Boom Boom Satellites ‘7 Ignitions’ (R&S, 1998)
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.
New Muzik ‘From A To B’ (GTO, 1980)
New Muzik’s ‘From A To B’ is one of those albums you love, but very few other people seem to know about.
Space Raiders ‘Don’t Be Daft’ (Skint, 1999)
Prince said we should party like it was 1999, and, as far as we know, he hadn’t even heard the debut album by Middlesbrough’s Space Raiders.
Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company ‘Like A Duck To Water’ (Earthquack, 1976)
Imagine a time when, as a concession to your audience, you’d show them cartoons while you were busy repatching your synthesisers between songs.
Bashung ‘Play Blessures’ (Philips, 1982)
Alain Bashung is a tough enigma to crack.
Mount Florida ‘Arrived Phoenix’ (Matador, 2000)
Held every Sunday between 1997 and 2010 at Glasgow’s Sub Club venue, the ferocious hedonism of Optimo Espacio was set off by the non-partisan tastes of DJs Keith “Twitch” McIvor and Jonnie Wilkes.
TJ Lawrence ‘Illuminations’ (Eagle, 1985)
Since you can’t peel back the YouTube algorithm, there’s no telling how we wound up staring at western Canada circa the mid-80s.
The Endless House Foundation ‘Endless House’ (Dramatic, 2011)
You might have wished you were at Glasto 94. Or The Screen On The Green in 77. Or Hyde Park in 69 for that matter.
Tik and Tok ‘Intolerance’ (Survival, 1984)
In the early 1980s, robots were everywhere.
Cut And Paste ‘Come Unstuck’ (Freskanova, 1999)
While tidying out a dark corner of the home office recently, some boxes of old CDs revealed themselves, among them a hillock of promos from the late 90s.