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Out Of The Box

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Chain - Banging On The House [NTV 2 UK 1986 24-Bit FLAC] Chain were an industrial dance collaboration between Peter Hope (the unmistakable voice of The Box) and Mark Estdale which was only to spawn one single, Banging On The House which fits comparably into the Sheffield based Chakk/Hula/Workforce vein as a hard indie electronic, slap bass driven dance music single. The b-side Chains is pretty good too. The mid eighties was to produce a whole deluge of these singles from middle and northern England - most of them have found there way into my record collection and subsequently my blogs. A1  Banging On The House B1  Chains

Drain Trained

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  Cabaret Voltaire - The Drain Train [DVR 21 UK 1986 24-Bit FLAC] In 1986, Cabaret Voltaire had left their Some Bizzare/Virgin Records alliance following their well received  The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord album. Whilst a new deal with EMI/Parlophone was in the discussion stage, they recorded these tracks at Western Works for release on their own Doublevision label. Most Cabs fans will highlight Menace and Electro-Motive as some of their best work from the period, the A-side (here in three mixes over two twelves) follows much the same vein as the Covenant singles. A1  (Shakedown) The Whole Thing B1  Menace B2  Electro-Motive C1  (Shakedown) The Whole Thing (Version) D1  (Shakedown) The Whole Thing (Dub)

How Corrupt Is Belgium?

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Stockholm Monsters - How Corrupt Is Rough Trade? [FBN 46 BEL 1985 24-Bit FLAC] ...well I'm not sure they were that corrupt, just a little bit disorganised - something Factory Records mastered in. Produced by Peter Hook at Suite 16 in Rochdale, this single was snuck out in Benelux rather than the main UK label, we can all wonder why Factory left it until the weaker Partyline to promote Stockholm Monsters. Unsurprising therefore, that single was to be their last as they struggled to improve on Alma Mater . Tony Wilson wanted to make a statement on his feelings about his label's main distributor ....maybe Belgium wasn't the best choice. Factory eventually switched to Pinnacle Distribution when Rough Trade went bust a few years later.  Make up your own minds about the story, most of the main protagonists have gone, or left the business, the A-side will leave you puzzled but please find reassurance in the fine Kan Kill! which adorns the b-side with it's thumping bass line...

Happy John Peel Day

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  New Order - The Peel Sessions 1982 [0190295303433 UK RSD2020 24-Bit FLAC] Nice to see the Beeb cashing in for Record Store Day, well-timed too given that a deluxe version of Power, Corruption & Lies is coming along soon. I only have the Strange Fruit compact disc version of the first official release of this session, so thought I would part with some cash and hear what they have done with these thirty-eight year old tracks. These tracks were recorded and produced by the band themselves back in 1982, rather than the usual option of using BBC studios and producers. Many of us grew up listening to hissy multi-dubbed tapes of John Peel sessions. I always had an affection for New Order's second Peel Session, first broadcast in June 1982. The key elements of the session were they way in which the band mixed dub with electronics. The Temptation single had just been released heralding the move to a more uplifting and cheery sound, yet this session was dark, atmospheric and did more...

Mid Price Campaign

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  Iggy Pop - The Idiot [NL82275 UK 1984 24-Bit FLAC] The Idiot is in much better condition, closer to mint, I am assuming that it just didn't get as much play. Much artier than Lust... this album has Bowie's Berlin-influences all over it (not just the huge hype sticker), sitting comfortably as a companion to Heroes and Low ...without the Eno. It is easy to forget that this album superseded Lust by five months, both proving how productive the duo were during the Hansa years.  A1 Sister Midnight A2 Nightclubbing A3 Funtime A4 Baby A5 China Girl B1 Dum Dum Boys B2 Tiny Girls B3 Mass Production

Lust For Iggy

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  Iggy Pop - Lust For Life [NL 82488 UK 1984 24-Bit FLAC] Back in the eighties, major labels plundered their back catelogue for mid-price promotions and you pick up a few classic albums for a couple of quid ....well okay £3.49! A bargain at today's vinyl prices and unless you went for EMI's Music For Pleasure label, pressings were of a reasonable standard.  The Passenger has always been my favourite Iggy track (too many misspent teen discos) and this copy of this album has sat on the shelf for a few decades as I defaulted to the compact disc (another mid-price campaign release). The Bowie touch is clearly all over Tonight . It took a bit of cleaning and except for a few minor subsonic bumps, it sounds pretty good, so I thought I would share it with you today. Of the two Berlin albums, this one is the rockier and has the most disconcerting sleeve, as the fresh-faced, detoxed Iggy Pop takes on Andy Williams in the smile stakes. Every kid should own this record and dump their S...

Gin Soaked Bones

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  Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones [ILPS 9762 UK 1983 24-Bit FLAC] An album which should little introduction to most. Primal tin-pan alley blues from a gin soaked piano (and bagpipes!) in smokey back street dives...nobody did it better than ole'Tom. Ripped here from penguinflight's pristine vinyl copy in 24-bit high resolution for your listening pleasure. This is my ProJect Debut Carbon rip (warts & all) which appeared on ESWA 2.0 back in October 2017. A1  Underground A2  Shore Leave A3  Dave The Butcher A4  Johnsburg, Illinois A5  16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six A6  Town With No Cheer A7  In The Neighborhood B1  Just Another Sucker On The Vine B2  Frank's Wild Years B3  Swordfishtrombone B4  Down, Down, Down B5  Soldier's Things B6  Gin Soaked Boy B7  Trouble's Braids B8  Rainbirds

In The Night Time

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  Ike Yard - Night After Night [SV 045 USA 2020 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released as a 12" EP on Les Disques Du Crépuscule in 1981, this red vinyl 2020 pressing was snuck out by Superior Viaduct a few weeks back after being originally scheduled for the aborted Record Store Day 2020. It remains scheduled for online retailers in September, however some copies are out there in vinyl stores. Less electronic and more post-punk than their album for Factory America, Night After Night dives headlong into the sleazy New York underworld via the backstreets of rainy Manchester - you could understand why Factory held an interest. This is where Section 25 meet Suicide, it is where Joy Division greet Chrome. These songs represent the darkest elements of no-wave, they represent turgid urban, experimental post-punk with complex arrangements - building a night scene where you fear no one gets out unscathed.  A1 Night After Night A2 Sense Of Male A3 Infra-ton B1 Motiv B2 Cherish

Move Your Anthem

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  Marshall Jefferson - The House Music Anthem [TX 117 UK 2020 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released in 1986 and upping the tempo (briefly), here is another formative single from the house genre re-released by Trax earlier this year on red vinyl. Discogs says there have been 43 versions and reboots of this single, including many pointless remixes followed by a plethora of samples....these original mixes are where it all began. A1  Move Your Body A2  Dub Your Body B1  Drum Your Body B2  House Your Body

Red Light Cellar Tunes

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  Gaussian Curve - Clouds [MFM 004 NLD 2014 24-Bit FLAC] Gorgeous ambiance and mellow melodies from Gaussian Curve. Clouds is their first album, recorded live in the Amsterdam red light district over three nights in March 2014. This album fills the air around you using space and drifting sonics - gentle guitar, simple percussion and delicate synths.  I first posted a digital version on my other blog a while back, the vinyl version adds much more depth and warmer bass notes. You can immerse yourself in this music, there is a live presence here, without the chitter-chatter. I have their follow-up album (it is better imho), and will consider a rip if demand is there and time permits. A1  Talk To The Church A2  Impossible Island A3  Dewdrops A4  Ride B1  Broken Clouds B2  Unsolved B3  The Longest Road B4  Red Light

Melt & Dribble

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  The Home Current - Cylinder Moses [LM 001V UK 2020 24-Bit FLAC] Luxembourg based Danish musician and DJ, Martin Jensen began life as The Home Current on the important Polytechnic Youth label. Cylinder Moses is his third vinyl album, released a few weeks back in a one-off pressing of 244. He draws influence from electronic no-wave bands like Ike Yard, eighties techno-house and synth pioneers New Order & Cabaret Voltaire. The a-side is more techno in feel whereas the better side two develops expansive soundscapes underpinned by electronic beats and squelchy loops. I have my reservations about digital waves being transferred to analogue grey vinyl, however the limited edition was enough to persuade me to splash the extra cash compared to the download version. Enjoy! A1  Melting Blue A2  The Bottom Walk A3  Cylinder Moses A4  Failing Air A5  MXLL A6  Ghentle Man B1  Under Pillow Control B2  The Black Cliffs B3  Theme From The Forever...

Micro>Pop

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  Mainframe - Tenants Of The Lattice-Work [MC 007 UK 1983 24-Bit FLAC] Recorded using Roland Juno 60, Moog Liberation, Moog Prodigy, Yamaha SK20, Fender Stratocaster and percussion on an Apple II Microcomputer. Those were the days! Here is the obscure classic (and rare) album from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire computer geeks Mainframe. Best known for their pop-dance hit 5 Minutes , it was really their album which stands out as their legacy work (if you can find a copy), though the limited sales weren't as fruitful as the aforementioned single.  In essence the album works as a concept piece - that should be enough to scare away a few of you, but fear not, this is actually good, serving as a pre-cursor to other talented synthesized indie popsters like Sudden Sway and Jesus Couldn't Drum. The concept seems to revolve a round a competition or quest involving the music and lyrics and a video (which required an additional purchase). Those keen to enter had to complete and return t...

Inspirational

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  Section 25 - From The Hip [FACT 90 UK 1984 24-Bit FLAC] I think you will agree that it is about time that I ripped From The Hip . The original Factory period of Section 25 was the Blackpool story of a duo with post-punk ideals who became a threesome, who lost one and gained another and two wives to become a fivesome, then lost them all to become a husband & wife duo. It is during that period of five members that they released this important record, it is Bernard Sumner that deserved most praise for his introduction of professionalism into the final studio product. This is my original copy, purchased on day of release at Virgin in Manchester during March 1984. At the time, I was mixing college with part-time work in a chippy, so the extra cash was welcome as it funded my vinyl purchases. The expected rubber sleeve (allegedly the cause of the inevitable Factory delays) never appeared. Factory aficionados have wasted many an hour since trying to decode Peter Saville's colour co...

Thieves Of Fire

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  The Pop Group - Y [RAD 20 UK 1979 24-Bit FLAC] As you may have noticed, I shied away from a re-rip of Metal Box, choosing instead this gem for a whole new rip with the moving coil cartridge on a ProJect Classic turntable. This brings a whole new depth to my original rip from May 2014, so dump that one if you have it and indulge in this original Radar Records pressing of an important album from 1979. Instead of Manchester and its early doom-funk, let's travel to Bristol and indulge in some dub-punk. The Pop Group were around before A Certain Ratio, they worked similar seams and both have left significant legacies - both drew their inspiration from seventies black music. ACR had Martin Hannett to guide their studio chops before they mastered the studio craft for themselves, The Pop Group had Dennis Bovell, there is also some well founded suggestion that the The Pop Group had a greater influence on A Certain Ratio, than say, any of their local peers. Simon Underwood's funk bassl...

Tin Men

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  Public Image Limited - Metal Box [3LP METAL 1 UK 1979 24-Bit FLAC] One of my very first high resolution rips from quite a few years back (February 2012 to be precise), cleaned up, re-sampled and re-posted for those who may have missed it.. I'll leave the words to Simon Reynolds, who reviewed this album in his book Rip It Up And Start Again some 25 years after this metal tin hit record store shelves.... ...Martin Atkins, who went on to become PiL's longest-enduring drummer, was recruited when the second album Metal Box was virtually finished. He received a summons to the studio in the form of an inconsiderate 3 a.m. phone call. 'When I got to Townhouse Studios (where the band was recording), someone says, "There's the drum kit, make something up"', Atkins recalls. 'Wobble and I wrote Bad Baby off the top of our heads - what you hear on Metal Box is literally that first five minutes of us playing together for the first time'. As you might imagin...

Deliverance

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  Bushido - Deliverance [TMLP 12 UK 1985 24-Bit FLAC] This is a new 2020 rip of one of my favourite albums from 1985. Time And Time Again on the flipside of the Voices single was what Bushido were about, the track is reworked here as Lament . These are lush soundscapes of melody and drama, like film John Carpenter soundtracks, overtly clever sequencer programs work over subtle rhythms, and the occasional lyrics are very dark. The classic Lament is a work of great beauty, it has majestic yet simple hook which runs at nearly seven minutes and forms the centerpiece of this album. I'm gushing, best stop now and let you make up your own mind! A1  A Question Of Identity A2  Lament A3  Intrigue B1  An Imperial Affair B2  High Rise B3  Question Of Time

Holocaust Songs

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  Bushido - The Sands Of Nakajima [TMLP 10 UK 1985 24-Bit FLAC] Bushido's debut long-player was a fairly bloated affair, however look deeper and hiding behind the seventies style sleeve and progressive track titles, you will find a complex piece of work. This is a self indulgent composition, written and performed by the Bushido line-up of Gary Levermore, Ian Williams and Chris Elliot, assisted in the studio by another five musical friends.  The music is full of drama like a film soundtrack for a non-existent movie - just listen to If... . and you will understand where I am coming from. Verging on classical, the themes vary wildly, mixing sequencers, drum machines, strings and classical piano. The single Among The Ruins is haunting and dark, False Prophets = False Profits  has an industrial feel and works around early Test Department territory. San Sebastian would work well for an eighties sci-fi movie, rather than as an homage to the Basque Territory, Black August is a ...

Time & Time Again

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  Bushido - Voices [TMS 05 UK 1985 24-Bit FLAC] This will be my last post for a few days as this current European heatwave is making things uncomfortable in the ripping station/man cave. I promised earlier in the week to revisit my Bushido vinyl, so here is their second single, Voices (in two versions), re-ripped and backed with the highly impressive Time And Time Again . Their two albums will follow after the break..... A1  Voices A2  Time And Time Again B1  Voices (Long Version)

Holy Moses!

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  Stump - Charlton Heston [ENYX 614 UK 1988 24-Bit FLAC] You were warned that this was coming. Stump went major label and released a Eric B/Rakim/Coldcut style dance mix mash-up! If Age Of Chance could do it, then so could Stump. The single on grazed the lowest reaches of the UK Top 60, just imagine if Stump had gotten a TOTP slot as a result of this eight minutes of quirky nuttiness!!  Thankfully there is an immaculate copy in penguinflight 's boxes so I used that instead of my crackle ridden copy. What could possibly rhyme with Charlton Heston ? Get your vest on chaps! A1  Lights! Camel! Action! Charlton Heston Meets The Irresistible Force B1  Charlton Heston B2  The Rats B3  Angst Forecast

Dave Ball Appreciation Society

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  Soft Cell - Tainted Love [BZS 212 UK 1981 24-Bit FLAC] Totally random, almost mint condition 12" single ripped from the penguinflight archive..... This is the French pressing with the black injection SBL labels of a single which should need no introduction whatsoever. If you have my ESWA 2.0 rip from April 2018, ditch that and grab this significantly better rip. A1  Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go B1  Tainted Dub (Incorporating Where Did Our Love Go)

What Does It Mean....?

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  Ultravox - Vienna [CHS 12 2481 UK 1981 24-Bit FLAC] I mentioned back in my August 2019 post of how disappointing Vienna sounded on vinyl to my ears (especially the album version), I had ripped my original crackly seven inch and always thought the mastering wasn't that great. Now, a year on, I've acquired a mint condition UK twelve inch pressing with lovely wide grooves (just a fiver in Reckless, Soho), ripped it using my new set-up, low and behold - it sounds damn fine.  It is also a relief to hear the Kraftwerk-influenced Herr X how I believe Connie would I have wanted it on vinyl. As I said back then,  Vienna is only really memorable for me because it is one of those songs which reminds me of a time and a place, a bit like Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street and Dean Friedman's Lucky Stars it gets annoyingly stuck in a different era, it's not a particularly good song (a bit over pompous IMHO) yet it is stuck in 1981 and you return to your world in 1981 just by l...

Rapid Ear Movements

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  Intense Molecular Activity - I.M.A. [DE-198 USA 2018 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released as a self-released eight inch flexi-disc in 1980, here is the extremely well remastered and expanded Dark Entries release of this important work of American electronica.  Intense Molecular Activity were active in the New York area between 1979 & 1982 blending elements of the NY No-Wave scene with Neu! beats in an homage to US bands such as Chrome and Suicide. The original 4 track EP is expanded here  to eight pieces but it wall always be the punk-disco electronics of Beat Street which stand out. Enjoy! A1  Blurb A2  Points In Space A3  Just Testing A4  Blinxong B1  Beat Street B2  Battery Life B3  Rapid Ear Movements B4  The Look

Pearl Divers

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  1000 Mexicans - Dance Like Ammunition [ FIRE LP1 UK 1985 24-Bit FLAC] A label with an impressive early repertoire were Fire Records who were originally responsible for many indie/alternative acts in the mid-eighties. Whilst 1000 Mexicans never achieved the acclaim of Pulp, Spacemen 3 and The Blue Aeroplanes, they were one of the first to sign with the label and I believe they deserved recognition. Dance Like Ammunition marks a change in direction from their pounding The Last Pop Song single, much less anger and more creative, more like art-rock than driving indie-rock - more Wire than Sisters Of Mercy. Diving For Pearls was a single but failed to make any dent in the indie charts, it is catchy and if you have read my earliest scribes, anything alternative with a trumpet goes down well with me. Enjoy! A1  Something For Nothing A2  Teaching Fish To Swim A3  Amnesia A4  Simple Game A5  Dead Language B1  Diving For Pearls B2  I Hear You Whistle ...

Post-Porno

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The Glove - Blue Sunshine [SHELP 2 UK 1983 24-Bit FLAC] Ripped from an original vinyl album released on Wonderland Records (SHELP 2) in 1983 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Here is an album unearthed from the penguinflight vinyl archive which I am digitising and I turned my back on thirty-seven plus years ago. I did buy the Like An Animal single because I loved Steve Severin's bass line, but really disliked Landray's voice on the single. She fairs better with Looking-Glass-Girl , which suits her voice better.  A few years back, Rhino released the original Robert Smith vocal demo versions as a bonus cd for the US market and now I am torn between which versions are best. During the recent ripping and mastering process I have grown to enjoy this record more and more, to now really appreciate what Severin and Smith were trying to achieve. ...and that is coming from a man who thinks that Smith struggled to write proper songs post Pornography . For those who may have missed m...

Beyond Walls

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  Bushido - Among The Ruins [TMS 02 UK 1984 24-Bit FLAC] A decent copy of Bushido's debut single, Among The Ruins eluded me for many years. I've owned a few scratchy copies and never posted them on any of my previous blogs. At last, we have a mint copy to work with and the results are excellent. It may be time to revisit their albums and t'other single as a consequence.  Bushido had a very different approach to eighties electronica, it is all about the drama - almost gothic references, horror movies soundtracks and brooding voices. The dreamscapes of  Beyond The Wall  are a wonderful use of twelve minutes ...like Tangerine Dream never happened and easily the stand out on this three track twelve inch single A1   Among The Ruins A2   The First Cut B1   Beyond The Great Wall

Schöne Schönefeld

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  The Detox Twins - Dead Horse Ghost [PY 103 UK 2019 24-Bit FLAC] Some of you will know that I hold the British electronica label Polytechnic Youth in very high regard. The quality of their releases, the packaging and vinyl pressing make them one of the best new labels around if you appreciate the genre. This retro-electro album by Berlin-based Brit, Mark Vorderhaus and local chanteuse, Devi Von Teufel certainly hits the mark. It's a cracker. The duo released six singles on the Polytechnic Youth label and all are now unobtainable - fetching high prices among label collectors. I personally wish that I had bought most of the vinyl products on this label when released as due to the limited pressings, they seem to be worth a great deal these days. A1 Warschauerstrasse A2 Autofahrer A3 Einhorn Suicide A4 Passport To Leipzig A5 Paradox B1 Dreaming Of Florida B2 I'm Not Available B3 In the Deep Water B4 In The Hospital Garden B5 Gravity

Distorted Dance

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Last Few Days - Too Much Is Not Enough [T9:45 UK 1986 24-Bit FLAC] Last Few Days were a British industrial act who included Fritz Katlin & Sam Mills from 23 Skidoo, once touring much of Eastern Europe with good pals, Laibach. This is not a dance record - these boys bash out a incessant beat using distorted live drums, sequencers and metal percussion - it also includes a magnificent but short stab of flanged funky bass.. This was their only proper studio record, originally on a seven inch shared with S/Z, Ritual Magnetic North on the Touch label in 1985, which was preceded by a cassette only release of live Dutch recordings. I will overlook the fact that two of the band were to reform at the turn of the decade producing forgettable pop-dance on the Fontana label. A1 Too Much Is Not Enough B1 Solemn Warnings B2 If The Bonds Are Not To Burst

The Not So Adult Orientated

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Stereolab ‎- The Groop Played "Space Age Batchelor Pad Music" [PURE 19LPX UK 2018 24-Bit FLAC] I have a tonne of vinyl ripped and ready to be converted into FLAC for your delectation, however time does not permit the rush of posts seen during lockdown, so I am slowly but surely working my way through them. I'll try and keep to a good mix of new rips, improved re-rips and old rips from my archives.  As for what's next, here is a band which I have noticed getting heavy mention on the ESWA board, I have a few of their records (a few originals among them) as I usually dipped in and out of purchasing from their considerable catelogue. Space Age Batchelor Pad Music defined, well for me at least, Stereolab's move from hazey gazey indie-pop of Peng! and those first singles towards more experimental sounds as they blend in kraut-inspired rhythms and other obtuse influences. The stand-out for has always been  We're Not Adult Orientated   ...most memorable personally a...

Out Of The Phuture

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Phuture - Acid Tracks [TX-142 UK 2020 24-Bit FLAC] Back during lockdown, the UK arm of Trax Records reissued some of their more iconic releases on red vinyl. Phuture's Acid Tracks was one of them - I was never a disco dancer, however early house music has always been one of my favourite genres, very different to its modern incarnation - even more so than the crass British interpretation which seemed to celebrate drug culture, rather than warn of its dangers like on track B2.  I used to buy records like this on import from the back of a van for a major record retailer back in the day - I may be tempted to post some more of these great memories. Likely one of the mid-eighties most important electronic recordings, whilst not the first to dabble will frequency modulation on a Roland 303 bass synth, Acid Tracks was to open the minds of many a dance head for years to come. Enjoy. A1 Acid Tracks B1 Phuture Jacks B2 Your Only Friend

Info Section

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The Information Society - Insoc [MNQ 053 DEU 2014 24-Bit FLAC] This reissue EP on splatter vinyl represents the earliest recordings from Minneapolis five piece, Information Society. Originally released in 1983 on their own Information Records label - most copies were lost or destroyed due to poor sales, however the record became highly sought after when the band broke the pop charts with a succession of popular US singles. These are formative electronic works much in the same vein as early Human League - very different to what was to come ....and consequently highly recommended. A1 Bacchanale A2 Fall In Line A3 Growing Up With Shiva B1 Get Up Away From That Thing B2 Can You Live As Fast As Me B3 Charientism

Quirky Tupperware Strippers

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Stump - Quirk Out [STUF U2 1987 24-Bit FLAC] Preceded by their splendid Mud On A Colon EP and a career breaking Peel Session, here is the debut album by the mighty Stump, ripped from a virgin vinyl pressing on Stuff Records (note the catelogue number). Is this funk or is it proggy-punk? Genre confused twisty jerky rhythms from these Anglo-Irish popsters who clearly found the groove with a good mix of Beefheart, (early) Genesis, Cameo and The Cravats. Frontman Mick Lynch sadly passed away in late 2015.  Listening again to Quirk Out , is it me, or is Our Fathers sounding somewhat mainstream. A short career was then to follow on major offshoot, Ensign Records and the Stump were gone. Stump may have gone, but we will never forget this wickedly zany troupe. A1 Tupperware Stripper A2 Our Fathers A3 Kitchen Table B1 Buffalo B2 Everything In Its Place B3 Bit Part Actor

For All The Nobodies

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Yvonne Archer - Ain't Nobody [ISLE 007 AUS 2020 24-Bit FLAC] This reggae dancehall cover of Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody was originally released on the Virgo Stomach label back in 1983, these days you would be expected to part with a hundred quid for an original. Aussie label Isle Of Jura Records licensed a reissue earlier this year and it sold out within days. The title track verges into the same territory that Colourbox were in around the same time, which should interest a few of you.  A1 Ain't Nobody A2 Checking Out The Way I Feel B1 Ain't Nobody (Jura Soundsystem Edit) B2 Ain't Nobody (Jura Soundsystem Dub)

Case Closed

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The Unknown Cases - If You Want Me To Stay [RTD 019T DEU 1985 24-Bit FLAC] German duo The Unknown Cases followed up their afro-electro masterpiece  Masimba Bele with this soulful cover of Sly Stone's If You Want Me To Stay on Rough Trade's German offshoot. Much poppier than its predecessor, the track seemed destined for the hit parade, however commercial fame was to elude them. It is still a good track ...but in no way as good as  Masimba Bele which is bastardised into two remixes on the flip. You would do much better and hunt out my rip of that single . I'd like to dedicate this rip to the anonymous troll who filled my inbox with hateful ranting at the weekend. I didn't feel it necessary to publish his inaccurate and vile comments on my observations regarding Morrisey's current state of mind ....whilst he, unfortunately, didn't have the balls to put his name to his XRW comments.  A1 If You Want Me To Stay B1 Masimba Bele Dub Mix (Small Mix) B2 Masimba...