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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 [...]
You Bring Out The Animal In Me
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Rat Salad – Cannibalized (MP3)
Friend of Beef and all-round fantastic bloke Leo Elstob (Balearic stalwart and he of A Mountain Of One fame) has just thrown us an exclusive teaser from his new re-edit project. Coming under the alias Rat Salad (a more than slight nod to Black Sabbath) this is Leo and his old [...]
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 [...]
It’s A Jungle Out There…
Gaznevada – Living In The Jungle (Jungle Mix) (MP3)
Released in 1985 on the Italian EMI label, ‘Living In The Jungle’ was somewhat of a big hit for these guys. The track is pretty much everything you would expect; tribal chants, jungle sounds, and of course, shit loads of synthesisers. Not quite up there with ‘I.C [...]
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 [...]
So That Was 2007 Part I
Talking Drums – Courage (MP3)
And we had it all planned out: clever categories, highlights from a year’s worth of only-amusing-to-us musical anecdotes, celebrity contributions and oh so much more. It was going to be amazing, it was going to be the Best Foot Forward End Of Year Round-Up. But all the down-time, and the down-time-induced [...]
