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| Keb Darge talks about how he got into 60s garage punk and 50s rockabilly after decades of spinning northern soul and funk. |
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The Ace Records Podcast features interviews conducted by journalist, record collector and broadcaster Pete Paphides with guests from many branches of the extended Ace family, detailing their own careers, the artists that have influenced their lives and the records that they love, all enjoyably explored with your host, over two microphones and plenty of cups of tea.
Episode 32 – Keb Darge
The latest episode of the Ace podcast welcomes an in-house superstar, Keb Darge aka "Tarzan." With five decades on the Northern Soul scene, 18 years at Madame Jojos playing Deep Funk before latterly segueing into 60s garage punk and 50s rockabilly, his enthusiasm knows no bounds – although he does draw the line at New Romantics. This TaeKwonDo and disco dancing champion is a DJ who doesn't consider himself a collector. In fact, such a good DJ, he used to set records up for Paul Weller under the decks where no one could see him.
Keb has many and varied stories including his unique approach to cover-ups as a Northern Soul DJ in Wigan, how he deals with punters with requests, selling off his entire collection of rare Northern soul records after a divorce in 1987, getting paid surprisingly well for spinning rare groove in Tokyo, scrounging through record warehouses in the U.S. for three weeks with John Manship back in the 90s, dancing in a Blow Monkeys video and helping the people of the Philippines after a tsunami and oddly finding rare 45s strewn all over a 50-mile stretch of coastline. Versatile is the word. Have a listen to Kebbo's freewheeling hour-long chat with Pete right here.
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