BEGV5 - Coming From A Higher Place - A Soundtrack

OK, so here we are with my fifth compilation. It's taken a lot longer to get upped as I wasn't quite happy with the tracklisting and left it alone for a month or so. Diz has had a copy of the old listing for some time now and his thoughts were to remove a Cockney Rejects track from the listing.....Cockney Rejects? Yup, great band love 'em loads but they didn't really fit in, as much as I wanted them to, with the rest of the fine tracks here. So they were replaced by the magnificent Serge Gainsbourg...who due to his Frenchness was also the inspiration for the cover, which the more astute/switched on amongst you will notice has 2 scenes from 1971 cop drama 'The French Connection' as it's theme. The cover was also another sticking point as I wanted to try and find some graphic novel images to carry along with Diz' theme, but I couldn't find the right ones....so stuck with a tried and tested method......pick some images I liked and whack them in.

On to the music, I wanted a definite feel to this one....a sort of soundtrack....something that wasn't necessarily overflowing with danceable tunes, but something that wouldn't be out of place in a 70's movie. I think I've got it just about right, some of the tracks could be from a scene where a classic open topped car is driving through the French Alps or somewhere in the Loire Valley, some have a more 'sinister' feel to them for an aggressive scene. I also wanted to make up a 'movie' to fit in with the tracks, along the lines of what Diz did with his fifth - but everything I came up with sounded like a bunch of pretentious tosh...so I gave up on that and thought "I'll let the tunes tell the story", but then decided that that sounded like a bunch of pretentious tosh too, so after all that....it's a bunch of eclectic songs, from the obvious movie themes like David Holmes' opening killer track (from Oceans Eleven), some garage punk/R&B courtesy of The Stairs and Thee Cybermen, the car chase scene from Bullitt, the brilliance of Massive Attack to the French Connnection of Monsieur Serge Gainsbourg and the great guitar on that track. I hope you enjoy it, I've found that it makes for a fantastic 'driving' compilation, which Diz also agreed with too.

As always there are print quality covers in the zipped file that you will download, don't bother trying to print the images here on the blog as they are just low-res versions.

TRACKLIST

• 01 David Holmes - $160 Million Chinese Man
• 02 Greyboy Featuring Karl Benson - Greys Groove
• 03 Baby Charles - Comin' From A Higher Place
• 04 Billie Davies - There Must Be A Reason
• 05 Marvin Gaye - This Love Starved Heart Of Mine (It's Killing Me)
• 06 Ebony Rhythm Band - Drugs Aint Cool (Instrumental),
• 07 The Stairs - Mr Window Pane
• 08 Thee Cybermen - Ou Est Le Cahier?
• 09 Flow Dynamics - Better On Stage
• 10 Corduroy - Money Is
• 11 Lalo Schifrin - Shifting Gears
• 12 Dave Mitchell And The Screamer - The Trip
• 13 Dyke & The Blazers - We Got More Soul
• 14 Gabor Szabo - Beat Goes On
• 15 Guru (Featuring Dc Lee & Ronny Jordan) - No Time To Play
• 16 Isaac Hayes - No Name Bar
• 17 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
• 18 Serge Gainsbourg - Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je Men Vais
• 19 Silver & The Fiery Boys Band - Hey Sah Lo Ney
• 20 Wynder K Trio - Green Door
• 21 Quiet Village - Circus Of Horror

download the zip file here and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!

Charlie Bravo.

Peace! Out!