Tag: Left Ear Records
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Poetical License’s melancholia and post-punk – the wares of Scottish-born Mark Airlie and New Zealand’s Keri Ansley – on Left Ear Records
It’s a great day whenever a Left Ear Records promo drops in the World Treasures inbox. This time, label boss Chris Bonato brings Poetical License to the light – a brief project uniting Scottish born and Aotearean (New Zealand) musician, Mark Airlie and keyboardist and vocalist, Keri Ansley, after the duo met in New Plymouth.…
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LISTEN: DJ mix for Narr Radio (April 2023) – post-punk, Italo and more
Tracklist: Jane Stevenson – Soloaloha Vivienne Goldman – Launderette Goat – Under No Nation Mauricio Takara, Carla Boregas – Areia Preta Kazino – Binary Conrad & Gregor Schnitzler – The Shark Eats Ice Michael Moorcock – Time Centre Expansives – Life With You Maximum Joy – Silent Street / Silent Dub Arthur Russell – Let’s…
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Leong Lau and East-West Unity Band’s psyched out jazz-rock of outernational wonder – Left Ear Records revive these lost beauties on 7″
After a little break, WTM is back to feature one of our favourite labels once again, as well as one of the most captivating artists from ‘down under’. Leong Lau was brought to the light by Left Ear Records of Australia, he’s a true Antipodean anomaly and encapsulates everything that World Treasures Music aims to…
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LISTEN: WTM mix featuring Tester Housing (Left Ear Records), Eddie Suzuki (Aloha Got Soul), Maston (Be With), ‘Mutant Pop…’ (LITA) and University Challenged (Hive Mind)
A mix of fairly recently reissued music – covered at WTM – including Tester Housing (Left Ear Records), University Challenged (Hive Mind), Lion’s Drums (Lion’s Drums) and Finis Africae from Hybla La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticsm 1983-1990 (Bongo Joe). Tracklist Al Diaz – What’s In a Name (Remix) Tester Housing – Into…
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Left Ear Records to drop four-track 12″ of short-lived Australian band, Tester Housing – featuring their two singles that capture the “chaos” of the early 80s Melbourne music scene – it’s out next week
Tester Housing are the latest revive for the peerless Left Ear Records, a Melbourne-based label where diversity and quality are so expertly considered with every release. Left Ear have reissued a range of genres – from African boogie rareties to choice bombs from the Carribean, obscure synth-wave to timeless folk – while also paying deserved…
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Minoru ‘Hoodoo’ Fushimi is Left Ear Records 25th release – ‘Hakodate Lady’ mutates Japanese enka genre into darker and abstract versions – a fitting celebration for a wonderfully diverse label
We love Minoru Fushimi and his unique approach to music in the early 1980s – check out his interview with us after his In Praise of Mitochondria compilation was released in 2017 on Left Ear Records – now his catalogue is being revisited for the 25th release on this fantastic label, with a special 7″,…
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Essential ‘lost’ Chicago anthem by LITIA=LOE is reissued by Left Ear Records and Mixed Signals – promo video is also a must see
This ‘lost’ Chicago house anthem is a deep and immersive track, on a par with many of the very best of the genre – it’s going to be available, affordable (this stuff is rare) and remastered thanks to Left Ear Records. This is wiggy, angry and righteous, backed by some killer synth work and raw…
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Rajan James’ ‘Impossible Dreams’ is a boogie influenced synth-pop gem and is the latest from Left Ear Records
Rajan James is a Jamaican-born English-raised musician and her Impossible Dreams have been preserved by Left Ear Records. Thankfully, both the unreleased full-length versions, including the instrumental, appear on a loud 12” single – the vocal is unique and memorable, so that instrumental will also give longevity to this and more versatility for DJs, it being…
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‘Phase III’ retrospective of Berliners I.A.O. is blissful first 2020 release by Left Ear Records
Once again (and yes I find myself writing and thinking this time and time again when listening to Left Ear Records – Ed), the Australian label’s output is once again peerless, having chosen a hugely important band to compile: I.A.O. Left Ear are experts at crafting essential narratives on our musical history, the compilation is…
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