Bright Persian psychedelic pop, funk, soul and boundless grooves from the 60s & 70s — one of the greatest compilations yet from Finders Keepers! Many of the tunes are actually classics of the era’s Iranian scene, if wildly fresh and new our ears, while others are quite obscure all around, but all of it is fresh and exciting exotic pop that we’re thrilled to see collected.

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MP3:Zia – Helelyos

The sounds draw from the creatively fertile period when traditions were combined in music all around the world — with hypnotic eastern raga strings blended with global funk and jazz, bursting pop tunefulness and both meditative and instantly gratifying melodies of myriad influences, borderline disco grooves and beyond. Exciting stuff! 16 tracks in all: “Helelyos’” by Zia, “Biya Bar-e Safar Bandim” by Mohammad Nouri, “Talagh” by Googoosh, “Miravi” by Soli, “Kavir-e Del” by Marjan, “Naz Kardanet Vaveyla” by Sima Bina”, “Sharm-e Boos-e” by Ramesh, “Cheshm-e Man” by Dariush and more.

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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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Manchester-based Andy Votel wears many hats, among them record label owner and producer. In his teenage years, Votel gained experience by hanging out in Northern hip-hop clubs and playing warm-up DJ at Manchester bars and clubs. Into his twenties, his crafted soundscapes landed him remix and production projects with Death in Vegas, Lamb, and Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough). Along with Gough, Votel established Twisted Nerve Records. Though the two are both producers in their own right, it is Gough’s first released work that brought the label attention in late 2000. Votel’s first album, Styles of the Unexpected, was a 40-minute mini-album influenced by surf, electronic, hip-hop, and cinematic themes. The album was released in early 2001 on Votel and Gough’s label. One year later came the follow-up, All Ten Fingers, but Votel earned much more notice for a series of eccentric, themed mix albums, including 2003′s Music to Watch Girls Cry, 2005′s Songs in the Key of Death, and 2008′s Brazilika. (MOG..)

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MP3:Wool – Love, Love, Love, Love

This is Andy Votel’s first compilation for fat city recordings. On the album Andy features some of his favourite tracks which takes in productions from France, U.S , U.K, Germany, Turkey and Hungary and includes countless rare breaks & beats.

“Find it , buy it, play it !”
( DJ International )

“Head and shoulders above most of the compilations on offer right now”
( Sleazenation )

“Pure Magic”
( City Life )

1. Getting High – Eddie Warner
2. Dance Of The Vampires – The Vampires Of Dartmoor
3. Love, Love, Love, Love – Wool
4. Love – Rita
5. Turnround – Jack Hendrix’ Tchick-Bams
6. Crying Bag – The Sounds Of Joy
7. Freak – Nino Ferrer
8. Fall-Out – The Advancement
9. Skit One – Andy Votel
10. Joyfull Grass & Grape – Dorothy Ashby
11. Karkadon – The Devils Anvil
12. Hippies – Brigitte Bardot, Sascha Distell & Serge Gainsbourg
13. Yesterday Folks – US69
14. Skit Two – Andy Votel
15. April Fool – Isis
16. English Sparrow – Paul Parrish

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MP3:Jean-Claude Vannier – L’Enfant La Mouche Et Les Allumettes _ L’Enfant Au Royaume Des Mouches

Tracklisting
1 Lubos Fiser – The Sermon / John Hill – Europa / Jan Jankeje – South Indian Line
2 Spectre – Arkham / Chris Harwood – Wooden Ships / Susan Christie – Paint A Lady / Jean-Jacques Dexter – Be Quite
3 Amral’s Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Drum Orchestra – The World Is A Ghetto / Jean-Claude Vannier – Les Garde Volent Au Secours Du Roi
4 Jean-Claude Vannier – L’Enfant La Mouche Et Les Allumettes / L’Enfant Au Royaume Des Mouches
5 Stanley Myers – Sitting Target Main Theme / Solitaire / Omega – Kergeskezu Favagok / Sevil And Ayla – Bebek
6 Zafer Dilek – Yekte / Yamasuki – Kono Samourai / Sarolta Zalatnay – Hadd Mondjam El / Yamasuki – Yama Yama / Selda – Yaylalar
7 Ersen – Gunese Don Cicegim (FKR016) / Pierre Cavalli – Un Soir Chez Norris (FKR008)
8 Vampires Of Dartmoore – Dance Of The Vampires (FKR019) / Sarolta Zalatnay – Egyser (FKR012) / Mustafa Özkent – Burcak (FKR010)
9 Sarolta Zalatnay – Zold Borostyan (FKR012) / The Stylers – For You (FKR008) / Mustafa Özkent – Silifke (FKR010)
10 Mustafa Özkent – Zeytinyagi (FKR010) / Susan Christie – Europa (Poetry) (FKR018) / Jir’ Slitr & Jir’ Sust- Sugar Stealers / Man With A Typewriter (FKR013)
11 John Hill – Amalthea (FKR018) / Ersen – Zalim (FKR016)
12 Bruno Spoerri – Les Electroniciens (FKR006) / Jir’ Slitr & Jir’ Sust – Girlies, Girlies (FKR013)

Pressing:The Gaslamp Killer – All Killer: Finders Keepers Records 1-20

UK crate digging label Finders Keepers asked the always-amazing Gaslamp Killer to work their first 20 releases into a mix. He layered, mixed, collaged, and edited the catalog for the debut Finders Keepers mix CD. Now the label has released this limited edition 7″ featuring edits from that session. It has a megamix on the a-side, and a total psychedelic headbanger on the b-side. If you don’t know The GLK, you should, he runs in the same turntablist circles as Flying Lotus, Samiyam, Nosaj Thing, etc, but he has a much stronger psychedelic vibe. Limited to 500, this is impressive stuff.

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