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Another brilliant selection of rarities and oddities culled from the forgotten annals of recorded music by Andy Votel and Dom Thomas - this time with assistance from an expanded cast of characters including fellow Twisted Nerve/Finders Keepers bod Doug Shipton (curator of the Battered Ornaments imprint) plus David Holmes, Cherrystones, Chris Geddes (of Belle & Sebastian), Pete Fowler and a good many more, all offering their own remorselessly obscure favourites from the distant past. If there is a theme to be discerned from this crate-digging odyssey (and there almost certainly isn’t) it would probably have something to do with global psych-rock. It seems that whatever rabbit hole this album leads you down, you’re only ever a few bars away from a fuzztone guitar solo - usually accompanying some unheard of Turkish singer from the 1970s. The compilation starts in reassuringly familiar territory however, with The Melodians offering a thoroughly surreal Joe Meek-gets-funky take on Morricone’s ‘The Good The Bad & The Ugly’ theme tune. Morricone makes a first-hand appearance on here too, with a rare but brilliant piece of Italian soundtrack ephemera lifted from the B-side (inevitably) to the OST 45 attributed to the film Grazie Zia. It’s an amazing combination of staccato choirs and machine-like drumming, with virtually nothing else in there to clutter the mix. It’s a really quite remarkable piece of music, but it’s merely one among many - check out the insane library LP psychedelics of Braen’s Machine, or the sublime Icelandic prog-fuzz of Trúbrot. Even the oddities penned a little closer to home, like Colin Young’s ‘You’re No Good’ sound brilliantly adventurous. In fact, that aforementioned track sounds like the sort of hokey funk-folk thing you could imagine playing on a car stereo in a Pete Walker film, just before Sheila Keith emerges from the backseat wielding some power tools. As ever the good folks at B-music never fail to entertain and enthrall, unearthing material that would otherwise surely be relegated to the clean-room conditions of collectors’ vaults. Marvellous.

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MP3:Ozdemir Erdogan - Karaoglan Almanya’da

Tracklist

01. Melodians - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly *
02. Jean Jacques Dexter / Yan Tregger - Be Quite *
03. Ozdemir Erdogan - Karaoglan Almanya’da *
04. Cheung Kam Chun - Green Mountain, Jade Valley *
05. Spectre - Arkham *
06. Sevil and Ayla - Bebek *
07. Elpida - He Will Come, He Will Come *
08. Unidades - Caballo Salvaje *
09. Braen’s Machine - Flying (selection by David Holmes)
10. Odmenn - Ord, Mord (selection by Keith D’Arcy)
11. Pegasus - Fire (selection by Pete Fowler)
12. Takeshi Terauchi and the Blue Jeans - Dan No Ura (The Story Of The Heishi) (selection by Doug Shipton)
13. Trúbrot - Ég veit að þú kemur (selection by The Judge)
14. Katarzyna Sobczyk - Kasia To Wtasnie Ja (My Name Is Kathy) (selection by Lady J)
15. Jan Jankeje - South Indian Line (selection by Cherrystones)
16. Colin Young - You’re No Good (selection by Barrie ‘Striker’ Leach)
17. Furia - Solamente Tu (selection by Lee Janda)
18. Ennio Morricone - Guerra e Pace, Pollo e Brace (selection by Chris Geddes)
19. Los Mismos - Pasa El Tren (selection by Chris McBride)
20. Parva - Mosem-e-Gol (The Time Of The Blossom) (selection by Mahssa Taghinia)
BONUS TRACK (CD ONLY)
21. Nahid Akhtar - Mera Mehbob Hai (selection by Chris Menist)
* Selections by Andy Votel and Dom Thomas.

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