Get this, Rayko has 71 edits in his Sound­Cloud page. One might argue about whether all of them are nec­es­sary. I’ll say that not every one of them is needed but most of them are use­ful for dj sets. Releas­ing them on vinyl is a whole another matter…

Russ Bal­lard — voices (rayko edit) by Rayko

Two tracks by Russ Bal­lard became instant favorites for me when I was watch­ing Miami Vice re-runs a year ago: Voices and In The Night. Can’t beat the 80s mon­tages.

Zodiac — “Zodiac“

Zodiac — “Pacific“

A Lat­vian Rock-group from the era of Soviet Union. These two tunes are from their first release “Disco Alliance” LP which was appar­ently sold out imme­di­ately every­where in the (ex) U.S.S.R. In other words — it was “a huge release” in its day. 1980 that is. These words describe the whole album quite well: maybe bit psy­che­delic & slightly pro­gres­sive cin­e­matic groov­ing rock + deli­cious synths.

Equally suit­able for Top Gun or… Zom­bie 4: After Death! I’m get­ting Europe vibes through my spine.

Which type of cheese you like the most?

Hey now it’s week­end! Finnish pop rock group inna funky mood. Grab a nice re-edit by Turku boys, Disco WTF while you’re at it.

Viikon­loppu by Disko WTF?!

Jeah.

Neil Young — Sam­ple And Hold (320k)

OooOooo Canada, what’s left after the olympics? In Fin­land they used to hand out vinyl copies of Neil Young’s “Lucky Thir­teen” album to doc­tors. That was like in the nineties and they = med­i­cine com­pa­nies. Now­days these “gifts” are more like Via­gra mousepads or such (both true stories).

This is not deep knowl­edge or any­thing but Neil Young did have his moments with syn­the­siz­ers and vocoder. “Sam­ple And Hold” is a prime exam­ple of that. Here’s what was pre­vi­ously unre­leased ver­sion of the song from the afore­men­tioned “Lucky Thir­teen” album (1993). Almost three min­utes shorter orig­i­nal ver­sion came out on “Trans” album in 1982.

A detail to be noticed here: drum hits are nicely off­beat from time to time. And no doc­tors in my family.