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 them a Marmite record. Anyway, think William Pitt meets It's Immaterial and you're not far off...
Eurythmmics - Love Is A Stranger (Coldcut Remix) (MP3) Oh shit this is super duper heavy ... Coldcut get all "92-style acid-dub" on an old single from Annie and Dave. The perfect bouncing ingredient to your tasty dance floor recipe. I've just rinsed this five times on repeat, will be listening to it long into the night, and will no doubt let it into the wild on Saturday night. Listen, love, repeat ...
Black Star Disco - Life In More Motion Mix (MP3) If you're in Manchester this weekend you'd be a fool to miss the opening night of Black Star Disco , from our good stablemates who run Stop Making Sense . They've cooked a mix up for us to let us know what to expect, but I'll let Ben take over, whose penchant for talking meaningless bollocks is in league with that of my own ... "Black Star Disco is a brief history of time and space comprehended through our favoured mediums of [...]
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 12”s. Most of them, actually, all of them, were pretty sub standard to say the least... After sifting through more records than I care to remember, and with my will to live rapidly deteriorating, I thankfully came across the aptly named “Rub a Dub”. Tucked away on the end of a B-side to something that I have no [...]
Fila Brazillia - A Zed & Two L's (MP3) Fila Brazillia - Slacker (MP3) Heights Of Abraham - 700 Channels (MP3) Heights Of Abraham - E.V.A (Instrumental) (MP3) Tetris - Two Hours (MP3) Momma Gravy - Codeine Covered Cocktail Nuts (MP3) Pork Recordings - Hulls finest export? Erm...probably. My Hull knowledge is pretty unsubstantial to say the least. I have a vague memory of [...]
Massive Attack Vs. Mad Professor - Ruling The Nation/Protection Massive Attack Vs. Mad Professor - Bumper Ball Dub/Karmacoma Two choice tracks from 1995's oft-forgotten but dearly beloved No Protection LP, Mad Professor's dubbed-out take on Massive Attack's career-defining Protection. Echoes, delays, acid lines, good times, and Tracey Thorn. Bliss.
Vangelis 'He-ho' (Leo Zero re-work) (MP3) Leo Elstob Cosmodelica Mix (September 2008) (MP3) Here at BFF head quarters, it's no secret that we are big fans off all things AMO1/Leo Elstob - we certainly mention them / him enough (I think Kev even has posters on his wall). Anyway, being the good egg that he is, he has fired another couple of (semi) exclusives at us. First up is a top notch re-work of BFF hero, Vangelis . Lifted from the seminal "Earth" [...]
The Cars - Moving In Stereo (MP3) A super smashing New Wave wave bomb from The Cars. If you're a little older than me, you might remember this as a soundtrack to teenage onanism, featured as it was in Fast Times At Richmond High, as the lovely Phoebe Cates made her way out of the swimming pool (depending on your Google restrictions, that link might not be worksafe). For those that are here just for the music, enjoy and embrace the chuggy bleepy darkness.
The Little River Band - It's A Long Way There (MP3) It's Monday; I want it to be Friday. It feels like an age away... Coming on like the antithesis of Stevo's last post (seriously, who the hell puts 40 tracks up?!). Here is a 4 minute ditty from Australia's finest (bar INXS of course); the Little River Band. The 8 minute wig out version of this track is where it's at, but unfortunately I don't have the LP to hand, so this will have to do. Roll [...]
Kev's already made his apology and so here's mine, in the form of a light-on-words 40 song clear-out of everything I've been going to post but just haven't been able to come up with a suitable tenuous sexually ambiguous rant and pun post title for. And even with a 40 song post I still can't manage any sort of real variety. Sorry. Prints - Me & Ms Archer (MP3) Not sure what to call this other than electronic indie pop. Anyway, it's new and good and was apparently [...]
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 the dreadful rapping towards the end). Later 're-worked' by Harold Faltermeyer for the Laura Brannigan mega hit, this originally had Mr Valli doing 'his thing' on mixing and arrangement duties...
Isaac Hayes - Walk On By (MP3) Hooverphonic - 2 Wicky (MP3) Isaac Hayes-Hyperbolicsyllabicsesque dalymistic (MP3) Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (MP3) "I love your blog, visit it frequently a shame you dont update it as much as you did back then ;)" A closing line from an email I receieved yesterday, and it almost [...]
Musicmarkers Ltd - Havah Nagilah (MP3) After raiding my Italo collection this morning, it would seem that I am going into dodgy territory again. Don't worry though, Musicmarkers Ltd pull out all the stops on this one. Taking their inspiration from a traditional Hebrew folk song, 'Havah Nagilah', they use the original middle eastern influences, blend it together with some more modern sounds, and then turn it into a massive, Cerrone sounding, Jewish disco monster... Let us rejoice. Note: This is a re-post due to popular [...]
Butti 49 - Alan Accelerates (Fenomenon's Snowjogg 87 Remix) (MP3) A snow themed post in the midst of a British summer...? I am afraid so. It has been a while since I have had to deal with those joyous Arctic like conditions; Sri Lanka doesn't much like seasonal change. One year in to my stay in the tropics and it's pretty much been face melting, melanoma inducing sunshine all the way. Now don't get me wrong, this isn't a complaint about the weather (even though that would be terribly British of me), more of [...]
Class Action - Weekend (Original 123 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 penned mega hit; Class Action's "Weekend"...
Akasha - Brown Sugar (MP3) Akasha - Brown Sugar (PFM’s Cosmic Journey Mix) (MP3) I was a bit torn over which version of this track to post. The original brings back very fond, hazy memories of being a narcotic induced 17/18 year old, no doubt on a come down at one of the numerous friends after parties we used to end up at. This, more than likely, was after experimenting in the confines of either the Boardwalk or the Music Box in Manchester (most notably, club nights One [...]
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 Oh MY! and Personal Records back in 1984... Most plays of this 123 come in the form of the ' instrumental dub version' on the flip; which can also be found on such frustrating bootleg compilations as "The Original Sound Of The White Island". However, in my humble opinion, the vocal version is where [...]
Rheingold - Dreiklangsdimensionen (MP3) Chicago - I'm A Man (Rub 'n' Tug Edit) (MP3) A night so good it takes you a week to get over it? Last Thursday saw The Glimmers (née Twins) take over a dank Manchester basement to give us a taste of the music they love to eat. It was all part of San Miguel's "Hidden Depths" tour, and The Glimmers invited hip-hop luminary GrandMaster Flash to open up his bag of tricks. It must be said that a rather fantastic night [...]
Matthew Dear - Sound & Vision (MP3) As you're no doubt aware, I love David Bowie. I even threw a party for his 60th birthday (the ignorant so-and-so didn't turn up, but what the hey, maybe next time). So when I heard about a covers album about to drop, with a stellar roster that's sure to tick any Beef fan's boxes - Kelley Polar, Carl Craig, Emperor Machine and a fair few others. And then this, Matthew Dear's excursion into Low highlight "Sound [...]
Shortwave Set - Glitches 'n' Bugs (MP3) When life really drops you in the shit some like to help get it all out to loud angry music, whilst others need the quiet contemplation of listening to sad music. Me, I turn to pseudo-Elephant 6 boy/girl scuzzle-gum Indie pop courtesy of a bunch of South East Londoners and what they got up to when Danger Mouse invited them around for tea. Music rules and music shoppers really do live longer you know.
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