Last weeks, a couple of 7"s were lying near my turntable, but I could not bring myself to rip them. Every time I stumbled upon a library or other odd lp.
Finally, here is the first one: the second concept single of Passage, About Time, you can say that. It took them about a year to release this after the first one, New Love Songs (which I posted in October last year). The music is a bit like the early Cure and the Monochrome Set. Produced by David Cunningham, who formed and led the Flying Lizards.



Side 1:
Sixteen Hours / Time Delay [7:02]

Side A:
Taking My Time [2:42]
Clock Paradox [2:29]

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Helmut Brandenburg was conductor of the Rias-Tanzorchester around 1971. Rias stands for Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor. Under the name of Brandenburg Big Band they made this popular classic album, in a kind of Ekseption/Waldo de Los Rios style, with additional use of some electronics.



Side one:
1 Hallelujah aus dem Messias (Händel)
2 Largo aus dem Cembalo-Konzert Nr. 5 f-moll (Bach)
3 Habanera aus Carmen (Bizet)
4 cis moll Sonate (Mondschein, Beethoven)
5 Alla Turka (türkischer March, Mozart)
6 Sinfonie in g-moll, 1. Satz (Mozart)

Side two:
1 Toccata und Fuge in d-moll (Bach)
2 Sinfonie in c-moll, 1. Satz (Beethoven)
3 Zigeunertanz aus Carmen (Bizet)
4 Schwanensee (Tschaikowsky)
5 4. Sinfonie, 1. Satz (Brahms)
6 Beat At The Philharmonic (Xanten-Sekura)

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Swing Family is library music artist Sauveur Mallia on Bass, EMU, DX7, MSQ 700, Sequential Circuit, Mini Moog and Oberheim, accompanied by three wind instrument players. The music actually is company movie background music. I bought it for the cover (the price was also cheap).



Side one:
1 Exorcistor [4:05]
2 Greewich Boulevard [3:55]
3 Music Force [4:35]
4 Mission Africa [4:54]

Side two:
1 Musical Stars [3:13]
2 Gentleman & Musician [3:23]
3 Film Action [3:10]
4 Episode Double [5:06]
5 Fatal Lady [3:41]

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Who is this guy?
Where did he play?
Why?



I have this recording on cassette tape, taken from a Dutch compilation lp Laugh Story (EMI 5 C050 24921). Also appearing on that record: Stan Freberg, the Master Singers and Mrs Miller.
I think he's Dutch, but he's mad enough to be Belgium and bad enough to come from anywhere.
André van Duin used this tune several times pretending it was played by Pieter van Vollenhoven, piano playing prince of the Netherlands.

Anybody knows more? Please mail me.

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Dave Vorhaus was the leading man of the White Noise. A lot of people only know his first magnificent lp An Electric Storm, but he made a lot more. To begin with: White Noise 2 till 5.5 (from 3 still available on his site). And a lot of library music on KPM, a.o. Out of the Dark, Sleight of Mind, Mind Games and this one, Sound Conjurer, in collaboration with Dave Bradnum.



Side one:
1 The Video Invaders [2:10]
2 Fleeting Shadows [2:50]
3 Lemmings [2:14]
4 Beyond The Limit [2:30]
5 Fly High [2:37]
6 Black Alley [3:11]
7 Enigma [2:31]
8 The World Today [1:03]

Side two:
1 The Source [2:21]
2 Runes [1:21]
3 Video Games [2:37]
4 Scurry (a) [1:12]
5 Scurry (b) [1:12]
6 Clouds In White Chiffon [3:13]
7 World Of The Dead [2:13]
8 Domain Of Minos [2:32]
9 Power [1:10]
10 Cold Steel (a) [2:06]
11 Cold Steel (b) [2:10]

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Synthesizers Unlimited is a project by Anthony King of whom I don't know much. He performed Soul of the city on the album of Gunther Leonhardt (1971) and collaborated with John Matthews on Pots and Sides (1974).
He also made “Lost star” in the seventies, according to Vitalis on Scopia and you can find some work of King and Chris Vander (Magma?) on Workforce - Percussion Unit from 1980.
Connoisseurs can tell from the picture of the cover it is not an original copy. The typography is different. This is from a bootleg cd.


Notice Electrik with a k

1 Electrik Bazaar
2 Luxury Life Style
3 Maladjusted Moogie
4 Chunnel Boogie
5 Forgotten World
6 Electrostalagtites
7 Electric Storm
8 Sprightly Spirit
9 March of The Elastic Band
10 Main Street - Tibet
11 Toytown Carousel
12 Windswept Rhapsody
13 Funky Dromedary
14 Doctor Ooze
15 Pip-Pip
16 Jet West


The original typography

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Like Snake Charmer released on Island Records and never put on cd.
This time in cooperation with Ollie Marland (keyboards & percussion) and the vocal talents of Shara Nelson, Norma Lewis, Lisa Sullivan and Lorna Rowe.



Side one:
1 Love mystery [5:50]
2 Love mystery instrumental [4:04]
3 Running away [5:35]

Side two:
1 Neon moon [5:19]
2 Life on the line [2:34]
3 Life on the line dub [2:22]
4 The beast inside [4:25]
5 Despike [5:27]

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