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Sorry for no show last week - I went to Berlin!  Just got back, so I'm just going to put up a few tracks for a quick taste - all tracks that came out on the East German label Amiga (which also seemed to press up a LOT of Western music - surprised me).  You can get a hold of these tracks in the great Amiga A Go-Go compliations (buy at Amazon).  Here are 3 tracks for you:

Modern Soul Band - 5 nach halb 7

Orchester Günter Gollasch - es steht ein haus in new orleans

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Show #64: A lot of songs to fit into 30 minutes!  Some good ones, too - the first half starts with the jazzy latin sounds of Joe Loco, and moves through the Afro-Latin Soultet on it's way to Brazil - with Candeia and Tania Maria keeping the groove moving.  The first half ends with Quebecois ye-ye girl Jenny Rock with 'Le Grand Menage', a 1'28 slice of 60s pop.  In the second half, we go from Euro e-z funksters El Chicles, to Canada's Wayne McGhie, who delivers one of the sickest drum breaks out there.  To round out the show, there's the falsetto sounds of Rayfield Reid, and a classic Eddie Kendricks track to finish it all off.  Check it out - 9 songs in 28 minutes means that even if you don't like something, it'll be over soon enough!   

Listen to Show #64 right here!  My Odeo Channel (odeo/b4f95457dcd9c38b)

Joe Loco - Anabacoa
Afro-Latin Soultet - I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
Candeia - Saudacao a Toco Preto
Tania Maria - O Voz do Povo
Jenny Rock - Le Grand Menage
El Chicles - Music for a Playboy
Wayne McGhie & Sounds of Joy - Dirty Funk
Rayfield Reid & the Magnificents - Dynamite Party
Eddie Kendricks - Date with the Rain

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There must've been something in the water in Quebec for it to have so many cool records from the 60s and 70s... I was recording some tracks, and thought that 3 of them would be perfect to share here: 

I'm a big sucker for cover versions, especially cover versions in other languages, so that's why this French-language version of 'Vehicle' is especially appealing!

L'Armistis - Ma Vie

On their own 'Revolution' record label, here is another Quebec band with a kind of garage / funk hybrid, with a mercifully short guitar solo.  I really dig this track.  The title refers to a downpour.

La Revolution Francaise - Y'Mouille a Sciaux

A surf-rock instrumental that I love to play out pitched up around +6.  Always gets a good reaction.  Funnily enough, the cover art is the same as a very rare Venezuelan record!

Les Jaguars - Jaguar Shake

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