for Cupid & Psyche. John got all these photo’s from Mitsuo from Japan.

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]]> http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/06/20/a-collection-worth-having/feed/ 9 A nice Scritti package http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/06/09/a-nice-scritti-package/ http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/06/09/a-nice-scritti-package/#comments Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:10:17 +0000 Ellen http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/06/09/a-nice-scritti-package/ Finally, at long last, i’ve got the official cd of White Bread Black Beer! It’s the digipack version, with extra nice images. So for you to enjoy, the booklet with all the lyrics, in Green’s handwriting. Looking at the back, the tracklist looks to me like embroidered text, probably done with a sewing machine.

Remembering my initial disappointed response when i saw the little thumbnail of the packaging, i’ve completely changed my mind. The front works good in a shop, and the images on the digipack and background images in the booklet are very delicate with lots of texture. Perfectly fits the album.

Hint: once you’re in the inline popup screen, you can navigate through the images by clicking on the arrow left or right which appear when you hover over the images.

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The Boom Boom Bap is the first single from the new Scritti Politti album White Bread Black Beer. The CD Single contains the album version and 2 new tracks, no remixes.

Ever since BBC 6 played it for the first time in december of last year, this melodious ballad has been going round in my head. It was the first we heard from Green Gartside since Anomie & Bonhomie in 1999, and what a treat it is. The Boom Boom Bap is a honeysweet song, showing all the beauty that Green is able to bring about with his voice and his sound, following the line of Brushed with oil, dusted with powder. A beauty, a minimal jewel.

The b-side features 2 new songs. The last time I looked, is a fine song in the line of White Bread Black Beer. Remarkable are the recurring “nashville” guitar chords and the interesting lyrics. “The next time I look I will be a long way from here, by the tree of cocaine, near the river of beer”. Please show me where that place is. In the middle of this song there is a mysterious woman counting down from seven to zero, in French. Excellent. The second new song on the single is Hands up, an uptempo rap track, fierce & intense, featuring a rapper called Skillz (from Virginia ?) I am not sure if this is the man, I googled him up. Anyway, he wants us to put our mothafuckin’ hands up and keep em there. To me his voice sounds a bit like Emenim (hope I don’t insult Skillz with that). No Green vocals on this track, i guess it’s produced, mixed and music played by Green. I played this track a couple of times, it grows on you. Nice one.

Release date Europe 19-06-2006

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Update (Marco – May 31, 2006): I have uploaded higher quality scans, simply click on the images for larger versions

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That just looks great!

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The Sweetest Girl WBBB promo disk!

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It is unplayed? Okay, deal!

]]> http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/05/01/the-unplayed-promo-cd/feed/ 11 That cover! http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/04/26/that-cover/ http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/04/26/that-cover/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:23:00 +0000 Ellen http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2006/04/26/that-cover/ The cover!Well, it does seem that the official cover is really gonna be like this! On amazon.co.uk and play.com the ‘No image available’ placeholders are replaced by this, at first look, very basic cover. At second look though, hmm, it’s still really basic. If you zoom in (click the picture!), it’s a bit better. What looks like a really flat DIY job, is actually an applique stitched on jeans. A homemade look which might refer to the homemade feel of the cd maybe?

Well, i’m not completely against it. I do have to see the whole cd before final judgement, including typography and inner sleeves. It might not be as bad…

So, what do you think?

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