**Mystery Of the Peas & Beans track SOLVED!!**

[Saysay]

Myself and Neil decided to look into the origins of this elusive track and we have (after some top detective work) found out exactly who it was made and sung by and have even been in contact with the guy who co wrote and sang it who has confirmed this!

The tune is actually called 'Stomper' and is by 'The Peas and Beans of Consciousness' who are Jon Spong and Ray Wilson who were the lead singer and 1st Keyboard player of the 90's indie band 'Natural Life' Ray Wilson wrote the backing track and Jon Spong wrote and performed the hip house rap and chant. There were only 200 copies pressed and distributed through the Tr1be network all around the globe! So deffo rare!!

So there you go folks , must say i was rather excited when listening to some tracks of theirs and it dawning on me that he was definitely the singer of peas & beans!!

Check this video out of him singing one of their tracks live

YouTube - Natural Life - Strange World Live

and here's the Youtube link to 'The Peas & Beans Of Consciousness' - 'Stomper' as it should now rightly be called! \o/

YouTube - The Peas & Beans Of Consciousness Stomper

 

[blue jammer]

I can't tell from the live clip, doesn't sound anything like him to me :S

Fair play if they have admitted it's them behind it - I always thought it was by Fruit Machine as the arrangement/organ and production was very similar.

Fruit Machine - Kiss Of Life EP (Vinyl) at Discogs

Stomper - bit of an odd choice for name of a track when it ain't a techno tune

 

[Saysay]

I can't tell from the live clip, doesn't sound anything like him to me :S

It took me a few attempts to convince Neil too haha! Its deffo him though

If you listen to the part where he actually sings on peas n beans then compare with one of natural lifes tracks you can tell for sure.

 

[blue jammer]

Looking at their history on oggs (as Natural Life) maybe they didn't do too well with the indie stuff and their label suggested a dance move - was often the case for a lot of bands at that time...

Silky will be gutted now it has a proper name

Good to see you posting again btw

 

[Saysay]

Looking at their history on oggs (as Natural Life) maybe they didn't do too well with the indie stuff and their label suggested a dance move - was often the case for a lot of bands at that time...

Silky will be gutted now it has a proper name

Good to see you posting again btw

Not too sure on that front , he didnt actually say why they wrote the track, but it wasn't as 'Natural Life' and looks to be a one off?

...and thanks, not been on here properly for a while.

 

[Shooms]

Great effort you's two

 

[Saysay]

Nice one Shooms!

.....I've got a question for you? *clears throat* 'Caaaan i have a goooo on your **raises** baaaaaaps? LOL

 

[Barrie Jay]

Nice detective work there !

 

[Biskit]

excellent work, i can finally stop my search lol. can you update discogs trace with the correct artist and title info

 

[Biskit]

also get back in touch with spong n tell him *repress please*

 

[ste huxley]

Nice worke trace

 

[Saysay]

Cheers you lot, i think its really nice to know where it comes from

Chris , I believe Neil has updated discogs today

 

[granthamdisco]

Looking at their history on oggs (as Natural Life) maybe they didn't do too well with the indie stuff and their label suggested a dance move - was often the case for a lot of bands at that time...
D

They were ACIDHOUSE before they became a band

They were part of the Amnesiacs / early Shoom scene

( ie opposite of the Soup Dragons)

 

[Shooms]

They were ACIDHOUSE before they became a band

They were part of the Amnesiacs / early Shoom scene

( ie opposite of the Soup Dragons)

Wiki says yes

Natural Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[blue jammer]

They were ACIDHOUSE before they became a band

They were part of the Amnesiacs / early Shoom scene

( ie opposite of the Soup Dragons)

Cheers for that - wonder if they kept any demo's from old DATs ?

 

[Silky]

Looking at their history on oggs (as Natural Life) maybe they didn't do too well with the indie stuff and their label suggested a dance move - was often the case for a lot of bands at that time...

Silky will be gutted now it has a proper name

Good to see you posting again btw

Right time to sell it........

 

[granthamdisco]

Wiki says yes

Natural Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Farley mentions them in here

 

[rob jay]

classic , loved my copy to death in 90's !

 

[MANC]

my copy is titled 'funkfurter' lol dunno how whoever wrote it came to that conclusion

 

[U31]

I was talking to Barrie on the shouty about this, and i said that on Oggs i recognised the names of a good percentage of the owners..