Track Listing

1. Move Move Move
2. Delhi Discotheque
3. Snowman's Stomp
4. Rocky Mountain Runabout
5. French Kick
6. Beat Me Til I'm Blue
7. Exclusive Blend
8. Tap Footer
9. Zodiac
10. Coast To Coast
11. Boogaloo Smith
12. Step Forward
13. Mexican DJ
14. Powerhouse Pop
15. Come Here Calcutta
16. Talk To The Sky

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22540 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-02
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Originally conceived as a mod club, London nightspot Blow Up spearheaded pop's brief flirtation with mod at the beginning of the Nineties that spawned bands like Menswear and inspired Blur's Parklife. However, as well as resurrecting old classics from the likes of The Who and the Creation, it also managed to forge a unique sound all of it's own, mixing easy listening into the trademark brew of mod and pop. One of the most important achievements by DJs Paul Tunkin, Andy Lewis and the Karminsky Experience was the rediscovery of rare Sixties library music. This album is packed with such rare and previously unheard music from the likes of easy listening masters as Keith Mansfield and Alan Hawkshaw of The Mohawks, as well as plenty of funky instrumental numbers and sitar grooves. If this doesn't make you want to don your sharpest Sixties garb and shimmy with the best of them, then nothing will. --Amber Cowan

Customer Reviews

Kitsch splendour
Easy listening! Cool Hammond mixes with ultra tight sixties rhythm sections. Rare unearthed gems revived by Paul Tunkin, DJ at now legendary Blow Up Nights.
There is a distinct undercurrent of tackiness, in a Mike Flowers way, with many of these tunes, but their naive exuberance dissolves any cynicism in the listener.
There are some superb tunes here, Move Move Move, by Alan Parker and Alan Hawksure is an effervescent chirpy, Hammond led ditty, with echoes of Keith Emerson, a perfect opener to start on a high note.
Track 2 Delhi Discotheque does what it says on the tin...big arrangement with Sitar. Imagine those sixties British films and TV series where girls in mini skirts and scooter riding men in cravats gyrate to in a slightly stiff stylised kind of way at 'groovy' parties.
Best tune? For my money Beat Me Til I'm Blue is superb. This Alan Hawkshaw composition has some fantastic roaring Hammond lolloping over super-tight bass and drums. Smokin'!
All in all this is a superb slice of Swingin London circa 1966. Rising above any time induced faux pas by sheer quality of it's arrangements and playing. This is a world of Brut, Pop Art, girls driving open topped MGB's with their sunglasses on their heads, where men were men, and had the moustaches to prove it. Truly inspiring.

Sex Music
I have owned this CD for 2 or 3 years and quite like to say I never get bored with it. One of the albums that helped me to discover Lounge and easy listening, this is a sublime, enjoyable, eclectic and thoroughly addictive. The tracks are rarely samey, which, sadly, chart nonsense usually is.

For Hammond addicts, Move Move Move is undoubtedly go-getting. Fast paced from beginning to end, never lets-up. Delhi Discotheque is hippy inspired, sitar driven wonder. Makes you feel good, urges you to dance but says take your time. The Zodiac was used as the intro to The Full Monty (1997) and was originally used as incidental music for promoting Sheffield for businesses.

My favourite of the album is Coast to Coast. Utterly laidback and has a gorgeous bass groove that is equisite. I could go into every track because this is some album. Essential for lounge parties and late night Saturdays after a good drinking spree or just to relax and chill man!

If you are a regular at Blow-Up (and I'd love to go) then these tracks are very similar to you. If you want to discover what lounge really means and is, then this is the album for you.

Unbelieveable
Heaven and a haven for lounge-lizards There are some things that are locked into eveyone's mind, but struggle to come out: that Star Wars obsession, being gay, an infatuation with stately homes or a buring ambition to become Prime Minister. The outlet for these things comes in discovery, and, for the Hammond organ freak, this album comes to close to being the Holy Grail. If you find yourself replaying old sixties amd seventies films, only to hear the music in the "party" scenes makes your back hair stand on end, this CD is a must. In-the-closet wig-out lovers can come clean and tell all of their friends that this album is fantastic.

I'd never have believed that anyone could bring together such a collection of what could, in other circumstances, have been unknown and forgotten classics, and for me the jewel in the crown has to be Alan Hawkshaw's "Move, Move, Move". Aggresive swirling hammonds coupled to to jazzy, authentic overtones make this a track that you will want to hold a party for immediately. I did just that, and my guests danced until the early hours.

This is one of those albums that makes your mates ask "where the hell did you find this?", only to see them doing air-organ around your living-room. Buy it, put on your tank top, switch on the lava lamp and groove. No-one can touch you for it.