Apache

[1960]

To get to Telstar you had to have this first. Still sounds sleek and modern, fucking great stuff. I'm wondering if there is a world of Shadows that I've missed out on. I know there's a wide wonderful world of drummer/composer Brian Bennett out there in theme tunes for sports shows, sit-coms, porno and crime dramas. He even played drums on some Walker Brothers and Olivia Newton John records as well as recording the space-age synth-disco-funk cult classic Voyage: A Journey Into Discoid Funk (1978). The other guys in the band though I know nothing about, I mean my old man had some Shadows records but I never paid them much attention. Was this their one great golden moment or...

Apache - Hot Butter [1972]

A year before Incredible Bongo Band made it their own Hot Butter did my favourite version of Apache. It's an outrageously futuristic proto-techno space age electro jam. Add N To X were never this awesome!