Same Beat, by Marine

Same Beat

by Marine

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1.	Life In Reverse 02:44	info	buy track
2.	Animal In My Head 03:55	info	buy track
3.	Same Beat 03:19	info	buy track
4.	How To Keep Cool 04:45	info	buy track
5.	Marenas Bop 02:58	info	buy track
6.	Scrub 02:57	info	buy track
7.	A Proposito Dei Napoli 03:56	info	buy track
8.	Le Glissement Progressif du Plaisir 04:18	info	buy track
9.	Jean-Luc Godard 03:24	info	buy track
10.	Stretto Bongo 03:16	info	buy track
11.	Funkabilly 04:01	info	buy track
12.	Born to Love 03:57	info	buy track
13.	I'm Glad, I'm Free 05:00	info	buy track
14.	Remember Caribou 02:18	info	buy track
15.	Kiss My Knee 03:57	info	buy track
16.	Life In Reverse (Demo Version) 02:39	info	buy track
17.	Dim the Light 03:14	info	buy track

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Les Disques du Crépuscule presents a unique anthology by artful Brussels garage funk band Marine, fondly remembered for their dazzling debut single Life In Reverse in 1981, and now back with a clutch of brand new studio tracks.

Snapped up instead by chic boutique label Les Disques du Crépuscule, Marine released their infectious debut single Life In Reverse in April 1981, attracting rave reviews in the Belgian and UK press, reaching the giddy heights of #6 on the NME indie chart, and even being invited to record a radio session for John Peel - a world first for a Belgian band.

Soon favourable comparisons were being drawn with The Pop Group, A Certain Ratio, Defunkt, James White and Fire Engines, some pundits even sensing a new Haircut 100. 'We're not a fashion band,' insisted Marc in UK rock weekly Sounds, 'and it’s not really dance music. But all the same I’m glad people dance to it.'

Alas, artistic differences caused the fast-rising group to part ways in a London studio, when half the band quit to form pop-funk sophisticates Allez Allez. With new Marines on board, Marc and bassist Paul Delnoy went on to release two further singles (How To Keep Cool and Same Beat), gigged extensively around France and the Low Countries, and played a headline show at The Venue in London. 'Fine, disciplined and gleeful rhythm workers,' enthused Chris Bohn in NME. 'A happy, contagiously clean aural equivalent to a Serge Clerc cartoon.'

Alas by the summer of 1982 Marine were all washed up, with Marc going on direct films and documentaries as Marco Laguna. Four decades later, finally heeding desperate pleas from Crepuscule that his sensational first band never cut an album, Marc has written and recorded another 6 remarkably authentic sounding Marine songs with help from like-minded friends in Brussels and Paris, once more drawing on a heady mix of supercool funkabilly, jazz and soundtrack influences.

'It was an incredibly strange experience to revisit my past,' says Marc, 'but definitely fun. I’m glad, and I’m proud!'

The cover art is by LDDC art director Benoît Hennebert and based on the Same Beat single sleeve from 1982. The vinyl edition of TWI 143 contains 11 tracks and is limited to 500 copies pressed on blue vinyl. a 17 track CD version is also available. All tracks are newly remastered in 2023.

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released February 1, 2024

Cover art: Benoît Hennebert. Executive producer: Marc Desmare.

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