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New Musik – Warp
I’ve been into this record for a few years now, but it’s had a bit of a resurgence in the last few months with i:Cube referencing it for one of his brilliant edits. I was trying to license ‘All You Need Is Love’ (their own song, not the Beatles cover, which weirdly enough also appears on this album) to close my current Bugged In mix, but we couldn’t track anybody down from the band, and it seemed nobody knew who actually owned the recordings. The reason I love that track is that it sounds like a perfect mix of the forward thinking electronic music of that era, and a fusion of ‘Well I Wonder’ style guitar work from Johnny Marr.
New Musik were a studio band based around Tony Mansfield who produced a few hits back in the 80s, one of which is an old Trash classic, ‘Der Kommissar’ by After The Fire. The song ‘Warp’ is a pretty amazing production, coming off like Hall & Oates being sped up and slowed down on a tape machine.
