Classic 80’s New Wave from a band I’d not heard of before, English Evenings – like the Alarm with more electronics, anthemic synth rock. A duo of Lee Walsh and Graham Lee who out Go-Wested Go West it seems. From 1985 (and their last release) remixed by Phil Harding phasing the sound all over the place and sounding a bit like Blondie’s “Dreaming” in places ! The B-side sounds like a speeded up version of “Relax” by Frankie via Dead Or Alive, a long mix it probably includes every synth sound from 1985. This was mixed by legendary Hi Energy producer Raul A. Rodriguez (Man Parrish) doing it via DJ service Disconet. Quite a camp start to the weekend.
NEW LINK 2018
http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/HYGLUjGS/file.html
Safari Records – SAFE LM 65
A | I Will Return (No Surrender Mix) | |
AA | Tear You Down (Disconet Mix) |
I wasn’t familiar with this but this is AMAZINGLY GOOD!!!
This band definitely should have been much bigger at the time!
Thank you for the introduction … gonna have to dig up some full-lengths now!
not sure if my previous post made it, as my browser crashed into the middle of it, but here is the full length cd reissue with the bonus track
http://www.filefactory.com/file/c3fe53d/
pass: newromanticrules
(not my link, but Website is defunct, so it should be OK to repost this link)
J.W.
Hey thanks a lot for this as I always wondered what the album sounded like. Also still looking for some other 12” mixes for their songs.
Appreciate this a bunch !! Too bad blogs or sites go defunct as they, like most, have a lot of rare stuff that is hard to find or expensive !! Eightiesvinyl has a lot of Aussie stuff, hope the blogger is OK!! A few gems I would like re-upped on that blog.
almost all of the FF links are still alive on http://nrrules.blogspot.com/ (remove link after you see it) and I think he opened another site.
Cheers for this.