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01. Geoff Bastow - The Rough With The Smooth
02. Geoff Bastow - Beautiful People
03. Geoff Bastow - Tumbleweed
04. Geoff Bastow - Bits And Bats
05. Geoff Bastow - A Change Of Pace
06. Geoff Bastow - Janelle
07. Geoff Bastow - Time And A Half
08. Geoff Bastow - Supersplash
09. Geoff Bastow - Fillet Of Soul
10. Geoff Bastow - Well Above Average
11. Geoff Bastow - The Clan
12. Geoff Bastow - Sing Song
ARTIST
TITLE
Music To Varnish Owls By
FORMAT
LP

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CATALOG #
BEWITH 168LP BEWITH 168LP
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RELEASE DATE
12/13/2024

Music To Varnish Owls By. Does Geoff Bastow have a claim for the best album title of all time? It's certainly up there. It's also one of the hardest to find library funk records. But don't let the eye-catching name fool you into thinking this isn't serious business. As a key member of Giorgio Moroder's team, the legendary Geoff Bastow shouldn't need any introduction. You'll be familiar with his singular brilliance as the brains behind the much-sampled boogie/disco classics "You Don't Like My Music (Hupendi Muziki Wangu?!)" and "Don't Stop," released by his group, K.I.D. But 1975's Music To Varnish Owls By is where it all began. It's packed with incredibly soulful, soothing music that -- despite being utilized a few times by Knxwledge -- remains still largely un-mined. So, beat-makers, get cracking. Born in 1949, Bastow was a Munich-based English songwriter and record producer. Originally working as a guitarist and pianist in dance bands around his home county of Yorkshire, he moved to London in the early 1970s and then Munich in around 1976. He was one of the main architects of the Munich disco sound of electronic innovator Giorgio Moroder and also released heaps of killer library records for legendary labels like Bruton, Impress, JW Music Library and the Munich-based Sonoton between the 1970s-2000s. Bastow died tragically young, in Berlin, Germany on 16 March 2007, at the age of just 57. But he left behind a truly incredible electronic music legacy. He deserves to be much better known and this reissue should bring him to a fair few more ears. As ever, the audio for Music To Varnish Owls By has been carefully remastered by Be With regular Simon Francis, ensuring it sounds better than ever. Cicely Balston's expert skills have made sure nothing is lost in the cut whilst the records have been pressed to the highest possible standard at Record Industry in Holland. The original, iconic sleeve has been restored here at Be With HQ as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue.