Various - Absolute Belter

· ‘Absolute Belter’ features rare nuggets from Soledad Miranda (‘Vamyros
Lesbos’), Los Mismos and Fusioon, and bizarre versions of tracks written by
Curved Air, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Quincy Jones, Wayne
Fontana and Yamasuki.
· Finders Keepers have always been inspired by seldom-championed, selfsufficient
labels such as Kuckuck in Germany, BYG in France and Sain in Wales,
who have all maintained utmost artistic integrity and broke truly experimental and
successful careers without having to surrender their creative loins, allowing the
music to fly freely.
· Throughout the 1990s the rise in popularity of indigenous European
genres such as Krautrock and French Ye-Ye saw American, English and
Japanese collectors re-invent the concept of world music, pondering un-raked
territories, and the neatly arranged and numbered racks of laminated 7” sleeves
that originated from Barcelona in the 60s and 70s have provided many of these
vinyl vultures and portable record deck wielders with enough random and varied
music to justify week long pop pilgrimages to Spanish flea markets and thrift
shops. Belter Records, with their familiar yellow graphic bands and blue / silver
or brown / yellow labels, punctuate racks of other Spanish delights in a country
whose habitual record buying market was initiated and facilitated by a self-made
home grown institution. This is were you'll find hip hop producers rubbing
shoulders with mods and proggers, shying away from the sun, contemplating a
supposedly authentic paella supper and repeatedly flipping over the endless rivers
of 7” circles and squares in search of another ‘Absolute Belter’.
· The year 2010 marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most
recognised independent commercial music companies of post-war
Europe and with a back catalogue of magnetic tape that could circle the planet,
the legacy of Barcelona’s Belter repertoire has touched each continent, proudly
defiant in the face of fascism, technology, revolution, capitalism, patriotism, bad
fashion, good vibrations and dubious humour.

Fusioon ‘Tocata Y Fug’ * Furia ‘Furia’ * Los Roller ‘Un Consejo’ * Huracanes ‘Cambio’ *
Sonya ‘En Mi Nube (Get Off My Cloud)’ * Rudy Ventura ‘Soy Un Sonador’ * Fusioon ‘Ciclos’ *
Fuerza ‘Un Lugar’ * Rudy Ventura ‘Yamasuki’ * Control ‘Por Las Viejas Calles’ *
Fusioon ‘Farsa Del Buen Vivir’ * Los Huracanes ‘Good Gally Miss Molly’ *
The Brisk ‘El Juego Del Amor’ * Los Ros ‘Cuentame Cosas Tuyas’ *
Albert Band ‘Ella Tiene El Cabello Rubio’ * Los Mismos ‘Jefe Ironside’ *
Los Roller ‘Camino Cortado’ * Soledad Miranda ‘La Verdad’ * Los Gritos ‘Veo Visions’ *
Alfonso Santisteban ‘Zorongo’ * Top Show ‘Escucha Nina’ *
Hermanos Calatrava ‘Space Oddity’

So, what do you think? Best reviewer each month gets £10 off their next order!