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Reviews -
Disco
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Written by Mr Wonderful
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Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:58 |
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G.B and The Tracks - My kind of Women/Dance to the music - Smash Disco (78) Aptly, we move from a dance themed mixtape (if you hadn't figured it out) to an album titled Dance to the music. Gerry Bribosia who as far as I am concerned released probably one of the worst records I’ve ever heard – Dracula disco(see below) - released the album Dance to the music and the single above through the Canadian label Smash Disco in 1978 under the name G B and the Tracks a year after Dracula disco I actually haven't got a copy of the album i do however have a copy of the single above with the albums self titled track on the B side and on the A side a tune that when I first heard took me on a journey of love and hate and which eventually led to a full blown love affair.
The track My kind of woman, doesn’t exactly typify the cheesy disco you could expect from that period, The first 30 or so seconds of electronic sounds don’t leave you guessing – you know you got a killah record on your hands – then it switches and Mr Bribosia rears his beautiful but annoying head In the form of his vocals, this pisses you off – well it pissed me off the first time I heard it – then after about 2 or 3 minutes of Gerry rambling on about a dancing woman – it switches again, its like the track started all over again but this time it goes on without the vocals and in those 3 minutes is when I fell in love with the track – it does switch again to G B singing but this time he sounds delicious. (Listen to clip below)
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Reviews -
Prog
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Written by Guido Fawkes
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Friday, 15 May 2009 00:54 |
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Arches of Canterbury Way before you had to wait forever for one of their trains or when you received the worst customer service experience travelling cattle class on one of their planes, Virgin used to be on point. The image above is of the band Hatfield and the North who released two albums under Richard Branson’s first business venture. They were part of the Canterbury sound scene, and like most other bands in the scene they had the whole incestuous band member swapping thing going on which I have never really been able to get my head around – eminent members of the band included Pip Pyle from Gong, Dave Sinclair from Matching mole and Caravan and Dave Stewart from Egg.
Anyway, I won’t bore you with a history of the band or my obsession with the Canterbuy scene. I do however want to highlight the second album from the group (The Rotters Club) dropped 1975 on Virgin – the better one of the two in my humble opinion. The album is typical of the prog sound of the era with plenty of heavy synth action and Pip Pyle tearing it up on the drums, Jimmy Hastings also flipping it on the sax plus you can’t ignore nor forget the Northettes - the backing singers in the band.  (listen to clip below)
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Reviews -
Psych
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Written by Vipers
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Thursday, 19 February 2009 00:03 |
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Poe Through The Glass Prism is an oddity. It's a rarity. It's.. everything you would hope for in a psychedelic recording. Mr. Wonderful introduced this album to me about 4 years ago - he'd hunted it down and I'm yet to find out where exactly he had heard about it. For a while we were playing rare 60's records at parties and 'El Dorado' would always be a killer break to drop (you can listen to the track we played out below...)
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