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As well as messrs Zpider242 and WVKayaker posting "If 60's were 90's" up for you (see comments in previous article), young Mr Keith Jolley kindly went and upped this at an "above and beyond the call of duty" 320 kbps. OK, it's in three files, but for that you also get the second CD containing the PM Dawn mix of the title track.

Beautiful People : If 60's Were 90's @ 320kbps

http://rapidshare.com/files/48631821/BPISWN.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/48631609/BPISWN.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/48631404/BPISWN.part3.rar

Many thanks to y'all, if your ever around the London Bridge area, the beers are on me.

Bollox 1

Picked up a vinyl version of The Tomorrow People OST on which the
late , great yet almost unknown Delia Derbyshire was involved (under the “for contractual resons” pseudonym Li De La Russe), only to discover that the now sadly defunct (but links still work) X-Y-Z- Cosmonaut's CosmoBlog pre-empted me by a good 6 months.

So bang goes a good 250 word bit of copy I’d written.

Suffice to say, she was one of THE pioneers of electronic music responsible for, among other things, the Dr Who theme (and you thought it was Ron Grainer right?).
Check this BBC Scotland radio interview from the late 90’s for more background on the Dr Who and White Noise stories where she comes across as very much someone my mother would describe as “a nice gel” (but lets not drag my mother into this).

You could also do worse than pay a visit to Lost-In-Tyme’s blog for a copy of the absolutely indispensible must-have in any serious music collection White Noise -- An Electric Storm (1968) on which she also collaborated.

Bollox 2

Still havn’t managed to track down a copy of Beautiful People’s “If 60’s Were 90’s” album yet, but I did manage to get hold of a couple of CD singles which I’ve uploaded for your consideration.





http://rapidshare.com/files/183307625/BeautifulPeopleEPs.rar

Had a weird “you’re never more than 6 people away from anyone on the planet” moment when googling around Beautiful People . . . turns out the drummer (Robin Goodridge) went on to be in Bush (never my cup of Earl Grey but there you go). Also in Bush was Dave Parsons formerly in Transvision Vamp and before that The Partisans. A good drinking buddy of mine at Poly was Mark 'Sharky' Harris, original drummer in The Partsians.

Needless to say, if anyone’s in touch with Sharkey, please tell him Spider sends his regards.

Note: Link updated 14 Jan 09

Beautiful People : Rilly Groovy 12” Vinyl rips @ 256 thingies.

From what I can make out (and feel free to correct if I’m wrong), the Hendrix back-catalogue entered the public domain very briefly in the early 90’s. So a group of UK based DJ remixers got together, called themselves Beautiful People for the purposes of this exercise and released an album of tehno-Hendrix splendour called “If 60’s were 90’s” (as in “If 6 were 9” . . . geddit?). However, the Hendrix estate pretty quickly bought up the rights to his music and the album was quickly withdrawn before you could say “copyright infringement”.

Anyway, I’m now on the sniff for the album on the basis of the 40-odd reviews on Amazon.Com
, but until I track it down, you’ll have to be content with vinyl rips of the two 12”s that look to have been released as album tasters.

This one’s a pretty funky bunch of mixes, shades of Shamen if you ask me
Essential Records ESST 2028

01 Rilly Groovy (A Well Hung Parliament Adventure)
02 Rilly Groovy (S1000 Mix)
03 Rilly Groovy (Vibe Sauce "Dig This" Mix)
04 Rilly Groovy (Ripe Fruity Mix)

While this one wigs out in a more KLF stylee
ESST 2029

01 Rilly Groovy (Australasia Experience 1 Mix)
02 Rilly Groovy (Australasia Experience 2 Mix)
03 Rilly Groovy (Original Version)
04 Rilly Groovy (Du Kanes Spunky Bizarre Trip Mix)
05 Rilly Groovy (Sympathy Mix)




http://rapidshare.com/files/44012709/Beautiful_People-Rilly_Groovy.rar.html

Thanks and a tip of the hat to Twickenham Alan for the loan of the vinyl.