Don't Touch That Dial
Maximum Joy - Station M.X.J.Y. [Y 28 UK 1982 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] After my occasional whinging that Station M.X.J.Y. had never been reissued, US label 1972 Records repressed the album on a choice of black or red vinyl in 2019. I though now would be a good time to dig out my UK original pressings and see what I could do with it. Here is a brand new rip in 176.4kHz FLAC. Formed from remnants of The Glaxo Babies and The Pop Group, fronted by Janine Rainforth, Maximum Joy recently reformed in part during 2015, and releasing one new single as MXMJoY in 2019. I put Station M.X.J.Y . up there with A Certain Ratio's Sextet at the pinnacles of British post-punk-funk. Where as Sextet is a post-industrial soundtrack to the dark alleys and dirty canals of early eighties Manchester, Station M.X.J.Y. celebrates the multicultural influences and diversity of a post-colonial Bristol. Like Sextet there is a balance of instrumental mood pieces like Where's Deke? where the sounds of the B...