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Whilst on a World Tour playing keyboards for Echo and the Bunnymen Paul Fleming began to write what would come to be his self-titled debut album. With a laptop and any instruments that were to hand he would capture, in music, what inspired him in each city around the world; from Texas to Barcelona to Berlin to Copenhagen to Reykjavik and back to the UK in Brighton. In hotel rooms, tour buses, planes, at the end of radio sessions and sound-checks, every opportunity was taken to record.

The album was picked for inclusion in the monthly Rough Trade Record Club, and Rough Trade placed it at No.29 in their Top 50 Albums of 2008 (Rough Trade East store manager Spencer made it his 2nd favourite album of 2008). Baltic Fleet was also invited to play at Rough Trade East’s 1st Birthday Celebrations, following on from his in-store performance in April for ‘Record Store Day’. He was also invited to Amsterdam’s annual ‘London Calling’ Festival at the Paradiso Club, sharing the bill with Ipso Facto, Chrome Hoof, Mystery Jets and The Ting Tings.

The debut single from Silvery, sharing the cover artwork with the debut Silvery album ‘Thunderer & Excelsior‘ that followed. Released as a limited 7-inch (500, numbered) both tracks apeear on the album.

This limited double A-side ‘DREAM’ / ‘ON FIRE’ released on ltd. CD and download, is their second single from New-Wave ElectroPop five-piece Neon Plastix, and continues their intent for complete Neonisation! 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.

They released their limited debut ‘Prick Tease’ / ‘Neon Invasion‘ in February which 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.

‘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.

Released in 2005, Blueprint is the second album from The Bongolian. Recorded by Nasser Bouzida AKA The Bongolian at his own studio Ramshackle Studios and mixed by Mike Pelanconi (Prince Fatty) at his Brighton Studio – Mike had previously worked with Nasser as producer for the debut Big Boss Man album ‘Humanize‘.

Blueprint built on the success and sound of the debut album with a solid set of new songs that underpinned The Bongolian as it began to establish itself as a live act. Containing the Bongolian live favourite Del Ray and a sleeve designed by sometime live drummer for The Bongolian and Medway garage scene legend Bruce Brand.

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.

Round four of the Exclusive Blend 4 is a journey into the 1960’s Chappell Music Library vaults. Centring mostly on tracks from the Chappell DMM series which were recorded in 1960’s Paris featuring tracks from Jack Arel, Jean-Claude Petit, Pierre Dutour and Paul Piot. It’s another slice of high quality originals, no fillers. This album will appeal to the Blow Up Club fan base along with DJs and collectors. This is the cream of the dancefloor friendly tracks of music from Chappell. One of the biggest and best libraries of the era.

Sleeve Notes

“After last year’s trip through the Telemusic archives for Volume 3, the taste has developed once again for a further foray into the French library scene. Round four of the Exclusive Blend Series sees an expedition through the ighty vaults of the Chappell Muisc Library, focusing mostly on dancefloor friendly recordings, alongside some archive Gallic atmospherics thrown in for good measure.

This compilation is primarily culled from the Chappell DMM Series of LPs, recorded in Paris from 1966 to the early 1970s. The Dance and Mood Music series (DMM) was established to explore musical boundaries of Jazz, R’n’B, Classical and the Avant-garde for the purpose of TV, radio and film synchronisation. The principal DMM writers Jack Arel, Pierre Dutour, Jean Claude Petit and Paul Piot were given unprecedented artistic freedom for the time. This resulted in high quality recordings that clearly demonstrate how library music can be so much more than just hack work – within its confines there too can be inspirational music. Chappell writers and producers we salute you!”

Paul Tunkin, August 2001

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.

Big Boss Man released their debut album ‘Humanize‘ in 2001. Creating  a clear definition of the Big Boss Man sound –  a hip Hammond hybrid of 60’s R’N’B, Latin, Soul, Bongo-Fuzz and Funk. The album was last recut on vinyl LP around the release of their third album ‘Full English Beat Breakfast’.

The album contains and was preceded by the dancefloor killer that is ‘Sea Groove‘, the bands first single and now much sort after on vinyl 45. The track has remained highly popular for the band over the years, with it currently amassing over 5 million Spotify streams. It was used by the International Red Cross for a nationwide campaign in the USA. ‘Party 7‘ was also picked up in 2006 for Nike’s Worldwide World Cup ‘JOGA TV’ campaign featuring Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona and was subsequently reissued backed by ‘Kelvin Stardust’ the lead cut from BBM’s second album Winner as a limited 45.

 A selection of tracks from the album were used as the soundtrack to the BAFTA nominated short film “Sweet” which featured Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh. The bands music from the album has continued to prove popular with TV, film and advertising placements, most recently with The Grand Tour (Amazon).