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La Buena Vida - Tardes de CafeThe fabulous Stamp fanzine introduced me to Spainish pop in the late eighties. The excellent Rutland Records tape compilation had a great song by this Spanish band "Aventuras De Kirlian" which I fell in love with right away. Some years later the new Spanish label Siesta Records released a fantastic 7" by La Buena Vida, the follow up to "Aventuras De Kirlian". I had just released the International Pop 7" and was planning a second one, so I asked them for a song. The first time I've heard "Tardes de Cafe" was at my friend Keith's house in Rhode Island in September 1993, since then it waited to be released.
Masters Of The Hemisphere - My Cloud
Super - all-american cheesecake I was buying all their releases from Mind The Gap because Jörg recommended them, so one day I wrote an e-mail asking for a song.
#Poundsign# - AYSOI saw them at the Popfest in LA in January 1997 and because they are so great I had to ask them for a song.
Mumbly - Demain I met Michael in New York at the popfest were he and his wife Pascale played as Watoo Watoo, I wasn't too impressed then but when Oliver of Marsh Marigold told me about releasing a Mumbly CD I knew I had to pay more attention.
Shoestrings - Theme From "Kiss Me Goodnight"I first met Mario and Rose at the TweeFest in New York in 1995, in addition to being super nice people they soon started making wonderful music. They appeared on several compilations since but I still wanted a song for Seven Summers.
Brideshead - Shampoo BubbleI got their great CD EP some time ago, but it wasn't until I saw them live in January 1998 that I ask them for a song.
The Best Wishes - The Best sort of wishes I saw them at the Popfest in New York in January 1997 and because they are so great I had to ask them for a song.
The best wishes are Catherine and Josh, both of them used to be in the band "A Shoebox Full Of Love"
Acid House Kings - ParisI always loved this band since they first appeared on the Grimsby Fishmarket tape under the name of "My Finest Hour", try to get their excellent releases on Marsh Marigold and their latest offering on Shelflife Records.
Kincaid - Trackside
The whole Kindercore connection was born at the popfest in Cambridge (Boston) in May 1997, I was
looking for an American partner to release this CD in the US. I was in contact with Drive-In, Double
Agent and Sonorama but all of them were pretty busy releasing their own stuff. In Boston I had a
great time with Ryan from Kincaid, Polly from Gritty Kitta and Shaun form The Masters Of The Hemisphere.
It wasn't until the Chicago popfest in June that we aggreed to do the CD together. In addition to the
three Kindercore bands Ryan and Dan also got the "The Autumn Teen Sound" and Bunnygrunt songs.
Airport Girl - I Never Liked The Look Of Youpropably the best tape I ever received in the indiepop-list tapeswap came from John Jarvis, we are still e-mailing each other occasionally and I asked him about English bands for my CD as I don't really know the UK scene these days. He suggested Fortuna Pop and so I got into Airport Girl.
It's kind of strange that there is only one British band on this compilation. My previous one had 75% British bands.
Hey Paulette - Inconsequential Back in the eighties I was still listening to the radio and even wrote letters to my favourite DJs. That way I got in contact with John Peel and whenever I'm in London I have a beer with him. Back in 1989 he invited my friend Andy and me to join him for his radio show at the legendary BBC broadcasting house. Anyway, in session that night was this Irish band Hey Paulette and there were great. I went out to buy their records but could only find one 12". In summer 1997 my friend and living pop-encyclopedia Uwe Weigmann told me about their 7", so I wrote to them asking for it and also about any unreleased songs. I may release a limited CD with all their output.
The Silent Boys - Saturday another "old" song, also at least from 1993. I was visiting the US for the first time and at the first weekend I was Richmond, Virginia for the Brilliant Records festival. I stayed with a good customer of Mind The Gap, the mail-order service I was running at that time, he played me some songs by his band and I quite liked it. I can not understand he still hasn't released anything else by now.
The Crooner - A Warm Day In JuneThe Crooner impressed me with their "Sounds From The Valley" 7" and also their song on the Whirl Wheels compilation. The continue the Greek pop tradition on Fantastic Something and in the eighties and bands like "Next Time Passions" and "One Night Suzan" in the early nineties.
Watoo Watoo The Golden Castle (acoustic version)see also Mumbly as Michaël Korchia is the mastermind behind both bands, which are actually quite good live as well as I good experience in Paris some time ago.
Bunnygrunt - My Darling, My Jackhammer(St. Louis, Missouri)
one of the better known American indiepop-bands of the late nineties.
Den Baron - Potion No.1 This came as a bonus with the Brideshead song. Den has lots of excellent songs recorded in his bedroom, hopefully we will see some more of them appearing on record soon.
Cessna - Explain To Me AgainI always knew Kimmo from the Indiepop list, but I didn't know he was in a band as well. I shouldn't have been surprised because nearly everybody on the list is in a band or does a radio show or a fanzine. Anyway for some reason I ignored their first 7" on Jigsaw, but it was impossible to ignore their double 3" CD on Radio Khartoum a few months later. I remember all the Finish bands Peel played all the time and in all the years there wasn't a single good one among them. So it's great to have bands like Cessna, Super or The Pansies.
The Autumn Teen Sound - Number Onethis is Skippy of March Records fame. He had the hidden song of the Pop American Style comp, it was really great to see him play at the pre-post party in Chicago in his own basement.
Die Elektros - Kämpferin in S-BahnzügenI've heard this song on the Fieberkurve CD and liked it so much that I have to bring it to a bigger audiance.
Gritty Kitty - Summer Rain
The Sugargliders - Everybody SupermarketThe 7" was a co-release with Season Records out of Melbourne, Australia. Dave Harris who recently released the second Munch video collection was resonsible for getting an Australian band for the EP. He was friends with the Sugargliders, so another natural choice. He also helped them to get on Sarah after releasing three singles on Summershine Records. They split up and formed The Steinbecks whom also split up by now.
Red Sleeping Beauty - You Are The KindIn the early nineties Marcus Toerncrantz in Sweden released his excellent fanzine "Grimsby Fishmarket", we were exchanging letters and I told him about my plans for an EP, he then send me a tape of a band by a friend of him. What a gorgeous song, it alone was worth doing the EP. Red Sleeping Beauty later released records on Marsh Marigold and Siesta, they split up in 1997.
The Legendary Bang - Love
In the early nineties we had a fairly big pop-scene in Hamburg based on the local bands on the
Marsh Marigold label, I was (still am) friends with all those guys and it was only natural to include
one of the bands on the EP.
The "Bangs" split up after two great 7" EPs, Martin was in
"50.000.000 Elvis fans can't be wrong", Sandra joined Die Fünf Freunde and later Camping.
