Since I've already started the tenuous 1982 link I might as well try to drag it out a bit longer now, so here's another beauty from that musically great year. From their Tench EP, imho still sounding fresher (& better) than most of the new releases I've listened to this week...
I didn't actually plan this but here's another from 1982. Bit of a coincidence but must have been a good year for electronic synth pop type stuff I guess.
Whilst posting the below, it also reminded of this great track. I'll have to do a proper Ryuichi Sakamoto post one of these days...amazing to think how much brilliant music he's produced over the years. I'd love to know what other peoples favourites are too, feel free to leave any recommendations in the comments below.
My internet connection is f&cked to put it plainly so posting individual tracks on the upload speed available is the best I can be bothered to do unfortunately. I'll start with this slightly obscure beauty from Explorer's 1982 'Untitled' LP which came out on X Records (Germany). Plenty more to follow...
If your not that familiar with much EBM stuff like me, this is quite a good introduction. I can't find much more info about this comp except that it's supposedly a pretty rare Japan only CD that came out as part of some Front 242 box set over there in 1990. Admittedly not all EBM stuff is for me but for a pretty obscure scene of music you can still definitely hear it's influences in a lot of stuff coming out today.
Yup, it's another Friday and what better way to get in the mood for the weekend than some more (slightly camp sounding) disco inspired tunes/edits. These have been sounding particularly good this afternoon.
"One of the world's greatest producers gives up all his secrets! IG Culture digs through the crates to put together this excellent package of older tracks -- classic soul, funk, and hip hop numbers from the past 30 years, tunes that have served as a strong inspiration for his own work of the past decade. The feel of this one is similar to the excellent Grass Roots titles on Strut -- in that the tracks are mixed together, but only in a subtle way, not really overlapping each other, or losing the discreet content of each, but just laid out back to back to show the way that IG's mind works when he's picking out beats from the classics." Thanks to Dusty Groove. + Bonus classic: J-88 - Get It Together (IG Culture Basement Jerks Mix)
