This must be the strangest collection of disparate tracks to come along for a while, musical genres mercilessly trampled on a fun-packed selection mostly culled from ultra-obscure 45s from the 70s. For example, happily rubbing shoulders over the course of three tracks are the highly-sought protest-reggae of Money by 360 Degrees, Silver Convention-style Euro-disco of Fireball’s Losin’ and sexy disco-boogie of Soundforce’s Viva Le Dolce Vita. The folks at Light Sounds Dark are obviously aiming for those demented souls craving something fresh, freakily danceable and previously near-impossible to obtain, cementing the collectors’ angle by limiting the double vinyl release to 300. The rest of the set scorches through an occasionally mindblowing mix and match of tribal rhythms, San Fran psych, Hendrix tributes, proto-prog, spaced funk and a track by the Electric Max Band called ‘Knives Feathers And Fire’ which recalls masturbating guinea-pigs cavorting in a hallucinogen-spiked fish-tank. The delights are many but it is highly useful to have the savage Diabolic Man tune long favoured by DJ Harvey widely available or a long-lost early 70s Coventry band called Ning abusing their guitars.
4 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
