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Wild Party 24 Aug 2013 | 04:53 pm
A Certain Ratio - BBC Radio "Saturday Live" Session July 1985 A reinvigorated ACR perform live in the studio during Richard Skinner's BBC Radio One Saturday afternoon show. Aside from the dull Force ...
White Boys Can't Dance 24 Aug 2013 | 04:15 pm
A Certain Ratio - Third Peel Session ACR divided their audience with a sharp shift into jazz funk territory. Whilst 1982 live shows featured dabbles with East Coast funk, it was this session which hi...
Below The Canal 23 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
A Certain Ratio : Below The Canal (A collection of live rarities, highlights and unrecorded tracks 1980-1987) As it is Summer (and hence much too nice outside to be ripping vinyl) here's a re-up of a...
Gonna Beat Them All..... 16 Aug 2013 | 02:16 pm
New Order and Keith Hudson Many of us grew up listening to hissy multi-dubbed tapes of John Peel sessions. I always had an affection for New Order's second Peel, first broadcast in June 1982. The key...
Dodgy Second Album Syndrome 7 Aug 2013 | 02:26 pm
Boxcar - Algorhythm Jump ahead a few years to the dance infested mid-nineties for the second Boxcar long player. The cover is a clue that Boxcar joined the squelchy acid generation (a bit too late pe...
Afraid Of Heights 7 Aug 2013 | 01:57 pm
Boxcar - Vertigo Bringing an end to my recent dips into synthetic pop and staying in the southern hemisphere, here's the debut LP from antipodean popsters Boxcar. Arista picked up the rights for the ...
Compensation Culture 3 Aug 2013 | 03:24 pm
Car Crash Set - No Accident Kiwi popsters Car Crash Set released just one album proper in 1984. No Accident is a good listen and the band's influences should be clear to all. Like a mash-up of early-...
Like A Motorway 19 Jul 2013 | 02:04 pm
Car Crash Set - Outsider b/w Fall From Grace Here's some more delicious synthpop from NZ's Car Crash Set released in 1983. Whilst hardly an original sound, there is something here for most tastes. Th...
Bizarre Lurv Triangle 19 Jul 2013 | 01:22 am
Boxcar - Freemason I posted a Boxcar discography on one of the very first posts here as MP3s, but as I have sorting through some boxes and rediscovered this old CD single, I though it deserved a loss...
Oscillation, Information and Modulation 19 Jul 2013 | 01:22 am
Information Society I was first introduced to Minneapolis act Information Society by my brother who was a huge hip-hop fan in the mid-eighties. It was the track Running Away which grabbed my attentio...
