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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

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  • UCHUSENTAI:NOIZ Legends CD

    It is time for an early Sunday morning update featuring UCHUSENTAI:NOIZ. They released a new compilation album in Philippines on August the 2nd called LEGEND OF THE ROCK’N’ROLL HEROES which features new versions of two previously released songs plus a DVD with videos.

  • Mumm-Ra’s 2014 Shore

    Better late than never! This update contains Mumm-Ra’s latest release Back To The Shore which was issued digitally in February this year and recently on CD in Japan. Check here all the details.

  • Mini Mumm-Ra CD

    Well that is a nice surprise. I just stumbled upon a Japanese CD copy of Mumm-Ra‘s mini album Back To The Shore which was apparently released on June the 4th. Hope to add it in the next few weeks, together with the initial digital release which was issued in February of this year.

  • 2x Lovelife

    Well here you go. I just added two releases by Lovelife. The first one is their latest digital-only single release called Angel. The second release is a bit more interesting, although it does not contain any new music, being XXX which is another tour-only CD from March this year.

  • メトロノーム ’00 CDr

    It’s been a while since I found a nice uncommon release by メトロノーム but a few weeks ago I stumbled upon their first CDr which was handed out during a concert in Japan on December 9th 2000, almost 14 years ago. It features a song called アリガト and comes with no artwork.

  • New Mirrors promo added

    Remember how surprised I was last year when an unseen Mirrors promo hit the internet? Well, it happened again and, by coincidence, for the same single! Last year it was a Dutch CDr promo for Into The Heart, today it is a variant of the (common) UK promo CD which comes with full artwork versus a white disc with minimum artwork.

  • 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.