Guns, floods and 45s: Mr Bongo spill the beans on five of the label’s most important reissues

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Labi Siffre
Remember My Song

Dave: This Labi Siffre record, you can feel the thickness of it, they make this thick card. And to do that in the UK it’d be like £6. You can see there’s a fold. In the UK that would have to be hand-stuck, but in Japan they’ve got machines because they’ve always made them like this. Because the Yen’s pretty weak it makes sense for us to do them there.

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Matt: People play the original and for the first five minutes they’re like, ‘what’s this?’ But then it goes into the Eminem sample and that gets a great reaction. Chas and Dave are playing on it.