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  Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw - Synthesis [BEWITH046LP UK 2018 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released on KPM Music in 1974 and subtitled as 'vivid contemporary sounds for a fresh visual image'.  I hope you have all been keeping up with these fabulous KPM library archives, there are plenty more to come, so if you haven't then you are certainly missing out. Synthesis is another twelve tracks of ARP Odyssey g-funk and spaced out seventies rock, combined and composed by masters of the genre, Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw.  A1 Collision Course A2 The Executive A3 Hovercraft A4 Big Black Cadillac A5 Deadline A6 Hit Me, Hit Me B1 Forum B2 Where The Action Is B3 Getting It Together B4 Helter Skelter B5 Alto Glide B6 Mermaid

  Brian Bennett ‎- Voyage (A Journey Into Discoid Funk) [ISLELP 001 AUS 2017 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released as a very rare album on DJM Records in 1978, it's just a pity that excellent Australian label Isle Of Jura Records couldn't replicate the original gatefold sleeve. I last posted this back in September 2019, ripped with my old cartridge but I was never happy with the results ....I wonder how much better it will sound using my little Japanese diamond? Here is that new rip. Not a lot of people will realise that former Cliff Richard and The Shadows drummer Brian Bennett also released an album of high quality space age disco in the late seventies. Put aside your fears of what may be lurking in these grooves, after all Bennett did also write quite a few dodgy TV themes in the eighties, this album of electronic disco-funk is superb. If like me you used to collect cassette tapes of sci-fi themes and soundtracks in the late seventies, Voyage  (A Journey Into Discoid Funk) will ...

  Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett - Full Circle [BEWITH051LP UK 2018 24-Bit FLAC] More from Hawkshaw & Bennett, and another delightful Be With Records pressing in association with lauded British house of library, KPM Music. Twelve instrumental workouts, ranging from orchestral soundtrack through rock, funk and jazz - recorded in the seventies, Full Circle is a damn fine record - which may well  have been sampled to death by many a rapper or bedroom DJ since. A1 Reignited A2 Hole In One A3 Flying A4 Straight Up A5 Serengeti A6 Open Road B1 In The Clouds B2 Corcovado B3 On The Nile B4 Marrakech B5 Oasis B6 Midnight Jazz

  Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett - Synthesizer And Percussion [BEWITH050LP UK 2018 24-Bit FLAC] Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett are best known for their TV and film soundtrack work, however dig deeper and you will come across a whole bunch of albums for UK library labels KPM and Themes International stretching back to the sixties. Current favourite UK reissue label Be With Records have secured access to the long deleted catalogues of KPM and Themes. Here is the duo's  Synthesizer And Percussion album, originally released back in 1974, composed & performed on an old ARP back in the day - actually it was likely seen as cutting edge during the mid-seventies. Mostly works in and around the peripherals of G-Funk with jazzy loops - just to prove how ground breaking they were, you can hear Hawkshaw & Bennett's experiments with frequency modulation to produce that squelchy electronic sound later associated with acid house. Library music seems especially popular with DJs...

Brian Bennett ‎- Voyage (A Journey Into Discoid Funk) [ISLELP 001 AUS 2017 24-Bit FLAC] Originally released as a very rare album on DJM Records in 1978, it's just a pity that excellent Australian label Isle Of Jura Records couldn't replicate the original gatefold sleeve. Not a lot of people will realise that former Cliff Richard and The Shadows drummer Brian Bennett also released an album of high quality space age disco in the late seventies. Put aside your fears of what may be lurking in these grooves, after all Bennett did also write quite a few dodgy TV themes in the eighties, this album of electronic disco-funk is superb. If like me you used to collect cassette tapes of sci-fi themes and soundtracks in the late seventies, Voyage  (A Journey Into Discoid Funk) will bring them all right back to you from out of the cosmos. A1 Voyage A2 Solstice A3 Chain Reaction B1 Pendulum Force B2 Air Quake B3 Ocean Glide