NEW LINK (2025) - Jane Birkin - Black... White (1980)

Here's a strange promotional pop single that was put out in 1980 by Desk & Feild.  Obviously it's a Jane Birkin single and a very funky one at that.  This single features two versions of a song called "Black... White..." (English and French vocal versions) which was written by Pierre Bachelet and Herve Roy (Emmanuelle OST).  It's a fast paced song with a driving staccato clavichord melody, bass and electric guitars.  Music for ski resorts, should go nicely with a glass of Génépi.  Compliments of BLACK & WHITE Scotch Whiskey.

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NEW LINK (2025) - Guy Bonnet - Wladimir Le Musicien (1974)

Guy Bonnet's Wladimir Le Musicien LP is one of the rare holy grails of dignified pop!  Extremely lush arrangements throughout, this album delivers top notch pop/chanson tunes one after the other.  The album also features the notorious Mr. Nabukov track which features heavy breakbeats over dark string arrangements accompanied by a male and female vocal duet.  The album was orchestrated by Karl Heinz Schäfer (Les Gants Blancs Du Diable), so there are plenty of nice Jean-Claude Vannier-esque moments to be found here.  The opening track (which happens to be the title track) Wladimir Le Musicien is one of my favorites.  An extremely ambitious pop tune with extremely groovy verses and an over the top classical piano breakdown at the bridge.  So many great moments on this record, it's hard to mention them all.  Many of the other tracks throughout the album have a nice light baroque-pop feel.  Very catchy, masterfully executed pop with top notch production and musicianship.  Listen for yourselves!  Ripped from the original LP at 320 kbps.  Includes front and back cover scans.  Enjoy. 

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NEW LINK (2025) - Light Reflections - Tell Me Once Again 7" (1973)

Here's another somewhat obscure single from the early 70s by a Brazilian based group called Light Reflections.  Tell Me Once Again (Side A) is a sweet and smooth love ballad.  Nice mellow jazzy electric guitar tones, sentimental string arrangements, organs, bass, drums...  Both of these tracks are sung in English (with a good thick accent!).  Once again, I was after the B-Side when I tracked this one down.  Eyes Blue Eyes is a dark and trippy downtempo pop tune with a strong liturgical organ intro leading into some slow rimshot breaks driven by a descending pick-bass line.  Vocals are very laid back and nice on this one (melancholy and dreamy).  A smoky atmospheric pop tune not to be missed!  Ripped from vinyl at 320 kbps, includes cover scans!

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NEW LINK (2025) - Zeugma - Témoignage/Le Magicien 7" (1978)

Here's a nice rare French rock single by a pretty obscure group called Zeugma.  Honestly I really don't know anything about them really outside of this single (it's their only entry on Discogs), but the tracks here are solid!  The A side is a bit of a proggy rocker that gets into some really bizarro territory with the weirdo fuzz guitar riffs.  A heavy slab of psych for the ones who are into that sort of thing!  The real gold (for me) is the B side on this one with their track Le Magicien.  A beautiful slow burner of a ballad.  Lazy phased guitars driving a great vocal melody over some nice laid back drum breaks.  A real feel-good track.  Ripped from the collection of the Cowboys from Sweden.  I originally intended to include this on the last mix tape "Autumn Moon", but decided I wanted to keep everything in English for that one.  So, here it is for your listening pleasure...  320 rip with cover scans included!  Enjoy.

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NEW LINK (2025) - Autumn Moon - Compiled & Mixed by The Cowboys From Sweden (2015)

Okay, here's a new Cowboys from Sweden mix I finished today called Autumn Moon. It was intended to be a Fall/Winter mix, so naturally with my luck it lands ironically on the first day of Spring! Anyway, it's a mix of trippy psychedelic folk/pop and library songs from the late 60s and early 70s. Also I believe this is the first Cowboys mix that is entirely in English (and includes only 3 instrumentals). I thought a lot about my time living in Prague (featured on the cover) when I made this, so the mood is pretty old, overcast, grey and dreamy. To quote the film The Science of Sleep, this mix is roughly based on the themes of "Love, friendships, relationships... and all those 'ships' "... I hope you enjoy, it's a moody one!

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"Lizard in a Wizard's Skin" - A horror mix by Ivan Rassimov (2014)

Here's a quick horror mix tape I threw together on Halloween.  Ripped from cassette for added glorious low fidelity compression!  Download it here if you dare!

Track Listing:

1. John Carpenter/The Fog

2. Stelvio Cipriani/Un'Ombra Nell'Ombra (Main titles)

3. Carlo Maria Cordio/In Fondo

4. Ennio Morricone/Informale III

5. Goblin/Ghost Vest

6. Libra/The Shock

7. François De Roubaix/Survol

8. Cindy Und Bert/Der Hund von Baskerville

9. Patrick Vasori/Cathedrale (Part 2)

10. Alessandro Alessandroni/Devil's Nightmare

11. Tim Krog, Jan Bartlett & Ed Christiano/The Boogeyman (Version 3)

12. The Blue Wing Console/Motives 1

13. Catharsis/Solstice

14. Claudio Tallino/Journey To Nowhere (Edit)

15. Corte Dei Miracoli/...E Verra L'uomo (Edit)

16. Bruno Nicolai/Funeral Striptease

17. Ennio Morricone/Notte Di Giorno

18. Fred Myrow & Malcom Seagrave/The Tall Man On Main Street

19. Keith Emerson/The Library

20. Libra/Il Fantasma Suona Il Piano

21. Goblin/Dr. Frankenstein

22. Stelvio Cipriani/The Hour Of Infernal Game Part 1

23. John Carpenter/Moochie's Death

24. Gianni Rossi/Theme From Star Vehicle

25. Carlo Maria Cordio/Suono Aperto

26. John Carpenter/Haunted House

NEW LINK (2025) - Prince Da Baroda - Que C'est Triste Un Monde Sans Amour/Indira 7" (1970)

Okay, it's been a while since I've posted anything new here.  So here's an obscure little treat for fans of bizarre seven inches.  Here we have a two track single by Prince De Baroda.  I assume he's a real prince, but haven't had much luck finding out anything about him (feel free to fill me in).  Anyway, oddly enough these songs are sung in French and are quite beautiful actually.  On the A side we have "Que C'est Triste Un Monde Sans Amour", an nice melodic ballad actually written by Patricia Carli and on the B side we have "Indira" written by E. Marnay and J.P. Calvet, another pretty love ballad.  The most important thing to point out here is that these tracks were produced by Jean Bouchety who happened to compose one of my favorite KPM lps (The Magic of Bouchety) and a million other things.  So on both tracks we hear that signature Bouchety sound with an obvious eastern flair (sitars, tablas etc.).  But overall this is similar to the typical French pop sound, nice break beats, strings, groovy bass lines.. The works.  I'm not sure what else to say about this one.  I guess if you are aware of it already, I think we'd get along quite well.  This records doesn't exactly appear out of thin air, it took a bit of work to track it down.  So hopefully some of you will enjoy it as well.  320 rip from vinyl.  Include cover scans. Enjoy.

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