https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eMp7k6DysA Kerry Delius - Dear Christine From Kerry Delius - They Say It's Gonna Rain Released on Arrival Records, 1984, UK If you're used to reading this blog, you probably share with us the idea that "B-sides" can almost be considered as a subgenre of pop music; a musical territory where musicians let loose of…Lire la suite ENTRY #11: ANOTHER B-SIDE STORY
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ENTRY #4 : WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
You will read about not one but three records in this article. Let's figure out what drove us from one record to the others, starting with an artist and a label you might have read many times about on this site : one of our biggest musical heroes, Steve Beresford, and the beloved French label…Lire la suite ENTRY #4 : WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
NTS SHOWS – JUNE 2018 w/ PAM & Satoshi
A few favourites from Cherry Red Records were played side-by-side in our June show for NTS radio. It also features other UK Post-Punk favourites from Dislocation Dance or Mag & The Suspects. TRACKLIST : BEAUTIFUL PEA GREEN BOAT - Passed Into Greening MORT GARSON - Ode To An African Violet PRINCE FAR I & THE ARABS - Plant Up DANNY ALIAS…Lire la suite NTS SHOWS – JUNE 2018 w/ PAM & Satoshi
BERBEL NOBODIUS : HAMSTER RECORDS AND TAPES PART 3/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHpO5jsS8T4 Berbel Nobodius - Then Emancipation From Berbel Nobodius - Wanton But Windblown Released on Hamster Records & Tapes, 1989, UK For the third instalment in the Hamster Records And Tapes series we had the mysterious Melvyn Z Pad, a.k.a. Berbel Nobodius telling us about his solo album, the beautifully desolate Wanton But Windblown from…Lire la suite BERBEL NOBODIUS : HAMSTER RECORDS AND TAPES PART 3/4
UFO’S OVER NEW YORK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR4STfeAhW0 Konstruktivits - New York From Konstruktivits - Glennascaul Released on Sterile Records, 1985, UK When you go through records, checking the back of the cover for familiar names, some are invitations to give those records a listen while a few almost urge you to buy them on sight. Needless to say that the name…Lire la suite UFO’S OVER NEW YORK
OYT ON AIR : NTS SHOWS – SEPTEMBER 2017
A few cloud were looming over this month's selection, featuring very sad music by Virginia Astley and not so sad music from Holger Czukay, Jean-Philippe Rykiel and The Mystic Jungle Tribe.
HAMSTER RECORDS AND TAPES PART 1/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj66RtAQMbM Lydia Tomkiw & Terry Burrows - Pressed In An Atlas From Obscure Independent Classics Volume 5 Released on Hamster Records And Tapes, 1988, UK "I started the label when I was about 19 and a student. I’d sent some Jung Analysts demos to the Cherry Red label, which was cultishly popular at the time,…Lire la suite HAMSTER RECORDS AND TAPES PART 1/4
UK STREET SOUL 4 EVER #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjMqNkzvHaM Special Touch - I Want You (Dance Mix) From Special Touch - I Want You Released on TSR, 1990, UK We've already shared our love for what has been called "UK street soul" - a form of lush and bouncy R'n'B born on the streets of London - in one of our very first…Lire la suite UK STREET SOUL 4 EVER #2
SILENT TALKING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8W1VriAo4&list=PLaLjSOz-rF-y7omcmnSuvGC6GOJzKQl3F&index=1 A.C. Marias - Just Talk From A.C. Marias - One Of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing) Released on Mute, 1989, UK Released in 1989, A.C. Marias' only album marked the end of a musical career (at least undr this name...) which had begun at the beginning of the decade with the release of a single,…Lire la suite SILENT TALKING
EYE IN THE SKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D29UAFD8mI&feature=youtu.be Rico - Mysteries Of The World From Rico - Mysteries Of The World Released on Debut, 1990, UK We've always been fascinated by the people who are working behind the scenes, the ones with the names written in a bold font on the record sleeves, and always in a very discrete way. Amongst them…Lire la suite EYE IN THE SKY