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Highlighting unknown, obscure or simply excellent musicians

A small personal website with the aim to share detailed release information for a number of artists, but also to highlight some items from my collection

Previous Stuff

  • メトロノーム 2007 album

    Only one more album left and there is an image available for each album by メトロノーム. Today I have added scans of their 2007 mini-album サイクルリサイクル.

  • 宇宙戦隊NOIZ vs Lovelife

    宇宙戦隊NOIZ announced further details for their upcoming album METEORS. Check out the track listing, artwork and different editions!

    Don’t forget that you can download Lovelife’s debut EP El Regreso for free as of yesterday from their own website!

  • Lovelife debut

    Seconds are ticking away. It won’t be long anymore until Lovelife release their debut EP El Regreso digitally and for free through their own website. In the meantime you can listen to the full EP online at Earmilk.com until the download comes out tomorrow. So far it sounds like the EP is going to feature new versions of songs that were previously released as demo recordings!

  • 宇宙戦隊NOIZ Narda video

    宇宙戦隊NOIZ released a new video on the 7th of August for a cover song called Narda which is by the Filipino rock band Kamikazee. The song is not going to be featured on their upcoming album METEORS, so it is yet to be seen if it will ever be featured on a physical release. In the meantime, check out this great new song!

  • Japanese update today

    Two new demo cassette releases have been added for メトロノーム. The first one is for プラネット, the second for 東京バビロン which seems to be unknown on the internet…. until now!

    I’ve also added the final missing single of 宇宙戦隊NOIZ which was ミラクル★ロケットG5. This is however the limited tour edition!

  • 宇宙戦隊NOIZ tour edition

    At last, 宇宙戦隊NOIZ’s limited tour edition of HIGH FIVE came in today which features the album on CD and a unique DVD with a promotional video of Jewel. Enjoy the rest of Friday the 13th! 😉

  • Latest collection feature

    McCartney uncut

    Ex-Beatles member Paul McCartney released around 100 singles in the UK throughout his career as of 1971. Either solo or with his band Wings.

    Among these singles were two called We All Stand Together and Dance Tonight.

    We All Stand Together was released in 1984 during a time when his career was deemed to go in a downward spiral. Mainly due to some private mishappenings, but also his negatively received Give My Regards To Broad Street movie. In comes this release, as it brought him back into the charts (number three in the UK). It was released as a 7″ single and a 7″ shaped picture disc. As with most shaped picture discs, an uncut test pressing was initially made which is shown in the photo on the left.

    Moving forward to 2007 brings us to the single for Dance Tonight. A nice song in my opinion, just as the one from ’84. This one was released as a download and again a 7″ shaped picture disc. The 7″ oddly features the song on both sides so there is no proper B-side. An uncut test pressing also exists for this release. However, there is also a single-sided test pressing which features the regular images on both sides, although only side A contains music. Does this mean that they initially intended to release this as a single-sided disc? I guess we’ll never know. The double-sided disc is shown in the photo on the right whereas the single-sided one is at the bottom, with the blank side facing upwards.

    Both discs are 12″ in size with 7″ grooves which contain the music. All three only come in a clear plastic sleeve.