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One of the elements of December 2023ís rapturously received deluxe 6CD box set of Soft Cellís stone cold 1981 electro pop classic, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, was the inclusion of the entire original album presented as extended 12" versions. Now released on vinyl for Record Store Day 2024, Non-Stop Extended features contemporary full-length versions of the tracks, many of which have never been on vinyl before.The debut album from Marc Almond and Dave Ball AKA Soft is truly an icon of electronic music. Not only did ëNon-Stop Erotic Cabaretí introduce the world to classic singles ëTainted Loveí (one of the biggest global hits of all time) ëBedsitterí and ëSay Hello Wave Goodbyeí, it also shocked and delighted in equal measure with a 10-track song cycle straight outta the seedier, sleazier, darker side of life. ëSex Dwarfí, ëFrustrationí, ëMy Secret Lifeí, ëSeedy FilmsíÖ four decades on, it still has the power to thrill, shock and swoon. Created by Soft Cellís Dave Ball using only the original studio parts (theyíre not remixes, theyíre extendeds!), highlights include 2021ís ëTainted Loveí anniversary vinyl 10î rework plus new and unreleased 2023 box set versions of ëSeedy Filmsí, ëSex Dwarfí, and ëEntertain Meí. ëBedsitterí is represented in its original 12î extended version as all concerned agreed it just could not be improved upon! Also included are a new rework of the bandís first single for Phonogram, ëA Man Can Get Lostí and new previously unreleased remixes of its flip, ëMemorabiliaí, by The Hacker and Daniel Miller.

Blinding double pack of heavily old school influenced bleep, direct from the depths of England by prolific young producer, Tom Carruthers (the brains behind Non Stop Rhythm). These are heavily sample based mpc productions that harken to the carefree days when the pills were pure and the music was fresh and never stopped. When house was techno and techno was house, this long player takes the best elements from say Chill Records, early-Warp and the best Nu-Groove creating timeless dance tracks made for the warehouse dj. Essential stuff here. TIP!

TRACK LISTING

Can You Feel It
Cyclone
Fantasies
Forge
Dont Let Go
Eliminate
Quest For Rydm
Incognito
Channel Control
Fx Under

The story of Ultrasonic Grand Prix is one of two vintage 60s guitars and their owners - multi-instrumentalist / producer Shawn Lee and guitar maestro Barrie Cadogan - of Nottingham freakbeaters Little Barrie.

“We’d been talking for years about making some kind of record. Cadogan explains, “but we were always being pulled in different directions with other commitments. Shawn got the ball rolling for real when lockdown happened, called me up and said, “You know we keep talking about doing a record, well the time is now”. I’m so glad he did.”

And the music that did emerge was weird, startling, and insatiably groovy. With one foot dipped in the organ-warbling garage of 60s psych, and the other vibrating in the mind-expanding fractals of the British Acid House boom, ‘INSTAFUZZ’ plies the earthly quintessence’s of blues, rock, soul and jazz, against the preternatural discomforts of programmed drums and unhinged synthesisers to produce something distinctly and nostalgically futuristic.

It’s a style that pays its debt to this project's launch-pad inspiration, 2012’s ‘Personal Space’ compilation. A collection of underground U.S 45s from the late 70s and early 80s fittingly dubbed ‘Electronic Soul’ - an appropriate descriptor, incidentally for these experiments from Ultrasonic Grand Prix.

With all the graininess of a documentary film compiled from bits and pieces of raw archive footage, INSTAFUZZ mashes various details and cuttings from its choice influences to invariably intriguing effects. The guitar twang-meets-intense synth of emphatic opener ‘Seamoon Rising’ is The Limiñanas at The Haçienda. At another extreme of the spectrum, ‘Green Means Go’ drifts into the neo-psychedelic waters of The Soundcarriers or Vanishing Twin - hauntological, uncanny, cruising into the wonders of egoless delirium, suspicion and atemporal intrigue.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: It's always a great thing when two respected musical minds come together and you can't really hear their individual influence on the end product, rendering a whole new electronic blues palette from their audio coalition. Brilliantly done, and full of passion from both these greats.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Seamoon Rising
Instafuzz
Triple Denim
Green Means Go
Right Left
96 Tiers

Side B
Slippery When Chet
Tin Wolf
A Guy Called Harold
Pop Eyes
22 Years I Worked For This Guitar
King Condor

The debut album from Marc Almond and Dave Ball AKA Soft is truly an icon of electronic music. Not only did ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’ introduce the world to classic singles ‘Tainted Love’ (one of the biggest global hits of all time) ‘Bedsitter’ and ‘Say Hello Wave Goodbye’, it also shocked and delighted in equal measure with a 10-track song cycle straight outta the seedier, sleazier, darker side of life. ‘Sex Dwarf’, ‘Frustration’, ‘My Secret Life’, ‘Seedy Films’… four decades on, it still has the power to thrill, shock and swoon.

In 2023, Mercury-EMI / UMR present the ultimate celebration of ‘Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret’ in a series of exciting new formats, all with a host of supplementary extras and rarities from the ‘Cabaret’ era.

TRACK LISTING

6CD (* Denotes Previously Unreleased)
CD1 - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: 2023 Remaster + Singles, B-Sides & Edits
Frustration 04:12
Tainted Love 02:35
Seedy Films 05:05
Youth 03:21
Sex Dwarf 05:47
Entertain Me 03:00
Chips On My Shoulder 04:06
Bedsitter 03:36
Secret Life 03:37
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye 05:34
Memorabilia (Single Version) 04:49
A Man Could Get Lost (Single Version) 03:17
Persuasion (Edit Of 12” Single B-Side) 03:36 *
Where Did Our Love Go? (Single B-Side) 03:14
Facility Girls (Single B-Side) 02:23
Fun City (Edit Of 12” Single B-Side) 04:24
Torch (Single Version) 04:08
Insecure Me (Single B-Side) 03:10
What! (Single Version) 02:51
…So (Single B-Side) 03:49
CD2 - Non-Stop Extended Cabaret: Full-Length Versions & New Remixes
Frustration (Extended Version) 06:02 *
Tainted Love (2021 10" Extended Version) 05:05
Seedy Films (2023 Extended Version) 05:16 *
Youth (2018 ‘Wasted On The Young’ Extended Version) 05:41
Sex Dwarf (2023 Extended Version) 05:45 *
Entertain Me (2023 Extended Version) 06:05 *
Chips On My Shoulder (2018 Extended Version) 06:16
Bedsitter (1981 Original 12” Mix) 07:52
Secret Life (2018 Extended Version) 05:20
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (2018 Dave Ball ‘Lateral Mix’) 07:07
A Man Could Get Lost (2023 Extended Version) 05:08 *
Memorabilia (Daniel Miller 2023 Remix) 05:16
Memorabilia (The Hacker 2023 Remix) 06:37
CD3 - Non-Stop Exotic Cabaret: Curios, Rarities, Sessions & Alternate Mixes
Frustration (Original ‘Mutant Moments’ Version) 03:32
Tainted Love (New 2023 Version) 03:01 *
Seedy Films (Richard X Remix) 05:20
Youth (Dave Ball ‘Warhol Funeral’ Mix) 03:05 *
Sex Dwarf (Live On BBC ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ 4th February 1982) 05:16
Entertain Me (Richard Skinner Session, Radio 1, 26th July 1981) 03:45
Chips On My Shoulder (Live From ‘The Oxford Road Show’ 22nd January 1982) 03:28 *
Bedsitter ((Richard Skinner Session, Radio 1, 26th July 1981) 03:34
Secret Life (George Demure Remix) 05:10
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Live From ‘The Oxford Road Show’ 22nd January 1982) 04:33 *
A Man Could Get Lost (Live At Leeds Warehouse, 16th July 2018) 03:30 *
Torch (Live From ‘Top Of The Pops 2’, 28th January 2002) 04:05 *
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go (US Radio Edit) 04:01 *
Seedy Films (Richard Skinner Session, Radio 1, 26th July 1981) 03:58
Youth (Live On BBC ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ 4th February 1982) 03:15 *
Chips On My Shoulder (Richard Skinner Session, Radio 1, 26th July 1981) 04:20
Tainted Love (Live From ‘Top Of The Pops’ 1981 Reunion, 2001) 03:14 *
Bedsitter (‘Flexipop’ Version) 03:45 *
Memorabilia (2023 Dub Mix) 5:44 *
Tainted Love (Aborted 1981 Studio Take) 1:07 *
CD4 - Non-Stop Instrumental Cabaret: Instrumentals & Bonus Demos
Frustration (Instrumental) 04:15 *
Tainted Love (Instrumental) 03:01 *
Seedy Films (Instrumental) 05:10 *
Youth (Instrumental) 03:25 *
Sex Dwarf (Instrumental) 05:15 *
Entertain Me (Instrumental) 02:57 *
Chips On My Shoulder (Instrumental) 04:09 *
Bedsitter (Instrumental) 03:39 *
Secret Life (Instrumental) 04:03 *
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Single B-Side Instrumental) 03:54
A Man Could Get Lost (Original Daniel Miller Instrumental Version) 03:30 *
Torch (Instrumental) 04:12 *
What! (Instrumental) 03:11 *
Insecure Me (Instrumental) 03:12 *
Tainted Love (Original 1981 Daniel Miller Demo) 02:47
Seedy Films (Original 1981 Demo) 04:02 *
Sex Dwarf (Original 1981 Demo) 06:53 *
Chips On My Shoulder (Original Demo) 03:50 *
Secret Life (Original 1981 Demo) 03:39 *
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Original 1981 Demo) 04:39 *
CD5 - Non-Stop Original Cabaret: The 1981 / 1982 12” Mixes & B Sides
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? (Original 12" Version) 08:57
Memorabilia (Original 12" Version) 07:47
Torch (Original 12" Version) 08:28
What! (Original 12" Version) 06:09
Tainted Dub (Original Version) 09:14
Persuasion (Original 12" Version) 07:35
Facility Girls (Original 12" Version) 07:16
Fun City (Original Version) 07:33
Insecure Me (Original 12" Version) 08:16
…So (Original 12" Version) 08:29
CD6 - Non-Stop Intimate Cabaret: Live In Concert, London 2021 & 2018
Frustration (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Tainted Love (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Seedy Films (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Youth (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Sex Dwarf (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Entertain Me (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Chips On My Shoulder (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Bedsitter (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Secret Life (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Torch (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Memorabilia (Live At Eventim Apollo London, November 2021)
Insecure Me (Live At 02 Arena London, 30 September 2018
What! (Live At 02 Arena London, 30 September 2018
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? (Live At 02 Arena London, 30 September 2018

2LP Black/Coloured
LP1 - Side A
Frustration 04:12
Tainted Love 02:35
Seedy Films 05:05
Youth 03:21
Sex Dwarf 05:47
LP1 - Side B
Entertain Me 03:00
Chips On My Shoulder 04:06
Bedsitter 03:36
Secret Life 03:37
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye 05:34
LP2 - Side C
Memorabilia (Single Version) 04:49
A Man Could Get Lost (Single Version) 03:17
Persuasion (Edit Of 12” Single B-Side) 03:36
Where Did Our Love Go? (Single B-Side) 03:14
Facility Girls (Single B-Side) 02:23
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Single B-side, Instrumental) 03:54
LP2 - Side D
Fun City (Edit Of 12” Single B-Side) 04:24
Torch (Single Version) 04:08
Insecure Me (Single B-Side) 03:10
What! (Single Version) 02:51
…So (Single B-Side) 03:49

Non Stop Rhythm introduce yet another talented new producer who totally delivers the goods. "Work My Body" utilizing archetypal body mechanics and a catch pulse pattern. House music in its more primordial form. "Let's Dance" is a retro-futuristic acid-electro jam, using a classic, Sheffield bleep sound palette full of cowbells, whistles and speaker-busting bass. Finally a second mix of "Work My Body" injects electric currents, sampled rewinds and a vintage breakbeat into proceedings, giving the track an air of b-boy attitude and old school flavour. Ridiculously strong stuff here from Tino who has authentically reproduced some of the top vibes of the golden era. Big tip!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Mega triple header of house heat here. High grade body kinetics laced with acid and attitude as Tino explores the embryonic styles of the genre.

TRACK LISTING

Work My Body
Lets Dance
Work My Body (Workout Mix)

Former Guided By Voices guitarist and co-songwriter Tobin Sprout presents Demos And Outtakes Two, a collection of unreleased demos, live recordings and alternate versions of songs from throughout his career. Including songs from his first solo album Carnival Boy (1997) to his latest Empty Horses (2020), it also contains two remastered songs from hard-to-find compilation albums, “Cryptic Shapes” (1998) and “Small Parade” (1997), as well as piano versions of GBV favorites “14 Cheerleader Coldfront” and “Atom Eyes.”

Following 'Le Cut-Up Populaire', Pascal Comelade announces the release on September 9 of his new album 'Le Non-Sens Du Rythme'. Since his first record published in 1975, Pascal Comelade, a child of the frenzy rock of the 60’s and 70s’, has developed a profuse body of work including many musical collaborations (PJ Harvey, Robert Wyatt, Jaki Libezeit (Can), Lee Ranaldo, The Liminanas...) and non-musical collaborations (Jeanne Moreau, Sergi Lopez, Jean François Stévenin, Bob Wilson...).

His compositions are reminiscent of MC5, Erik Satie, Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Suicide: a language that dances on a musical skeleton in perpetual movement by successive fusions, mixing folklore and underground, repetitive music and french chanson, pataphysical riffs and toy instruments.

As a multiple artist, he has developed an aesthetic approach via a particular link to visual arts. He draws, paints and occasionally performs with painters Miquel Barcelo and Hervé Di Rosa.

On his new album, "Le non-sens du rythme" (to be translated "The nonsense of rhythm", the title says it all), Pascal Comelade almost plays all the instruments, not only multiple pianos but also the Rickenbaker e.bass, the indian harmonium, various keyboards and even the tin can. He remains the undisputed master of the instrumental ritornello inspired by popular music as well as krautrock.

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Rock'n'Roll hits adapted and sung in Italiano to seduce an exotic and difficult music market. A tradition that saw many stars (Mick Jagger, Francoise Hardy...) test their pronounciation skills with swinging (but always very fun) results. Now its The Courettes' turn, to translate two of their newest songs for a special limited single 7'', released in time for their southern Europe tour and the Record Store Day 2022.

One of two super limited edition 10” vinyl EPs recorded at the same time as Surfer Blood’s latest album Carefree Theatre, but sold only at tour dates (most of which have now been canceled, thanks Pandemic...) Hardboiled has four non-album tracks plus a very different version of “Summer Trope” from Carefree Theatre, with horns and guest lead vocals by Dutch singer Pip Blom. Additional guest lead vocals are handled by Surfer Blood bassist Lindsey Mills (on “Dori Deer”) and Samira Winter of the band Winter (on “Playing Dumb”).

TRACK LISTING

1. Dori Deer (feat. Lindsey Mills)
2. Devil Loch
3. Playing Dumb (feat. Samira Winter)
4. Hardboiled
5. Summer Trope (feat. Pip Blom)

Kraut-jazz-rock produced by JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm/Whitefield Brothers). The long-standing band’s third album. Featuring Marja Burchard (Embryo). Download card for WAV files included. It’s been over ten years since Karl Hector and the Malcouns’ Sahara Swing saw release on Now-Again in 2008. The album swung with influences from across the African diaspora and set the stage for a cult, but influential following. Hermes designer Christophe Lemaire picked tracks from Karl Hector and The Malcouns as amongst his favorites in the Now-Again catalog, and included them on his Where Are You From anthology. Festival promoters intrigued by the possibility of resurrecting the careers of once forgotten African mavericks – from Ghana’s Ebo Taylor to the progenitors of Zambia’s Zamrock scene – brought Hector and crew across Europe playing festivals for ecstatic fans.

Producer JJ Whitefield even founded an Afro-Rock band, Johnny!, with Taylor’s son Henry. Unstraight Ahead, their sophomore release from 2014, found the band exploring territories even outside of the expansive scope of Sahara Swing: West African sounds of Ghana and Mali met the East African sounds of Mulatu Astatke’s Ethiopian jazz, tied together with the groove heavy experimentalism of The Malcouns’ 70s Krautrock godfathers: Can, of course, but also more obscure and equally adventurous groups like Agitation Free, Ibliss and Tomorrow’s Gift. “We look to Middle Eastern funk and psychedelic fusions, and to various ethnic records for sound and phrasing,” Whitefield stated at the time of Unstraight Ahead’s release. “We’re trying to combine the global experimentalism of Krautrock with the backbeat of funk.” Non Ex Orbis, the band’s third studio album, digs deeper into the Krautrock history embedded deep in the soil of their native Munch - three of the most influential bands of the 1970s experimental German rock scene spurng from there: Amon Düül, Popol Vuh and Embryo.

Influenced by these musical heroes, Whitefield shapes a sound that takes the experimental approach of the classic Krautrock era and slides between beat-heavy drone and spacey, prog-rock suites. Marja Burchard, daughter of Embryo mastermind Christian Burchard, fronts the group on keyboard, vibraphone and other-worldly vocals. Al Markovic joins longstanding Malcoun Zdenko Curilija to round out the ensemble. Non Ex Orbis, read by Whitefield and the band as Out Of This World, symbolizes an innocent way of composing and improvising music, free from the influences of our contemporary environment, preserving a childlike way of hearing sounds in their unfiltered purity. “Some will classify this as a retro, but for the band it simply is a form of creating, Whitefield states. “We’re drawing from an established musical vocabulary which was popular at a time in Germany, when underground musical culture had its creative peak”. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Non Ex Orbis
A2. Crawling Through Your Mind
A3. Hymnin5 (Extended)
A4. Stossgebet
B1. Asteroid
B2. Inhale / Exhale
B3. Mother Seletta
B4. Dekagon

Vinyl re-press of the 1997 album from Broadcast.

This was their first album on Warp, a handy compilation of three singles released on various different lables; 'Accidentals' on Wurlitzer Jukebox, and 'Living Room' and 'The Book Lovers' EP on the Duophonic label.

These early tracks showcased the early rumblings of their evocative blend of 60s pop, film soundtracks, psychedelia and avant noises.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Accidentals
A2 The Book Lovers
A3 Message From Home
A4 Phantom
A5 We've Got Time
B1 Living Room
B2 According To No Plan
B3 The World Backwards
B4 Lights Out

This is the new project from HP Gundersen; well known producer, artist, musical partner, creative force, teacher, mentor and music enthusiast from Bergen, Norway. He has produced some 50 albums, probably best known for Sondre Lerche´s debut album ”Faces Down”. After stumbling over Stephen Stills´ ”secret tuning” as used on ”Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”, HP has dedicated the last couple of years to explore what he calls drone guitar, music based on open, in this case modal, guitar tunings offering a fuller sound world and polyrhythmic possibilities not achieved with standard tunings. It soon became an obsession and he would sit at home for hours and days just playing as a means of meditation and for his own mental health. Friend and singer Heidi Goodbye would come to visit and ended up becoming so hypnotized by his playing that she just had to become involved. Heidi, also from Bergen, travelled to Denmark at the age of seventeen to study jazz vocal for two years. On returning home she was considered something of a sensation, but couldn´t identify with a role in the jazz world and became more interested in American roots music, old country music and blues.

Others who have been intrigued include Jon Irabagon, dubbed the greatest saxophone talent in the US since John Coltrane, and Michael Powers, the blues guitarist, both having played with HP in the recent months. ”Spiritual Non-believers” is a lovely mix of acoustic drone guitar, cosmic raga, pure pop and the very local take on country music so special for the west coast of Norway.

The half hour centrepiece of the album is based on a dark, sordid and bizarre story, in stark contrast to the almost high spirited feelgood atmosphere of most of the music. ”The Ballad Of Billy And Lilly” is bookended by ”Mother Nature”, a cover from the 1970 album by Norwegian cult band Oriental Sunshine and ”Melodi Grand Prix 73”, an unlikely but sweet mix of Bossa Nova, surf music and Steve Reich.

Having wowed us all with the ace "Oh My Gosh", Man Like Me returns with live favorite "Wine And Dine". On the flip the grind-tastic grime groove of the original is whisked up into a fierce and frolicsome slice of electrohouse by Tsuba boy Williams.

Burnt Friedman compiles this retrospective of Simon Pyke's work. Includes tracks he's had out on Worm Interface, Leaf, Quatermass etc.