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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Mark Roland

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Prop ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ (Silent, 2001)

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Raymond Scott ‘Soothing Sounds For Baby Vol. 1’ (Epic, 1964)

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The artists that live on the fringes, the forward (or sideways) thinkers, have always drawn me in. This fascination really kicked in at university when, in the early 2000s, I presented a radio show with Erotic Volvo of Birmingham wrong-pop band Misty’s Big Adventure. As a kind of musicologist of the weird, his selections were never predictable and often a revelation.

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

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Mark Roland

Mike Batt ‘Zero Zero’ (Epic, 1982)

Baffo Banfi ‘Ma, Dolce Vita’ (Innovative Communication, 1979)

Pete Shelley ‘XL1’ (Genetic, 1983)

Faceless ‘Achievement’ (Noisebox, 1995)

Prop ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ (Silent, 2001)

Raymond Scott ‘Soothing Sounds For Baby Vol. 1’ (Epic, 1964)

Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie

Robert Görl

Richard X ‘Being Scrubbed’

Sparks: Mael Men

Thomas Dolby: The Appliance Of Science

Hinako Omori: The Soft Bulletin

Heavenly Sunday Social Club: Chemical Reaction

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Magic Touch

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

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