Fat Roland’s Xmas 2021 Time Machine

Have you heard the one about Soma Recordings, the Glasgow indie dance imprint who signed Daft Punk and unleashed ‘Da Funk’ on an unexpecting world?

When Ciccone Youth’s genius cover versions of Madonna’s ‘Into The Groove’ and ‘Burnin’ Up’ arrived in 1986, how long did it take to work out Sonic Youth were involved? Word soon got around…

When a mysterious album of nine experimental electronic trance mixes of the same tune was released in 1993, no one could quite believe who was responsible…

We backpedal to 19 April 1980 when leftfield Belgian electronic outfit TELEX took the stage at the Eurovision Song Contest in a bid to bag the legendary musical prize… or failing that, come last with null points

In 1977, Gavin Lloyd Wilson was a Pembrokeshire schoolboy fascinated by a spate of strange local UFO incidents. His 2021 album, ‘Something Strange Came Out Of The Skies’, took its inspiration from this now-infamous “Welsh Triangle” of sightings