Showing posts with label Cerrone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cerrone. Show all posts

Sunday, February 21, 2021

Post updates

I've been playing some of the older albums that I put together over the last year (what else was there to do for the past 12 months?), and I've noticed that a few of them had little things wrong with them that detracted from a complete listening experience, so I've fixed them and the corrected files can now be downloaded to upgrade the original post.


Country Mike - Country Mike's Greatest Hits
Firstly, I've finally managed to source a stereo vinyl rip of 'Country Mike's Greatest Hits', which was the cause of some controversy when I first posted it. As every copy that I found online was a mono one, I was convinced that the album must have been issued like that, but after some heated discussions in the comments, I was assured that a stereo version must exist, and it's taken this long to find it. 

Other fixes are not as drastic as that, so if you have the following albums and want an upgraded version then you can download them now. 

Amy Winehouse - Procrastination - Long Day
Elton John - Young Man's Blues - Rock Me When He's Gone

I can't actually remember what was wrong with these two, possibly dodgy fadeouts or over-long/no gaps between the tracks, but they are now fixed.

Deep Purple - Coronarias Redig

Extra track added that was somehow missed from the original post.

Cerrone - Supernatural Paradise Of Love
I wasn't happy with a couple of the edits, so have redone the whole piece.

Misty In Roots - Salvation
Dub section of 'Rich Man' volume corrected to be the same as the vocal part.

Soulseek update

I know that there are a few people who can't seem to get Soulseek to work, but hopefully most of you are now using it regularly, and finding that it works pretty well. I've had a couple of days where my searches didn't seem to bring up any of my results, so I had to reboot and that seems to have fixed it. 
If you find that your searches don't bring up any results then do bear in mind that if no-one is downloading something when I go to bed then I do turn off the laptop, so try try again in six to seven hours and see if the searches work then. If not then leave a message and I'll try the reboot to see if that fixes it.  
I have to thank Paul over at Albums That Should Exist for turning me onto Soulseek, as not only has it been an ideal solution to sharing my music without leaving links, and risking the blog being deleted again, but I've also used it to find albums that I'd been after for a while that I hadn't been able to find online. I hope that everyone who started using it when I reinstated the blog is also using it to find other music that they want to hear from other uploaders.
If you find that you have absolutely no luck in getting Soulseek to work then leave a message in the comments with your email address and I'll send direct Yandex links, and then delete the comment to keep your email private. When I've sent the first link you will have my email address for future requests. 

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Cerrone - Supernatural Paradise Of Love (1978)

As French 70's disco star Marc Cerrone is currently in the news for releasing a new socially conscious, exploratory album with 'DNA', I thought that it was timely to post a mix that I'd made of his most famous disco hits of the 70's. His most successful period was between 1976 and 1978, when he fused the emergent disco beat (he was an accomplished drummer, so knew exactly how important that beat was) with lush orchestration, overlaid with sumptuous female vocals. Later in his career he chose to sing the songs himself, and I don't think those records ever matched his early successes, so this mix concentrates on those first two years of his music career, including the classic 'Supernature', with lyrics by the soon to be famous indie-popster Lena Lovich. Like my three Donna Summer posts, this is just me playing around with some free audio software that I have, to mix together some of his 7" and extended 12" singles, and so while it's not perfect, it is a good way to hear all of his biggest records in one disco-tastic 40-minute piece of music.



Track listing 

01 Cerrone's Paradise / Love In C Minor / Je Suis Music / Give Me Love /
     Black Is Black / Supernature