“Stormtrooper in Drag” by the late Paul Gar­diner is often cred­ited to Gary Numan. Maybe because Numan con­tributed not only the pro­duc­tion and co-composing but also played, sang the lead vocals and released it on his label.

After this release the pair drifted away because of Gar­diners esca­lat­ing drug use. This alien­ated Numan, who him­self claimed absis­tence of drugs. The lyrics of Stormtroop­ers in Drag and the death of Paul Gar­diner both had some­thing to do with drugs.

Paul Gar­diner — Stormtroop­ers in Drag (320 kbps)

Jack­sons feat Mick Jag­ger — State Of Shock (320k)

I’ll be DJing today for 5 hours in a local Jack & Jones clothes shop. Heard some­one there wanted it to be ALL MICHAEL JACKSON MUSIC. Rea­sons unknown. Think it ain’t gonna be only Michael. Any­ways, I’ll try my best to keep it in the Jackson’s fam­ily. Some other bits and pieces thrown in for some change of tone, though.

Below is what they was gonna release orig­i­nally but for some rea­sons it was Mick who ended up being on the record.

The first actual post is about some rare finnish disco-rock cov­er­song called ‘Naisen Haluan’ (= I want a woman) by Jakke & Jokke.
I found this song cou­ple of years ago from the album ‘Hit­ti­paraati 10′ (1979) which is a com­pi­la­tion of finnish pop songs. This ‘Hit­ti­paraati 10′ was actu­ally in a sleeve of ‘The best of Italo-Disco vol. 10′ which I found from local second-hand shop.

The song sounds kind of like Prince and to be exact, his Jamie Starr pseu­do­nym in side­pro­ject called ‘The Time’.
Espe­cially the vocals but the rest of track is much more heav­ier with gui­tars and stuff. The elec­tric bass sounds good. It has a short synth­solo towards to the end but it leaves you demand­ing more of it.

Jakke & Jokke — Naisen Haluan 320 kb/sec

There aren’t much infor­ma­tion about the per­form­ers Jakke & Jokke. Jokke is a pseu­do­nym for Jorma Sep­pälä and he has arranged cou­ple of songs for euro­vi­sion con­test in 1985. It seems that they did not make it to the main con­test. It also appears that they have had some kind of con­nec­tion with Danny and Kirka. Jokke has com­posed few songs for Kirka and been also singing in the back­ground. They are musi­cians at the very least.

As I said at the begin­ning, ‘Naisen Haluan’ is actu­ally a cover of Supercharge’s ‘I can see right through you’ from the album ‘Bodyrhythm’ (Vir­gin 12118, 1979).

Super­charge is kind of British disco-rock band on Vir­gin label in late 1970’s led by Robert John “Mutt” Lange.

Super­charge — I Can See Right Through You (320kbps 16mb)

The orig­i­nal song is much longer clock­ing over 6 min­utes while the finnish cover is 3 min­utes. The lat­ter part of the song con­sists breaks and stuff, ready to be sam­pled and suit­able for doing remake or edit or what­ever. There exists 12″ and 7″ of ‘Naisen Haluan’ with cat­a­log# Polar­vox rps 130. If any­body has a spare copy, please send me e-mail. The Super­charge sin­gle is not that rare if you look into right places. But beware, some peo­ple ask over 50 pounds of it while oth­ers are sat­is­fied with 5.