Converse 45 Series #1
label: Wax Poetics
year: 2009
side a: 9DW – Black Coffee
side b: Mackrosoft – Vicoden Reality
www.myspace.com/9dw | www.myspace.com/mackrosoft
Converse 45 Series #2
label: Wax Poetics
year: 2009
side a: Adrian Younge – Rafelli Chase
side b: Brian Bennett/Alan Hawkshaw – High Diver
www.brianbennettmusic.co.uk | www.alanhawkshaw.com
These two singles came free with issues 37 and 38 of Wax Poetics respectively. In the magazine it said that the 45s are only for U.S. subscribers (racists!) but I still got them, even though I live in Spain. It stopped after #2 though, so I guess someone woke up.
At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I have to say I don’t think I would have missed them much hadn’t they come my way like they did. Not that it’s bad stuff on here, but they’re not DLHWI stuff, either. Especially the first single, the one featuring 9DW and Mackrosoft. The second is better IMHO. I like the K-ish sound of Adrian Younge’s “Rafelli Chase”, and the nice’n’slick “High Diver” by former The Shadows members Brian Bennett and Alan Hawkshaw.