Orchestral piece with Vannier-esque bass-injection taken from the concept L Karowod. Poland's so-called answer to Nick Drake clocks up nil point on 'Stars In Their Eyes'.
2. MICHEAL NAURA - BABOON
Tense Euro-jazz stomper picks up pace for this hip-hop classic in the making.
3. SERGE GAINSBOURG - JE N'AVAIS QU 'UN SEUL MOT ALUI DIRE
Apocalyptic crescendo theme tune to Pierre Kolranik's beautifully hand-made for TV movie starring Anna Karina as the 'I can't find a boyfriend' leading lady. A hot little seven accompanies this 'lesser-spotted-outside-canadian-shores' LP worth streetfighting for, but for some real fuzzed out ye-ye to go-go check out the movie itself, only a smidgen of the instrumental melody-pops were committed to vinyl.
4. BERNARD ESTARDY - CHA TECH KA
When Nino Ferrer turned his back on his adoring Franco-fanbase in pursuit of a higher-brow his keyboardist wasn't far behind. Flirtations with musique concrete and proto-flying-picket vocalisations made this onomatopoeic rhythm hit a stand-out track on this CBS solo LP.
5. MARIO MOLINO - OPERATION BEAT (Featuring samples from 'ANGEL, ANGEL DOWN WE GO')
This only exists as a seven inch in my house but lots of tight Italian bastards have the LP at extortionate prices.
6. NINO FERRER - MAO ET MAO
Is this track racist? Who knows? Maybe - a Frenchman. This dynamite little EP with a 'caught-red-handed-in-the-woods' picture of nino-grande wrapped around the spine has a wholesome B-line and a tommy-gun breakbeat making it a dancefloor classic of the slyest order.
7. 3-HUREL - GONUL SABREYLE
That psychedelic-alien-space-piano certainly did the rounds in 70's Istanbul ensuring Baris Manco, Selda and Cem Karacka could lay down some proto-neptunes style radio-one R&B 30 years before it was profitable. Every single track on the Hurel Brothers second Turkish LP came out as a single! Whether this makes it a good LP or not is a matter of opinion - if you don't like it you're stupid.
8. SBB - FROM WHOSE BLOOD, MY BLOOD
Poland's answer to Goblin score 10 points in the European death-jazz 'Stars In Their Eyeballs' throwdown, with bonus points for the song title.
9. EDDIE WARNER - BRUTUS DRUMS
If this was an obscure seven inch by a one-off Brazilian freakbeak combo in political exile it would be my favourite record ever made. Sadly it's a library album, albeit my favourite library album.
10. SKORPIO - RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Some people think the generic pepita production sound is a bit too 'Grange Hill', to them I say throw your sausages in the air and buy the entire back-catalogue. This version of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody In Blue' is a bit of a nod to Woody Allen and a prime slice of over the top, prog-dudes-go-classical-cause-they-can-do-plastic.
