Last Call for ESWA 2.0

Last Call for ESWA 2.0

With numerous new sections including new & original Blogmeister rips, new posts of old and much requested re-rips, demos and live recordings, label specific sections and a new-style rippers own section, the new ESWA site launch has been a huge success with many original blog followers coming over to the new format. 

This is the last call for contributors to the original Blogger format or those who donate, to join us at the new website. Please get in touch if you have missed the party. This, the original site will close on Monday 29th May 2017 and all links etc will be removed. 

See you on the other side!

ESWA 2.0

ESWA 2.0

Okay ...invitations are being opened this weekend for new members to access the ESWA 2.0 site. In the comments you will find instructions on how to access the site. I can only run this for short limited periods of time over the coming few days.

See you on the other side!

ESWA is Moving

Building up a new home....

Folks, it is nearly time to bring this blog to an end. Very shortly ESWA will have a new little corner of the internet, become more secure and finally be able to offer a lot more of what we do best. Over the next week or so our regular contributors and those who have donated will receive a link to the new ESWA. Eventually I may get around to posting a link in the comments of this thread but that will be for a limited period only. All the other links in the original blogger comments will be removed over the next week or so.

See you on the other side....

Big Funk

Die Warzau - Funkopolis

Ripped from  a promotional double 12" vinyl single released on Fiction Records (FICSX 40) in 1991 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. From the penguinflight archives - I am not too sure we really need all seven interpretations of Funkopolis, however Die Warzau find a worthy groove with some close comparisons to Drinking Gasoline era Cabaret Voltaire which will no doubt appeal to many out there.

A1 Funkopolis
A2 Funkaphobia
B1 Le Funk
B2 To Le Funk
C1 Funk To Be Had
C2 Le Blanc Funk
D1 Funked Up
D2 Shock Box

Kult Fiction

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions Of A Knife...

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Wax Trax! Records (WAX 089) in 1990 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. There was a time when Nile Rodgers legal writs flew around the music business like confetti at a windy wedding. The Thrill Kills got away with it, likely because their album sales were few & far between and few noticed. Their debut long player ...Good Spirits disappointed me as it lacked imagination amongst a sea of like-minded acts, Confessions.. on the other hand ramps things up into a sample riddled funky post-industrial dance-floor frenzy. It kinda fits into the void between good Ministry and Sheffield's fine Screaming Trees. We like that sort of thing around here, don't we? I'll leave it to you to find what Nile's lawyers missed.

A1 A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid And Flowers Mix)
A2 The Days Of Swine And Roses
A3 Hand In Hand
A4 Waiting For Mommie
A5 Confessions Of A Knife (Theme Part I)
B1 Ride The Mindway
B2 Rivers Of Blood, Years Of Darkness
B3 Kooler Than Jesus (Electric Messiah Mix)
B4 Burning Dirt
B5 Confessions Of A Knife (Theme Part II)

Last Rites

Kopyright Liberation Front - Waiting For The Rights Of Mu

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Echo Beach Records (EB 014) in 1997 to high quality lossless flac audio. Now this is the last of my KLF ....I promise. In theory it was also their final release proper which snuck out when everybody had given up paying attention to the work of Cauty and Drummond. Supposedly a movie soundtrack, though more over the antidote to Chill Out. Martin Sheen narrates... To quote blog contributor penguinflight.... Martin Sheen Joins The Jams. Aye, sod Whitney! If I don't hear Hueys dusting off in the background I'll know Marlon didn't make it...

1 Waiting
2 The Rites Of Mu

Silly F**kers

2K - ***k The Millennium

Ripped from a Japanese compact disc mini-album released on KLF Communications/Blast First (TOCP-50386) in 1997 to high quality lossless flac audio. Somebody came up with idea of a brass band covering acid house, in particular What Time s Love?, so The KLF piled in and fucked it up. Bring back the bagpipes I say! Somewhere among the credits I notice Donald Johnson adds the live drums on this limited Japanese release. Well worth the listen for the ear splitting 14 minute opus that is the title track.

1  2K - ***k The Millennium (Censored Radio Edit)
2  2K - ***k The Millennium (Original Version)
3  2K - ***k The Millennium (Radio Edit)
4  The Williams Fairey Brass Band - Acid Brass / What Time Is Love? (Version K)
5  The Williams Fairey Brass Band - Acid Brass / What Time Is Love? (Version P-Royal Oak Mix)
6  The Williams Fairey Brass Band - Acid Brass / What Time Is Love? (Original Version)

Space

Space - Space

Ripped from a compact disc album released on KLF Communications (SPACE CD 1) in 1990 to high quality lossless flac audio. Time to end this run of JAMs/KLF etc etc with Jimmy Cauty's Space compact disc. The whole thing runs as just one track which I have left as is. Enjoy your weekends.

1 Mercury
2 Venus
3 Mars
4 Jupiter
5 Saturn
6 Uranus
7 Neptune
8 Pluto

The KLF vs. The BPI

The KLF vs. Extreme Noise Terror - 3 A.M. Eternal

Ripped from a crackly 7" vinyl single on KLF Communications (KLF 5 TOTP) in 1992 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. I had always thought this was one their finest moments at the 1992 Brit Awards ceremony ...when Bill Drummond unleashed semi-automatic fire over the heads of the massed industry liggers. Play loud!

A1 3 A.M. Eternal

Stand By Your Ice Cream Van

The KLF - Justified & Ancient

Ripped from a compact disc single released on KLF Communications (KLF 99CD) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. The KLF invade America and come back with Tammy Wynette! Quite possibly one of the worst singles ever released.

1 Justified & Ancient (Stand By The JAMS)
2 Justified & Ancient ("The White Room" Version)
3 Justified & Ancient (All Bound For Mu Mu Land)
4 Justified & Ancient (Make Mine A "99")
5 Justified & Ancient (Let Them Eat Ice Cream)

Who Pays The Piper?

The KLF - America: What Time Is Love?

Ripped from a compact disc single released on KLF Communications (KLF USA 4CD) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. The KLF attempt to give their colonial chums a history lesson! Any disco-pop record featuring bagpipes is damn fine with me.

1 America: What Time Is Love?
2 America No More
3 America: What Time Is Love? (Uncensored)
4 America No More (Just The Pipe Band)

The North Cops It!

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North

Ripped from a compact disc single released on KLF Communications (JAMS 028CD) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. Highly inappropriate for Easter Day I know, but The JAMs were resurrected on this one off tribute to all that is great about northern Britain. Steam trains, sheep, Jerusalem, Bolton, Widnes, Salford, Grimsby, Hebden Bridge and the M62. Ey Up Lads.

1 It's Grim Up North (Radio Edit)
2 It's Grim Up North (Part 1)
3 It's Grim Up North (Part 2)
4 Jerusalem On The Moors

What Time Does The Bank Open?

The KLF - The White Room

Ripped from a vinyl album released on KLF Communications (JAMSLP 006) in 1991 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. The White Room was originally planned as The KLF's road movie, it was filmed and a soundtrack recorded however neither were officially released. As one of music's most bootlegged bands, there are copies available and the movie is freely available on YouTube, 

The eventual White Room album was mostly re-recorded using some of the musical ideas from the original soundtrack, mixed in with newer material and audience noise (courtesy of U2 and The Doors live albums) to give the impression of a live show. Licensing 'issues' in the USA resulted in an abridged version where most of the live audience samples were edited out. The album spawned a multitude of hit singles as the KLF became heroes of the nineties disco kids. You will be relieved to know that Tammy Wynette does not feature on this record!

A1 What Time Is Love?
A2 Make It Rain
A3 3 A.M. Eternal
A4 Church Of The KLF
A5 Last Train To Trancentral
B1 Build A Fire
B2 The White Room
B3 No More Tears
B4 Justified And Ancient

Are you sure that horse is dead, let's beat it some more...

The KLF - What Time Is Love (Live At Trancentral)

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (KLF 004X) in 1990 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Under the false pretenses of being actually live, The KLF introduce us to the very short career of  M.C. Bello. Former 400 Blow and Moody Boy, Tony Thorpe takes over sampling duties and PP Arnold is roped in for backing vocals. The masses lapped it all up.

A1 What Time Is Love? (Live At Trancentral)
B1 What Time Is Love? (Techno Gate Mix)

Chilled Out

The KLF - Chill Out

Ripped from a vinyl album released on KLF Communications (JAMS LP5) in 1990 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. A few years back, I ripped the compact disc version and posted it here. Now seems the right time to have a go at extracting from the vinyl - except for a the occasional clicks'n'pops (and some of those come from railroad-side campfires) - I'd say I am please with the results. 

The cover states there are 14 tracks but it rips as one complete piece of music (I've split the tracks as per the published timings) however I strongly recommend that the only way to appreciate Chill Out is to listen from beginning to end. So make yourself a cup of coffee, put your feet up, put this on the hi-fi, sit back, relax and then enjoy from beginning to end.

A1 Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border
A2 Pulling Out Of Ricardo And The Dusk Is Falling Fast
A3 Six Hours To Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold
A4 Dream Time In Lake Jackson
A5 Madrugada Eterna
A6 Justified And Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago
A7 Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul
B1 3AM Somewhere Out Of Beaumont
B2 Witchita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard
B3 Trancentral Lost In My Mind
B4 The Lights Of Baton Rouge Pass By
B5 A Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back
B6 Rock Radio Into The Nineties And Beyond
B7 Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up

Let the flogging of the dead horse commence....

The KLF - The What Time Is Love CD

Ripped from a compact disc album released on KLF Communications (JAMS CD4) in 1989 to high quality lossless flac audio. Two mixes by The KLF accompany a variety of cover versions by euro-disco-house fanatics. The title of this post sums up my feelings on the matter so I won't be covering the multitude of versions and mixes made available from 1990 onwards, except maybe one from penguinflight's stash. 

1  The KLF - What Time Is Love (Original Version)
2  Dr Felix - Relax Your Body
3  K.L.F.S. - What Time Is Love (Italian Mix)
4  Liaisons D. - Heartbeat
5  Neon - No Limit (Dance Mix)
6  The KLF - What Time Is Love (Live Version)

Kylie Cops It!

The KLF - Kylie Said To Jason

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (KLF 010T) in 1989 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Take a trip down memory lane with Cauty & Drummond's tribute to the eighties phenomenea of soaps & sitcoms in a variety of mixes. Oh baby!

A1 Kylie Said To Jason
B1 Kylie Said Trance

What Time Is Lunch?

The KLF - What Time Is Love?

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (KLF 004T) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Originally snuck out in a limited release of only 2000 copies, The KLF borrow heavily from Section 25's Program For Light and eventually make a mint - the subsequent 1990 and 1991 re-releases in a multitude of mixes sold by the bucket load.. You'll notice a little high frequency distortion, likely down to mastering errors on the original vinyl pressings, rather than a fluffy stylus.

A1 What Time Is Love?
B1 What Time Is Love?

Gary Cops It!

The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (KLF 003T) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Let's get this one out of way the quickly.....

A1 Doctorin' The Tardis
B1 Doctorin' The Tardis (Radio)
B2 Doctorin' The Tardis (Minimal)

Stevie Cops It

Disco 2000 - One Love Nation

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (D 2002) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. The JAMs backing singers were June Montana (ex-Brilliant) and Jimmy Cauty's wife Cressida. In a brief hybrid of The KLF, they became Disco 2000 and released three feisty disco singles, more Bananrama in style than Justified and Ancient in attitude. Most should recognise One Love Nation as a re-working of The JAMs Candystore.

A1 One Love Nation (Radio Edit)
A2 One Love Nation (Extended Mix)
B1 One Love Nation (Club Mix)

Disco 2000 - Uptight

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (D 2003) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. I gave up my copy of I Gotta CD many years ago, so have included an indifferent lossless rip of this single in the archive. Thanks again to penguinflight for these two.

A1 Uptight (Everything's Alright) (Discorama Mix)

B1 Mr. Hotty Loves You

Sly Cops It

The KLF - Burn The Bastards

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (KLF 002T) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. With 1987 out of the way, The JAMs were no more and were now The KLF. 1988 was going to be a big year, but first they had to play tribute to Sly Stone and a host of others in this disco party mash-up from the end of 1987. Also recorded as JAMs Have A Party and Burn The Beat, this final fling from the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu failed to break the charts, it is likely the title chosen for the single prevented any airplay.

A1 Burn The Bastards
B1 Burn The Beat

Burn The Beat

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Who Killed The Jams?

Ripped from a vinyl album released on KLF Communications (JAMS LP 2) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Tricky second album syndrome - suddenly everybody was paying attention and the sample police were on stand by. Who Killed The JAMs? could never live up to the infamy of 1987 but it did mark the end of those Justified Ancients.

A1 Candystore
A2 Candyman
A3 Disaster Fund Collection
A4 King Boy's Dream
B1 The Porpoise Song
B2 Prestwich Prophet's Grin
B3 Burn The Bastards

King Boy D & Rockman Rock Cop It!

The Justifies Ancients Of Mu Mu - 1987 The Jams 45 Edits

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (JAMS 25T) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Following the withdrawal of the original album, the JAMS released it as a 12" single with all the unauthorised samples cut out! The sleeve notes do include instructions how to replace the gaps, though I am sure not too many of you did.

A1 Side One
B1 Side Two

Petula Cops It!

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Down Town

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (JAMS 27T) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. The archive also contains another special 'treat' courtesy of blog contributor penguinflight.

A1 Down Town
B1 Down Town

Whitney Cops It!

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Whitney Joins The J.A.M.s

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (JAMS 24T) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. It is thirty years since Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty invaded our lives as those Justified Ancients with the immortal 1987 What The Fuck Is Going On? long player. I covered the album in depth a few months back, time now for a long weekend of posts commemorating their subsequent work.

A1 Whitney Joins The J.A.M s

This was a single-sided release in case anybody was hunting a b-side.

Brit Hop 2

Various Artists - Street Sounds UK Electro

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Street Sounds Records (ELCST 1984) in 1984 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio.

A1  Zer-O - Real Time (Retrospective Dub)
A2  Syncbeat - Music
A3  Broken Glass - Style Of The Street
A4  Forevereaction - U People
B1  Zer-O - Real Time
B2  Rapologists - Hip Hop Beat (Street Mix)
B3  Forevereaction - B.E.D. '34

Brit Hop 1

Broken Glass - Style Of The Street

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Streetwave Records (MKHAN 17) in 1984 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. The public face of Broken Glass a troop of Mancunian hip-hop dance artistes, the reality was Hacienda DJ Greg Wilson aided and abetted by Andy Connell (ACR & Swing Out Sister) plus Martin Jackson (Magazine & Swing Out Sister). The rappers were Paul Leveridge aka Kermit (yes ....that Kermit!) and his mate Fiddz. The line-up was also responsible for the superb Music 12" by Syncbeat and a whole album of UK Electro, also on Morgan Khan's Streetwave label.

A1 Style Of The Street (Dance Mix)
A2 Streetstyle
A3 Street Repeat
B1 Style Of The Street (Original Mix)
B2 Streetbeat

Pete and the Macho Dick Heads

Big Hard Excellent Fish - Imperfect List (Rimming Elvis The Andy Weatherall Way)

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on One Little Indian Records (041TP 12L) to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Going a bit down-tempo now. Scouser soul boy Pete Wylie turns bitter beat poet in this laid back and smooth chill-out dedication to everything he hates in life. His...Imperfect List. Produced and mixed by Andrew Weatherall, though I am not too sure what Elvis had to do with it. For penguinflight.

A1 Imperfect List
B1 Imperfect List
B2 Imperfect List

Got Any Guru Josh?

808 State - Pacific

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on ZTT Records (ZANG 1T) in 1989 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Post-Biting Tongues disco monster - I always preferred the less busy Quadrastate version, included here as Pacific State-Origin. Another gem from the penguinflight archives.

A1 Pacific-202
A2 Pacific State-Origin
B1 Pacific-303
B2 Cobra-Bora-Shortcut

Woooo Ooooo Ooooo...

A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray (Remix)

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Rham! Records (RX8804) in 1989 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Plink...plinkty....plikinty plonk. Woooo oooo oooo. Aaaaah..hey... yah! 

A1 Voodoo Ray (Remix)
B1 Voodoo Ray (Radio Mix)
B2 Voodoo Ray (Original Mix)

Take Care Of Yourselves

T-Coy - Cariño

Ripped from pre-release 12" vinyl single released on Deconstruction Records (M6222) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit flac. As I said previously....something very different, and after a certain withdrawn Age Of Chance single, one of the most requested re-posts here on ESWA. 

Back in those heady days, I only ever ripped to mp3, so now at last, I finally got around to the high rez re-rips. Depending on which camp you are in, house music was either ruined by the Brits, or blossomed to become huge by the British hunger for dance music. Regardless, T-Coy were the pioneers of the genre in Britain (make that Manchester) and never really received the success or praise due at the time. Mike Pickering went onto form M-People, co-vocalist and percussionist Simon Topping packed up his bongos and took to piano tuning, and sadly keyboard whiz Richie Close passed away in 1991. Though not everybody's cup of tea, their unique form of latin-tinged house music did get my toes tapping and I was particularly drawn to the melancholic and minimalist simplicity of Regret and the percussion driven Da Me Mas. I've ripped all three of their original singles for this post (complete with B-sides) for those who also like to tap their toes from time to time. Many of you may not have seen this video.

A1 Cariño
B1 Regret

T-Coy - I Like To Listen

Ripped from 12" vinyl single released on Deconstruction Records (M6242) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit flac. 

A1  I Like To Listen

A2  Catalonia

AA1 Da Me Mas

T-Coy - Night Train

Ripped from 12" vinyl single released on Deconstruction Records (M6262) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac.

A1 Night Train
B1 Keep On Drivin'

Big Pop Candy Mountain

Various Artists - EEC Punk Rock Mountain A Sarah Bootleg

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Fierce Recordings (FRIGHT 056CD) in 1992 to high'ish quality lossless flac audio. Okay, so neither a Sarah record nor a bootleg, however a good place to finish off this bloggy tribute to Sarah. All recorded on the same night across various venues in the UK and Europe - The Wake set was allegedly from a gig in Athens Greece.

1  The Orchids - Bemused, Confused & Bedraggled
2  The Orchids - Peaches
3  St. Christopher - The Love Of A Sister
4  Gentle Despite - If I Touch
5  The Wake - Major John
6  The Wake - Carbrain
7  The Field Mice - Coach Station Reunion
8  The Field Mice - Landmark
9   Heavenly - Boyfriend Stays The Same
10 Heavenly - Wrap My Arms Around Him

Fruity Loops

Various Artists - Engine Common

Ripped from a compact disc compilation released on Sarah Records (SARAH 628CD) to high quality lossless flac audio.

1  The Hit Parade - In Gunnersbury Park
2  The Sugargliders - Letter From A Lifeboat
3  The Orchids - Thaumaturgy
4  The Harvest Ministers - You Do My World The World Of Good
5  Blueboy - Clearer
6  Brighter - Half-Hearted
7  The Sugargliders - What We Had Hoped
8  The Rosaries - Leaving
9  The Field Mice - Missing The Moon
10 The Orchids - I Was Just Dreaming
11 The Sugargliders - Fruitloopin'
12 Blueboy - Popkiss
13 Secret Shine - Honey Sweet
14 The Harvest Ministers - Six O'Clock Is Rosary
15 Brighter - End
16 Another Sunny Day - Don't Suppose I'll Get A Second Chance

Glass Arcades

Various Artists - Glass Arcade

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Sarah Records (SARAH 501) in 1991 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio.

A1  The Field Mice - Holland Street
A2  Another Sunny Day - Rio
A3  Eternal - Sleep
A4  The Sweetest Ache - Tell Me How It Feels
A5  The Orchids - Farewell, Dear Bonnie
A6  The Sea Urchins - A Morning Odyssey
A7  The Springfields - Wonder
A8  The Field Mice - So Said Kay
B1  Heavenly - I Fell In Love Last Night
B2  The Orchids - Something For The Longing
B3  Even As We Speak - Goes So Slow
B4  The Field Mice - Quicksilver
B5  Eternal - Breathe
B6  St. Christopher - Salvation
B7  Even As We Speak - Nothing Ever Happens
B8  The Sweetest Ache - If I Could Shine

Here We Go

East River Pipe - Even The Sun Was Afraid
Ripped from a 10" vinyl mini-album released on Sarah Records (SARAH 407) in 1995 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. I am bringing this run of Sarahs to an end today and thought I'd reflect on back where we started with another album from East River Pipe. Thanks to thehappyone for the rip and the initial inspiration for this sequence of posts. It has been very enjoyable revisiting this important label, as well as rediscovering some old favourites. I'll finish off very shortly with a few compilations, then we can move off onto somethings different.

A1 Here We Go
A2 Marty
A3 Sleeping With Tallboy
B1 Hide My Life Away From You
B2 Fan The Flame
B3 Powerful Man
B4 When The Ground Walks Away

The Gospel According To The Orchids

The Orchids - Epicurean : A Soundtrack

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Sarah Records (SARAH 611CD) in 1992 to high quality lossless flac audio. A fine compendium of early Sarah recordings from those excellent Orchids ....for Don! The opening Peaches does seem a little of place here, but is one of my favourite tracks from these Glaswegian indie-pop stars.

1 Peaches
2 A Place Called Home
3 Tiny Words
4 Moon Lullaby
5 Walter
6 It's Only Obvious
7 Long Drawn Sunday Night
8 Blue Light
9 Yawn
10 Sigh
11 Something For The Longing
12 The York Song
13 Bemused Confused And Bedraggled
14 Caveman
15 Underneath The Window, Underneath The Sink
16 Pelican Blonde
17 Women Priests And Addicts
18 Carrole-Anne
19 Tropical Fishbowl
20 The Sadness Of Sex (Part 1)

SARAH 38

The Field Mice - So Said Kay

Ripped from a 10" vinyl EP released on Sarah Records (SARAH 38) in 1990 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Back to the indie-pops ....with another classic Sarah 10" from thehappyone's vinyl stash. 

A1  Landmark
A2  Quicksilver
AA1 Holland Street
AA2 Indian Ocean
AA3 So Said Kay

Pictures Of Cute Cats Don't Sell Compact Discs

Secret Shine - Untouched

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Sarah Records (SARAH 615CD) in 1993 to high quality lossless flac audio. ...and here is the Secret Shine long player. Evidence perhaps that loud fuzz pedal, wall of noise rock noise can be mixed with sweet sentimental twee. It's time to start gazing at those shoes folks.

1 Suck Me Down
2 Temporal
3 Spellbound
4 So Close I Come
5 Into The Ether
6 Toward The Sky
7 Underworld
8 Sun Warmed Water

Shines So Hard

Secret Shine - Greater Than God

Ripped from a 10" vinyl EP released on Sarah Records (SARAH 89) in 1994 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Bristol's Secret Shine managed one album proper and a short run of singles on Sarah Records, with thanks to blog follower thehappyone, here is their one ten inch extended player ripped from vinyl.

A1 Liquid Indigo
A2 Ignite The Air
B1 Deep Thinker
B2 Elizabeth's April
B3 Last Words

Not Too Sweet

The Sugargliders - Trumpet Play

Ripped from a compact disc single released on Sarah Records (SARAH 77CD) in 1993 to high quality lossless flac audio. Some more Antipodean indie-pop - The Sugargliders had different swagger about when them compared to many of the other Sarah darlings. They remind me greatly of Factory act The Adventure Babies.

1 Trumpet Play

2 Unkind

3 Beloved

The Sugargliders - Will We Ever Learn

Ripped from a compact disc single released on Sarah Records (SARAH 83CD) in 1993 to high quality lossless flac audio. 

1 Will We Ever Learn?

2 Dolly

3 Reinventing Penicillin

The Sugargliders - Top 40 Sculpture

Ripped from a compact disc single released on Sarah Records (SARAH 86CD) in 1993 to high quality lossless flac audio. 

1 Top 40 Sculpture

2 90 Days Of Moths & Rust

3 Yr. Jacket

Late Bloomrs

Aberdeen - Byron

Ripped from a compact disc single released on Sarah Records (SARAH 93CD) in 1994 to high quality lossless flac audio. Aberdeen sounded so quintessentially British, but they weren't from Scotland ....or even Bristol. Enjoy some beautifully crafted melodic indie-pop from California.

1 Byron
2 Toy Tambourine
3 Fran

Aberdeen - Fireworks

Ripped from a compact disc single released on Sarah Records (SARAH 97CD) in 1995 to high quality lossless flac audio.

1 Fireworks
2 When It Doesn't Matter
3 Super Sunny Summer

Feral Pop Times

Even As We Speak - Feral Pop Frenzy

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Sarah Records (SARAH 614CD) in 1993 to high quality lossless flac audio. Sydney NSW is a zillion miles from Bristol in Avon and the idea of an Aussie twee-pop band sounds just wrong. Feral Pop Frenzy at first lures you into thinking this is a twee record, however you'll quickly realise otherwise. Expect electronics and synthpop, samples, trip-hop beats, super-sweet sickly pop songs, acoustic camp fire songs, banjos, didgeridoos and a jaw harp. Great album.

1 Beelzebub
2 Beautiful Day
3 Falling Down The Stairs
4 Zeppelins
5 Anybody Anyway
6 Love Is The Answer
7 To See You Smile
8 Straight As An Arrow
9 Squid
10 One Thing
11 Sailor's Graves
12 Spirit Of Progress
13 Cripple Creek
14 Swimming Song
15 One Step Forward
16 Drown
17 O.G.T.T.

Something To Call My Own

Brighter - Laurel

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Sarah Records (SARAH 404CD) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. Most of my own Sarah releases are on compact disc rather than vinyl, and it was a real pleasure this morning to rediscover an old favourite. Winter may well be out of the way but there is no better time to enjoy this superb album once more. 

1 Christmas
2 Frostbite
3 Summer Becomes Winter
4 Something To Call My Own
5 Ocean Sky
6 Out To Sea
7 Maybe
8 Journey's End

Not Too Pure

Boyracer - From Purity To Purgatory

Ripped from a compact disc single released on Sarah Records (SARAH 85CD) in 1993 to high quality lossless flac audio. Thanks to all who have sent rips, suggestions or otherwise for this mini-run of Sarah bits. We currently have enough to keep going for another week ...or so! Keep them coming.

1 From Purity To Purgatory
2 Cog
3 David Byrne
4 Distraction
5 Doorframe
6 Close