The More You Live, The More You Love

It has been over four months since the last compilation on the Dutch New Wave front. But behind the scenes I bought some new vinyl and searched the internet for possible new additions to this compilation. To start the background information on this Volume, I was very pleased to discover the compilation album "Groeten uit Amsterdam". It featured the never elsewhere released track Better Than The Movies of The Dutch, of which I am a huge fan since their first official release Working At Los Alamos. The band was featured a lot on Dutch radio during the release of Wastelands, and I even used to have several FM recordings of the band on tape, which went lost when moving houses. Brown Jenkin is from the same compilation. Several of the live songs are from tapes released by Milkyway Cassettes, which was a cassettelabel featuring recordings from bands who played the Melkweg in Amsterdam. Besides Buster Smiles, featured here with Modern Times, and Rebel, featured here with Run.

The Easter special with the following tracks: Session - Unit The Forces (5:08) Shox - No Turning Back (2:53) The Names - The Astronaut (5:11) Hula - Walk On Stalks Of Shattered Glass (4:39) Trevor Herion - Big City (4:25) Illustrated Man - Day Without End (4:42) The Photos - Now You Tell Me That We're Through (3:31) John Watts - I Smelt Roses (in the underground) (3:54) Jih - Big Blue Ocean (3:44) Seona Dancing - More To Lose (7" version) (3:48) Tactics - Binoculars (3:10) Repetition - The Still Reflex (4:03) Lyon In Winter - The Haunting Moon (3:33) Tango In Mono - Expressos (3:19) Original Mirros - Sharp Words (4:27) Whirlywirld - Window To The World (3:40) Boxbury Beat - Windows (3:11) The Lucy Show - The Price Of Love (4:46) The Group - Technology (5:33) The Young Jacques - Jacques Cousteau (2:35) Listen.

It has been quiet for a couple of months concerning new volumes. But behind the scenes I worked on several new volumes to reach hopefully the milestone Volume 80 this year. This Volume mainly was created through the searches for The Spleen radioshows and the references I received on Discogs. It turned out that checking the list of a seller can present you  quite some pearls. This searching filled a pool of potential new featured artists on the upcoming Volumes. But for these I take my time. I listen each Volume several times now, polish on the tracklist or simply replace a song when I am not satisfied. The final result of number 77, compared for 80% with the list I came up with in the first place. The track list: 01. Absolute Body Control - The Man I Wanna Be (3:50) 02. Sacred Moment - Symphony (04:50) 03. Symbols - Speed Of Light (04:45) 04. La Mode - Diálogo (04:02) 05. Days Of Sorrow - Wild World (05:59) 06. Metro - America In My Head (05:42) 07. Diviac