I Don’t Wanna Stop Featuring Kylie Auldist
The Bamboos
Rawville, 2007
Australia stand up! The Bamboos released their second excellent album on Tru Thoughts this year. They branched out/augmented their trademark choppy funk sound this time with slightly mixed results. Rawville includes two tracks with Portland MC/Producer Ohmega Watts and two tracks (this being one of them) that are much closer to soul than funk. Where the hip hop tracks (especially the horn hits on “Rockin’ It”) cause me to immediately picture what’s actually happening (an all-white Australian band trying to play hip hop), the soul tracks are spot on for 1973 American soul and, like the rest of their music, make me think of how good it is first, then proceed to whatever cinematic image it conjures.
I’ve been playing this track a lot recently; I played it around 3:00 a.m. last Friday at the Back Room and it seemed to cast a certain spell over the place for a moment: there was a section of people dancing to it as if they knew it (there’s not much dancing there) and the manager stopped walking around checking on things and posted up at the top of the stairs and started a serious head-nod.
There doesn’t seem to be much info on the guest singer, Kylie Auldist.
Australian PBS FM had this to say:
Kylie Auldist has long been something of a treasured hometown secret in Melbourne; a powerful soul singer fronting all manner of blues, roots and hip-hop acts around the inner city venue trail.
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