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Playlist: Rare Trax in July
Whether post-punk, chamber pop, jazz or latin-the legendary English label Él Records always attached great importance to a unique aesthetics. Prezosos from an almost flawless catalog
1. The Monochrome set “Jet Set Junta”
Perhaps the most brilliant single of the diverse London Newwave formation: intellectually charged, seductive and the guns of the jet set with a grandiose laconia.
2. Wood-Be-Goods “The Camera Loves Me”
Belle and Sebastian got the must here. This charming indie pop earworm is the title song of the band of the band around singer Jessica Griffin published in 1988.
3. MARD HILL “Oh Constance”
Before the combo around Mastermind Mark Daniels in Acid Jazz and Tripphop-Geats, she created this gem between New Romanticism and Bossa Nova.
4. The King of Luxembourg “The Rubens Room”
The musician and actor Simon Fisher Turner recorded wonderful folk pop elegia in the eighties as The King of Luxembourg. A nick drake of glamorous dandytums.
5. Anthony adverse “now lists”
Ex-Five-OR-SIX member Julia Gilbert borrowed her pseudonym from a US adventure film from 1936-and her latin-loving Tin-Pan-Alle-Pop also sounds adventurous.
6. Louis Philippe “Guess I’m Dumb”
The French songwriter Philippe Auclair alias Louis Philippe is responsible for three of the pop-genius strokes represented here.
7. Bad Dream Fancy Dress “Where have all the school boys gone?”
The outfit, consisting of the singers Cally Davis and Catrin Rees, enthusiastically with the cotton wool harmonies, consisting of Él founder Mike Alway.