Dead On Arrival, The 90s Revival (Part 6)

Dr.Alban “No Coke” And the winner is…EUROPOP! With 27% of the ‘Nineties Revival’ poll vote, the bouncy sounds of Europop stand as the style you most want to come back: record industry be warned (or not). This is the track I wrote about on Thursday, it seemed only fair to give you it.

Midi Maxi And Efti “Ragga Steady” And this is another Swedish track – from the (as far as I know) only album by Midi, Maxi And Efti, who were three Eritrean-Swedish teenagers plucked a from Stockholm obscurity to which they have probably and sadly returned. If I am ever asked to contribute to any kind of ‘great lost albums’ project the MME record is my likely pick: yes it’s primitive but there’s an atmosphere to it which I’ve never heard anywhere else, a kind of resigned nonchalance, like making a pop record is just an everyday thing to be doing, halfway between homework and dancing. Maybe in a better world it would be.

(Final notes: 1. Thanks enormously to Matt for inviting me and to you lot for reading my stuff. 2. You may have noticed that yesterday’s entry never materialised. Blame the heat. If you do want to find out more about Crusty, I’ll be talking about it on NYLPM later this week, with an MP3 – though not one for the faint-hearted.)