The More You Live, The More You Love

Due to an administrative failure, I was a bit behind with adding the volumes to my database, I found out this morning that 3 songs featured on Volume 70 are separately featured on Volume 65, 72 and 73. Since it was easier to change the tracklist of Volume 70, hereby the new version with three new tracks. The link

It was 2002 and on the trip back from a well deserved and well spent holiday in Switzerland we drove back home on the German highways. The radio was on for the whole day and played the tracks from the German and US base radiostations. Along came The Great Commandment of Camouflage which made quite an impression on me. Although my teenage years were in the 80s, the Dutch radio didn't bring that much new wave music which soon after the trip I would discover. I started searching for New Wave music, collection stuff from blogs and a few years later from the New Wave Outpost. And my musical buying changed a lot during that time. In 2005, for fun, I created the first 60 Volumes and a Bonus Volume (the later 61) of what became to be known as The Unknown Beauty Of The 80s. In these days I travelled a lot by train from home to work and back, which gave me time to listen to my homemade cd's. In 2015 I dug op the cd's and started the project all over again trying to find all of ...

A bit of disappointment this week, since it looks like the singles I ordered some weeks ago seems to get lost in the mail. I still hope they will be delivered, but it will be difficult. But well, here's another installment of the continuing series. The link

Unfortuantly still waiting for a bunch of singles I ordered over a week ago. I hope they arrive during the weekend so I can rip them for a future Volume. Meanwhile the hunt on tracks featured in the Spleen radio show is paying off with a new Volume in the continuing Unknown Beauty Of The 80s series. This new Volume is mostly based on new finds from the show, but also featured other fine tunes stumbled upon while searching through Discogs. the link Enjoy the weekend.

From 3 October 1982 until 19 August 1984 the radio program Spleen run on the Dutch Radio. This radio show offered the listener a mix of New Wave, Punk, Synthpop, Reggea and Folk music among other styles. During two hours there was a kind of structure in the program, with the cover song, a live concert, new releases, a block of world music and a block introducing an artist. The funny thing about the show was that people could receive a weekly magazine containing the tracklist and background information. For a couple of years now several persons are trying to recreate the tracklists and putting the shows together again from the magazines, which are digitized as well. One of the presenters was Ignit van Kasteren of the duo Van Kaye+Ignit. This week I started to collect songs from shows not available sofar. This new Volume featured tracks from the shows broadcasts. The exception to the rule is Kino, which was a band featuring Sarah Gregory (Sarah Osborne married Glen Gregory of ...