Pop music. It’s a wonderful, wonderful thing. It can lift your spirits, divert your attention, provide a few valuable minutes of escapist fantasy and put a great big smile upon your…
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MasterworksMAGNETOPHONICS: overview of Australian Underground Music originally released as Tapes/Cassettes
Title: Australian Underground Music 1978-1984 Label: Vinyl On Demand Don’t be fooled into believing that classic music or classic cuts can only ‘be’ if they have topped the charts or received…
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Title: Cathedral Oceans Label: Metamatic Some music fans will see the name John Foxx and immediately associate the figure with the early days of the group, Ultravox (or Ultravox! as was). As…
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Title: Tres Hombres Label: Warner Bros A blues rock trio from Texas. Already sound quintessentially American, don’t they? This rock is greasy and dirty and leery and growly and packed –…
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Despite the short walk from the local railway station, combating busy roads and the usual hustle and bustle of a working day, it’s easy to walk past the unassuming site. In…
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Title: Are You Experienced? Label: Track Originally released on 12 May 1967, in the UK (a significant point which we will get to soon), produced by Chas Chandler, who was also the…
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What’s that saying again? ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.’ It was apparently created by the Victorian educator, William Edward Hickson. If you are of an optimistic…
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Label: Bear Family Date: 2013 It changed everything. It brought music down from the stars and handed it to ordinary people. It gave a true DIY ethic to music production that allowed…
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The music business, it’s a vulgar and tasteless beast, isn’t it? Paul Rigby reviews three newly reissued CD projects from ELP, including Works Volumes 1 & 2 but then takes the band…
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Featuring a specially-created LP/CD set of their debut album, Paul Rigby examines the anniversary Doors reissue and talks to the original recording engineer on the project, Bruce Botnick It was fifty…
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Mixing swing with rock’n’roll with rockabilly with…the Jive Aces are a band for all seasons. Paul Rigby interviews the band’s leader and lead vocalist, Ian Clarkson They started as a dance troupe of…
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Title: The Golden Age of… Title: Now Is The Time Title: Some Sunny Day Label: Jasmine Classic albums or classic collections are wholly subjective and are often the subject of heated…
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Title: Split Label: 4AD Ah, Lush. A band that sparks fond memories for many music fans out there. Lush were a 4-piece ‘indie rock’ outfit but they were much more than…
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I come over all ‘Grumpy Old Man’ whenever I see a Leaf Blower. The Leaf Blower has to be one of the most inefficient, downright wasteful and completely pointless instruments of…
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Title: The Golden Age of Wireless Label: Venice in Peril Do you remember Dr Magnus Pyke? He was all over TV when I was in my early teens. Pyke was a…
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Looking to push the vinyl mastering/pressing envelope, Paul Rigby talks to John K Wood and Shawn Britton of Mobile Fidelity about its innovative One Step vinyl process “Instead of utilising the…
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Eddie Shuler first tasted the business of music when he ran his own music store in the 40s in Louisiana, Lake Charles to be exact. He even served in that business…
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Wondered about the process of making a cassette tape? Now you can be visually informed with three featured films. The first film takes you step by step through the process…in just…
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Musical RamblingsVocal Harmonies: Can I have a ‘Hell fried cuck-a-lucka wanna jubba’ to go, please?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I do like the combination and amalgamation of a number of voices that emerge as a harmony. There is something quite magical…
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Title: Very Extremely Dangerous Label: Shout What do these soul legends have in common? Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Percy Sledge, the Staple Singers and Otis Redding? No? OK, how…
