Various - G Spots

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 05 Mar, 2009.

Jonny Trunk continues to reign as supreme lord of library music and cheese with the new G Spots comp released on his retrobumming label. The Studio G label was set up by an advertising chap in the 60's and here is the first retrospective comp of the label's output which covers a variety of different genres like folk, electronica, jazz and general weirdness. It's well spacey sounding and after a couple of listens you can hear how influential it's more than likely been. I'm sure the likes of Stereolab, Plone (if anyone remembers them) etc would have been listening to this space cheese. There's some cracking tracks on here I have to say and included are a couple of tracks from Vision On which will appeal to all nostalgia nuts out there. Limited vinyl as ever.... only 500 and once they've gone they've gone. This is well tasty..... Not quite as tasty as the pizza I've just talked myself into getting tonight will be though....

G-Spots is the first ever retrospective of Studio G, one of the smallest, but finest music libraries to come out of the UK.

* It was started in London, in the late 1960s by advertising man John Gale. He realised that most library music at the time was still very much "light orchestral".

* He decided to change things and across 48 albums between 1969 and 1982 made quite an extraordinary impact. With a small stable of talented and versatile musicians, Studio G produced albums covering all major library music genres - Horror, Pop, Industrial, Children, Jazz, Avant Garde.

* The results were a stunning collection of stripped down, simple but extremely effective compositions across a variety of genres, many employing heavy delay, reverb, echo boxes and early synthesis.

* G-Spots begins with humble tracks with treated guitars and musical jaunts into outer space; we then move through jazz, easy listening and oddball sounds into weird, dark and often quite unsettling future music.There are drifting synthesiser soundscapes, unsettling vocal tapeloops, even the odd bit of electro voodoo.

* With music this interesting and different it’s understandable that bands like The Chemical Brothers and Unkle have sampled some of the more obscure corners of the catalogue. It will also come as no surprise that originals of the rarer Studio G albums fetch huge amounts of money when they come up for sale.

Vinyl strictly limited to 500 copies

* CD TRACKLISTING: 01) Icicles - Douglas Wood (3007) 02) Folk Ghost - Douglas Wood (3007) 03) Boy On Space - Douglas Wood (3007) 04) Moon Nightclub - Douglas Wood (3007) 05) Waiting For Nina - Paul Lewis (3003) 06) Silhouettes - Douglas Wood (3002) 07) Kids Stuff - Douglas Wood (3002) 08) Soul Riff - Douglas Wood (3002) 09) Five To A Bar - Douglas Wood (3002) 10) Romantic Sway - Douglas Wood (3002) 11) Moving Parts - James Harpham (1007) 12) Wild Cat Walk - Ivor Raymond (1003) 13) Elephants Dance - Harry Pitch (1004) 14) Visions Of 2000AD 4 - James Harpham (1008) 15) Deformed Theme - Eric Peters (2008) 16) Foggy Dock - P Willsher / T Kelly (4002) 17) Dangerous Voyage - P Willsher / T Kelly (4002) 18) VoodooTronics - James Harpham (1009) 19) Cosmic Dust - James Asher (4004) 20) Liquid Gold - James Asher (4004) 21) Sprockets - Frederick Judd (1009) 22) Cosmic Blues - F Afzelius (3001) 23) Planet Travel - Eric Peters (3009) 24) Space Service - Eric Peters (3009) 25) Freak Blues - Ericm Peters (3009) 26) Goofy - Cliff Johns (1010)

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