Ultramarine ‘Stella’

byRob Harris
February 11, 2021

Paul Hammond talks us through Ultramarine’s 1990 folktronic classic, ‘Stella’

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Ultramarine ‘Stella’

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Rob Harris

M, ‘Pop Muzik’ (MCA Records, 1979)

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark ‘Electricity’

Mike Score ‘I ran (so far away)’

Man Parrish ‘Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)’

Strafe ‘Set It Off’

Timothy London ‘Hippychick’

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