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While we're talking about Stroom I'd like to say that their Kyoto/Zoe Sinatra split 12" is just about perfect and probably my single of the year so far, even if both of the tracks are from the 80s.

Super happy to be able to finally announce this one, it’s one we’ve been trying to make happen since we started the label! MFM042 ‘Broken Belief’ is a collection of ten tracks from Japanese musician Toshifumi Hinata recorded between 1985/1987..https://t.co/bjtP2U2bWm

— Music From Memory (@MusicFromMemory) July 31, 2019

Website and bandcamp not even updated w/ it, it seems, but this is great news!

that is great news. he is long overdue some love and more accessibility.

I really love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC2sCOiCgf4

amazing that a song like that was left off the debut album despite being recorded for it.

on to the original 1983 album by The System, to clarify.

Wait, is this the "You Are In My System" System? Talk about being ahead of the curve!

No this is the English The System

https://www.musicfrommemory.com/release/6298/the-system/the-system-ep

Robert Lamb was a member and went on to produce a lot of Stephen Duffy/Lilac Time records

someone unpack the lyrical content of 'almost grown' for me please

It seems to be a father singing about a teenage daughter he can't communicate with and their relationship has broken down so much that she's leaving home and he feels regret. I admit that it's a strange subject matter for a song. I'd never really thought about it before you asked.

that is a hell of a song (almost grown)

Is the second Outro Tempo comp as good as the first one?

I think I prefer the second

I picked it up yesterday and I think you might be right

Jed - there's a new TRJJ EP out on Stroom. Just so you know

cheers, paolo. I've been buying things from their own page too, many of which are one euro or pay what you want.

https://trimusic2.bandcamp.com/

can recommend the Wanda Holt releases.

and the Subaru one which, iirc, is free if you want it free. bandcamp doesn't show me the price any more because I already have it. I never pay nothing for "pay what you want" releases, fwiw.

and forgotten Scottish wonders Vazz, too.

Going back to MFM, Test Pressing have been repping this new Toshifumi Hinata comp. Haven't heard it myself but looks interesting:

http://testpressing.org/2019/09/toshifumi-hinata-broken-belief-music-from-memory/

the shakti reissue on stroom is sublime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WPre5bWhbY

^ i mean this song jesus god

that's awesome.

the Shakti reissue has "Rainbows" which features Jade 4U (of "Injected With A Poison" fame) which I've been hoping would turn up for a few years since I heard it in a Dream Chimney mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9yCwRoo7vk

really into this bit of pop-reggae which has been reissued on Smiling C, similar axis to the outsider pop failures that Stroom and MfM are unearthing

Have been really enjoying this MfM mix: https://soundcloud.com/music-from-memory/mfm-mix-008-dk

Anyone seen Ziggy from Stroom DJing? Because I'm going to see him in a few weeks >>>>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECYMydGWQ4s

Their recent EP from Benjamin Lew is a bit special

Contains three tracks from Benjamin Lew and Steven Brown's excellent Douzième Journée: Le Verbe, La Parure, L'Amour, from 1982. A bit weird that Brown is not credited on this 12" release.

is that in Glasgow paolo? I can't imagine it not being excellent

Sure is! Wanna go?

https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1352923

I've heard a few mixes from Ziggy/Nosedrip and they've been excellent but more for home listening, so it'll be interesting to hear what kind of stuff he plays in the club. I'm old enough that I'd be happy with six hours of home listening music in the club though.

they put this out a few years ago but I've only just heard it. really good. liquid liquid-ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxDE0SIM350

Its the same night as my Xmas work night out. I'll need to "have a word" and see how early and easily I can sneak out

Did either of you (or anyone else) go? I am willing to bet it was far better than my attendance at an ABBA tribute night

It was great! Ziggy and his pal Victor de Roo know how to work a crowd. They even played some garage, which I did not see coming.

breaking my heart here

Love this Pablo's Eye track from the Stroom compilation, the one called Bardo for Pablo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Mr49X22w4

The album is good but this track is awesome.

(I take it this is the low countries reissuers thread rather than just MfM)

Stroom's pricing angle on Bandcamp kinda frustrates me. It's €12.50 + vat to buy from them on there but you can but it on boomkat for £3.99 (inc vat) and the vinyl was only €16+vat initially. often they put things on at the same price for digital d/l and vinyl and the vinyl includes a digital d/l! MfM too also charge too much for digital only, imo. Obv they both do good work and I'd like to support them on bandcamp, ideally, but it's not very helpful at times.

The drums on that track are so great.

this one, for example:

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-over-maroma

Buy Record/Vinyl €20 EUR or more

Buy Digital Album €20 EUR or more

and the vinyl

Includes unlimited streaming of Cloud Over Maroma via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

it's £6.99 on boomkat.

Sorry to make the thread about this, it just seems like bad at business. Totally love and support everything they do.

MfM and the more chill Stroom releases (especially the Cybe album) have been on heavy rotation at Chez Paolo during the current unpleasantness. I've got about £70 worth of MfM records arriving in the post sometime soon as well

xp

No that's totally a peeve with some labels' digital or specifically Bandcamp pricing, especially with the VAT thing. It makes it an awkward choice if nothing 3lse, and takes the piss really as they will be making proportionally more straight profit on the digitial.

Nice one, paolo, what did you buy?

70 quid worth of MFM is 2 records right? They're about $35 each in shops here.

The Gigi Masin one, the Musica Esporadica one, the Terekke one and the Dip In The Pool single, which is £12.50 for about ten minutes of music but I've not been spending my cash on anything else so I might as well blow it all on records. And they're pretty reasonably priced in the UK for the most part. I think most of their double albums are about £20 or less with nice packaging.

Music From Memory - now more than ever

I was listening to that single today, actually.

great thread, and wish i would have read it earlier! after eventually landing on gigi masin and listening to the MfM comp and Wind pretty obsessively,
a spotify radio thing based on masin led me to the 2019 Yu Su release Roll with the Punches. it's been...36 hours? i think i have listened to it at least 10 times already. while purchasing the 12" today, i went ahead and grabbed Tower of Silence (30 seconds of "Woman of Water and Music" was more than enough to convince me) and Toshifumi Hinata's Broken Belief, based on the enthusiasm on the thread. i move like molasses but i have noted that i need to look into Stroom as well