Sue Barnett - Fit for Life

Back in 1984 Sue Barnett, a Christian PE teacher and wife of evangelist Doug Barnett (according to Buzz Mag), came across the idea of setting an aerobics session to Christian pop, a la Bob Sinclar in  Gym Tonic.  It sounds strangely sexual to me.  Probably not what she had in mind.  But in the quest for new ideas, I felt that I had to bring you this record.  Have a listen in particular to We Need to Hear from You.

Side 1
I'm Forgiven
Under His Reign
Cornerstone
Never Had a Reason
I Have Decided
I Don't Worry

Side 2

We Need to Hear from You
Walk By Love
Somebody new
This is The Day
All I Must Do

I've also started doing some of my own music.  Matthew Stone recently was introduced me to this great software called DJAY - great cause it's easy to use and play with ideas without having to learn all that Ableton malarchy, etc.  I made this mashup from ideas I played with on that software.

Kylie vs. Gesaffelstein - Slowpr (Todd Hart mash)

The Olympic Trio

I really know nothing about this group and can't read Greek so I can't find anything on the Internet. I assume they're actually called The Olympic Trio.  The music has touches of cheap synths and greek guitars. But here and there is a slight disco feel and it's fun.  

I bought this in the Oxfam shop in Marylebone and it's kind of fun.  I can't identify the track names but I think my favorite is Track B1.



Tracks.

A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
A6

B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
B7

NME 21 - Pogo a Go Go

I am reposting this blog post from 2009 because it was offline for a while and has a lot of tracks that are rare and sought after.

Here is another of the rare NME cassettes released with the magazine in the early 80s, a number of which you can find elsewhere on this blog. These tapes featured a variety of styles from jazz, pop, reggae, even african, to punk, which is what they tape is. Each of them has a lot of tracks from bands that are quite obscure and impossible to find elsewhere. This one has unreleased tracks from the Sex Pistols and The Clash that are not released. Even though this compilation came out on CD, the unreleased tracks were not included. So this is the only place you can find them.

Unfortunately, the cassette quality is not so amazing. Some of the last tracks on the B side, such as the Buzzcocks track have a slight waiver in the pitch and the Sex Pistols track has a bit of a buzz in it now and then. But it's great to hear the Sex Pistols guy say something at the end of the demo recording. And the tracks by The Fall, Elvis Costello and The Slits are all good quality and also fantastic tracks. "Part Time Punks" is also great for its tale (even when punk was big) about people who do Punk for the aesthetic, not for the principle. Aesthetic is my principle, though, and I'm not ashamed of it. I'm a punk in other ways.

A1 Sex Pistols - Satellite (Suburban Kid) (unreleased version)
A2 Undertones - True Confessions
A3 Nipple Erectors - King Of The Bop
A4 Television Personalities - Part Time Punks
A5 Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout
A6 The Damned - Stretcher Case Baby
A7 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Watching The Detectives
A8 The Stranglers - Choosey Susie
A9 Victim - Strange Thing By Night
B1 The Clash - 1977 (demo)
B2 Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device
B3 Slits - Typical Girls
B4 Alternative TV - Love Lies Limp
B5 Swell Maps - Read About Seymour
B6 The Jam - In The City
B7 The Fall - Bingo Master's Breakout
B8 Subway Sect - Ambition
B9 Wire - Dot Dash
B10 Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict

Maria & the Mirrors - Travel Sex EP

I'm a big believer in people.  I want to believe that special people have something special that will make them keep doing special things.  Maybe this is because I want to believe in heroes.  When I hear a really good band I want to believe there is something special about their songwriting that no one else can imitate and want to believe that they will continue to do amazing things.  This is why I continue to be intrigued by Metronomy for example.

Maria & the Mirrors is a band that I've loved from the first time I saw them at the Offset festival a few years ago.  Since then I've written about them and they have done various gigs and blah blah.  But they're still around and they have a new ep out called Travel Sex and I still think their sound is unique, raw, trancelike and not formulaic.  It's like 3 blind people trying to map Godzilla's skin in Logic. . . 

This is not the title track from the ep but I like it probably best. I assume it was named after this film but who knows.  I didn't ask.


Valerie a tyden divu

Special Fetes

I picked up this tape in a flea market in south Paris a few weekends ago.  Not really sure what song is which or what the song titles are but I was loving this arabic cover of Barbie Girl by Aqua.  I've also included two other tracks just to show what it sounds like.  I thought it was also interesting that one of the tracks, while sounding like typical party music you might hear blaring from a Lebanese restaurant, also has shades of Scottish bagpipe music.

Barbie Girl - arabic cover version

Track 1

Track 2

5 year Annivesary radio show!

Having done this blog for five years, I thought it would be a good idea to do something special for the 5th anniversary.  Five years ago in April 2006 I started the blog with this post.  Luckily, the people at the new London Fields radio station invited me to do a new radio show and so here you have a 5 year overview of the good stuff from this blog.

LISTEN HERE

The tracklist for the show is as follows - all of these tracks have been previously featured on the blog and you can search for them above.


Tracklist

The Look            I Am The Beat

Ongaku            Mihon 3

Cinnabar            Forces

Dr. Calculus            Perfume From Spain

Bobby Brown            Free Style Megamix (On Our Own, Do....)

Ivo Papasov And His Bulgarian Wedding Band

Bulchenska Ratchenitsa (Bride's Ratchenitsa)

Star Taxi Music            Interlude 8

Umoja                        Money Money

Richard Berry            Oh! Oh Get Out The Car

Tradicional Kazzabe            Gurinbiuwa

Frank Chickens            Shellfish Bamboo

Aphex Twin            Phlid

Les Jaloux Saboteurs            Maître Gazonga

Lata Mangeshkar & Asha Bhosle

Main Chali Main Chale

Fiat Lux            Secrets

Les Choeurs L'Armee Sovietique            Hymne Soviétique

Hi-Ryze            Jp233

Omary Kopa            Track 03

Sex Pistols            Satellite (Suburban Kid)

Dj Chip Dilla            Carbootie Mixtape

Eydie Gorme Y El Trio Los Panchos

Noche De Ronda

Colourbox            Baby I Love You So

 

This blog has always been about trying to pull music that you either don't know or have forgotten about off of old tapes - sometimes with a sense of humor but often unearthing things that are amazing.  I think that's what gives the blog an edge - the feeling that you're finding treasure here that you can't find anywhere else, and someone has actually done work to bring it back to life for you.

I recently was given some more tapes of the collection of friends of DJ Quark who I've previously featured.  This one was done for a radio station called Zero Gravity in 1993.  Obviously it was a radio station that required a certain degree of cannabis-ness to function.  But dj Quark has a real talent for mixing in tracks and layering beats in a way that, as my friend Yasmin says, tells a story.  Have a listen and see what you think.  Most of the mix does not feature individual tracks but woven throughout the story are featured at least the following tracks.

Download Side 1

Download Side 2

Balil - Merck

The Clan (Mongol Hordes) - I.A.O.

Both of the above tracks are from the Black Dog Productions album Bytes.  Black Dog later becaome Plaid and were on Warp.

Colourbox - Baby I Love You So

Colourbox were an English due of brothers and were on 4AD label - the same as This Mortal Coil.  They also were sort of a precursor to the much later work by Rhythm & Sound such as the 2003 album I used to listen to with Jah Rule.

The Grid - Floatation (Subsonic Grid Mix)

This mix also features 2 tracks from The Grid. The other is one is mixed by the Orb called Crystal Clear (the Crystal Clear Water Revival mix).

I've also lately been buying some more gear for my home studio.  I got a Korg M1 for not a bad price and excellent for producing original piano house sounds.  I am increasingly working on more of my own music and remixes and I'm always a sucker for interesting pro studio equipment.  I'm on the lookout for a good drum machine right now.  I discovered there are actually not very many actual shops you can go to and try things out in the Uk these days, at least not in London.  There are only the limited selections on Denmark street.  For this reason I wanted to draw your attention to this new pro audio resource I discovered called Sounds Great Music in Cheshire.  You may want to check out their Voodoo Lab effects.

The Wizard (Jeff Mills) - 1986 & 1987 WJLB live shows

These are original dj sets from Jeff Mills aka The Wizard on WJLB radio in Chicago from 1986-87.   These are more of the tapes I got from Chris Low. This is mostly hip hop although now and then some early house slips in.  The crazy thing is that Jeff Mills really adds a lot to the mix as many of the tracks are scratched and mixed into completely new tracks and often sped up significantly.  All around a very enjoyable listen to see a real dj artist at work.

At some point in Side 1 it appears that we join radio station WHPK which apparently was one of the first stations to broadcast rap in Chicago.  Included in that segment are two live raps identified as Legend of Doom and DJ Quickhand.  I've posted  few separate tracks below that are included in the shows that are rarer and the live shows.

Side 1 - Download

live rap - Legend of Doom
live rap - DJ Quickhand


Side 2 - Download

Side 2 includes the following tracks.  I managed to find the fantastic Nude Photo track on the Boards of Electronica site here.  Particularly great is the Prince - Kiss live remix clip.

Shante - Have a Nice Day

Chip E  - If You Only Knew 

Rhythim is Rhythim - Nude Photo - Download

EPMD - I Know You Got soul

Eric B & Rakim - Check out my Melody

Cafe del Mar tape no. 1

This is the original first tape that was sold in the Cafe del Mar of Ibiza.  I received it from someone I work with who actually bought it in the Cafe in 1991.  It was mixed by Jose Padilla and never commercially released (the cd series came later with different tracks).

Unfortunately the quality if the recording is such that it wavers a bit too much so I was lucky to find this upload of the same tape as one continuous stream on the djhistory website.  According to that forum the tracklisting is as follows.  It's a lot more mellow than I expected.  I never made it to Ibiza until 1999 and I somehow thought it would be more upbeat.  This shows how much of a fool I am because Jose Padilla is known for popularizing chillout music ;)  I could imagine after a hard night of strange substances this would be nice to listen to as the sun rose hot over the beach.  Could do with a bit of that now actually . . . 

I've also included one track to download, Habebe from Ann Dudley & Jaz Coleman.

00:00 Penguin Café - Paul's Dance
01:42 Chris Spheeris - Fields of Tears
04.47 Bob James - Women of Ireland
12:14 Clifford White - Ascension
18:10 Eric Serra - Remembering a Hearbeat
19:21 Dancing Fantasy - Are You Ready?/ Beyond the Horizon
23:48 Mahavishnu Orchestra - When Blue Turns Gold
26:25 Richard Horowitz - Marnia's Tent
29.05 Ann Dudley & Jaz Coleman - Habebe
36:18 John Carpener - Starman (End Titles)
38:12 Jevetta Steele - Baghdad Café (Callin' U)
42:04 Dancing Fantasy - Good Morning America
47:02 Penguin Café - Steady state
49:59 Penguin Cafe - Air a Danser
54:14 Dancing Fantasy - Tim's Talk/ Malibu

DOWNLOAD

I also want to draw attention to the new EP from Beth Ditto of the Gossip. It's produced by Simian Mobile Disco and is very excellent. The track I Wrote the Book has been on constant circulation in my flat cause my friend Price James has been staying with me while he made her video. Check it out. Major voguers.  Also check out his recent vid for Hercules & Love Affair.  That's major kudos too.

It's Contagious compilation

My friend Anthony Faroux found this tape in a flat he was clearing out in Kennington, south London.  The only artist on here I can find any detail about is The Instant Automatons and so this may be part of their DIY/free music scene discussed here.  There is a video of theirs below.

Unfortunately the quality of the tape is pretty low but there are still some amusing sounds here.  John the Baptist is pretty funny and the Christmas song Our Father has the lyrics "Father Bagwan, Father Bagwan, here's my Volvo . . ."  But probably the most enjoyable to listen to are Nick Harrison's vaguely 80's eurodisco "Kuji" and Colin Potter's "Here is Picture", which remotely sounds like Suicide.

Thanks Anthony, and check out his video art here.


Side One:
1. Negrava: John the Baptist
2. Nick Harrison: Orford Ness
3. Missing Persons: Sir, You're an Arsehole
4. The Instant Automatons: Ignorance is Bliss
5. Negrava: Under the Anaesthetic of Love
6. Colin Potter: Another Day is Missing
7. Transistor Six: Slowfall
8. Negrava: Our Father

Side Two:
1. Missing Persons: Nothing Happens (when you least expect it)
2. Negrava: Brian's Girls
3. Transistor Six: Light like Moss
4. Nick Harrison: Kuji
5. The Instant Automatons: Ballad of the New Things
6. Colin Potter: Here is Picture
7. Negrava: Little Venom
8. Transistor Six: Fanatical Belief

Smylonylon 2

I haven't posted any Smylonylons for a while.  This is one of the earlier tapes that features more 60s pop and lounge exotica.  Some might immediately think of elevators.  But I was actually really enjoying listening to this, especially side 2.  I think maybe it's a nice contrast from all the darkness that I'm listening to right now, all the heavy acid house and 80s Belgian synth pop.  No one wants to eat the same food all the time.

I don't have much to comment about the artists as most of them are well known but these tracks are less commonly played, at least not in my circles.  Enjoy.

Side 1

Not sure about most of the tracklisting on side 1 but it does feature  near the beginning the track Journey to the East by Bill Plummer/The Cosmic Brotherhood.

Side 2


Track listing that I could identify on side 2 - some individual download links.

Bridget Bardot - Contact

Harangozó Teréz - Sose fájjon a fejed

Michel Legrand - Brule Pas Tes Doigts

Bo Didley - Bo's Bounce

Tom Jones - If I Promise

Esquivel and his orchestra - Frenesi

Anonymous amusing German tracks at end of Side 2

Lektyr - Sommar Hits

I bought this tape in a Saturday flea market in downtown Oslo.  My friend Anders told me Lektyr was a porn mag in the 80s.  Anyway, most of these songs are forgettable but the Rain and Tokyo tracks are pretty good.  What it looks like has been done here is that the real artist names have been replaced with made up names.  So the I'm the Lady track is Linda Williams, the Marigot Bay is Arabesque and the Rain is Goombay Dance Band.  If you want to let me know who did the Tokyo track that would be great.

Side A
Morning Train - Baby Girls
In Your Arms - Company of Friends
Marigot Bay - Baby Singers  (Arabesque)
All Those Years Ago - Revolutions
I'm the Lady (Eurovision song Netherlands) - Baby Singers (Linda Williams)
Seven Tears - Disco Rollers

Side B
Rain - Revolutions (Goombay Dance Band)
Tokyo - Janne Lucas
Flash - School Boys
Sukiyaki - Flash Backs
Take Me Home - Freestyle
Cinderella Jones - Kerstin Dahlberg

Zarcop Oddcast III

Alaska y Los Pegamoides

Faley from Late of the Pier has posted a mix of tunes which I selected for him in the sort of early 80s minimal no wave, german-ish vein.  Hope you enjoy.

Oddcast on Mixcloud

Tracklist / Chapters


1 Superdome 80 - Auto Gegen Pfütze

2 Xeno And Oaklander - Sentinelle

3 Alaska - Bote De Colon

4 Klan X - Alarma General

5 International Music System - An English

6 Human Puppets - In The Nights

7 Rob Hubbard - Immortal

8 White Ring - Ixc999

9 Edwyn Collins - Never Known A Girl Like You Before

I've been getting more and more into early more simple hard sounds from Detroit and Chicago - and on that vein here is another tape from the collection I got from Chris Low. It's a particularly good run through the acid house scene.  The standout track here that I don't remember hearing before, mostly because of the robotic girly voice in it, is Confusion's Revenge by Armando.

Enjoy.  Chris volunteered the following tracklisting but I haven't checked it through.

part 1: - download

1) the acid life - farley jackmaster funk (house)
...2) confusion's revenge - armando (jack trax)   [DOWNLOAD]
3) land of confusion - armando (westbrook)
3) this is acid - maurice joshua (trax)
4) hot hands - hula (trax)
5) as acid turns - liddell townsell (trax)
6) born to freak - steve poindexter (muzique)
7) computer madness - steve poindexter (muzique)
8) machines - laurent x (house nation)
9) fingers - the juice - or may be "Ecstacy" (hot mix 5)
10) dj #1 - acid houz (dance mania)
11) The M rules - MD connection (musique)
12) some white label
13) Hous Mon - Acid warp (underground house)
14) can't for the life of me remember what this track is!
15) cool & dry - jack frost (trax)
16) downfall - armando (warehouse)
17) can't for the life of me remember what this track is!

part 2: - download

1) 20 below - dj pierre (jack trax)
2) phuture jacks - phuture (trax)
3) think this is either jack frost or the porch monkeys, pretty sure it's on Trax or Housetime Records anyway
4) this sounds like a Larry heard track, maybe something off the Hot Mix 'Acid LP' might be called 'hot coals'?
5) magic fingers - 3-2-6 (dance mania)
6) box energy - dj pierre (trax)
7) 'art of acid' maybe?? - otherwise not sure.
8) 151 - armando (warehouse)
9) 151 (remix) - armando (warehouse)
10) climax - black trax (niteclub)
11) acid trax - phuture (trax)
12) slam - phuture (trax)
13) pfantasy girl - pfantasy club (SRO)
14) the creator - pfantasy club (jack trax)See more
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Fundi Konde - Marahaba

This is another of those tapes I bought in Tanzania in January 2009 which I have not gotten around to posting.  Fundi Konde was one of the oldest and best known of Kenyan musicians.  According to Wikipedia he entertained East African troops in World War II when they were working in Asia.  This recording must have been made a long time ago cause it sounds like it's almost from the 50s.  The quality of this recording is not amazing but it's lovely to hear the Swahili lyrics.

You can listen to more of the tapes I bought in Tanzania here.

Side A:

1. Ajali Haikingiki

2. Ndoto

3. Majengo Siendi Tena

4. Dumalangu

5. Gari La Punda

6. Bwaha Majifuno

7. Wachawi

Side B:

1. Nanguruma Simba

2. Kifo Cha Baba

3. Chama - Ngamuam

4. Kaloleni

5. Tuheshimu Mahib pt. 1 and 2
6. Mwanangu Libe

SALSOUL 1 - VARIOUS ARTISTS - KISS RECORDS

The Salsoul sound is well known and has been endlessly sampled, including most recently in the big hit You're Nasty by Duck Sauce (Arman van Helden and A-trak) which, like many big house tunes, is mostly great because of the original disco hook.  I was surprised when listening to this tape that it has a number of really good Salsoul tracks that are actually quite rare.  The Double Exposure and Surface tracks are lovely and fairly well known.  Anyway, ain't no groove like a D-Train groove if you know what I mean.  This is like apple juice in the morning when you're hung over . . . .  sweeeeeeet.

Side A:

1. Jimmy Williams - All Of My Lovin

2. Arru - Are You Single

3. Loleatta Holloway - All About The Papers

4. Instant Funk - Can You See Where Im Coming From

Side B:

1. Double Exposure: Ten Per Cent

2. The Salsoul Orchestra - Take Some Time For Love

3. The Strangers - Step Out Of My Dreams

4. Surface - Falling In Love

Personal pleasures - the driving podcast

People often ask me what I really like to listen to at home. Truth of the matter is that I really love pop and dance and weird stuff, which is exactly what I dj.  That's kind of what I'm known for.  Recently I got asked by How The Other Half Lives blog to do a collection of tunes I've liked for a long time that maybe I don't get to dj that I might listen to when I'm working at home or driving on a trip.  Many of these tracks wouldn't really fit into a dj set of mine but in each case they have some kind of quality which allows them to hook me in and just go on and on and on - great for background listening.

This is a mix of sort of pop techno, trance-ish world music, great african soukous and classic instrumental disco.

The Micronauts - The Jag
Charanjit Singh - Raga Todi
Ongaku - Mihon 3
Elasticoculture - Container Dreams
Tomas Andersson - The Other Day
Rita Indiana - Platanitos
Samba Mapangala - Adija
M'Bilia Bel - Faux Pas
El Coco - Cocomotion
Love Unlimited Orchestra - Forever in Love

Listen and download on How The Other Half Lives blog.

Smylonylon 30 (the last one ever) + In Flagranti + Fabric

So here it is. The last Smylonylon mixtape ever made. This doesn't mean I won't post any more earlier ones, but this is a very special one. As I've said before, Smylonylon tapes were a series of special tapes made of rare 60s-80s pop, moog music, italo, disco, etc. They are a real special experience and a great place to discover lots of rare old stuff. I've posted previous cassettes here, as well as explained the link between Alex (half of In Flagranti) and the tapes.

When Alex gave me Smylonylon 1 he was surprised to find that I had a copy of Smylonylon 30, the last one. Then he told me the story - apparently about 6000 Smylonylon tapes were made and sold through the Centre for the Dull store in NYC in the 90s. Then in the fall of '99 he was in a restaurant in NY and someone was playing what sounded like a Smylonyon tape. But when he asked about it, the tape was labelled with someone else's name. With copycats in the wings, he decided it was time to get out of the Smylonylon business and start a band, which became In Flagranti. But he made one last tape, limited to 20 copies only, without a tracklisting so people couldn't copy. What makes this tape special even more than usual is that Alex speeds up a lot of the tracks considerably, or slows them down, and fiddles around lots with filters/eqs. So it becomes a very different mix than if you just listened to the original tracks.

I've managed to figure out and hunt down a few of the tracks on the tape. The first side is virtually impossible for me to identify cause it's mostly instrumentals. But the Android Sisters track is loopy (as in weird) and amazing. I had more luck with Side B and discovered a lot of tracks I'd never heard of. I never knew, for example, that there was a female french version of an early Fab Five Freddie (who Blondie raps about) track. And weirdly enough, I'd never heard of The Mood. Munich Machine is also an amazing track of theirs. I want to particularly thank the always amazing Saltyka blog where I found a bunch of these tracks.

I'm also posting this now cause In Flagranti are playing as part of a Durrr party at Fabric this Friday. So you can see the man who made these tapes play live on a fab sound system. And coincidentally I will be djing earlier in the night playing a lot of similar tracks. So come down and say hi - give me your nerdy tips for similar tracks you've discovered.

Also, check out youtube of the latest of In Flagranti's project Sounds Superb 5.

Side A (direct download)

Tracklisting
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Visage - Visa-Age
The Android Sisters - Robots are Coming
?
?

Side B (direct download)

Tracklisting
The Mood - Don't Stop
Anne Clark - Our Darkness (12 inch version) (or Razormaid mix)
Kim Larsen & Jungledreams - Time Bomb
Buggles - On TV
John Cooper Clarke - Teenage Werewolf
? (instrumental)
Fab 5 Freddy (B-Side) - Change the Beat (female french version)
? (instrumental)
Rational Youth - Le Mailleur Des Mondes
Charles De Goal - Radio On
Altered Images - I Could Be Happy
Tone Band - Tokyo Twist
The Flirts - Surf's Up
? (something german)

Trance 3 Various Artists

This is not really like the trance I normally think - or at least not like commercial stuff such as ATB's 9PM (Til I Come) which was a huge scene when I first moved to the UK in 1999.  This is more like early progressive dance and is part of a series of tapes which include the seminal techno compilation Technovisions which I featured way back when I started the blog. 

Like many tapes I've posted on this blog, my reason for posting is that it's a genre of dance music which falls between the classics that are well known and the current dance scene.  These era is currently the most difficult to find but its sound is so fresh again.  This tape features the Stealth Sonic Soul track which was produced by Apollo 440 (if you remember them) and also the Dust Brothers track Song to the Siren, which was one of the very first Chemical Brothers releases in 1992.  The only previous release is something done by Rowlands called Ariel - Rollercoaster / Mustn't Grumble in 1991.  It also has remix work by Andrew Weatherall and in general it's one of the best tracks on this comp.  I also really like the Van Basten - Lizard King remix but no idea who these guys are and even though their name appears on discogs - they seem lost to history.

Side 1:

1. Soul Odyssey - Rapture
2. Blood Runs Dry - All Of Your Mind
3. The Dust Brothers - Song To The Siren (Sabres Of Paradise Mix)
4. Stealth Sonic Soul - Stealth Sonic Soul
5. Van Basten - Lizard King (Amsterjam Mix)
6. Mad - Hollow


Side 2:

7. Shi-Take - Perfect Virtue (Full Moon Over Maduri Club Mix)
8. Otaku - Percussion Obsession (Back To Basics Trucker Mix)
9. Morgan King - I Am Free (Soma Mix)
10. The Pressure - Amor
11. Tom Tom - 480 Degrees
12. Jagga - Na-Na-Na (Acido Latino Mix)

Total Shite Vol 1

Although generally it must be agreed that I post perhaps the most critically acclaimed music you could find, from seminal rare techno to forgotten essential congolese soukous, now and then I feel it is necessary to expose oddities which may not be quite critically acclaimed.   Whoever made this tape must have worked for EMI - looks like maybe a compilation of stuff that either they had received as submissions or else just some random stuff they found.  Either way, it's pretty special stuff.  Tracks like Jessica are actually a decent quality recording.  But most of these are in a league of personal expression of their own.  Which makes you wonder if the Internet and everyone being able to easily make their own music is actually a good or bad thing.


Total Shite side
1. America
2. Do i want you
3. If love can win
4. So long ago
5. Its Christmas for Jesus
6. Norwegian Wood
7. Girl of my dreams
8.Rude Skanker
9. We would have problems
10. This old heart of mine
11. Raindrops keep falling on my head
12. Why
13. ??!????
14. Get back
15. Where does Santa go in Summer
16. All that love you gave me
17. Killing me Softly
18. ?????
19. Close to you
20. Conversation in Surburbia


Worst Flatulence side
Underworld avenue / America - J.Spencely
Do I want you - M.Lett
Diamond of your mind - R.Kray
If love can win - J.Hudson
So Long ago - R.Corbett
Jean - R.Beard
Let him damce - R.Beard
Jessica - R.Kray