{"id":350,"date":"2009-11-26T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calypsonow.ch\/catalogue\/?p=350"},"modified":"2010-10-09T22:50:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T21:50:59","slug":"chart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calypsonow.ch\/catalogue\/2009\/11\/26\/chart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fixed my Revox today. I always say: Never throw anything away. You could use it one day. Probably just the day after having disposed of it. You know that.<\/p>\n

\nTo cut a long story short: I have 3 Revox machines, one is working, one isn’t any more, the third was given to me by my hifi vendor just in case I could use some spare parts. This year I was several times on the edge of throwing those latter two away! Lucky me I didn’t. Because today I wanted to copy some reel-to-reel masters onto my computer to mp3 them for your listening pleasure. When doing so the machine started to make some weird sounds, and I detected that in the heat of the summer a small rubber wheel that presses the tape to the recording head had literally melted! Ok, so that has been fixed now – to order the part from Revox would have cost real money, that’s where the money is made, on the replacement parts. Plus I would have waited 10 days for delivery, at least.<\/p>\n

\nSo here we are, ready to copy the summer masters. You’ll hear about them soon. For now, just a glimpse into the charts hungry side of Calypso Now. Summer 1984 saw the release of the famous Cassingles (‘Splendid – The Sound Of Young Switzerland’), Summer 1986 the sampler ‘Chart Attack’, followed by ‘Guitar Town’ in ’87 (summer, of course), a sampler with bands from Geneva, at that time the capital of swiss garage. Remember: The Maniacs, The Needles, The Faster.<\/p>\n

\nI’ll give you some tracks of Splendid and Guitar Town soon. Today, to celebrate my newly fixed Revox, the first three tracks from ‘Chart Attack’.<\/p>\n

Chart Attack Compilation 1986 – The Reaction, Eugen, Hydrogen Candymen
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[audio:The Reaction – Thoughts.mp3,Der Boese Bub Eugen – Ich will alles.mp3,Hydrogen Candymen – I can’t stand this love goodbye.mp3]
\nAjust playback volume to 10 and press the play button!
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(pic shows back cover of Chart Attack, graphics by Martin Schori, thank you)<\/div>\n

\nTo download right-click <\/p>\n