LAIKA ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ (Too Pure, 1994)

byRichard Skinner
October 10, 2024

Laika should be much better known than they are...

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi ‘Ecophony Rinne’ (Invitation, 1986)

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Parliament-Funkadelic. Underground Resistance. Wu-Tang. When you’re thinking about the great musical collectives of the past 50 years, your mind may not jump to the Japanese outfit Geinoh Yamashirogumi.

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Amanda Lear ‘Sweet Revenge’ (Ariola, 1978)

byJeremy Allen

Amanda Lear’s ‘Sweet Revenge’ sold remarkably well on the continent when eurodisco was in its infancy in 1978, even if it made little headway in the UK

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Soda Stereo ‘Nada Personal’ (Discos Cbs, 1985)

byClaire Francis

"It might seem slightly disingenuous to label an album by Soda Stereo as “buried treasure”'...

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Robert Leiner ‘Visions Of The Past’ (Apollo, 1994)

byPush

It was quite remarkable. It still is.

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

byJames Thornhill

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.

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Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

byClaire Francis

Fittingly for an album called ‘The Sitting Room’, I first came across Anne Clark’s debut long-player from 1982 while sitting in the living room of a friend-of-a-friend’s flat in Berlin last summer

LAIKA ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ (Too Pure, 1994)

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Richard Skinner

Geinoh Yamashirogumi ‘Ecophony Rinne’ (Invitation, 1986)

Amanda Lear ‘Sweet Revenge’ (Ariola, 1978)

Soda Stereo ‘Nada Personal’ (Discos Cbs, 1985)

Robert Leiner ‘Visions Of The Past’ (Apollo, 1994)

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

Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

Suddi Raval ‘Hardcore Uproar’

Freeez ‘IOU’

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Martin Rev: Proto Punk

Alexander Tucker: Rebel With A Cause

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LAIKA ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ (Too Pure, 1994)

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