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Torley Wong - Xristophan - 21-Jan-08 02:01 AM
One interesting anecdote is that this track had leaked to the internet in the prime highlight days of Napster, falsely labeled as a "Rare Duet" between The Aphex Twin and Robert Miles.
The track was snatched by progressive house DJs Luke Fair and Desyn Masiello, who were haunted by the tracks melodics, decided to remix it, and upon coming to release it hunted down Wong as the original performer and released his original version as well.

Kings Of Agreppo - Agreppo - 14-Jan-08 02:14 AM
It should be noted that the mysterious term "Agreppo" was coined by the British media, describing the late-1980s emerging Belgian club music sound as "Agressive Pop", or shortly Agreppo.
The term faded away pretty quickly as "New Beat" became the much more common nominal indicator of the genre.
The omnipresent producer trio of Morton-Sherman-Belucci, one of the two main driving forces of the New Beat phenomenon, did not hesitate to jump on the bandwagon and produced the representative track named pretty simply "Agreppo", modestly-enough naming the project "Kings Of Agreppo", one of their few dozens of different moniker masquerades.

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Very Best Of Echo & The Bunnymen - More Songs To Learn And Sing - 05-Jun-07 11:12 PM
This release is an updated extended re-release of Echo & The Bunnymen's essential 1985 cover-all best-of compilation "Songs To Learn And Sing". However since '85 they have managed to release a few more singles, regroup and practically start a musical career anew, spanning a volume of four more full albums, which, by some opinions, present a strong competition in terms of quality to the band's 1980s classic repertoire.

Comparing to the 1985 11-track release, although their seminal 1981 single "The Puppet" was sadly omitted, this release includes 9 more songs: the infamous cover version of The Doors' "People Are Strange" (from the Lost Boys soundtrack, produced by Ray Manzarek), the singles from their most-successful 1987 eponimous album, various selections from their post-1990s albums, and the not-available-elsewhere cover version of Tim Hardin's classic "Hang On To A Dream".

I do have some criticism for the track-ordering, which ranges between the creative to the somewhat-bizarre. Although blending old and new songs can be refreshing, in my conservative opinion it could be more efficient to order the tracks in a chronological order to show their intersting musical progress of sound through the years, or rather, as I suspect the compiler of this release tried, to arrange them thematically with upbeat songs for start and the more intimate personal songs towards the end.

However, there are a few flaws in the general flow of songs here: tracks 7&8 from their 1990s output may be upbeat, but stuck like a bone in the throat of a truly great possible sequence of the 1980s theatric "Never Stop" and "A Promise". Then, there are some moody songs that are placed strategically in interruption of upbeat sequences, such as "The Killing Moon" between "The Back of Love" and "Seven Seas", and - more shockingly - the ethereal "Rust" between "The Game" and "Lips Like Sugar" - definitely misplaced there and could get much more of the respect they're owed to, in a different musical setting.

On the plus side, this compilation is presented in rare pristine sound quality and mixes, and to sum things up, despite the track ordering it can be proclaimed as the best introduction currently available for the repertoire of this truly magnificent band.

Armando - 151 (The Remixes) - 10-May-06 12:52 PM
This records sounds very reminiscent of Phuture's groundbreaking record "Acid Trax" from '87 which relied heavily on the Roland TB-303 bass machine tweaks.
Both Phuture and Armando were important figures at the early house scene in Chicago in the late eighties, and this record is apparantly named "151" simply because it's approximately the result of the equation 303 divided by 2.