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Shining Gloriously Through The Sky
Bright & Early – Love Is Overtaking Me (MP3)
Bright & Early – Planted A Thought (MP3)
I have a new favourite pop group and they’re called Bright & Early. Unfortunately they existed for about a week in the late 80’s and to the best of my knowledge only two of their songs ever made it on [...]
Insane In The Pitch Change…
Le Jete – La Cage Aux Folles (Instrumental) (33.3 Version) (MP3)
Yes, yes, yes; this is so good! Released on Patrick Cowley’s Megatone records in 1983, ‘La Cage Aux Folles” (”The Caged Insane Ones” ), is, initially, Hi-NRG disco at its lightening speed, 45rpm spinning worst.
However, pitch it down to a nice and easy 33 [...]
Already Starting To Pick Out My Records
Eric Clapton – Behind The Mask (MP3)
Well, New Year’s Eve is fast approaching and yours truly has, seemingly be default, found himself on early doors DJ duties at Common that evening. Some might find a NYE 8PM until 10PM slot to be a bit of a bum deal, what with no-one likely to be there [...]
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 [...]
Rub A Dub Dub…
Pure Silk Feat. The Blackstones – Rub A Dub (MP3)
I picked this up a couple of years back. A friend of a friend was selling a load of old (mainly 80’s) UK reggae/lovers rock 12â€s. Most of them – actually, all of them – were pretty sub standard to say the least…
After sifting through more [...]
Where’s Yours…?
Raf – Self Control (Extended Version) (MP3)
Following on from the previous (re) post, here’s another Celso Valli affiliated track. A slightly obvious one, but there’s no denying that Raffaele Riefoli’s ‘Self Control’ is a total 80’s bomb (minus that dreadful rapping nonsense towards the end). Later ‘re-worked’ by Harold Faltermeyer for the Laura Brannigan mega [...]
It’s The Weekend…!
Class Action – Weekend (Original 12″ Mix) (MP3)
After a week that has felt more like a month (a 31 day one at that), thankfully, the joyous event that we call the weekend, is finally upon us. To celebrate this, more so than normal, here is a classic bit of disco action from a Leroy Burgess [...]
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 [...]
So Where Will You Be On Saturday Morning?
M83 – Kim & Jessie (MP3)
Whilst the John Hughes film soundtrack reference made in every review of M83’s new album ‘Saturdays = Youth’ might not be the product of the most insightful journalism (the press release does a good job of making it more than clear that that was what Anthony Gonzalez was going for), [...]
