It’s back! For the very first time! Following the almost success of my series of blog posts about old vinyl dance music from when I was not an old git with free mp3 accompaniments I have now got round to doing the same for the CD Singles era. Never cassingles though, never ever. So here is the first instalment of the new thing:

01 Suede feat Neil Tennant: Saturday Night (Live) from Filmstar CD single (1996)
I never liked Suede when they first appeared as all that strutting, sibilance and silliness never appealed to me. By the time they got to the Comig Up album era I was a massive fan and ended up owning everything they ever did. This era of Suede reminds me of the gay friends who lived in a flat above a shop in Mile End (no I am not getting my Pulp songs muddled up).

02 Thieves (re-released as David McAlmont): Unworthy from Unworthy EP (1993)
This early David McAlmont song is bloody beautiful but by the time the album arrived the duo had split and it was released as a McAlmont project. The other one aka Saul Feeman went on to form Mandalay who will turn up at some point in this mix series. David McAlmont is still one of my favourite musical people.

03 Shara Nelson: Uptight (Ashley Beedle mix) from Uptight CD single (1993)
Shara Nelson released two solo albums after her dalliance with Massive Attack ended and this is a great example of one of the remixes from her peak. Ashley Beedle can do no wrong in my ears and so he crops up on the next track in this list…

04 Gabrielle: Baby I’ve Changed (Ashley Beedle mix) from If You Really Cared CD single (1996)
I have a soft spot for Gabrielle and her last album deserved a lot more attention that it got. This track from her second album has been mixed by that Beedle man and has a familiar sampled bassline and a slow funky sound that I never tire of.

05 Lenny Fontana and DJ Shorty: Chocolate Sensation (Original Force edit) from Chocolate Sensation CD single (1999)
Remember when eveyone was sampling Love Sensation? Well they all did it again about ten years later.

06 Cevin Fisher feat Loleatta Holloway: (You Got Me) Burning Up (radio edit) from (You Got Me) Burning Up CD single (1999)
At least Ms Holloway gets a credit on this one. I was never the clubbing sort but this was one of those late 90s dance tunes that I couldn’t resist.

Download No Cassingles Volume One here.

Obligatory embedded videos section!

Suede with Neil Tennant live on film, in surprisingly good quality:

Original Thieves video for Unworthy:

Lenny Fontana’s generic dance music video. Wot no Loleatta?:

Cevin Fisher’s generic dance music video. Still no Loleatta:

It’s the final part of this series of mixes, which may return with a different theme (the 1990s and early 2000s) if I ever get through all the CD singles piled up around the place. For now, this is the last batch of mostly originally vinyl purcahses from record shops in Essex way back in time:

Download Bedroom Nightclub Mixtape vol 11 here.

01. Black Box: Hold On (The Strong)

Another one of those Martha Wash-sung Italian house tracks, this time in a lovely remixed style. The vinyl album is long gone, along with all the 12″s (I swear there was a mishap with a record box as I would never have chucked them out) but there are plenty of cheap CD copies of various compilations out there.

02. DSK: Read My Lips (Original Mix)

This track has been sampled quite  a bit since its release and still exists in 12″ format in my record collection. It’s the more funky original version.

03. Kariya: Let Me Love You For Tonight

Can I say ‘house classic’? I can? Again? Oh good.

04. Climie Fisher: Rise To The Occasion (Hip Hop Remix)

Odd remix from Phil Harding (also involved in  the next  track in this mix), which consists of dull ballad + whole chunks of obscure track Rookie’s Revenge by Lou = odd sample-laden track with weird bits. Fun in a tacky way and probably bought in a long gone record shop in Brentwood High Street.

05. Mel & Kim: Respectable (Extra Beat Vocal Version)

The best version of Respectable is on none of the bloody endless M&K compilations so I made a rip of it from YouTube so it could live in my iPod.

06. Betty Boo: Doin’ The Do

I would have chosen her No Smoking Rap from the No.1 magazine flexi-disc but that might have been pushing it a bit.

07. Technotronic feat. Reggie: Money Makes The World Go Round

Ah, the long-forgotten second Technotronic album! I has this on 12″ with some good remixes but found the original in the internet so here it is. Nice corny rap halfway through.

08. Chic: Your Love (Def Mix)

The also long-forgotten second version of Chic from the 90s: this is a David Morales remix of Your Love which is rather nice.

09. Lisa Stansfield: Time To Make You Mine (Youth and The Orb Mix)

I always loved Ms Stansfield, since her pre-pop Tyne Tees Television pop show presenting days. The 12″ of Time To Make You Mine had mixes from Youth and The Orb (as you’ll hear) plus Masters At Work, how bloody versatile. Nudey video too (below)!

10. Titiyo: This Is…

Titityo’s second album is pretty good stuff and this was a single that probably hardly anybody bought. Fools!

Videos time:

It’s the penultimate one: download Bedroom Nightclub Mixtape vol 10 here.

1. Dream Warriors: My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style

All very Quincy Jones-ish, I have a load of 12″s from this canadian rap duo but no albums, odd.

2. Eric B & Rakim: The R (Work, Rest & Play mix)

A rather excellent remix by Dave Dorrell and CJ Mackintosh. Name facts:  The B in  Eric B stands for Barrier. The CJ in the remixer is Christopher John Mackintosh and not Carl Mackintosh who is the man from Loose Ends. I have this on 7″ vinyl.

3. Innocence: Natural Thing (Elevation)

All very Pink Floydy but rather nice. Lost this 12″ ages ago but bought their first album to make up for it.

4. Fidelfatti feat Ronette: Just Wanna Touch Me (Hallelujah mix)

This track by Piero Fidelfatti (to give him his full name) actually features vocals pilfered from  the disco diva Barbara Roy’s Ecstasy Passion & Pain band’s song Touch and Go. It’s been remixed by Norman Cook who did a lot of that kind of thing around then and the 7″ single I own has a close-up of some boobies on it.

5. BSOG feat Elaine Hudson: Bow Wow Wow

BSOG was Claus Zundel who was the producer of Sydney Youngblood. I wonder what happened to him? I never owned this one.

6. Big Lady K: Don’t Get Me Started

I don’t even know what the K stands for with this rappity lady, sorry. I hope it is Krispy Kreme. Or Karamac (sic).

7. DJ H feat Stefy: Think About… (Car Mix)

Stefy is in fact either nobody or that little white woman in the video who mimes to bits of Aratha Franklin’s 80s song Rock-A-Lott. the H in DJH is for Herbie but he is not a sentient car from the films.

8. Lady Levi: Looking For A Dope Beat

I think this was the first release on Soul II Soul’s own label, via Motown. They didn’t do terribly well which was a shame.

9. Debbie Malone: Rescue Me (12 inch mix)

This a a mostly unkown  12″ with lots of mixes that I never lost. It’s rather good.

10. E-Zee Possee feat Tara Newley: Breathing is E-Zee (Delicious Proportions mix)

Rather camp, with an appropriate video.

Videos time:Dream Warriors, Innocence, DJH feat Stefy, E-Zee Possee feat Tara Newley:

Week Nine? Bloody hell! I keep on buying replacement CD versions of long lost vinyl as I think of them, this is proving to be somewhat expensive. This week’s batch of tunes includes some I never owned but wanted to share even if I only ever taped them off the radio a very long time ago. The files are not radio to cassette to PC rips of course as that would be silly.

Download Bedroom Nightclub Mixtape vol 9 here.

1. Bomb The Bass: Megablast (rap)
Now with extra rap! Hard to believe this was part of a double-A-side single. Still got this one as all my Rhythm King Records survived.

2. Alisha Warren: Discover Me (12″)
The lesser-known follow up to the much-sampled Touch Me (as seen in mixtape 3): I don’t think she released any other singles but wondered what the next ‘****** Me’ would have been?

3. Paul Simpson feat Candi Staton: Musical Freedom (You Got The Love mix)
A genuine legit mash-up from an era before that now mostly shameful genre was popular: This track is weird as it was originally an instrumental by Paul Simpson with loads of bloody samples all over it which then had a melody and words added by Adeva and then this version appeared on a second 12″ with the old version on the flipside. I still have this one.

4. Paula Abdul: Vibeology (Hurley’s House mix)
Mad.

5. Ruthless Rap Assassins: Just Mellow (Norman Cook remix)
Kiss AMC’s pals include Kermit who ended up in Black Grape rather than The Muppets. Norman Cook (original DJ mixer era version) did a nice mix so here it is.

6. Urban All Stars: It Began In Africa
Norman was involved in this too: kind of sample era funky Stars on 45 or is that a bad comparison?

7. C&C Music Factory: Here We Go (Clivilles & Cole Rockin’ in 91 mix)
Here We Go: everything including the kitchen sink in this one. It’s the follow up to Gonna Make You Sweat but it’s basically a continuation of that song.

8. Liz Torres: If You Keep It Up (Clivilles & Cole Club mix)
Fierce house diva remixed by C&C. Pretty much what you’d expect.

9. Bass-O-Matic: Go Getta Nutha Man (Motor Mix)
Long-forgotten other single from the William Orbit band. Nice.

10. Beloved: Hello (Dolly)
Freaky remix which is almost all instrumental and has some great odd sample choces. Their first album and its companion remix album are classics and I just purchased them on CD from that reputable online shop while writing this blog.

Videos time:

Paula Abdul (Steve ‘Sik’ Hurley mix) where she dances like a demented giraffe (very 11th Doctor):

Ruthless Rap Assassins (original mix) where they dance about in what looks like an over-lit 80s sitcom set and then go to the beach:

C&C Music Factory in what must be the campest rap video of all time with far too many attempts at metaphors plus angel wings, someone on a bike for no reason at all, random doves, oiled up beefcakes and a load of machine imagery that looks like it represents bumming or something:

Beloved’s Hello in its original form with a mad video that I just had to include:

Week Eight of the mix of songs I had in my record collection except when I didn’t: A lot of these no longer exist in my house which is a shame but hurrah for the popularity of mp3 sites and Facebook groups about this sort of thing meaning I’ve replaced most of the ‘lost’ stuff over the years.

Download Bedroom Nightclub Mixtape vol 8 here.

1. Kym Mazelle: Was That All It Was (Def Mix)
As well as being one of the many folks mentioned on The Beloved’s seminal Hello song, Ms Mazelle also made loads of rather good housey dance pop tracks of which I had most on  12″ and at least one album on cassette at the time. This one is a David Morales mix, of which he did many. It is not Useless. 

2. Seduction: Heartbeat (Clivilles & Cole Club Mix)
It’s the early 90s so there has to be at least one lipsynching project overseen by the artists also known as C&C Music Factory. I think by this single they had real voices but I may be wrong.

3. Jungle Brothers: What U Waitin’ 4
Hurrah for the Native Tongues rappity rapping collective which also featured A Tribe Called Quest and the people on the following track.

4. Queen Latifah & De La Soul: Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children
Latifah has a film career these days which surprised me as she’ll always be bellowing about being a wo-man in raps to me. Where did I put that cassette of her album?

5. Roberta Flack: Uh Uh Ooh (Steve Hurley Mix)
Mr Silk on the mix again on  this lost classic. It also had a mix by Arthur Baker which I only recently heard for the first time. 

6. Richie Rich: My DJ (Pump It Up Some)
Nice straightforward bit of UK scratching & mixing for you.

7. Bomb The Bass: Air You Breathe
Bomb The Bass version 2.0 (the one who had their name changed for a bit due to the first Gulf War) did a hell of a lot of remixes for all their singles and they survived one of my vinyl culls, which is nice.

8. Carlton: Do You Dream
Carlton was part of that Bristol scene so worked with very early Massive Attack as well as Smith & Mighty. This is one of his solo singles and I really should replace the album with a nice shiny CD version.

9. Malcolm McLaren: Madam Butterfly (On The Fly Mix)
Got the album this comes from on compact disc as it is rather great. No longer own the singles that came from it but this track is rather special.

10. Soul Family Sensation: I Don’t Even Know If I Should Call You Baby
David McAlmont covered this a while back and it is sung by Jhelisa Anderson who went on to work with the Shamen, Bjork and then do some great solo work.

Videos from Seduction (lipsynching for their supper), Latifah (on the telly doing the duet without De La Soul),  Richie Rich (not the American cartoon character), Carlton (not the London ITV region  formerly known as Thames) and Malcolm  McLaren (actually lots of pretty ladies):

The next episode in the almost infinite series (I keep finding more music) is here, with some repeat performances from artists due to me liking more than one of their records. Which is quite normal when you think about it…

Download Bedroom Nightclub Mixtape vol 7 here.

1. Black Box: Ride On Time (Original Deep Mix)
This peculiar thing (most of the vocals from Loleatta Holloway’s Love Sensation + a random “gotta get up gotta get up gotta get up” from somewhere else + a cheesey piano riff) ended up being a smash hit, a template for loads of tracks that came later, the subject of a legal dispute and then re-recorded with a different inferior vocal. This is the original one which is good.

2. Shakespear’s Sister: Dirty Mind (1990 Version)
I loved Shakespear’s Sister and this is the single version of Dirty Mind which is rather different to the album one. There were two 12″s of this and the other one was a remix of the original version by Jeremy ‘the latest Mr Kensit’ Healy. That one’s good but this one is lesser known and has Marcella Detroit on it doing a dodgy rap so it got picked.

3. Style Council: Promised Land (Joe Smooth’s Alternate Club Mix)
Weird: Style Council do cover of Joe Smooth’s classic deep house song and then Mister Smooth (probably not his real name) does a remix. I have the original on vinyl but not the Style Council one although I am partial to a bit of that kind of Council. There is a video of this but it’s not embeddable so here’s a link.

4. Beloved with Neneh Cherry: You’ve Got Me Thinking
I don’t believe this ever got released, how silly. Well it’s here now, which is all that matters, and it’s a rather lovely duet version of a track which The Beloved released as part of a double A side single.

5. Jamie J Morgan: Walk On The Wild Side
I always liked this fun track and had all Mr Morgan’s 12″s. The Morgan McVey one beats then all though!

6. Arthur Baker and the Backbeat Disciples feat Jimmy Somerville: I Believe In Love
I only bought this recently when I found the original album and had never heard of this song. It’s Arthur Baker with Jimmy Somerville so you can imagine what it’s like i.e. epic.

7. Scarlet Fantastic: No Memory (Ecstacy Mix)
Gotta love a bit of Scarlet Fantastic so this had to be included on one of the mixes.

8. Temper Temper: Talk Much
I don’t have any Temper Temper 12″ singles any more but did buy the album on CD. Melanie Williams went on to do that song with Sub Sub that everyone loved.

9. The Real Roxanne: Early Early
Odd track from The Real Roxanne’s album with a weird sample basis which is slighlty annoying but enjoyable at the same time. I have no idea how this album ended up getting chucked out along with all the singles from it, damnit!

10. Sugarcubes: Hit (Tommy D Mix)
This is probably outside of the era I said i would focus on in these mix tape blogs (is it 1993?) but it’s a nice fun poppy mix of Hit by Tommy D who went on to work with David McAlmont and do lots of other remixes.

Only a few videos this week (Black Box on Top of the Pops, Shakespear’s Sister and Scarlet Fantastic) as nothing else exists on that popular visual file embedding site:

Happy flashbacks to Saturday afternoons spent in that big smokey (olden dayes!) second hand record shop in Romford once again. This week’s bundle of tunes includes quite a bit of funkiness, a deep house classic, a Smiths riff, something produced by Mantronik and a surprise bit of Twin Peaks dialogue…

Download Bedroom Nightclub Mixtape vol 6 here.

1. Sinead O’Connor: I Am Stetched On Your Grave (Apple Brightness Mix)
Remixed by Hank Shocklee and featuring a weird intro that passed me by on the initial listen as I was slightly behind the times. I love this track even if it did end up getting sampled by George Michael when he did that mash-up of Freedom and Back To Life (yes really).

2. She Rockers: How Sweet It Is
They used to have Betty Boo in them but by the time this Art of Noise sampling single came out she was off being cartoony. I seem to have more female rappers than male.

3. Criminal Element Orchestra: Put The Needle To the Record
One of many great Arthur Baker tracks. This sample & scratch classic was on my very first house music compilation cassette which had a yellow cover and never got chewed up by an evil stereo.

4. Jay Strongman: East West
Reasonably forgotten track on Rhythm King records which was also the home of Beatmasters, S’Express and Bomb The Bass at the time. B-side was called West East.

5. Soho: Hippychick (Extended Mix)
I didn’t get into The Smiths until way after this riff sampling track came out. Saw one of Soho on the tube last year with a large instrument, hurrah!

6. Diana Brown & Barrie K Sharpe: The Masterplan
I shall call this a classic too. A big classic funky thing is what it is! I still have all their 12″ singles as they escaped the big cull.

7. En Vogue: My Lovin’ (extended)
Who doesn’t love a bit of En Vogue? Even if they can’t pronounce their own name properly.

8. Ruth Joy: Don’t Push It (Club)
Ruth Joy (the voice of Krush) never had much success but her debut single is great. I had a remix 12″ once which was a bit too poppy but it’s long gone. Good album too.

9. Ten City: That’s The Way Love Is (Underground Mix)
Massive deep house classic! Both the main mixes of this are stunning so it was hard to choose. This is the one that wasn’t done by Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley who was allegedly made by worms.

10. The Chimes: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Street Mix)
No, not the shopping centre in Uxbridge which houses the book shop I used to manage. The Chimes are mostly remembered for this U2 cover but their album was full of great original songs. I have way too many mixes of this one.

Videos (not so many this week as a lot are not on YouTube):

More old tunes from when I still had hair and spent all my pocket money (technically Little Chef A127 job funds) on records: it’s week five!

Download Bedroom Nightclub Mixtape vol 5 here.

1. Real Roxanne, Howie Tee & Full Force: Bang Zoom (Let’s Go Go)
One of the rapping Roxannes from 1988 aka Adelaida Martinez (see the Wikipedia entry for the bizarrely named Roxanne Wars for more), this got to number 11 in the UK singles chart which is bloody peculiar when you think about how odd the track is. I had the album on vinyl but not any more. Bugger.

2. Roxanne Shante: Go On Girl
The other Roxanne aka Lolita Shanté Gooden is not as famous in this country but she has equally odd and feisty rhymes. This is the compulsory Lyn Collins ‘Think’ sampling track of the week.

3. Bomb the Bass: Don’t Make Me Wait
A non-sample overloaded track from their debut album, this one is instead a normal song. I still have all their 12″s.

4. S’Express: Hey Music Lover
Forever linked with Bomb The Bass as they both started out on Rhythm King records, shared a common producer (Pascal Gabriel) and are filed next to each other in my record collection, this S’Express track has Billie Ray Martin on vocals which leads into…

5. Electribe 101: Talking With Myself (Frankie Knuckles mix)
Billie Ray Martin’s band had some cult hits but she became more famous with her solo work. I used to have this Frankie Knuckles mix on 12″ but not any more although I own the album on shiny modern CD.

6. Diana Ross: Love Hangover (Frankie Knuckles mix)
Another Frankie Knuckles remix, this is rather epic with its slow long intro eventually leading into the big old housey section. Great stuff.

7. The Source featuring Candi Staton: You’ve Got the Love
The Knuckles link continues as this track started out as an early mashup of Knuckles and Jamie Principle’s track Your Love mixed with Candi Staton’s vocal. This is the 1991 version of a song that has had almost as many incarnations as Doctor Who.

8. Cookie Crew: Born This Way (Let’s Dance)
I love the Cookie Crew even though they have an unfair reputation as being a bit cheesey. Good samples and production throughout their two albums and I was a bit obsessed with this when it was released in 1989.

9. Blue Pearl: Naked in the Rain (12″ extended mix)
Another obligatory anthem of a house tune, this should need no introduction.

10. Mark Summers: Summers Magic
Just a bit of fun and oddly similar in attitude to the first track in the week’s mix: Mark Summers’ track is full of silly samples but works as a fully formed fun instrumental track. I blame it for all the dreadful kids TV-themed sample tracks that followed but it is forgiven.

Videos time!

It’s gone a bit Soul II Souly this week, plus a few interesting rappy tunes…

Download Bedroom Nightclub Mixtape 4 here!

1. Soul II Soul feat Rose Windross: Fairplay
This takes me back! The very first Soul II Soul single which I ended up having on 7″, 12″, 12″ remix (with silly noises and a horns loop) and then the album. I still bloody love this song and remember something about free badges but that may have been a different single release.

2. Family Stand: Ghetto Heaven (Soul II Soul Mix)
Another clasic smooth track with some jumpy bits. Soul II Soul in their original Jazzie B / Nellee Hooper recording incarnation could do no wrong and this mix elevated the Family Stand track to a whole new level. They’ve done some good songs without the remixes too but never really had the same success. I bought the album this cames from on cassette and was a little bit disappointed at the time.

3. Soul II Soul feat Caron Wheeler: Back To Life (Jam on the Groove)
One of the two radically different Back To Lifes, this one has the album version vocal which is pretty much a diffferent song to the more familiar single what with different verses and things. It has less of that bloody beat that they became known for,

4. Caron Wheeler: Livin’ In the Light (Brixton Bass Mix)
Caron Wheeler left Soul II Soul (technically they had rotating guest singers anyway) to go solo and this remixed version of her debut single became the most famous mix. It’s very Blacksmith, who were a popular beat combo of remixers in the 90s.

5. Rose Windross: Livin’ Life Your Own Way
It’s a very Soul II Soul based mix this week. Original SIIS singer Rose had a solo single which I was rather fond of so here it is.

6. Robert Howard and Kym Mazelle: Wait
Kym Mazelle ended up working with Soul II Soul too but this comes before that project. A Blow Monkeys single by another name, she was a popular house music diva by then.

7. Eric B & Rakim: Paid In Full (Coldcut Remix)
I’m going to use the C word again i.e. classic… this was just massive at the time and I first had it on a cassette compilation about hip hop and house or something. Sounds a bit cliched in 2010 but that’s because it ‘inspired’ a lot of people who came later.

8. Coldcut feat Yazz: Doctorin’ The House
Coldcut again! A rather mental track full of the odd fun sample choices synonymous with Coldcut and introducing that Yazz lady. Not to be comfused with the American name for Vince Clark and Alison Moyet’s band Yazoo.

9. Yo Yo: You Can’t Play With My Yo-Yo
Rappity rap time with a track from the Ice Cube world. This is supposed to be a bit menacing but is just gloriously camp to me. I love me female MCs!

10. Technotronic: Rockin’ Over the Beat (Rockin’ Over The Hacienda Mix)
Finishing off with some Technotronic mixed by New Order as it is an interesting idea. Oh those wacky Belgians!

Musical video bonanzas:

It’s a bloody weekly event, so it is. I have far too many of these planned so get used to it… and maybe some special themed ones after all the miscellaneouses are uploaded. Anyway, you know the deal: some musical offerings I owned on vinyl at some point between 1988 and 1992 unless they were never released or the small chance that they were on CD single (but never cassingle, oh no)…

Download Bedroom Nightclub Mixtape 3 here

1. Alisha Warren: Touch Me
Lost club classic by Alisha Warren aka Paula Wallen aka sister of Michalle Wallen aka Mica Paris. This was sampled to death as it had an acapella on the b-side and my original copy got scratched. Fascinating stuff, I am sure.

2. 49ers: Touch Me
How handy, this is one of the tunes that samples the other Touch Me. It’s a mad Italian house tune that has a bad lip-synch video where a small woman mimes the voice of a larger and more famous woman, as you do. Some of this one is really Aretha Franklin, which is obvious when you hear it.

3. Black Box: Open Your Eyes (Danielle’s Mix)
One of the many Black Box songs, featuring that skinny broad miming to the voice of TV’s Martha Wash. The mix I chose for  my downloadable mixtape is more mellow than the radio edit shown in the video below because it’s nice to be unpredictable. I must have binned all my old 12″ singles but never mind as there are numerous CD compilations out there.

4. Deee-Lite: Groove is in the Heart (Bootsified)
I’m sure this needs no introduction, although it’s a slightly different b-side mix with 15% more Bootsy Collins.

5. MARRS: Anitina (First Time I See She Dance)
I love this freaky experimental Pump Up The Volume b-side, which I have on 7″. It’s way ahead of its time and not what you might expect. Reminds me of Doves.

6. Smith & Mighty feat Jackie Jackson: Walk On
Smith & Mighty did the Bristol dubby sound thing before Massive Attack released a record. Most famous for Bacharach covers over slowish beats,  this is a prime example of their sound. Some of their 12″ records are still lurking in my house.

7. Beats International feat Definition of Sound: Herman
Random Norman  Cook track from the long-forgotten second Beats International album. Husband Jamie played it in the car recently so I dug out the long player, good stuff. I think it flopped though. 

8. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien: Mistadobalina
Rappity rapping time again: Del is probably best known for his work with Gorillaz but this was a massive tune in 1990. I do not wish to sound like Westwood so will say no more about it.

9. Grace Jones: Slave to the Rhythm
Yes I know  this is from 1985 and therefore outside of my timeline remit but I make the rules and it fits the mood… a grand old load of ZTT pretentious genius.

10. Claudia Brucken: Kiss Like Ether (12″)
I was obsessed with Claudia’s old band Propaganda in  the mid 80s and still have their one proper album  on cassette in a drawer. Yes, I was a weird child. This is one of her solo singles and the album it came from is very expensive to buy now. Bah. I owned this as a gatefold 7″ single but can’t find the damn thing anywhere. I’m  sure I would not have binned it.

This week’s videograms: