Dive into the archives.
Back To My Roots…
Mandy Smith – Mandy’s Theme (I Just Can’t Wait) (Cool & Breezy Jazz Version) (MP3)
Odyssey – Going Back To My Roots (MP3)
Manchester beckons, and what better way to celebrate my return to the motherland than with a couple of classic tracks that illustrate my giddy school girl behaviour today…
First up is Bill Wyman’s somewhat controversial [...]
In The City Tonight…
Empire – Big City (Extended Version) (MP3)
Released back in 1988, “Big City” is the B-side to the title track “Imagination”. I know absolutely nothing more on these guys, so feel free to shed some light…
Basically, this is one of those Balearic pop records that either really does it, or really doesn’t; I think Kev calls [...]
Make Love? Me No Make Love…
Mascara – Baja (MP3)
A quick disco fix in the way of Mascara, and their fantastically narrated, bilingual hit, ‘Baja’. Produced by Jurgen S. Korduletsch and mixed by the 80’s workhorse “Jellybean” Benitez, this was released on both the Oh MY! and Personal record labels back in 1984…
Most plays of this 12″ come in the form [...]
Balearic Love…
Chris Rea – Josephine (La Version Francaise) (MP3)
On inspection of our tag cloud “visual depicter” this morning, i was a little bit saddened to see that Indie was pulling all the punches in the battle of the bold. So, in a drastic attempt to re-align the Balearic to Indie ratio, what better way to [...]
Stay Calm (It’s Only Been A Month…)
Calm – Running On The Sand (MP3)
Calm – Sitting On The Beach (MP3)
Desperately trying to avoid a stint in the BFF naughty corner, I thought it best to pull my finger out quick sharp before the blog police (Chris and Kev) notice that it’s been over a month since my last post. Whoops…
Not wanting to [...]
Space Survivor…
Network feat. Rik DeLisle – Space Survivor (Instrumental) (MP3)
‘Space Survivor’ was released back in 1981 on the German label Hansa. Nestled away on the B side to ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ (a terrible cover of the Lou Reed classic), this is somewhat of a hidden gem (mid-tempo disco with a vocoder, space effects and [...]
Step Around This Movin’ Sound…
Paul Hardcastle – Movin’ Sound (MP3)
British born Paul Hardcastle is best known for one thing; his Vietnam inspired recording ‘19‘. Personally, I don’t really know much about his other work, apart from that he was in the “fake LFO” (as opposed to the real deal – the Warp affiliated LFO)…
Anyway, I found this record a [...]
Take A Look In ‘Le Miroir’…
Laurent Voulzy – Le Miroir (MP3)
Unfortunately, the French singer/songwriter Laurent Voulzy is probably best known for one of two things -
1. His terrible, 1977 rock inspired pop medley, ‘Rockollection‘…
Or
2. His collaboration with the unbearably annoying Irish contingent, The Corrs…
The latter of the two cannot be helped (or forgiven). However, if you happen to own or [...]
Bakerman is baking bread…
laidback – bakerman (mp3)
here’s another quickie today, this time from the danish pop outfit, laidback. these guys have been churning out the hits for almost 30 years now, with their more recent releases appearing on bff favourite label, music for dreams. most of you will probably know their seminal electro release ‘white horse’ or the [...]
And it’s burns, burns, burns…
the art of noise – moments in love (mp3)
due to our tv being on the blink and currently unable to pick up any channels (ftn being one of the only ones), i have recently become accustomed to the ways of the game show re-runs. now some of you might think this is a terrible [...]
