16: Missent to Denmark - Catching The Frame (Christian Strobe Remix) (2012)

2012 draws to a close, so it´s a good time to choose one of the best songs this year. Both coming from Germany (a country that surely will be visited again in the final stretch of this blog), Missent To Denmark and Christian Strove joined forces last summer to create this new vision of such a refreshing song. For those who miss summertime.

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17: Philippe Laurent - Exposition 5 (1983)

 We continue this trip visiting France with another instrumental track. The author is Philippe Laurent (alias Hot-Bip), who composed in the early eighties minimal and experimental pieces of work ahead of its time. Like this Exposition 5 (or Exposition Partie 5), included in his cassette LP entitled Hot-Bip (1983) with strange, absorbent spacey synths.

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18: Legowelt ‎- Disco Rout (2002)

I need to pay a new visit to The Netherlands, because this list would be incomplete without such a genius as Legowelt. He began producing music in the early 1990s and released his first album in 1998. It is particularly curious how he describes his music: “a hybrid form of slam jack combined with deep Chicago house, romantic ghetto technofunk and EuroHorror Soundtrack”, and his main influences: “early electro and the obscure pre-1983 Italian disco “. As a result of all this mixture we have hits like Disco Rout. Unbeatable.

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19: XR 7 ‎- XR 7 (1980)

We move back to North America. Canadian artist and producer Aldo Nova is behind XR 7 only creation, entitled before the band, XR 7. With lively and innocent sounds, the song mixing guitar riffs with basic synth effects, Aldo achieved in 1980 a colorful and very enjoyable track.

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20: Matilda ‎- Amor natural (2008)

Time to go back to Spanish language. Matilda is a duo from Rosario, Argentina, who has published four albums since their first reference in 2002. Their relationship with music has always been very close, as they have worked organizing concerts and producing records for many years. However, they also have time to create their own songs, and, as we can listen below, they are really good at it.

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21: Ofra Haza ‎- Im Nin'Alu (1988)

  In our particular tour around the world we often find exotic songs from distant countries. It is the case with the selected song, Im Nin'Alu, a 17th-century Hebrew poem that has been set to music. First performed by Israeli Ofra Haza in 1978, later released in 1984, reaching success in 1988 with this remix version, a enjoyable electronic version with rich sounds full of exotism.
 

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22: Metropolitan - Bara Du (1982)

Last time we visited Sweden was summer, and now we go back there in the freezing cold of December. Metropolitan was an unknown Swedish band that, according to the little available information, only published one EP with two tracks. However, if all the songs that were left in their rehearsal studio were like this one, we certainly missed many good tunes.

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