Boom Boom Satellites ‘7 Ignitions’ (R&S, 1998)

byMark Roland
December 9, 2021

In 1997, R&S Records’ UK head honcho, Bob Fisher, persuaded me to check out a new band from Japan at a small venue in Camden.

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