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Exo Fender

Big Mood - Incl. Justin Van Der Volgen Edit

Emotional Rescue

The always hard working Emotional Rescue now unveils the electronic disco project Exo Fender, helmed by esteemed New York producer Eric Calvi and featuring the legendary Steve D'Acquisto. The remastered songs 'Big Mood' and 'Music In My Mind' span two new EPs, with updated edited versions by NYC producer Justin Van Der Volgen. Calvi's journey from Paris to New York's music scene in the 1980s when he engineered hits for artists like Cameo and Africa Bambaataa, and laid the groundwork for Exo Fender. Inspired by clubbing friendships, the project's infectious grooves and tongue-in-cheek nature gained club play and collector's acclaim, with Van Der Volgen's remix enhancing their timeless appeal for today's dancefloors.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: One of two Exo Fender releases this week and this one does what it says on the tin... if you're in need of a mood booster look no further!

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Big Mood
Big Mood (Justin Van Der Volgen Edit)

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Exo Fender

Music In My Mind - Incl. Justin Van Der Volgen Edit

Emotional Rescue

This is the second of two releases from Emotional Rescue that looks to the music of Eric Calvi who headed up the collective Exo Fender, a project that brought together a bunch of friends, producers, and studio amigos. This one is a live boogie jam with Brooklyn DJ and producer Steve D'Aquisto. He was a regal at The Loft and a friend of Arthur Russell so all that bears out in the music - a loose-limbed disco groove with languid percussion and big vocals. A Justin Van Der Volgen edit rounds out the 12".

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Mine says: Exo Fender - via the ever reliable Emotional Rescue - deliver an addictive disco jam that had Ryan get out the (air) keytar just now... bag a copy now or forever hold your peace.

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Music In My Mind
Music In My Mind (Justin Van Der Volgen Edit)

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Skinbat Scramble

The Psychedelic Pirates

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Anyone who has followed Emotional Rescue knows it always does a fine job of documenting pock punk and dubs early years, not least by showcasing the previously unheralded work of Skinbat Scramble. Now they back that up once more with a new compilation that puts together a selection of the band's previously unreleased recordings. It is a superb trip through a number of decades and finds core members Mark Eason and Fergus Crockford distilling slow tempos, experimental sounds, dub, and much more into leftfield rhythms for body and mind.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: The early 80's were a fertile time for experimentation in popular music, with post-punk and dub frequently coming together into deeply rhythmic synth-pop with deep, rolling basslines and echoed vocal shards, and Skinbat Scramble are one of the prime examples of this sort of sound. Deep, weird music for dancing to.

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Side 1
1. "Submit"
2. "Submit" (dub)

Side 2
1. "North By Northwest"
2. "North By Dub"

Side 3
1. "Skidaddle"
2. "Skidaddle" (Daddy)

Side 4
1. "Basement Voltaire"
2. "Pixie Boot" (dub)

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Imago

Tomorrow Never Knows

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In the early 1980s, Britain had a vibrant cassette culture that now gets spotlighted through a limited edition 12" featuring multi-instrumentalist Kez Stone's project, Imago. He was a notable name in Cornwall and the West Country's music scenes with previous projects, Artistic Control and Aaah! which have come back via reissues many times in the last ten years. Imago was a new one-off project that first emerged with one track on the Perfect Motion compilation curated by NTS Radio's Bruno and Flo Dill and now the full LP, originally released in 1985 on the local label A Real Kavoom, has been remastered and added to with three additional gems. Stone's teenage punk influences sit next to Imago's eclectic approach to sound that blends new wave and psychedelic elements into something irresistible.

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Mine says: You can always rely on Emotional Rescue to unearth the most interesting and forgotten about musical projects and this one is a prime example. Never heard any of these tracks before and I'm already well into them!

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Side 1
1. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. Hot Sun

Side 2
1. All Come Together
2. Always In You

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Reduced

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Kalahari Surfers

Censorship Is Killing Music (Gross National Products 1981-1989)

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South African Warrick Sony is a ground breaking composer who was behind the Kalahari Surfers project which now gets a vital spotlight courtesy of Emotional Rescue. This compilation shows how effortlessly eclectic his sound was - from jive rhythms to jazz, tabla to political speeches and much more in between. A Hindu pacifist who was once conscripted into the South African Defense Force, he founded this group as a way out getting his ides out there, calling on other musicians as and when he needed them. It was the first radical white anti-apartheid pop in South Africa and as this vital collection shows it explored polyrhythms, slow motorik, dub sound collage and even a goofy cover of Nancy Sinatra.

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Side 1
1. Free State Fence
2. Crossed Cheques
3. Running Out Of Time
4. Beat About The Bush
5. Ten Dirty Fingers
6. Hillbrow 2

Side 2
1. Don't Dance
2. Beatle Love Song
3. I Wonder Why
4. Song For Magnus
5. Messer Im Kopf
6. Telephone
7. "Perpetual Emotion"

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Various Artists

Get It Right: Afro Dub Funk & Punk Of Recreational Records '81-‘82

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The Emotional Rescue label has done a superb job of shining a light on the British post punk scene over the last decade or so. It now does so once more in fantastic fashion with a compilation of tunes from Bristol's short lived but much loved Recreational Records. The 10 tunes have been remastered and recut and they all sound as good now as ever. Highlights include X-Certs - 'Untogether' and Electric Guitar's 'Don't Wake The Baby' which sum up the collection perfect with their jangling dub rhythms, heavily treated vocals and oodles of delay all twisting your melon. This releases was included in Bandcamp's Essential Releases 2022.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Brilliant comp shining the spotlight on a lesser known Bristol label: Recreational Records. If you dug that "Spikey Dread" comp from way back in 2013, this one's for you!

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Side 1
Scream + Dance - In Rhythm (12" Mix)
Talisman - Wicked Dem (12" Mix)

Side 2
Animal Magic - Get It Right
X-Certs - Untogether
Electric Guitairs - Don't Wake The Baby

Side 3
Talisman - Run Come Girl (12" Mix)
Scream + Dance - Giacometti (Wicked Mix)

Side 4
Ivory Coasters - Mungaka Makossa
Animal Magic - Trash The Blad
Scream + Dance - In Pink & Black

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The Vision

Far Away: 6 Songs Of Reggae & Dub Music

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Emotional Rescue looks to the newly rebuilt but still very much culturally separate East and West Germany of the 1980s with this new EP. It's dub reggae through a post-punk and alternative lens by Hanover artists Felix Holter aka Dubvisionist. All these cuts have a very live, improvised feel because father way he worked from rhythms first and jammed endlessly before adding the vocals. They are taken from their 1987 release 10 Tracks Of Reggae & Dub Music which was inspired by the great Adrian Sherwood label On-U Sound label, and you can hear that clearly.

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Side 1
1. "Far Away"
2. "Different Language"
3. "Whirl"

Side 2
1. "Natty Vision"
2. "Fear"
3. "No 4"

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