Glory Be! Spandau is back :-)

And to remind you of those glorious days of shoulder pads and make up (and that was just the guys!)

righeira - no tengo dinero

A visitor submitted winner today from William Bosch


A Live version


This should not be confused (at least I don't think so) with the Los Umbrellos song. They are Swedish Evidently




Righeira had another hit - Vamos A La Playa - which I always thought was Mecano.


And last- a few years later the band had gone all Hollywood. Sigh, the innocence of 1982 was rpelaced by the day glo of 1986

Return of the Ninja Droids - Desert Planet

uh, yeah :-)!




bonus video -
From Empire State Human's blog
"Finally, with the completion of the "Melancholic Afro" remix competition at Laptop Rockers, there is a bootleg video up on You Tube of one of the remixes ... check it out"

Filthy Dukes- This Rythym

Mix New Order, Bloc Party and some good old fashioned NYC club music and you get the Filthy Dukes.

Great stuff




It comes from the labum Nonesense in the Dark, not out in the US ... yet.
So I guesss folks in the US will have to track it down and steal it.

Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc, Guy Boratto Mix

Take a listen before EMI pulls it folks



and another - Kurd Maverick mix



And yet another



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and yet another


And yes, another

Rename - The Hack

Here is a story - A Different Drum decided to release this song only on 7", bu t within a few days of release it was , ahem, hacked, and posted as an mp3f file. Cool song, regardless. You can also watch the video and place an order for the autographed 7-inch vinyl here (ONLY $4) here :

http://www.adifferentdrum.com/artist.php?n=ADDWAX2

Koto - Jabdah

Italian wackiness or sheer genius? You decide. Koto was a big synth guy in the 1980s, this is a cash in on Star Wars (he is meant to be in Jedi robes, not Karate!)
From Wikipedia:
"Koto is an Italian synth pop group that originally consisted of Anfrando Maiola and Stefano Cundari. Their most popular songs were "Visitors", "Dragon's Legend", "Chinese Revenge" and "Jabdah", released in 1983-1988. Koto is often associated with a genre of music called Spacesynth, a music style streamed from Space Disco. Unfortunately, it has been reported that Stefano Cundari died some time between 1991 and 1992 from a brain tumor."