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Name: Mark Wright
Home Page: www.radiofriendly.co.uk
Member Since: Mar 19, 2008
Rank: 92
Average Vote Received: Needs Minor Changes (3.36, 11 votes)
Rated 10 releases, average: 4.60
Location: United Kingdom
Profile: I began buying records - as most of us did - as a teenager, but I soon realised that my addiction to vinyl was shared only among an elite few of my schoolfriends. This was in the 80s and my leanings were towards soul/funk, hip hop and the emerging house scene. My classmate Nigel (you may know him better as Shortee Blitz) used to swap tapes of rap and acid house from US radio stations and was a major influence on my tastes towards the end of the decade.

Buying new music became a necessity in 1990 when I found myself involved with a local pirate radio station, and began DJing full-time. Since breaking into commercial radio in 1995, helping to launch Birmingham's Choice FM (now Galaxy), my love for music has taken me up and down the UK via seven different commercial radio stations and countless clubs and bars, swelling my collection of promos, limited editions, curios and oddities in the process.

Sadly, I now possess only a handful of my original 80s purchases but, thanks to Discogs, plugging gaps is just a click away. And while I shall always regret being soundly fleeced by a certain well-known Birmingham-based rare-record dealer, I'm still proud of what remains in my collection. With the current drought of new vinyl releases, my recent discovery of Discogs is providing a much-needed fix for this self-confessed vinyl junkie!
Seller Rating: 99.1% positive (115 ratings)

Reviews & Discussion:

I've never forgotten the blurb on the back of this album. As the story goes: Sueno de Niro - the Italo Brummie, with his chain of Midlands launderettes, flaunts West Midlands by-laws by holding raves only when washing machines are spinning, later apprehended by police when Kid Persil grasses him up for embibing at 40 degrees.

Almost certainly meant as surrealist whimsy by its apparant inventor John McCready, but I was never absolutely sure...

As for the album? Pure class. Buy it.
Pure bliss. One of the first records that turned me on to the Italian piano revolution that was already well underway by this point. Justin took it to a whole new level of euphoria and paved the way for hundreds of dreadful imitations. Indeed, 6 months later , the UK charts were awash with lowest common denominator piano rave records as a direct result of this. I sold my copy a couple of years ago expecting it to fetch a tidy sum, but it seems it remains a forgotten classic.

If you need to hear a sample, there are plenty at that Tube place You probably frequent...

Rotor - Kaleidoscope May 29, 2008
To elaborate on the previous review, this was indeed made by a child - my friend Andrew Wright (Uppy) was only 15 I believe, when this was put together using "Soundtracker" on his Amiga A500. I joined him for his second EP when Chill became Uproar records, and my track (Nexocis) was put together on my Amiga A500 using a program called "Sound FX" a year before it was eventually released! If it sounds lo-fi, that's the reason why. We were striving to make it sound more high quality at a time when the dirty, raw breakbeat sound was just starting to emerge.