A Shot Of Equanimity

Another dip into the shopping bag for an hour-long selection of purchases from last Friday.

 

Topped and tailed by David Holmes, all but one from this decade, a mix of legendary and new(ish) names, all committed to delivering some top tunes, bending the original music into new shapes.

 

Enjoy! 

 

1) Yeah x 3 (Rich Lane Remix): David Holmes ft. Raven Violet (2024)

2) PoPoPoPom (Keith Forrester Remix): Stylic (2024)

3) If.... (Ditz Remix): bdrmm (2020)

4) You Ain't Seen Me (Black Octopus Remix): The Shaker (2024)

5) Leave House (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix): Caribou (2010)

6) Game (Mezey Remix By Benjamin Boeldt): Martina Topley-Bird (2022)

7) Camouflage (Pattern 2) (Remix by UXB aka Peter Morgan): Campbell / Mallinder / Benge (2022)

8) Sugar High (Saint Etienne Remix): Iraina Mancini (2023)

9) Sylvia (David Holmes Remix): Lisa Moorish (2024)

 

2010: Swim Remixes: 5

2020: If.... EP: 3 

2022: Clinker (Expanded Edition): 7

2022: Game EP: 6

2024: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve / Saint Etienne Versions EP: 8

2024: Blind On A Galloping Horse (Remixes Vol. 1): 1

2024: Shelter Me: In Crisis: 2 

2024: Sylvia EP: 9

2024: You Ain't Seen Me EP: 4

 

A Shot Of Equanimity (1:00:23) (KF) (Mega)

Les Disques Du Crépuscule En Sept Sélections Pour Sept, er, Quid

Legendary label Les Disques Du Crépuscule have been steadily making their back catalogue available for sale via Bandcamp, including several classic albums with bonus tracks at a bargain price of £7.00 for a digital download. Many are also available on shiny disc.

Too many to mention in one post really, so I've selected seven as a sampler, namely

 

Clinker (+ 4 bonus remixes): Julie Campbell / Stephen Mallinder / Benge (2021)

Sorry For Laughing: Josef K (1981) (this is the shelved version; The Only Fun In Town is also available) 

Rhythm Of Life + New York Remix mini-album: Paul Haig (1983/1984)

Nice Mover (+ 6 bonus remixes): Gina X Performance (1979)

Nue Au Soleil (Complètement: Ludus (2024) (compilation previously released as an 11-track vinyl in 1987 and a 28-track 2CD in 2017; the digital version contains all 18 tracks from CD1 and the 4-song John Peel session from CD2)

Fidelity (+ 2 bonus tracks): The Durutti Column (1996) (The New Fidelity was originally issued on a Portuguese compilation in 1992) 

Moving Soundtracks: Various Artists (1983) (this appears to be the 2008 rejigged reissue, originally 20 tracks, here minus 2 songs by Be Music and Alan Rankine; I picked The Pale Fountains for today's selection)

 

Seminal compilation From Brussels With Love, the debut release on Les Disques Du Crépuscule in 1980 and featured in the headline photo, is also available as a digital download. That'll cost you a tenner but for 28 tracks a bargain. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Hear A Voice Beyond The Veil

I was very late to discovering Psychic Life by Jah Wobble and Julie Campbell, but have listened to it lots ever since. Tightrope is the opening track, arguably unrepresentative of the album that follows, but an absolute cracker. Keith Levene also appears on guitar and in the video. Hard to believe this song is now 10 years old.

Julie Campbell has released a couple of albums as LoneLady - Nerve Up (2010) and Hinterland (2015) - and following another couple of singles in the intervening years, launched an excellent new song, (There Is) No Logic at the end of March.

Tightrope: Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell (2011)

(There Is) No Logic: LoneLady (2021)