***Andy Votel and Jane Weaver -Europium Alluminate Mix -spooky childlike female vocals!***

This video doesn't i think depict music from the mix, but it does depict its strangeness and surreal charm..
Andy Votel and Jane Weaver have brewed a magical blend of spectral, eldritch, female-centric folk called Europium Alluminate. Its tracklist (damnably AWOL, as is common with many Votel-helmed mixes) emanates from a time when irony in music was mostly unconscionable. The prevalent doe-eyed sincerity is positively touching and the gentle sonic strangeness utterly charming.here

Vague tracklist, from what i managed to 'Shazam'!!:-

*Pearl's Dream (from b/w old film Night of the Hunter)

*My name is Nobody -Ennio Morricone from ??

*Say your prayers -Dot -From comp lp 'Everything you ever wanted to know about Twisted Nerve but were Afraid to Ask'

*Turning in Circles -Jane Weaver from'The Fallen By Watch Bird'

*Valzerino del Nonno -Carlo Savina & Orchestra- from 'Giulietta Degli Spiriti'

*Noctilumina - Jane Weaver- Fallen by Watch Bird

*Lilith -singing in the Dark -Bruno Spoerri - 'Glucksgugel'

*Prinderella -The Holy Mackerel -The Holy Mackerel

*Est-ce que tu -Dusty Trails -'Dusty Trails'

*Magic Man -Heart - 'Dreamboat Annie'

*March of the Siamese Children -Martin Denny -' the Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny'

*Rosemary's Party - Urszula Dudziak -Rosemary's Baby OST

*Tape-Tape-Tape - Jeanne Marie Sens -Dirty French Psychedelics

*H.i.a - Horrific Child - 'Letrange Mr Whinster'

*Jay -Grace Slick -'Manhole'

*Silver Chord -Jane Weaver -the Fallen by Watch Bird

..some of these are definites, some not so much, and there is still much good bits i couldnt tag at all... Never mind!

***Andy Votel (various artists) Vintage Voltage -Global Robotic Rock***

Review From Amazon.co.uk:

Volume 4 of Andy Votel's Fat City Mix CDs, this is another trawl through his global record collection. Whilst the previous three volumes have been mostly of the psych variety, the focus here is on electronic, synth driven pop and rock. Featuring cuts from 72 songs crammed into 78 minutes, there is no one except Votel that could conceive and pull something like this off - it's both audacious and bold but, like the previous volumes, it works perfectly.

Krautrock, Electro-Pop, Library and just about just about every known other-wordly genre - even Bollywood - have been cherry picked for obscure robotic and electronic sounds. It's seamlessly mixed and there is never a dull moment. As usual there's no track list and casual listeners will be hard pushed to name more than a few tracks - Votel does not deal in mainstream music.

Shazam says:

Zodiac ЗОДИАК (zodiac) (russian band)
Toc -tom ze -"estudando o samba" 1976
Robot - Plastics (Japan) - "forever plastico"
@37:21-40:40 -Guitar El Chark -Omar Khorshid -"Rhythms from the Orient" OR "Guitar El Chark" compilation ( <- ON THIS BLOG!!)
Jumping balls -klaus Weiss - Colours of Funk (Various artists)
Medley: Transfert I/Hypnos/Transfert II -Libra -The Shock OST (1970's)
Olamam ki -Gyzin ile Baha
The Pleasure - Metal Boys
La Porta Chiusa -Le Orme (first lp)(ON THIS BLOG!!)

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Andy Votel: (Various artists) "I Wonder if They'd Like Something Foreign with a Bit More Drums and Heavier Fuzz" (Promo)

I Wonder...: mixtape of rare foreign psych. The mix is one file but see tracklist, below:
1 Fusioon - Tocata Y Fug

2 François Wertheimer - L'Automne

3 Noor Jehan - I Am Very Sorry

4 Gábor Presser And Anna Adamis - Ringasd El Magad

5 Nahid Akhtar - Sheeshy Ki Botal

6 Dance With Action - Science Fiction Dance Party

7 Jean-Pierre Massiera - Ivresse Des Profondeurs

8 Wolf People - Tiny Circles

9 Ali Babki* - Your Grey Eyes

10 Liftmen, The - Gas Bag

11 Samandtheplants - Story

12 Jane Weaver - My Soul Was Lost, My Soul Was Lost, And No One Save

13 Bran - Breuddwyd

14 Cromagnum Band, The* - Mouth Of Madness

15 Melodians, The - The Good The Bad And The Ugly

16 Tullio De Piscopo - Fastness

17 Runa Lailia* - Meri Marzi Main Gaoon

18 Vampires Of Dartmoore, The - The Fire-Dragon

19 Samandtheplants - Number Three

20 Tafo Brothers - Dear I Love You

21 Laughing Windows, The - Salak Pazar

22 Brigitte Fontaine - Quand Les Ghettos Bruleront

23 Emma Tricca - Monday Morning Yawning

24 Jesus - Song Mortaire

25 Sevil And Ayla (3) - Bebek

26 Fusioon - Tocata Y Fug Reprise


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Andy Votel -Music to Watch Girls Cry

And I thought I knew a lot of obscure tracks!!
Only a lifetime devoted to the unusual and strange on vinyl could enable Mr Votel to compile this mix album.
There's no track listing so perhaps these tracks are destined to remain anonymous - but I'd still love to know what some of them are.
If you liked DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's Brainfreeze or David Holmes's Free Association mix then you'll love this - but be sure to bring your sense of humour.
There is some funk and soul - but also French yeye, garage sounding rockiness, Indian flavours, movie sountracks, folk and even something that sounds like Krautrock - but don't be put off!
At times it sounds like a soundtrack to a sixties swinging London film - if they'd invented turntablism and eclectic mixes in those days.
The sheer unlikely, joyous, juxtaposition of these tunes brings out something that I'm sure most would not pick up if these listen to these songs in isolation.
The mixing is a little cut and paste at times and seems to drift off in quality towards the end - but that's just a small criticism. There are apparently 75 tracks in 76 minutes so its no surprise if its a little raw - but that only adds to its carefree anything-goes nature.
As the number of corporate mixes seems to be on the increase and you can't move for generic computerized 'Ibiza' 'Beach' 'Misery of Sound' boring and unimaginative mixes this is a welcome breath of fresh air.
More please.

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Folk is Not a four Letter Word- (Vols 1 & 2) Various (Andy Votel compilation)

Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word (Vol 1)- Compiled by Andy Votel

1. Carol Batton - Beeing (Intro)
2. Kathy Smith - It's Taking So Long
3. Sarofeen & Smoke - It's Love
4. Brigitte Fontaine - Brigitte
5. Linda Perhacs - Hey, Who Really Cares?
6. Breakout - Usta Me Ogrzej (Warm Up My Lips)
7. Musica Dispersa - Cefalea
8. Poppy Family - Shadows On My Wall
9. Wendy & Bonnie - By The Sea
10. Bonnie Koloc - My Aunt Edna
11. Heaven & Earth - Jenny Listen
12. Erica Pomerance - You Used To Think
13. Audience - Man On Box
14. The Roundtable - Scarborough Fair
15. Sidan - Gobiath
16. Sidan - Ar Goll

Folking great stuff!


Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word (Vol. 2) - Compiled by Andy Votel



1. Carol Batton - Intro
2. Midsommar - Balladen Om Belfast
3. Y Triban - A Night In The City
4. These Trails - Of Broken Links
5. Chuck & Mary Perrin - Flying
6. Jan & Lorraine - Number 33
7. Elly & Rikkert - Heksenkring
8. Susan Christie - Paint A Lady
9. Paul Parrish - Dialogue Of Wind And Lover
10. Emmanuelle Parrenin - Apres Londee
11. Naomi - How Do?
12. Parchment - Son Of God
13. Alexis Korner & CCS - Sunrise
14. Woody Simmons - Grey Today
15. Vainica Doble - Dime Felix
16. 11.59 - The Waters Of Babylon
17. Midwinter - Maids And Gentlemen
18. Pentangle - I Saw An Angel
19. Sibylle Baier - Softly
20. Turid - Song
21. Turid - På Tredje Dagen Uppståndna

another folking great album!!

Andy Votel -Songs in the Key of Death (Various Artists)

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful: Andy Votel  Songs In The Key Of Death, 18 May 2005 By "reviewsbyfaz" -Andy Votel long time Fat City collaborator and label boss of Twisted Nerve which brought Badly Drawn Boy to our attention. Serves up the best offering so far of his eccentric vinyl obsessive genius and it's a blinder! This is essentially a 60 minute mash up mix of spoken word samples and no less than 100 obscure funk records and from all over the globe, which even has the time to include bizarre karaoke covers of The Beatles. This is all held together by a frenetic pace which keeps you hooked from start to finish, and is extremely difficult not to enjoy.

FORGOTTEN SOUNDS, 23 Nov 2005 By  Mr. C. D. Mabbutt "cdmabbutt" (Derby) -It was always going to be hard for Mr.Votel to follow up the intense and mesmeristic 'Music To Watch Girls Cry' and he nearly does it with this second installment of crashed and mashed (I Watch Girls Cry' and he nearly does it with this second installment of crashed and mashed (I mean that in a potato way) comp. The first couple of tracks on 'Songs in...' as outstanding and allow one's jaw to simply, if not completely, drop. BUT it is not long until Mr.Votel begins to drop in the duds. There are not many but they do grate a little. drop in the duds. There are not many but they do grate a little. Andy Votel does a fine job of taking both known and unknown sounds and creating an audio montage out of em, similar to DJ Shadow in some respects but with less ego and a more ironic sense of humour. In no way do I regret purchasing this album, for it a splendid thing. But I would recommend both its prequel and the more recent Vertigo Mixed above it.

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Prog is Not a Four Letter Word -Andy Votel (Various Artists)

omur biter yol bimez -typical prog track

Album Description
• Whoever came up with the over-pretentious, collective term "Progressive Rock" couldn’t have been less forward thinking. Prog rock in its truest form was not a ‘restrictive’ genre - it was a movement that unified ALL genres.
• Forget such flamboyant cover stars such as Genesis, Yes and ELP, what of the truly progressive international rock musicians who started their own hybrid-hurricanes outside the rectangular iris of Prog's media storm? What about the unintentionally progressive musicians from the far reaches of the globe who were forced to create their own brand of psychedelic rock in a country shielded from the influence of the western world? And why don’t we spare a thought (and some needle time), for the culturally progressive crusaders carrying the rock-music flag in the face of political adversity risking social ostrasization or even death?

• Even though most of the 15 tracks on this compilation were recorded over 30 years ago they still, individually embody a wide range of challenging progressive musical ideas which are as relevant today as they were when the vinyl first came off the press in each of their scattered countries of origin.

• "Prog Is Not A Four Letter Word" is the follow-up to ANDY VOTEL (TWISTED NERVE)’s critically acclaimed "Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word" (CDDELAY01), which caused quite a stir earlier this year.

• The majority of these tracks have never before been on CD, many appear here for the first time away from their highly sought after, and stupendously rare, original releases.

*Psychelatte's Verdict: Very cool and weird offbeat collection of sounds from all round the globe!

Track Listings
1. Pozzo Del Pichio - Merta
2. Visitors - Visitors
3. Baris Manco - Lambaya Puf De
4. Drugi Nacin - Zuti List
5. Bran - Breuddweyd
6. Breakout - Powiedzielismy Juz Wszystko
7. San Ul Lim - Frustration
8. Egg - Fugue In D Minor
9. 3 Hurel - Omur Biter Yol Bitmez
10. Illes - Nem Erdekel Amit Mondsz
11. Jean Claude Vannier - Les Gardes Volent Au SecoursDu Roi
12. Embryo - Music Of Today
13. Jazz Q - Toledo.

Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word.rar

Vertigo Mixed -Andy Votel (Essential compilation for Progheads -many obscurities here! expand your world!)

Track 4 -Vertigo Mixed. (Andy Votel) -Vertigo! -Vertigo! -Vertigo!

***IF YOU LIKE THIS, (AND HOW COULD YOU NOT?), PLEASE CHECK OUT THE ALBUMS FROM WHICH THIS CRAZY MIX WERE TAKEN FROM! (SEE THE 'VERTIGO' LABEL OR THE LABEL 'ALBUMS FEATURED ON ANDY VOTEL'S VERTIGO MIX').

Vertigo Mixed .... by Andy Votel
Andy Votel has produced a gem of a CD having somehow polished his beloved Vertigo collection of rough stones down producing a 60 minute mix CD featuring his pick of the bunch. Andy’s had an nfatuation with the Vertigo rock catalogue for 20 years and explains infatuation with the Vertigo rock catalogue for 20 years and explains on the sleeve the choice was tough, “As any symphonic-rock enthusiast will testify, prog rock tracks are not short.” 4 tracks alone could fill up this hour long album and It is testament to this DJ’s skil he has succeeded in arranging a CD grabbing your attention from start to finish, 52 superb tracks squeezed in to 68 minutes of classic progressive & psychedelic music. Don’t be put off if you don’t recognise many names on the back cover, your peers will think you truly Avant Garde and any self cover, your peers will think you truly Avant Garde and any self-respecting muso would give his right arm for this collection. Vertigo records have so many layers they are simultaneously rocky, funky, moody & generally kick ass. Highlight of the album is the mesmerising minute long drum solo towards the end inducing the kind of dizziness you’d expect with Vertigo. This a great record to warm up pre-gig with a few JD and coke, just don’t forget to go out!

1. Linda Hoyle – Morning for One
2. Lighthouse – Love of A Woman
3. Gracious – Introduction
4. Nirvana – Modus Operand
5. Aphrodite’s Child – Battle of The Locusts
6. Colosseum – The Kettle
7. Manfredd Mann – One Way Glass
8. Black Sabbath – Behind The Wall of Sleep
9. Assagai – Telephone Gir
10. Marsha Hunt’s 22 – The Beast Da
11. Affinity – Three Sisters
12. Juicy Lucy – Willie The Pimp
13. Gravy Train – Think of Life
14. Freedom – Toe Grabber
15. Flied Egg – Leave Me Woman
16. Frumpy – I’m Afraid Big Moon
17. Warhorse – Vulture Blood
18. Thin Lizzy – JTF Meets JTW
19. Uriah Heep – Walking In Your Shadow
20. Tea – Through Scarlet
21. Juicy Lucy – Train
22. Bob Downes – Piccadilly Circles
23. Juicy Lucy – She’s Min
24. Buffalo – Ballade of Irvin Fink
25. Atlantis – It’s Getting Better
26. Janne Schaffer – Air Mattress
27. Ian Carr – Hector’s House
28. Patto – Government Man
29. Atlantis – Living At The End of Time
30. Affinity – I Am You
31. Beggars Opera – Time Machine
32. Alan Stivell – An Dro Neve
33. Agitation Free – Rucksturrz
34. Zao – La Soupe
35. Catapilla – Embryonic Future
36. Brave New World – The End
37. Dr. Z – In A Token of Dispair
38. Atlantis – Let’s Get on The Road Again
39. Aphrodite’s Child – Do It
40. Black Sabbath – The Wizard
41. May Blitz – For Madmen Only
42. Baker Gurvitz Army – Memory Lane
43. May Blitz – In Part
44. Daddy Longlegs – Wheelin’ And Dealin'
45. Cressida – Lights In My Mind
46. Affinity – All Along The Watchtower
47. Trace – Galliard
48. Brave New World – The End
49. May Blitz – Snakes And Ladders
50. Nucleus – Root
51. Agitation Free – Haunted Island
52. Cressida – Let Them Come When They Will

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