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LP Record Guaranteed is the ninth studio album from Level 42, and it's a pleasure to listen to from start to finish. Mark King's and Mike Lindup's vocals have never sounded better, whether together or separately, than on this album. By bringing in musicians like Wally Badarou, Gary Barnacle, Allan Holdsworth, and Gary Husband, they managed to deliver an album of exceptional pop/funk, the likes of which they had never recorded before. Particularly impressive are the slower grind grooves that uphold the funk tradition in songs like "Overtime", "Set Me Up", "Her Big Day", and the Afro-Latin-influenced "The Ape", which are strongly reminiscent of the musical diversity and energy that first brought the band to the public's attention.

LP Record What happens when an industrial millionaire, a professional gambler, and a member of the Swiss national golf team meet? Dieter Meier, an heir-turned-conceptual artist, teamed up with Boris Blank in the late seventies to form the electronic synthesiser group Yello, but it wasn't until the late eighties that they found success with the international hit "The Race", which was used in adverts and sports programmes all over the world. Samples and beats met Meier's deep voice, and Yello became experts at combining the subtle and the eclectic. "Flag" from 1988 features the hit "The Race" and experiments with Afro-Cuban rhythms like "Tied Up".