great spanish beat yeye band covering, among others, Del Shannon's Keep Searchin'. The best track imho are Cleo y el Marcianito - nice pop pysch yeye to be included in the animation film 'El Mago de los Sueños' - and the cool Brindo (Mochi) Rare LP!

absolute uk mod freakbeat classic with organ break. The band was managed by Action's Reg King. Both sides have been obviously comped. USA pressing, hardly turns up!

their debut single. Very rare spanish promo

La Alegre All Stars fue la confirmación de que los músicos cubanos no solo tenían el ritmo en la sangre sino que también eran unos excelentes instrumentistas. La primera grabación de esta impresionante banda salió en 1961 cuando estaban de moda la música con guitarras a cargo de tríos y cuartetos. La música latina de baile en Nueva York solo la conocían unos cuantos expertos. La Alegre All Stars vino a unir la música latina con el jazz y se convirtieron en un mito. Este disco es una recopilación de lo mejor que grabaron con Charlie Palmieri al piano, acompañado de grandes músicos como Kako a los timbales, Johnny Pacheco a la flauta, Bobby Rodriguez al bajo, Chombo al saxo, los trombonistas Barry Rogers y Mark Weinstein, los trompetistasPuchi Boloung, Ray Maldonado, a la conga Frankie Malabe y Marcelino Valdes, a los bongos, Joe Quijano, Chicky Perez, David Cortijito, entre otros percusionistas, más las voces de Cheo Feliciano, Chirivico Davila, Yayo El Indio, Dioris Valladares, Rudy Calzado, Victor Velazquez, etc. Un disco realmente memorable para los amantes de los sonidos latinos.

superb vocal harmony pop from our favourite Granada band. Gentle sounds for gentle people!

weird mixture of bossa nova, flamenco & spoken word. 'Con Esperanza' certainly has some appealing for those looking for new sounds. Luis Arribas Castro (Luarca) was a quite famous radio speaker & journalist in Barcelona. He helped to build the 60s music scene there and wrote some extraordinaire lyrics for such groups as Los Salvajes or Don y Su Banda

great stoner psych, heavily influenced by 70s sounds. The second album by this New Jersey band. Signed by band members on the back!

numbered edition

spanish mod revival band. All originals and one Beatles cover (Please Mr Postman)

nice pop psych mid tempos from the swedish band, ex Tages

beat RnR dancer from the Irish guys. Rare Australian issue

vibrant italian beat psych with organ. Ultra cool pic shot for this prolific italian beat band

latin cumbia / mambo / ('marinera' according to the label) or whatever you may call this syncopated cha-cha-cha from Peu

organ garage beat! Take 'Louie Louie' riff, lay down a whirling organ on the back, add some snotty vocals and a good guitar break and you have a song you can't stop repeating in your head. First (of two) 45 by this band from Rochester, NY, comped many times. Rare promo issue

unknown studio band with female voice covering Cecilia songs. Nice

Los Angeles greatest glam punk band! You can hear the sound of this band on "Saturday Night Pogo" (originally on Rhino records). The album contains the 1978 single "Polaride Picture/Popular Boy" + nine studio unreleased songs recorded in the same years and hot live tracks. Essential for every late '70's punk rock'n'roll fan!

Spanish beat LP. A copy out of Discoteca Del Este (where they played and got the name from) and signed by band members ('con cariño de tus amigos Los Cinco del Este - see additional pics for details)!

blue eyed soul organ dancer. rare spanish single from the UK prog band that released the amazing LP 'Oh What a Lovely War'

UK pop psych to be found in 'Margareta', forget 'Don Juan'. By the guys who couldn't make their minds up and chose a proper name for his band and they still got huge success thoug. Steve Rowland production, cool spanish pic sleeve

organ psych prog with bongos from this Belgium group who also was the Adamo backing band

Moncho Alpuente band

El Gran Wyoming band

nice pop soul beat uptempo with backing organ. Rare, only release by this spanish band from Arousa (Galicia)

spanish pop rock surf new wave band with Poch ex Paraiso and Jaime Urrutia pre Gabinete Caligari. Compilation released in 1986 with their 1980 first single and unreleased stuff & demos

weird RnR revision of the Speedy song with moog/synth thrown in the mix. Uncommon single from a band I can't find any info about (probably a studio project)

instrumental organ beat plus a sing-along beat. Infra sound, badly played and recorded for the tiny label Boa. Still, an item for hard spanish collectors. Band from Valencia, this their second and last EP

great farfisa teen beat in spanish. Rare first EP of this all girls band (pioneer in Spain along with Las Chic) covering hits of the time. Best track by far is Y Viva El Amor (Vive L'Amour) and they cover Chico Buarque's A Banda too

Second album by the infamous basque punk band. Terrific album!

UK psych prog band covering two Tom Northcott, both comped on Electric Lemonade Acid Test. Really rare spanish release with one song each of their 2nd and 3rd 1969 UK releases

pounding garage with a psych touch, great guitar. B side is as beautiful as it gets! From Chicago, I love the early singles - this is their second - of this band before they bacame a major act

00s top mod beat band in Spain. Small Faces spirit with a Prisoners sound. first mini LP, Ltd Ed to 500 hand numbered copies

moody teen beat garage with a doo wop feeling on the vocals, specially on 'Bring It On Back'. Band hailing from Dayton OH. Rare!

spanish pop psych double delight! Catalan duo (Jose Luis Gausachs & Manuel Luis Lopez) that released these two superb originals with the help of Enric Herrera (of progressive band Maquina). Please listen carefully to both songs, sounds like two lost tracks of early Bee Gees pop psyke. They later renamed to Caoba to release a baroque pop psych masterpiece, Don Nadie. For those asking, this issue is exactly the same as G-10.001, same matrix number, where they just pasted new labels over the record and small stickers on cover changing the catalogue number

spanish early doo wop twist rocker. The band delivers some nice covers of Speedy Gonzalez and Peanut Butter

superb bubblegum beats by monsters TV show band for kids!

obscure folk garage psych with great harmonies and arabesque guitar playing, in-crescendo chorus. A true hidden gem that hardly shows up and a personal fave from this band that only released this nuggett before they changed their name to Split Level (pretty damn good album they made too!)

great dance groover with horns backed with bubblegum. The Hardy Boys was a short lived US band with Reed Kailing (ex Michael & the Messengers) in it. Rare spanish PS issue!

killer UK machine gun punk with cosmic effects. This is members of Hawkind shortly after the band disbanded, recorded one LP and this extremely rare spanish PS single is taken from there

80s band from Valencia, first wave on indies bands inspired by US college bands as REM

American classic rock. RnB and blues rock influences

compilation originally released on 1973 with Janis backed by Big Brother & Holding Co, Kozmic Blues Band and Full Tilt Boogie Band

spanish band covering in spanish Beach Boys and Tom Jones hits plus one original. Barbara Ann made in fast beat way!

two fast twist rockers by Joe Loss band, superb production

rare early 70s laid back psych prog band out from Rochester, NY. In a similar way to Ora or Byzantium. Composer Anthony Billo passed away in 2010. His brother has a youtube channel with more Kids songs. Worth checking

superb spanish dark synth pop in both sides, I specially like Fotogramas! Classic 'la movida' band from Madrid

cool psych fuzzy soul dancer, cover of Evolution 'I Must Live' by this band from Belgium. Sexy spanish pic sleeve, perfect for summer

spanish new wave power pop band from Madrid. Great songs!

nice latin jazz covers of Hugo Blanco and Chico Buarque originals - rare spanish pressing for this original Discomoda Venezuela recording

Los Sabandeños member

great prog psych with tight percussion and electric piano grooves, backed with a T.Rex styled mid tempo. After his beat period (Micky y los Tonys) Micky went solo in the 70s. For this release he paired with the mighty Fernando Arbex (ex Los Brincos), both songs penned by him, so the sound they got is in the same vein that Arbex was doing in his band, Barrabas

brain melter fuzz glam rocker. Misterious piece of wax, insanely rare and pressed in Italy, by a totally unknown band. Two covers here, Blackfoot Sue's Sing Don't Speak with maximum fuzz, and Wings' Hi, Hi, Hi. No info at all about this record except that Sing Don't Speak was also released in Argentina under the Badge monicker with different B side. If you ask me I'd say this a UK studio group covering hit songs, perfect english vocals, no trace of italian accent. The 'Beatt Production' line on the label gives a hint as there were many cheap productions and all-hits comps released stating it too, similar to the the Top of the Pops compilations. Only this time they pushed the fuzz pedal to the floor!

great spanish beat band. Covers of Beatles, Petula Clark, C Ballard Jr and Barry & Greenwich

polish folk band with a psych flavor in a few tracks. Superb artwork! Mono release

Western Impression is a nice blend of soul mod rock for dance with some crazy shooting effects. Band from Germany, I think!

nice 70s pop rock. Second LP by this scottish band, ex Bay City Rollers

american big band dixie jaz ragtime. VERY RARE spanish pressing in ultra cool 20s style shot

xian teen beat for christmas from Seville, Spain, out of key and badly payed. The only cool thing about it it's the band of youngsters shot on cover, if you ask me!

great northern soul beat groover! This is the vocal version of True Patron by the Florida outfit, previously known as American Beetles, also released as instrumental only in Pow using the Queen City Show Band monicker

great northern soul beat groover! This is the vocal version of True Patron by the Florida outfit, previously known as American Beetles, also released as instrumental only in Pow using the Queen City Show Band monicker

great french crooner Ricardo Canova, with Michel Colombier orquestra

classic uptempo garage nugget. First 45 of three by the New Jersey band, here with the PS it originally came out with

great teen beat dancer, his first in Tower. RDean is no other than Warren Schatz, singer, writer, producer based in NYC that started great bands like The Petrified Forest, The Pendants, The Warmest Spring and others

great afro-cuban & latin cha cha cha rhythms from the easy listening bandleader Horst Wende recording under pseudonym. 1976 issue

rare UK rockabilly, their only release. This is Tommy Bishop's band, the Ricochets, that went on to form The Rush and Tinkerbell's Fairydust, which reunited with their singer for this one-off recording. Rare german release with great eye-catchy artwork

his first solo LP

cool scottish folk rock, reminiscences of 70s celtic folk rock bands

organ psych rock mover - excellent percussion work - backed with ethereal slow psych ballad. From Detroit, one of the three releases of the band. Quite rare to see!

french pounding psych dancer. Nice band shot for this spanish release

nice northern soul on both sides. Obscure pice of wax outta NY. They were to be known a few years later as Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, achieving quite a succes in the disco era. This is one of their first releases, if not the first at all!

Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, London on 24th May 1975 with the RAK Mobile
Mixed at AIR Studio, London

cool moody beat midtempo by this obscure UK combo, great vocals harmonies. It seems was released in the US only, and songs written by Wyld-Storm-Heard. If anyone could throw some light on this band I'd appreciate

US band quite unknown. Great rock cover of Neil Young's The Loner, backed with superb horn rocker. Pristine spanish issue with PS

christmas beat song by the infamous spanish band Los Stop. Cool transparent green flexi record release

excellent modern soul disco with suggestive female chorus. According to back cover notes this is a US band doing Philly rhythms, though both songs are written, arranged and produced by Jean Claudric, so probably is some kind of euro project. Oh, and pretty sexy chic on cover too!

great pair of modern soul disco songs by Memphis band. Giorgio Moroder production, spanish PS issue

organ sunshine psych double sider. 'Take Care' was comped on 'If You're Ready' but has yet to be discoverd, a real beauty, same goes for the b side. Chicago band, their lonely effort, with Mark Gallagher before joining The Litter

superb country folk rock a-la CSN&Y. UK band, single taken from their first LP 'Up Hill All The Way'

spanish folk band from Mallorca

great compilation of samba songs with Toquinho, Vinicius de Morares, Marilia Medalha and others