Posted by Budgie at April 24, 2005 03:09 PM

Ola!

Track : N.O.H.A - "BALKAN HOT-STEP"

The man above is The Pipe's mascot. After asking the forum members to name him, I have plumped for both Sie and Jimmy The Flid's names and from now on the cheeky pipe tooting man will be known as "Poncho-Hetty".

You may know todays track from being recently featured in a Nike commercial. The Flid and I both know this track as a tune that took over 3 to 4 months of our lives.

We both heard it around about the same time, a long time before it appeared in the advert, and went totally daft over it. We then proceeded to harass record shops in Glasgow and Edinburgh for it in a race to see who could get a copy first. Having no luck in Scotland we both had search further and this ended up with us trying to translate online record shops in the various corners of Europe. The Flid was having more luck than I was and eventually I gave up. Alas, his orders from Europe were not forthcoming and then I discovered that Gilles Peterson was including it on his "Eclectic Sessions - Vol.2" mix CD for Trust The DJ. Even better was the fact that this mix CD was to be released on Vinyl in an unmixed form. My order was sent in right away. The day my Posty handed me the parcel was a good day. The record was promptly plopped onto my decks and as it came out the speakers, I was a happy man. I had won.

Or so I thought.

A quick text to The Flid later on that day to proclaim victory was replied to with a text claiming that his Posty had just put 3 copies of it behind his door. His european orders had come through. He had won.

To rub salt in the wounds he also holds over me the fact that he has heard the "Balkan Hot-Step" being played out and he has had the pleasure of seeing a room full of clubbers going from bemused, to partly interested to absolutely mental to the said track.

I don't want to say too much about the track as it will spoil the surprise. I will tell you that it's a leftfield, jazzy dance record, by Prague born producer Philip Noha, and that it just manages to stay on the right side of novelty.

Why am I posting it in conjunction with The Pipe mascot? Well, load the track up, look at Poncho-Hetty's face and you can tell he is listening to this. He loves it. C'mon, you'll be grinning like him by the end of it and wanting to have a quick toot on his pipe too...

Toot Toot!

Go Buy : N.O.H.A - Next Plateau

Go Visit : N.O.H.A

Feel free to leave a comment about this track in The Pipe section of the forum

Ta,
Budgie.