With football season under way I’ve been bashing my team on their message boards with a certain irregularity. It’s about time I posted something positive about my favorite city. Back in my college days I had opportunities to sample a wide variety of music thanks to my position on the radio station WCPR. One of the labels to send us new music regularly was Ovum Recordings – an electronic label from Philly co-founded by Josh Wink. Along came an album from fellower co-founder King Britt and his soul-collective known as Sylk 130. When the Funk Hits the Fan was an album that I truly wanted to love. Philly Soul come alive again, it meshed R&B with funk and slide a mellow groove under the whole. But I just couldn’t get into the album, and eventually sold it off like so much other promo throwaways.
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Day: September 24, 2003
Work, work, and more work
I haven’t had a chance to post about seeing Sandy and Steve’s new house (and Caitlyn) or the Art & Music Fest. This week has been hellish as I tried (and finally succeeded) in establishing a VPN between the two facilities at work. Unfortunately it all went downhill as the one Win2k3 server refused to synchronize with the master, but wouldn’t take control of it’s own domain. In other words, I’ll be reloading it this afternoon :sigh:. In the meantime I have 2 post that have been sitting in draft for about 2 weeks and I should just finish them now.