SAMANTHA MUMBA - BODY II BODY

"Body to body, funk to funky - we know how to rock your party!"
Was quite literally stunned when this single was released in 2000. Bowie was pretty cool in allowing his introspective masterpiece "Ashes To Ashes" to be sampled for a light piece of r&b-dance-pop such as this. "Body II Body" is a great single, seeing as it borrows heavily off the original Bowie track. Whilst the original had mama saying "to get things done you better not mess with Major Tom", Mumba's version has mama saying "to get things done, you gotta go to school - ain't gonna have no fun!". Priceless! Three tracks altogether - the other two being dance remixes c/o Robbie Rivera and Tall Paul - neither of which use any of the Bowie music.


SAMANTHA MUMBA - BODY II BODY
2000
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THE BEST OF AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET

Superb collection of music - a whopping 29 tracks - used in the various series of British tv classic Auf Wiedersehen Pet including incidental music and all the excellent hit songs recorded by Joe Fagin for the show such as "That's Livin' Alright" and "Back With The Boys Again".

THE BEST OF AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET

2002

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SWANS WAY - THE BEST OF SWANS WAY

Swans Way (or Swansway - whatever the preference) were an excellent but very short-lived Brummie trio from the early 80s with their own distinctive sound comprising of dance, lounge, synth-pop with a slight twist of avant-garde Art Of Noise/Propaganda-esque off-kilter experimentalist pop. This 1997 "best of" album is basically their one and only album The Fugitive Kind from 1984 - boosted up with some bonus tracks. Their best song and biggest hit "Soul Train" - featured here in album and extended 12" versions is, in my opinion, a one-of-a-kind masterpiece and worth getting for that alone (but the rest of the album is also rather good). After the band split in 1984, two of the members - Rick P. Jones and Maggie De Monde - went on to form the equally excellent Scarlet Fantastic (who released the classic and often-played radio fave "No Memory" - remember?).


SWANS WAY - THE BEST OF SWANS WAY
1997
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LINIENTREU - STERNENKINDER (PROMO)

Linientreu are - or were - an obscure German electro-pop band from the early 2000s who I predicted were going to be "the next big thing" but instead seemed to go nowhere. They released two excellent singles which garnered much radio play at the time and one great album which barely anyone took notice of. Those two singles are on this album: The storming "Wir Leben Für Immer" and "Sind Freunde Elektrisch?" - a very good German language cover of the Gary Numan classic "Are Friends Electric?". This album I'm sharing is a very rare non-retail 10-track promo edition from 2000 called Sternenkinder. For reasons unknown to myself, the retail version was released the following year with the title changed to Sind Freunde Elektrisch?.


LINIENTREU - STERNENKINDER (PROMO)
2000
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KALEEF - 53RD STATE OF MIND

Kaleef (formerly Kaliphz) released this entertaining Pete Waterman-produced hip-hoppy pop album in 1997. Stand-out track is undoubtably the rapped up cover-stroke-remix hit single of The Stranglers' "Golden Brown". Pete Waterman was most likely to blame for the god-awful and ill-advised idea/attempt at doing a rap cover of Petula Clark's "Down Town" (steer clear of that one)!


KALEEF - 53RD STATE OF MIND
1997
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COVER CLASSICS [volume two]

Excellent compilation of rather good and unique cover versions of classic pop tracks including Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Distain!, Gary Numan's "Down In The Park" from Girls Under Glass, the ever nutty Laibach with their unique twist on "Jesus Christ Superstar", Desireless' "Voyage Voyage" from La Floa Maldita and Erasure's hit ABBA cover "Lay All Your Love On Me", plus many more.


COVER CLASSICS [volume two]
2000
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TECHNO ARMY featuring GARY NUMAN

Decent remakes of classic Numan tracks including "Cars", "We Are Glass", "I Die You Die", "She's Got Claws" and "Are Friends Electric?" courtesy of little known Techno Army with the legendary Numan himself providing the vocals. Also includes two excellent bonus techno remixes of "Cars". 


TECHNO ARMY featuring GARY NUMAN
1996
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