zach's keep or sell

[zach]

Selected Sound - Please Love Me Again (1977):



a Selected Sound for tonight, and one of my favourites. they promise super hits and deliver. not really sure what's up with this, as a lot of the songs are commercially released. it starts out with a bang, 'Please Love Me Again' is amazing and instantly my favourite song on the record. this version of 'Stern von Afrika' is not favourite but still a great tune. 'O.K. Chicago' is nice and funky! 'This Is Music That I Like' is a great disco ender. very few low points on this release for me. even 'I Hear A Melody' is great, not the typical style i look for in library but it's catchy! easy choice here.



verdict: KEEP!

[kebarvid]

Title track is an classic disco-banger that always make me happy.

Most of the commercially available tracks are from Sirocco a label created by Roger Tokarz (who also created Tele Music), to capitalize on som of the more pop sounding tracks from TM. They are by french library musicians like Marc Chantereau, Pierre-Alain Dahan, Slim Pezin & Mat Camison

[zach]

nice, thanks for the info!

[zach]

Selected Sound - Match-Ball (1981):



might be my favourite library record, this thing is amazing. the polish library stuff is always my favourite. Zbigniew Gorny and his orchestra really killed it. it's hard to imagine a more perfect song then 'Magma'. that minute long buildup intro, then dropping the funkiest damn thing i've ever heard. not far behind is the title track, then 'Oversea Flights', 'Newport' and 'Net Service'. all of them funky disco dreams. i bought this thing in 2014 for 6 euros, what bang for your buck, and it still looks to be as affordable as then. bury me with this record.



verdict: KEEP!

[zach]

Sonoton - Disco (1980):



always forget about Quango & Sparky, can't really say i've listened to that many Sonotons really. i do like Narholz and Fiddy a lot though. this is great, just a bunch of disco as the title suggests. favourite track is definitely 'Never Say Forever', which brings back memories of Seka for Christmas. 'Gogo West' and 'San Fran Jubilee' are really good too. a couple clunkers, the rock ones, but overall it's a winner.



verdict: KEEP!

[Eternas Ondas Musicales]

Very great records, and very pretty turntable too. 

[zach]

thanks! 

[zach]

Programme Music - Choice Morsels (1978):



i remembered loving this one back in the day but haven't spun it in years. sad to say i was kinda underwhelmed. starts out strong with 'Friday Night Fever', then a string of gloomy or down right bad ('Don't Hustle Me') tracks follow. the only other shining light on the a-side for me was 'Gentle Rave Down'. thankfully the b-side is much stronger. 'Making Waves' and 'Don't Make Waves' are the two standouts. i don't know, the record just leaves me flat, a bit soulless. i've never been the biggest fan of Midas Touch stuff, this was always the exception. on the fence a bit here, but i think it's still good enough to keep.



verdict: KEEP!

[zach]

kpm - Pulse of the City (1978):



this one will always be the Swedish Erotica album to me. ID'ed many a track from here in those shorts. i'm happy to say i enjoyed this even more than i remembered. some great disco cuts like 'Saturday Night Driver' and 'Street Hustle'. just overall very funky, 'Street Walker' being the funkiest! 'City Lights' is a favourite too, everything on here i like really, even the damn reggae track. a really strong kpm and definitely one of my favourites in the their library.



verdict: KEEP!

[nidostar]

Another interesting pair of reviews. Thanks zach. And if nothing else they're prompting me to give them a listen.

Choice Morsels: I think you're losing the plot. Bearing in mind your downbeat comments I thought you were going to conclude that you should sell it.
Pulse Of The City: Of course coming from KPM it's bound to be good. And I just love the brass. But as far as I can see this is the only library album composed by Richard Morcombe or Geoff Castle.

[zach]

if you think i've lost the plot you really wouldn't like what i was originally gonna say about the kpm library haha. and yeah now i remember at the time looking for more of their stuff to no avail.

[zach]

Coloursound - Colours (1984):



now we're talking! absolute classic here of the polish variety. some of the cleanest PRiTV recordings. this was a blind buy back in the day just for that PRiTV name. Aleksander Maliszewski supplying his best tracks ever. 'Blue Funk', 'Golden Funk' and the insane 'Yellow Funk', top five library track for me, just beautiful. that one two punch to open the record just sends me to space. 'Funky Green' towards the end is another favourite, laid back groove. library art doesn't really matter that much to me, but definitely my favourite library cover art. i even used it as an avatar on this site many years ago. can't get enough of this one!



verdict: KEEP!

[zach]

Selected Sound - Metropolitan Sounds (1984):



another 1984 release for tonight. gave this one a spin, and it starts off great with 'Sometimes It Changes'. a nice little funky light track. the rest of the a-side isn't really my thing. then the flipside starts with another good track in 'Metropolitan Sounds (Points)'. followed by more stuff that i'm not that into. it's not terrible, but i already ripped this in the past and don't think i'll ever revisit this record outside those two noted tracks, so i can let this go.



verdict: SELL!

[Lord Thames]

But as far as I can see this is the only library album composed by Richard Morcombe or Geoff Castle.

They were both in a jazz funk band called Strange Fruit, I wonder if it's them playing on this album?  Here's a track from their sole commercial album, which I rather like - I wonder why they didn't do more library stuff?