Needle Time

  Quando Quango - Love Tempo [OFNY 5TH USA 1983 24-Bit FLAC] Upping the tempo for a bit.... It bugs me how quiet my original UK pressing of Love Tempo (FAC 79) really is. The thirty-eight year old record is really quite worn so getting a usable rip is close to impossible. I don't have the Factory Benelux versions to hand, so cue the original American version, which I believe is the same mix as the UK. Pressed in New York and distributed by Sleeping Bag Records, this insanely catchy number hit the dizzy heights of number 4 in the US Dancefloor Chart.  Produced by New Order's Bernard Sumner and A Certain Ratio's Donald Johnson, Love Tempo deserved significant worldwide success, however this silly fools at Factory Records just didn't know what to do with it, therefore sales languished in the lower echelons of the UK Indie Singles Chart. A1 Love Tempo B1 Love Tempo (Mix)

  Quando Quango - Genius [FAC 137 MCR 1985 24-Bit FLAC] Out of Manchester and Rotterdam came Quando Quango - once described by a NME hack as lift music in a review, Genius is actually a cracking piece of uptempo latino house music...and it should have been massive.  The keen eared amongst you will appreciate the skillful hands of Vini Reilly, whose fabulous guitar work also graces the track as well as Andy Connell who tinkles his ivories with usual aplomb. This was to be the final QQ release prior Mike Pickering and Simon Topping's reinvention as T-Coy. Gonnie Reitveld went her own way, with brief musical interludes with Hypnotone on Creation Records and Search on Robs Records, before establishing herself as an academic . A1 Genius B1 Rebel