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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

  • Mumm-Ra now live!

    It took me a while (I blame scanning all the different 7″ releases), but the section for Mumm-Ra is up and running! Check out all of their releases, CD – vinyl – digital, plus a few in-house CDr’s!

  • 2 demo cassettes

    At last! The two demo cassettes by メトロノーム have been added to the website. So quickly hop over to their page, check all the details and marvel over their hand-made sleeves!

  • What’s new…

    So what has happened recently? I had a short Easter break and went away for a few days. Hence the work for Mumm-Ra has been delayed a bit, though it is coming together nicely. I even bought another promo of them this week for the album which I had not seen before.

    I’ve also decided to remove the Updates section and move all updates to the main page so it is easier to see when an update has been made.

    The two demo cassettes by メトロノーム came in this week and will be added soon (I hope later this evening, else tomorrow). I think that RunOutGrooves will be the first website (or at least the first Western website) that features high-res scans of these rare cassettes.

  • メトロノーム 3″ CD

    It has arrived! An early 3″ demo CD of メトロノーム. Check their section for all the details!

  • 3 宇宙戦隊NOIZ singles

    After some years I have finally made the decision to complete my collection of the regular 宇宙戦隊NOIZ singles and they came in today. One of them is from 2000 and is already hard to find. The other two are from 2004 and 2005. Enjoy!

  • メトロノーム added

    The albums section for メトロノーム is now ready. Singles will be added whenever I buy them (one special release is already in the mail and will be added once I get it) 😉

    メトロノーム you say? Yes, that sounds like “metronome”. They are a band from Japan and created some great futuristic electro punk.

  • 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.