Tag: Singles

‘Party 7’ was featured in the world-wide ad ‘Henry’ featuring Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona – as part of the Nike Worldwide 2006 ‘Joga Bonito’. ‘Party 7’ is taken from Big Boss Man‘s 2001 debut album Humanize, adn was released to coincide with the 2006 World Cup, backed up with ‘Kelvin Stardust’ from the 2005 follow up album ‘Winner‘, both available for the first time on 7″. Party 7 was produced by Mike Pelanconi (Graham Coxon), Kelvin Stardust by Morgan Nicholls (The Streets, Gorillaz) both resulting in a hip Hammond hybrid of 60’s and 70’s drenched R’n’B, Funk, Latin, Jazz, Soul and Pop!

This limited double A-side ‘Prick Tease’ / ‘Neon Invasion’ released on limited 7-inch, limited CDs (both formats 1000 only) and download, is the debut single from New-Wave ElectroPop five-piece Neon Plastix. Hailing from Doncaster, they’ve taken over their home town with an explosion of sound, playing their take on influences ranging from Devo, Talking Heads, U2, Japan, to The Rapture, The Faint, Hall and Oates: the list is endless. And when they’re not painting your ear canals with musical vibrations, they’re running their very own club night  CLUB PLASTIX at The Boiler Rooms in Doncaster.

At the time of release the single gained support from Steve Lamacq on Radio 1 and Silent Dave on Virgin Xtreme. Since then they’ve been playing up and down the UK along the way bagging supports for The Kooks, White Rose Movement, The Infadels, Klaxons, Robots in Disguise, Test-Icicles, The Duels, The Blood Arm, Good Shoes, Howling Bells, Clor, and The Young Knives. They’ve played launch parties for Vice Magazine in both Antwerp and Amsterdam, taken in the Barfly venues around the UK as well as a Club NME headline slot at London’s KOKO.

Blow Up 45 Series New Wave – No. 2: This UK debut for new Wave Swedish rockers STRIP MUSIC won over UK fans before its release, when Radio 1 listeners voted it the best track on Zane Lowe’s ‘Fresh Meat’ record spin-off on Monday 25th April, earning the record more plays on the rock show.

Signed to buzz independent label, Playground Music in Sweden, Strip Music are a six-piece whose music was described by Vice Magazine in Sweden as ‘Joy Division meets early Manics’. More specifically, their debut album, gives us 45 epic minutes of Joy Division bleakness meets OMD pop joy meets U2 arena dynamics meets Suicide’s synth attack meets the shadowy, trance-like qualities of The Cure.

The debut single from The Bongolian released prior to the release of the self-titled debut ‘The Bongolian‘, as a limited seven only. The B-Side ‘The Farfisian’ does not appear on any other releases.

This was also the second release on the Blow Up 45 Series of limited sevens and pressed with a dinked jukebox-style centre, and packaged in the distinctive Blow Up 45 Series house bag.

The second single from Big Boss Man, taken from and released just after the release of their debut album ‘Humanize‘, as a limited seven only. The B-Side ‘Big Boss Man (Version)’ does not appear on any other releases.

This was also the fourth release on the Blow Up 45 Series of limited sevens and pressed with a dinked jukebox-style centre, and packaged in the distinctive Blow Up 45 Series house bag.

The debut single from Big Boss Man, taken from and released just prior to the release of their debut album ‘Humanize‘, as a limited seven only. The B-Side ‘Sea Groove (Version)’ does not appear on any other releases.

This was also the very first release on the Blow Up 45 Series of limited sevens and pressed with a dinked jukebox-style centre, and packaged in the distinctive Blow Up 45 Series house bag.

Capri were a London-based five-piece who chose their name because it suggests so many things: “Everything from the glamour of the island where Sophia Loren was born to a crap 80s car and the name of a dry cleaners in Mayfair.”

Their debut single for Blow Up’s 1000 Series was described by the NME as “an aesthetically fetching representaion of their rare pop beauty”, their influences ranging from Motown, Roxy Music, Paul Quinn to The Associates and The Beatles.

The Blow Up 1000 Series is a series of 7″ only singles in a die-cut house sleeve which aimed to showcase a diverse range of international talent to the UK. Each single was limited to a run of 1000 copies, and will not be repressed.

VA6 was an offshoot from the original line-up of Add N to X featuring Andrew Aveling.

Released in 1996, this limited seven-inch only single was the only output by VA6, and will appeal to both Add n to X fans, and collectors alike. The sound takes it’s cues from the experimental electronic sounds of Vero Electronics (BU004) but with more of a Rock’n’Roll edge (Velvet Undergound), and unlike ‘Vero Electronics‘ has vocals on all tracks.

For fans of: Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle, Stockhausen, Suicide, Krautrock, Early Human League, Experimental Electronica, Rock ‘N’ Roll, Velvet Underground, The Fall