Robin Gibb — Secret Agent (320k)

Rob­ing Gibb of Bee Gees fame came out with a synth-pop album “Secret Agent” in 1984. It has cou­ple of really decent cuts plus plenty of hand claps and “woooo ooo oooou ooo” vocals in cho­ruses which is always regarded as a strongly pos­i­tive extra around this house.

Now every­thing would be just fine if it was sat­ur­day after­noon instead of sun­day since this song has more that kinda edge — like get­ting ready for a dan­ger­ous night or some­thing. I feel adven­tur­ous.

LYRICS

I grabbed my hat and I went walk­ing in the rainy night.
My world turned upside down.
I heard the roar­ing of the engines of a DC3.
I’m Casablanca bound.

The stew­ardess was stand­ing star­ing in a fash­ion
that could only take my breath away.
The pilot’s voice came on the inter­com and
told me he was work­ing for the CIA.

Oh…
And he’s lost in a dan­ger­ous world.

So keep on run­ning, run­ning in the black of night,
secret agent,
Just keep on run­ning, run­ning at the speed of light,
secret agent.

Oh…
Oh…

Ooh. And three days later I was woken by a lady in black.
She took my pho­to­graph.
And in the safety of the shad­ows
threw her cam­eras down the ele­va­tor shaft.

She ran and stum­bled in the dark­ness of the empty streets.
My job had just begun.
And with­out a warn­ing I was shaken by a blind­ing light.
Didn’t see the gun.

Oh.…
And he’s lost in a dan­ger­ous world, ooh.

So keep on run­ning, run­ning in the black of night,
it’s your secret agent.
Just keep on run­ning, run­ning like the speed of light,
it’s your secret agent.

Oh…
Oh…

Oh oh secret agent
Oh oh secret agent, agent.

Look out.

So keep on run­ning, run­ning till you get away.
You’re a secret agent.

So keep on run­ning, run­ning in the black of night.
You’re a secret agent.

So keep on run­ning, run­ning in the black of night .
You’re a secret agent

Just keep on run­ning, run­ning like the speed of light.
’Cause you’re a secret agent.

Just keep on run­ning, run­ning till the break of day.
’Cause you’re a secret agent.

Just keep on run­ning, run­ning till you get away.
’Cause you’re a secret agent.

Julian Jonah — Jeal­ousy And Lies (Alter­na­tive Dance Mix) (320k)

British house music! Really lovin’ the cover of this 12″ release. “Jeal­ousy And Lies” was a big tune in the old days within Uk house/club scene. Here’s the Alter­na­tive Dance Mix ver­sion which has more per­cus­sion in it than the orig­i­nal mix. Few years before the turn of the mil­le­nium Julian Jonah went onto the uk garage tip for exam­ple as other half of the 187 Lock­down. In the early noughties guy was pro­duc­ing house again, with some disco flavour this time.

Armando — Land of Con­fu­sion (320 kbps)

Acid-house pio­neer Armando pro­duced a few clas­sics in the late 80s includ­ing “100% of Disin’ U” and Land of Con­fu­sion. Sadly he died of leukemia way too young, at the age of 26.

Aren’t we all quite excited about the re-launch of Trax Records with the upcom­ing release by Azari & III?

This ver­sion is from the  Trax Clas­six cd-compilation which is shorter in length than the YouTube-clip pre­sented here.

Kim Wilde — You Keep Me Hangin’ On (12″ Ver­sion) (320k)

Yeah, I know. This was quite a hit back in the 80s. It was also first hit song for Kim Wilde since “Kids In Amer­ica” (1981). Tune’s orig­i­nally a soul clas­sic by The Supremes. This cover is a syn­thetic disco/synthpop re-work of the orig­i­nal with slightly changed lyrics. The nine minute dura­tion of this ver­sion is almost too short, could con­tinue on for a few more minutes.

TIP!

Sound­cloud group Deep Disco (320 Kbs) offers lots of free down­loads of under­ground disco, cos­mic disco, nu disco, space funk, rare disco, re-edits, obscure Italo, etc. edit tracks. All the tracks go through mod­er­at­ing process to main­tain qual­ity cri­te­ria set by the mod­er­a­tors of the group. As the name of the group hints, it’s 320kb mp3’s they offer.

“The ulti­mate goal is for you and all of us to get inspired by dis­cov­er­ing great new tracks and find­ing out how they would fit into our dj set or playlist. But also for other mem­bers to be inspired by you, shar­ing tracks you found about your­self or made your­self. So keep it com­ing and drop some tracks!“
– Deep Disco (320 Kbs) info