MUSIC WEEK MARCH 23 1985 Edited by 0K1DEPEHDEKM [IZ^mS CHRIS WHITE

QtbiuBios Marc catalogue

BBaaQQBQQ to be reissued MARC ON WAX, the label with rights to the entire EMI Marc ONLY £30 PER HOUR Bolan catalogue from 1972 onwards, has signed a new 24 Track Recording distribution deal with Spartan. The back catalogue of Marc On Wax (eight ) will be Soundcraft 2400 available in re-designed sleeves, and there are also plans to OTARI MTR 90 release the IPs in compact disc format. But the first release via Spartan will be a single MegaRex Synthesiser Programming Suite which features several Marc Bolan tracks segued together bv Sanny X of the Disco Mix Club. It will be available in a picture (£12.60 PER HOUR) bag in both 7 and 12-inch formats and as a limited-edition JOHNNY THUNDERS a release date soon picture bag. Also planned for release are two previously DISCOUNT FOR unavailable albums featuring rare tracks. Indie Swamplands BLOCK BOOKING ALAN HORNE'S Swamplands label is forsaking its PolyGram Phone for brochure distribution for the new Win single, Un-American Broadcast- Tracking... ing, to go via the Cartel. TELEPHONE: 01-806 0071/4 Home, the brains behind one of the early Eighties' most MISTY IN Roots have their fourth Musi-O-Tunya enterprising indies in Postcard, has decided that Swampland ("smoke that thunders" in Zambian) out now on their own releases that "are not obvious hits or unlikely to get much People Unite label. The album and their hew single Wander- airplay" should use the independent distribution network, ing Wanderer tie in with a UK tour that culminates this Friday rather than go out as low priority releases on (21) with a show at the expansive Kentish Town Forum. Records strike force before disappearing. Distribution is by Nine Mile, The Cartel and Jetstar ... Ink Home feels that distribution through the Cartel will get STH0I0S Records has new records out by The Severed Heads and The Swamplands' less commercial releases into the right shops, Nature Lovers. The former are putting in an appearance at and give them a longevity they would otherwise miss out on. 24 Tracks at £25 per hour includes this week's ICA 1 Want Independents event, with much music The next Swamplands release likely to take the indepen- press interest/indie chart placing expected. Distribution is via dent route is a Johnny Thunders and Pat Palladin collabora- FAIRLIGHT CM1 Mkll Nine Mile, the Cartel and Jungle . . . LA's DOA have a new tion on Presley's Crawfish, which was originally destined to SONY DIGITAL MASTERING NEW! four-track EP out now on Alternative Tentacles, entitled Don't be the label's second release last Autumn. STUDER A8W OTARI «TR Turn Your Back (On Desperate Times), it's a 12-inch only and YAMAHA REV I is distributed by Rough Trade and the Cartel .. . SRC SMPTE Orchard fruits Front Suburb BELL DIGITAL DELAY ON TFIE other side of the US, New York's Swans also have a BONE ORCHARD, whose re- THE POPULAR Front who four-track 12-inch, which seems to be headed by the prettily cent Jack album featured in have recently been playing NEUMANN, SENNHEISER AKG, MICS. titled Raping A Slave. The release comes from the Kelvin .422 the indie chart, have thier the London and home coun- 2 x YAMAHA DX 7 label, is distributed by Rough Trade and the Cartel, and has debut mini-LP Stuffed To ties club circuit release their ROLAND JX3P already had the honour of being Sounds Single Of The Week The Gills re-released by new six-track cassette mini- SIMMONS SDS 7 ... Other Rough Trade/Cartel distributed releases (labels in Jungle Records — the 6- album The Big Sang on the DRUMULATOR brackets) this week are — Action Paintings And Other Origin- track 12-inch should retail indie Sounds Of Suburbia YAMAHA ACOUSTIC PIANO al Works, a four-track 12-inch by Blue Aeroplanes (Fire); for around £3.25. In the label based in Luton Collage, another four-track 12-inch from Vital Sines (Mid- meantime the band are (Sounds Of Suburbia, 25 night); White Noise, a three track 12-inch from S-Haters (also working on a new single as Trinity Road, Luton LU3 PARADISE STUDIOS Midnight). And album-wise — Hall Of Mirrors by Frenzy well as a full-length Bone 2LN). Distribution is being 329 Chiswick High Road, London W4 (Nervous); Dressed Up To Get Messed Up by Roomful Of Orchard video film. finalised. Blues (Demon); Throb Throb by Naked Reagan (Homes- S 01-747 1687 tead); Fegmania by Robyn Hitchcock (Midnight): and ATaste Of Pink by Prisoners (Own Up) ... Manchester's Biting Tongues release the soundtrack to Ikon's psychological video thriller, Feverhouse, on Factory, through the Cartel... ADVERTISEMENT To accompany its new Globestyle label that has just issued the Three Mustaphas Three mini-LP, Ace Records is laun- JETSTAR CHART ching another new label, Impact, to concentrate on Sixties pop that falls through the Kent soul strainer. The first two TOP 30 REGGAE DISCO CHART (12 INCH) releases are a compilation entitled Stop, Look And Listen, 1 UNDER ME SLENG-TENG Wayne Smith Greensleeves and a Chiffons' album, Doo-Lang, Doo-Lang (what else could 2 'ALLO TOSH' Pato Banton Don Christie it have been when you think about it). The latter features 16 3 SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Charisma NK Records BLACKWING 4 HERE I COME Time Records tracks, among them most of their hits, northern soul ven- 5 SHOULD I Maxi Priest Level Vibes tures as The Four Pennies, and a psychedelic track, and all in 6 MURDERER Barrington Levy Ch ah Life 7 JAZZY BABY LADY Paul Rock N' Groove what Ace claims is its best sleeve yet ... 8 I'LL GET ON WITHOUT YOU Denis Brown Sticker Lee 9 PUT IT ON Scion Success Jah Life MEANWHILE THE Kent label is releasing an album by pro- 10 LOST WITHOUT YOU Greensleeves ducer, arranger and writer, Allen Toussaint. Entitled From A 11 CALL ON ME Trevor Hartley Sir George THE RECORDING STUDIO Whisper To A Scream, the record has been compiled into a 12 HERBMAN HUSTLING Sugar Minott Black Roots vocal side and an instrumental side from the artist's five solo 1413 STINGREALLY ME GOT A STINGTO GET Patrick YOU Al Andy Campbell Greensleeves Fashion albums ... Ace Records itself has Hit That Jive. Jack! by 15 TIDAL WAVE Frankie Paul Greensleeves Wynona Carr, and Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson both due this 1716 LYRICSORIGINAL A RHYMEFOREIGN UK MIND Bubblers Mind Blackroots month. Carr is a female R&B singer in the grand tradition of 18 NEED YOUR LOVE Aswad Island 19 BABY LOVE Winston Reedy OEP Laverne Baker, and this album was her first recording for the 20 IT'S MAGIC Dennis Brown Greensleeves US Specialty label in the Fifties ,.. Finishing off releases 21 IN THE AREA Johnny Osbourne Greensleeves from the Ace stable, Big Beat have the debut album from the 22 RUNNING AROUND One Blood Sound City 23 BANK CLERK Junior Reed Rusty Inicrnational TELEPHONE 01 261 0118 "most authentic sounding forties/Fifties R&B band yet", 24 BIG BROAD Papa Levi Island Choppin' Around by The Hatchetmen and the 11th Milk- 25 WONDERING WONDERER Misty in roots People Unite 26 DANCE HALL MUSIC Bunny Waiter Solomonic shakes LP, They Came They Saw, They Conquered. 27 SKYLARKING Horace Andy Scam 28 POLICE OFFICER Smiley Culture Fashion 29 BRING THE SENSI Johnny Osbourne Vibes 4- Vice "The Party's Begun" 12":CUT1 30 COCKNEY TRANSLATION (remix) Smiley Culture Fashion W for 7": CUT 1/7 01-505 4392 LPs — TOP 20 REGGAE ALBUM CHART 1 REGGAE HITS VOLUME 1 Various artists Jetstar KISS THE BLADE 2 REVOLUTION Dennis Brown Yvonne special 43 JUSTHERB BEMAN MY HUSTLING LADY Frankie Sugar Paul Minott Joe GibbsBlack toot 5 DOUBLE TROUBLE Frankie Paul & Michael Palmer owaWAFORYOU. featured on Radio 1 in 1st week of release by, 6 COUGHING UP FIRE Saxon posy UK bubblers amongst others, Janice Long (session March 7 JA TO UK MC CLASH Johnny Ringo/Ashor Senator Fashion 27th) and Tommy Vance. 98 DUBLION MESHARE CRAZY OF DUBPART Jah 5 Mad Shaka Professor Shako Ariwa Distribution M.I.S./EMI M.I.S. 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