Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend Volumes 1 & 2
For the very first time ever Volumes 1 & 2 of the ‘Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend Series‘ are available for download from iTunes (Vol.1 / Vol.2), Amazon.co.uk , Amazon.com, Napster (Vol.1 / Vol.2), eMusic and more. Don’t forget, both have recently been reissued on LP (& CD) too if you’d rather get your hands on some vinyl – from all good stores, as well as Blow Up Records mail order.
Volume 1 sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of Blow Up club, taking us on a journey deep into the vaults of the KPM music library. Originally released in 1996, the Blow Up Exclusive Blend series were one of the first commercial introductions to Music Library and the twilight world of the session man. Volume 1 features the cream of the KPM Music Library writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Parker and Johnny Pearson. Most of these tracks had never been commercially available before this release.
Volume 2 sees Blow Up’s Paul Tunkin entering the vaults of De Wolfe, Amphonic and once again KPM. As with a bulk of Exclusive Blend 1, many of these tracks were receiving their first commercial airing on this album’s release. Originally released in 1997, the album also introduced James Clarke’s Wild Elephants to the world, which was later retitled ‘Blow Up A-Go-Go‘ as a thankyou from the writer and became the title track for the successful V2 / Blow Up compilation ‘Blow Up A-Go-Go! Dancefloor Classics from The Legendary Blow Up Club’. This album includes tracks from many great music library theme writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Syd Dale, and Alan Moorhouse.
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Tags Amphonic, Artwork, Blow Up, Blow Up Records, Compilations, De Wolfe, Digital, Exclusive Blend, KPM, Music Library, Paul Tunkin, Record Sleeve, Vinyl
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Silvery – the ‘The Nishikado EP’ (Blow Up) featuring brand new tracks – out now from all fine purveyors of digital sounds…
“Silvery have produced a tribute to the one and only Toshihiro Nishikado to whom we give gratitude for the remarkable invention that it is Space Invaders – those little critters everyone knows and loves. With wild synth riffs and vocals resembling David Bowie, Silvery suck you in to the unrestrained indie madness. Identity and Murder Holes continue the fairground theme, with unruly synth sections distinguishing Silvery from current and past indie bands.” KRUGER
“Wow. Take a deep breath before you enter the crazy world of Silvery. The grandiose circus music of The Nishikado takes you on a whirlwind with its relentless and spiralling organs. The cacophony of different sounds can all get a bit confusing, until the chorus when the glorious mess seems to find it’s way. The furious pace of the EP will have you bouncing off the walls and collapsed in an exhausted heap in the corner by the end. In the words of me Dad, “What a bloody racket.” But an utterly exhilarating racket, it has to be said.” ARTROCKER RECOMMENDS
March 30, 2009 – 12:39 pm
Brand new ‘Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck’ track for free plus some other rather good artists on the latest Eardrums download compilation.
December 15, 2008 – 2:26 pm
Silvery 'You Give A Little Love'
Ladies and gentlemen we present you the perfect antidote to all the current doom and gloom… We give you…
Silvery performing a brand new recording of You Give A Little Love, a cover version of the Paul Williams song as featured in the musical Bugsy Malone. The song has often featured in the Silvery live set and the band thought it was high time to put a studio version down.
This track is not included on their fabulous debut album Thunderer & Excelsior, but will is downloadable from all reputable purveyors of digital phonograms and just in time for Christmas! ….Its time to party like its 1929!!!
October 27, 2008 – 3:52 pm
After weeks of plays on BBC Radio (Lamacq, Riley, Lamarr, Crowley, Radcliffe & Maconie) and both BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music live sessions, Silvery release their third single ‘Action Force’, taken from their debut album ‘Thunderer & Excelsior’.
The double A-side is ‘The Nod’, a new non-album exclusive recording of a live favourite. Its the perfect showcase for their unique and riotous Victoriana inspired sound and a worldview that suggests a heady concoction of British Sea Power through a filter of Sparks, Bowie, XTC and Blur at their punky fairground best.
‘Action Force is my favourite rapid-fire, jerky pop song of the year’
Steve Lamacq (BBC Blog)
‘Tumble-dried Blur melting Sparks into liquid pop’
What’s On The NME Stereo?
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