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30.11.09

VA - I Love Disco Diamonds Collection Vol. 12

Labels .Remastered, I Love Disco Diamonds Collection, Various Artist

VA - I Love Disco Diamonds Collection Vol. 12 [12'Inch]

Release: Mar, 2002 Label: Blanco y Negro Number: MXCD 1211

Genre: Italo Disco Mono/Stereo: 2 Channel

EAC Rip Included: EAC Log + AccurateRip Log + CUE + Flac + Covers

Size: 604 MB RAR files RS.com

Mastered by Quim Quer at Blanco y Negro Music Studios

Created & compiled by Rafael Carmona Perez

Special Limited Edition

Album Notes
"Miko Mission - I Believe", "Fancy - Slice Me Nice", "Spagna - Every Girl And Boy", "Den Harrow - Tell Me Why" , "Mike Cannon - Goin' Crazy" and more... are the songs which included on the 8th volume of "I Love Disco Diamonds", released in 2001 by Spain's Blanco y Negro label. This is part of one of the most extensive Euro-dance (Italo Disco) series available. Since the series is so extensive, you can bet there's plenty of filler, and that's definitely the case here.

Review by Stuart Scanlan

Easily the most sophisticated selection in the series so far. Tracks range from the mainstream successes of Spagna and Den Harrow to the relative obscurity of Memory Records' Mike Cannon and Diego titles.Even if you already have some of these tunes in your collection, this CD is still worth buying for those you don't as well as delivering improved sound quality.Best titles are the super obscure Kim Fields track and Brian 'Fabrizio Rizzolo' Ice masquerading as 'Body Power.

Review by Andy MacLennan

What can i say about this vol, check out the track listing it speaks for itself. Excellent work again Rafa 10 out of 10

Track Listing:
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01 - Miko Mission - I Believe
02 - Fancy - Slice Me Nice
03 - Spagna - Every Girl And Boy
04 - Den Harrow - Tell Me Why
05 - Rudy & Co - Mama Radio
06 - Kim Fields - He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
07 - Mike Cannon - Goin' Crazy
08 - Rofo - Beach Love
09 - Body Power - Nothing
10 - Tracy Spencer - Run To Me
11 - Sphinx - When I'm In Love
12 - Diego - Walk In The Night
Total Time: 01:17:08

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Simply Red - Home

Labels Simply Red

Simply Red - Home

Release: 24 March 2003 Label: Simplyred.com Number: 50551317 0004 1

Genre: Pop, Soul Mono/Stereo: 2 Channel

EAC Rip Included: EAC Log + AccurateRip Log + CUE + Flac + Covers

RAR Files | 288 MB | RS.com, Letitbit.net, Vip-File

Album Notes

Home is the eighth Simply Red studio album, released in 2003. It is the first Simply Red album released on band frontman Mick Hucknall's own record label, Simplyred.com. The album was a success all around the world, due to his hit singles, "Sunrise", "Fake", "You Make Me Feel Brand New" and "Home".

The success of "Sunrise" was due in part to the sensuous video being shot in Rio de Janeiro, and its borrowing of a loop found in the 1981 Hall and Oates single "I Can't Go for That" (as well as some of the lyrics).The album includes three cover versions: the Bob Dylan song, "Positively 4th Street," the The Stylistics' soul hit, "You Make Me Feel Brand New," and the Dennis Brown song, "Money in My Pocket".

Review by Michael Hubbard

Mick Hucknall has his own record label these days, but despite another line-up shuffle, new album Home confirms that little else in the tried-and-tested - and phenomenally successful - Simply Red formula has changed. It's a formula that is either loved or hated, a pop-tinged soul-ballad mix that has been slated by critics but which has propelled the band's many singles into the higher echelons of the charts since the mid-1980s and sold millions of albums.But since the seminal Stars album, Simply Red has essentially been the famously ginger-haired Mancunian's vehicle. Alone and unchecked with his interpretations of both other people's ballads and his own creations, Hucknall's recent material shows signs of lacking the immediacy of his early hits.

The title track opens Home in low-key style, 40-year-old Hucknall's distinctive voice sounding demure and laid-back as a whimsical piano phrase meanders about. "Home is a place where I yearn to belong," croons the man with homes in Milan and Paris. It's is not as strong as older material like Stars, but it still sounds like a master class in pop music making. The crisp production and simple arrangements make the album seem shorter than its 11 track length, and make it perfect background music for coffee houses.

Yet it does benefit from a philosophy of not fixing that which isn't broken. Indeed it only really comes unglued on a cover of The Stylistics' You Make Me Feel Brand New, in the chorus of which Hucknall's voice sounds stretched to strangulation. As if to underline his view that cover versions are cool, Hucknall indulges in a second - Bob Dylan's Positively 4th Street.Elsewhere, up-tempo numbers like Fake are targeted squarely at a drive time radio. Brass, strings, piano, guitar, vocals and keyboards combine to form a rounded texture. The single Sunrise, with its diva backing vocals, catchy bass, strings layers and twinkly keyboards, confirms that Simply Red can be understated when they like. And there's a stab at variety with Money In My Pocket (Plan B Mix) which comes across as a wishful though scarcely successful attempt at dance-lite.

No great new direction then, and not the best work Simply Red has ever recorded, but Home suggests business as usual, and confirms that Hucknall has carved his own individual place in the landscape of pop music.

Track Listing:

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01. Home (3:17)

02. Fake (3:58)

03. Sunrise (3:19)

04. You Make Me Feel Brand New (5:06)

05. Home Loan Blues (5:00)

06. Positively 4th Street (4:33)

07. Lost Weekend (4:06)

08. Money In My Pocket (Plan B Mix) (3:38)

09. Something For You (5:59)

10. It's You (3:16)

11. Home (Reprise) (0:53)

Total Time: 00:43:06

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VA - I Love Disco Diamonds Collection Vol. 11

Labels .Remastered, I Love Disco Diamonds Collection, Various Artist

VA - I Love Disco Diamonds Collection Vol. 11 [12'Inch]

Release: Jan, 2002 Label: Blanco y Negro Number: MXCD 1207

Genre: Italo Disco Mono/Stereo: 2 Channel

ECDDAE Rip Included: AccurateRip Log + CUE + Flac + Full Covers

Size: 542 MB RAR files RS.com

Mastered by Quim Quer at Blanco y Negro Music Studios

Created & compiled by Rafael Carmona PerezSpecial

Limited Edition

Album Notes

"Savage - Radio", "William King - Robin Hood", "Max Him - Melanie (Remix)", "Mike Mareen - Love Spy (The Batman Mix)" and more... are the songs which included on the 8th volume of "I Love Disco Diamonds", released in 2001 by Spain's Blanco y Negro label. This is part of one of the most extensive Euro-dance (Italo Disco) series available. Since the series is so extensive, you can bet there's plenty of filler, and that's definitely the case here.

Review by Andy MacLennan

How is it possible to better the last vol 11? Answer to add even more rare songs, check out the track listing, it's amazing. Max Him - Melanie (remix), how rare is this track ? I don't think it's been on cd before, 10 out of 10. Great work Rafa.

Track Listing

01 - Savage - Radio

02 - William King - Robin Hood

03 - Hot Cold - I Can Hear Your Voice

04 - Charly Danone - Ed Io Ti Trovero

05 - Meccano - Activate My Heart

06 - Evelyn Barry - Take It As A Game

07 - Fabian Nesti - Heigh-Ho

08 - Moreno - I Want To Be Your Love Today

09 - Sisley Ferrι - Give Me Your Love

10 - Max Him - Melanie (Remix)

11 - Mike Mareen - Love Spy (The Batman Mix)

12 - D.F. & Pam - On The Beat

Total Time: 01:16:02

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