2 sick Indo-disco underground edits from Indonesian disco lord Midnight runners. Source material completely unknown but utterly infectious. Both are spewing over with funk and frivolities as we journey through one 4/4 disco number with beautiful female vox and another, breakbeat psyche-funk-rock jam with squelchy keyboards and fuzzed up guitars. If you dig the jams Andy Votel and the Finders Keepers mob have excavated through the years, then this one's for you no doubt.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: "Kuda Arabs" is a rousing, fiery slice of infectious Indo-disco. Meanwhile "I Like Funky" sounds like Steve Winwood and Hendrix jamming in the palm trees. Top stuff indeed and well under the radar of your average jock.

TRACK LISTING

I Like Funky
Kuda Arabs

To tie in with the 40th anniversary of the multi-platinum selling album, we present ‘Too-Rye-Ay, as it should have sounded’.

Kevin Rowland was never happy with the final mix of the album, despite its huge commercial success. So with Helen O’Hara, and Pete Schwier they decided to mix it again. In recent interviews Kevin has stated…

“The songs and performances are great, but I always felt the mixes could be better. It’s my most successful album, but it doesn’t sound as good as the others”

“This is the director’s cut and it’s how it should have sounded…”

The album’s cover has also been re-modelled, using the preferred image from the Come On Eileen single sleeve. 

TRACK LISTING

1LP
Side A
The Celtic Soul Brothers
Let's Make This Precious
All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
Old
Side B
Plan B
I'll Show You
Liars A To E
Until I Believe In My Soul
Come On Eileen

3CD
CD1 (The 1982 Album – ‘as It Should Have Sounded’)
The Celtic Soul Brothers
Let's Make This Precious
All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
Old
Plan B
I'll Show You
Liars A To E
Until I Believe In My Soul
Come On Eileen
CD2 (Bonus Tracks - B-Sides / Out-Takes)
Show Me (Single A-side – 1981)
Soon (B-side Of Show Me Single - 1981)
...And Yes We Must Remain The Wildhearted Outsiders (B-side Of Liars A To E Single - 1981)
Love Part 2 (B-side Of The Celtic Soul Brothers Single - 1982)
Let's Make This Precious (‘Original Version’ – From Too-Rye-Ay (2CD Deluxe))
Come On Eileen (Single Edit - 1982)
Dubious (B-side Of Come On Eileen Single - 1982)
T.S.O.P. (B-side Of Jackie Wilson Said.. 12” Single - 1982)
Let's Get This Straight From The Start (Non-album Single - 1982)
Reminisce (Part 1)(B-side Of The Celtic Soul Brothers 12" Single - 1983)
Let's Make This Precious (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
‘Smoke Your Own’ (AKA Liars A To E, 1981) (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
Until I Believe In My Soul (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
CD3 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982)
Old
Geno
Let's Get This Straight From The Start
All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
Tell Me When My Light Turns Green
Plan B
Let's Make This Precious
I Couldn't Help If I Tried
Until I Believe In My Soul
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
Respect
There, There, My Dear
Come On Eileen
Seven Days Too Long
The Celtic Soul Brothers
I'm Just Looking 

4LP Super Deluxe Edition
LP1 (The 1982 Album – ‘as It Should Have Sounded’) - Side A
The Celtic Soul Brothers
Let's Make This Precious
All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
Old
LP1 (The 1982 Album – ‘as It Should Have Sounded’) - Side B
Plan B
I'll Show You
Liars A To E
Until I Believe In My Soul
Come On Eileen
LP2 (Bonus Tracks - B-Sides / Out-Takes) - Side A
Show Me (Single A-side – 1981)
Soon (B-side Of Show Me Single)
...And Yes We Must Remain The Wildhearted Outsiders (B-side Of Liars A To E Single)
Love Part 2 (B-side Of The Celtic Soul Brothers Single)
Let's Make This Precious (‘Original Version’)
Come On Eileen (Single Edit)
Dubious (B-side Of Come On Eileen Single)
T.S.O.P. (B-side Of Jackie Wilson Said.. 12” Single)
LP2 (Bonus Tracks - B-Sides / Out-Takes) - Side B
Let's Get This Straight From The Start (Single)
Reminisce (Part 1)(B-side Of The Celtic Soul Brothers 12" Single)
Let's Make This Precious (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
‘Smoke Your Own’ (AKA Liars A To E, 1981) (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
Until I Believe In My Soul (Out-Take - Previously Unreleased)
LP3 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982 - Part 1) - Side A
Old
Geno
Let's Get This Straight From The Start
All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
Tell Me When My Light Turns Green
LP3 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982 - Part 1) - Side B
Plan B
Let's Make This Precious
I Couldn't Help If I Tried
Until I Believe In My Soul
LP4 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982 - Part 2) - Side A
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
Respect
There, There, My Dear
LP4 (Live At The Shaftesbury Theatre – October 1982 - Part 2) - Side B
Come On Eileen
Seven Days Too Long
The Celtic Soul Brothers
I'm Just Looking

Midnight Runners comes to Razor-N-Tape with a 12" of Southern Hemisphere disco gold!

Harry Septiandry has been gaining traction with standout releases on Darker Than Wax and Star Creature under his Munir alias, and for his RNT debut he serves up four extra special reworks of obscure disco from his native Indonesia.

The source material would stump even the most savvy of ears, but Harry finds the universal in these rare gems, augmenting the grooves and preserving just the right bit of camp for super sunny spin!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Time
A2. Christi
B1. Rame
B2. Telephones

Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is the debut studio album by Dexys Midnight Runners, released on July 11, 1980. Led by Kevin Rowland, the group formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England, and formed a strong live reputation before recording their first material. Recorded during April 1980, the album combines the aggressiveness of punk rock with soul music, particularly influenced by the Northern soul movement.

The album was preceded by and contains the hit-single "Geno", which topped the UK Singles Chart. It also contains two other charting singles: "Dance Stance" (re-recorded as "Burn It Down") and "There, There, My Dear". The album reached number 6 on the UK Albums Chart and is certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry.

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: An absolute classic! One of my favourite records of all time. Post-punk attitude and Northern soul stomp - what's not to like?

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Burn It Down
2. Tell Me When My Light Turns Green
3. The Teams That Meet In Caffs
4. I'm Just Looking
5. Geno

Side 2
1. Seven Days Too Long
2. I Couldn't Help It If I Tried
3. Thankfully Not Living In Yorkshire It Doesn't Apply
4. Keep It
5. Love Part 1 (Poem)
6. There There My Dear
7. Little Bit Of Sympathy