identify this record

Butttt, can I have a go? (although I think I always ask for the same track to be identified, ah well)

Also played by Sven Vath/Garnier around 94 - 95: basically the sound of a ton of bricks suddenly getting dropped out of nowhere and then there's a lot of weird psychedelic sounds and scratches.

(Vath did a great trick by starting his set with some sort of soft Basic Channel thingy, everyone's going "yeah, yeah" and then BANG! the mystery track appears out of nowhere. The place goes mental.

If I find out what it is I can die a happy man. :)

Alas no Gareth, you had me excited there for a moment while downloading said track from Soulseek. 20hz is still to trancey, to fast. THis one is slower and more in your face, wall-of-sound stuff. Guess I'll have to download every track from "anthems from the year 95-96" lists. Sigh. It was indeed around 1996 IIRC.

wonder if he ever found out!

is RS's one Krazy Kutz by Grandmixer DST?

A few months ago I read review of an album in the local newspaper, and I thought it was something I should check out. But then I forgot about the whole thing, and the newspaper was thrown away, and now I can't remember the name of the either the artist or the album. So maybe one of you could help me identify it?

Here's what I remember from the review:

* The album is new, most likely released this year.
* The artist is a black woman, and she's British.
* The album was released under her real name (or at least it sounded like a real name), not a pseudonym.
* I got the feeling that this is her debut album, or at least she hasn't released too many albums records before it.
* The review described the music as pop, but not modern pop. It said that the album had 1960s style strings and horns and other "real" instruments.

Laura Mvula, Sing to the Moon?

Yes, that's it. Thanks!

Here's what I think I remember:

A double album (or... I think this was the CD era, but should at least be 60+ minutes long, if I'm not misremembering)

Cult classic. Maybe made a splash when it came out (1990s? 2000s? ...2010s?? definitely not pre-'90) but then got pretty much forgotten, and now the RYM chatbox is full of people commisserating together about the album's "overlooked masterpiece" status.

Imago really likes it and, if I'm not wrong, reviewed it with due warmth on RYM.

Solo-auteur-in-his-bedroom kind of thing...? Maybe? Very unsure about this one -- maybe there was a band involved.

It's amazing to me that a mistake was made seven years ago, and not only hasn't been rectified but I can't find a single comment about it online.

In 1973 Curved Air put out an album called Air Cut containing a track named "Elfin Boy". This is "Elfin Boy":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xav8otVIXQ

In 2018 Curved Air reissued Air Cut. This is the track they are claiming is "Elfin Boy" in downloads and on iTunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7WLK_dTtno

It's some folk thing of 70s vintage with a male singer accompanied by harmonium and a zither. Googling the lyrics doesn't help. Any idea where this came from?

I keep thinking I recognize the voice.

It's this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qME9KYUIMJA

Thought it was an ISB track I hadn't heard, the bowed psaltry made me think of them.

Vocalist was definitely English though, I did wonder if it wasn't one of Clive Palmer's bands.

The Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band from Northampton!

Interesting to note that on that very same compilation, "Elfin Boy" is the sixth track on the third disc, while "The Wood-Gathering Man" is the sixth track on the first disc.

Thanks! If I'd known they were so Celebrated I shouldn't have needed to ask!
Interesting that I've seen that compilation on streaming before, probably while looking up Strawbs or Third Ear Band, but the version available here doesn't have the actual "Elfin Boy" or any Curved Air music.