{"title":"Buzzin Fly Records","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuzzin Fly Records is a renowned Deep House and Electronic label founded by Ben Watt, known for his involvement in Everything But The Girl. Established in 2003, the label ceased releasing new music in April 2013 but continues to offer its impressive back catalogue for sale. While Buzzin Fly Records may have closed its doors to new releases, its sister label Strange Feeling Records remains active. With an open office and online shop, fans can still access and enjoy the incredible music from this influential label.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"walking-wounded","title":"Walking Wounded","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst released in April 1996 by UK alt-pop duo Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - debuted at #4 on the UK Album Chart and contains four UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits \u003ci\u003eWalking Wounded\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWrong\u003c\/i\u003e, and set new a benchmark for the intersection of contemporary electronic music and smart pop songwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album was programmed and produced by Watt in 1995 largely in the basement of the duo's north London home demo studio. \"Just an Akai sampler, a computer, a synth and guitar, an inexpensive vocal mic, and an 8-track tape machine,\" he says of the process. \"We were writing in reverse - mood first, then songs, learning and we went along. It just felt like a new frontier,\" adds Thorn. Producer John Coxon of the recently formed drum'n'bass-inspired duo Spring Heel Jack - and with whom the Watt and Thorn had worked on\u003ci\u003e Amplified Heart\u003c\/i\u003e - was invited to provide a backing track for the album's title song, and beats specialist Howie B worked on the groove for Flipside. The album was then mixed at The Townhouse in west London by Watt and young emerging engineer, Andy Bradfield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new vinyl edition has been mastered by long-time Everything But The Girl mastering engineer, Miles Showell, now at Abbey Road Studios, who is one of only a handful of engineers specialising in half-speed mastering that uses new techniques to more faithfully reproduce the sound of original master tapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buzzin Fly Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50393465094475,"sku":"1074875","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"2CD","offer_id":57506221457739,"sku":"R9248-9927","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2ca8011b-5c48-4b69-99f3-247026829086_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726417789"},{"product_id":"fuze","title":"Fuse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRough Trade Albums of the Year 2023 (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRank: #17 (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtrade.com\/en-gb\/collection\/albums-of-the-year-2023\"\u003eSee full list here\u003c\/a\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2CbdK8h0bag\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything But The Girl formed in 1982 by singer-songwriter-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt. Their debut single was a stark jazz-folk cover of Cole Porter's Night and Day. Acclaimed for their tender-tough lyrics, Thorn’s unique voice and Watt’s arrangements, they released a string of UK gold albums throughout the 1980s experimenting with jazz, guitar pop, orchestral wall-of-sound and drum-machine soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1990 saw their breakthrough in America with the radio hit, Driving. In 1992 their world tour was abandoned when Ben was dramatically admitted to hospital with a life-threatening auto-immune disease from which he nearly died. The story is captured in his acclaimed memoir, Patient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pair returned with the million-selling ardent folk-soul of\u003ci\u003e Amplified Heart \u003c\/i\u003e(1994). The album includes their biggest hit, Missing, after New York DJ-producer Todd Terry’s remix unexpectedly made the leap from heavy club play to global radio success (#2, US Hot 100; # 3 UK Top 40).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was followed by the sparkling \u003ci\u003eWalking Wounded\u003c\/i\u003e (1996, #4 UK Album Chart), brimming with sounds and grooves from the mid 90s electronic scene. Spawning four UK Top 40 hits, it became the band’s first platinum album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter \u003ci\u003eTemperamental \u003c\/i\u003e(1999), the duo chose to quit on a high. Tracey focused on family life away from the spotlight before returning with a run of solo albums and best-selling autobiographical books. Ben moved into DJing and remixing, and launched the respected electronic label, Buzzin' Fly. He returned to his singer-songwriter roots with a trilogy of solo albums from 2014-2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Everything But The Girl return with a new studio album - the first for over two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buzzin Fly Records","offers":[{"title":"Green LP | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50410682646859,"sku":"2006458","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Pink LP | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50410684121419,"sku":"2145554","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50410681467211,"sku":"2006456","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50410682220875,"sku":"2006457","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CDx2","offer_id":50410681205067,"sku":"2006455","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50410681008459,"sku":"2006454","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Fuse_955814c7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726647839"},{"product_id":"at-maida-vale-rsd-2024","title":"At Maida Vale - RSD 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\n                            This product is a Record Store Day exclusive title and is not available to pre-order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy in-store: 8am, 20\/04\/2024 (Record Store Day).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            To buy online: 8pm, 22\/04\/2024. (Subject to availability).\u003cbr\u003e\n                            Don’t forget: Click 'Notify Me' to be the first to know about its availability online. It also helps us to place accurate orders so that we can please as many of you as possible on the day.\u003cbr\u003e\n                            \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything But The Girl’s ‘At Maida Vale EP’ is made up of four tracks recorded in April 2023 at the BBC’s famous Maida Vale Studios - Run A Red Light, Single and When You Mess Up, first broadcast on Gideon Coe’s BBC 6 Music show; and Nothing Left To Lose first heard on Jo Whiley’s BBC Radio 2 show. All the recordings are versions of tracks on the band’s current album, ‘Fuse”, except Single which first appeared on their platinum 1996 album, Walking Wounded. The session was the only live performance that the band did around the release of their new album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buzzin Fly Records","offers":[{"title":"Black 12\"","offer_id":50417939251531,"sku":"2181250","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/418467268207_360_0b6fc0e7_thumbnail_4096.webp?v=1726737773"},{"product_id":"amplified-heart-25th-anniversary-half-speed-mastering","title":"Amplified Heart - 25th Anniversary (Half Speed Mastering)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmplified Heart\u003c\/em\u003e was \u003cstrong\u003eEverything But The Girl’s\u003c\/strong\u003e million-selling and critically acclaimed seventh studio album. It now appears for the first time on vinyl in a deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition mastered at half-speed for optimum audio fidelity by Miles Showell at London’s Abbey Road Studios.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmplified Heart\u003c\/em\u003e was the seventh full-length album released in June 1994, featuring the singles \"\u003cem\u003eMissing\u003c\/em\u003e\" and \"\u003cem\u003eRollercoaster\u003c\/em\u003e\". 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The label wanted further singles, but the duo preferred the album to grow by word of mouth. \u003cem\u003eEden\u003c\/em\u003e achieved gold album status in the UK and has gone on to sell more than 500,000 copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBen Watt\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eTracey Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e met at the University of Hull in 1981; they formed Everything But The Girl initially as a side-project, as both had already established themselves on the UK independent music scene as teenagers - Tracey with her lo-fi minimal girl group, Marine Girls (later name-checked as one of Kurt Cobain's favorite bands); Ben as a young guitarist and singer-songwriter, collaborating with alt-folk icon Robert Wyatt on his debut EP.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1983, the pair - having each gone on to release debut solo albums - decided to pool their new songs for \u003cem\u003eEden\u003c\/em\u003e. It was recorded with producer Robin Millar (chosen for his work with Weekend and The Pale Fountains) at his Power Plant Studios in Willesden, North West London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"All the songs were written on guitar in Hull in early 1983. We were living in one room with a shared kitchen on Pearson Park,\" recalls Tracey. \"Power Plant seemed very glamorous by comparison. Sade was recording downstairs. 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