Breezy yacht rock perfection! Private Press

David Ireland "Small Talk" ‎– Cuckoo Records LP - Netherlands, 1978 - SOLD

When not overseeing A&R and label operations for Isle Of Jura, label boss Kevin Griffiths makes time for music creation in his garden studio in Moana, a sleepy suburb of Adelaide in South Australia. It’s an idyllic location surrounded by palm trees and tropical birdlife and an inspiring spot to fire up the machines, typically with the studio door wide open to soak up the soundtrack provided by mother nature. The resulting tracks, recorded in the midst of the pandemic with no gig distractions, were all heavily influenced by this backdrop of tropical birdsong and wind blowing through the palms, field recordings of which made it into most of the tracks. The album traverses Deep House, Nu-disco, Balearica and Ambient along with some Leftfield samples and a heavy dose Dub throughout. 

The LP is Pressed on heavyweight 180 Gram Vinyl with sleeve design by IOJ resident designer Bradley Pinkerton.

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This is just bonkers. The ultimate version - some kind of tiki-tinged ketamin tropico cover-version of Donna Summer's epic classic. This record is invisible and probably one of the most in demand records you could possibly showcase. It’s not a bootleg or anything like that, it’s actually from the early 1980s and it’s from Asia. Cover is also nuts with golden foil embossing. This is for sure one of the craziest if not the best of all Donna Summer covers I’ve ever heard. 

EDIT: Not invisible after all 😂 I busted an extra spare 5 years after my original post : here it is for you worth one among you

Shh "Love To Love You Baby" - Japan Micropressing LP - Insanity EX-/VG+ - 340€

Isle Of Jura is a record label from @jura_soundsystem focusing on reissues of forgotten musical gems. A sub label, Temples Of Jura caters for original artist material. The labels have an eclectic approach to musical output with Vinyl distributed worldwide by Rush Hour.

“Art is magic. Creating music is like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, you are producing something out of nothing. A thing now exists in the world that was not there before”.

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