VA - Vertigo Mixed by Andy Votel
Release Date.: 06-10-2005
Street Date..: 04-11-2005
Label........: Family Recordings / Universal
Genre........: Fusion
Playtime.....: 68:20 min
Grabber......: Audiograbber
Encoder......: Lame 3.90.3
Quality......: VBR APS
Rippers Notes:
Although a search for Vertigo's output now will
return mainly dull fare (from Dire Straits to
Razorlight), back in the 1970s the label had a
reputation for releasing all sorts of psychedelic
weirdness. Vertigo Mixed, compiled by Andy Votel -
whose impressive c.v. includes starting the Twisted
Nerve label, home to Badly Drawn Boy -, distills
around 50 of these tracks on to one CD, doing for
this particular microcosm what David Holmes' Come Get
It I Got It did for lesser known blues and soul.
With no bite longer than a couple of minutes (some of
the originals allegedly break the ten minute mark),
this is more a collection of cool clips: heavy
riffing; solos of the noodly guitar, drum, organ and
woodwind instrument varieties; jazz breakdowns; folk
hoedowns; thunderstorms; lyrics about pimps and
witchcraft; and even really bad opera. No excess is
left unindulged. Yes, it is indeed pretty ridiculous,
but that's half the fun.
Barring the likes of Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy*,
the majority of these bands have disappeared into the
realms of obscurity, but, for the open-minded, this
should certainly make for a fascinating historical
artefact, nicely arranged for today's short attention
span. The PR screams "YOU WILL HEAR NOTHING LIKE
VERTIGO MIXED THIS YEAR!" - and one suspects it's not
far wrong.
Tracklist:
Vertigo Mixed by Andy Votel
01 - Linda Hoyle/gracious/nirvana - Morning [ ]
for One/introduction/modus Operandi
02 - Aphrodite's Child/colosseum/manfred [ ]
Mann - Battle of the Locusts/the Kettle/o
03 - Marsha Hunt's 22/affinity/juicy Lucy - [ ]
(Oh No Not) the Beast Day/three Sisters/w
04 - Gravy Train/freedom/flied Egg - Think [ ]
of Life/toe Grabber/leave Me Woman
05 - Frumpy/warhorse/uriah Heep - I'm Afraid [ ]
Big Moon/vulture Blood/walking in Your Sh
06 - Juicy Lucy/bob Downes - [ ]
Train/piccadilly Circles/shes Mine
07 - Atlantis/janne Schaffer/ian Carr - It's [ ]
Getting Better/air Mattress/hectors House
08 - Patto/atlantis/affinity - Government [ ]
Man/living at the End of Time/i Am You
09 - Beggars Opera/alan Stivell/dr. Z - Time [ ]
Machine/an Dro Nevez/in A Token of Despai
10 - Atlantis/aphrodite's Child/may Blitz - [ ]
Let's Get on the Road Again/do It/for Mad
11 - Cressida/affinity - Lights in My [ ]
Mind/all Along the Watchtower
12 - Trace/may Blitz - Galliarde/snakes and [ ]
Ladders
13 - Nucleus - Roots [ ]
14 - Cressida - Let Them Come When They Will [ ]
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