Play She Ever Does

C Cat Trance - Play Masenko Combo

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Ink Records (INK 33) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. The final vinyl from those C Cats is an album full full of top notch tribal funk, and the track She Ever Does is a huge household favourite here at ESWA Towers.  Save for the filler Cold, this is a record which deserves to be played over and over again, as each time you will hear something new among the grooves. Nice record.

A1 Dalbouka
A2 They Made Them Up
A3 She Ever Does
B1 Jamais
B2 I Looked For You
B3 Cold
B4 Two Worlds

Dead Can Disco Dance

C Cat Trance - Jinniyya

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Ink Records (INK 1235) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Pop this in your pipe and smoke it. The Three Mustaphas Three were never this funky.

A1 Jinniyya
B1 Sudaniyya (Minimal Mix)

Cream Galore! ....?

 C Cat Trance - Ishta Bil Habul!

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Ink Records (INK 1227) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Another brooding harissa-spiced disco monster from the C Cats. Answers on a postcard as to what it's all about please. ...and why do we need Cream Galore?

A1 Ishta Bil Habul! (Cream Galore!) (Dance Mix)
B1 Ishta Bil Habul! (Cream Galore!) (Edit Mix)

Mind Shaker

C Cat Trance - Zouave

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Ink Records (INK 20) in 1986 to high resolution 24-bits of flac. A return to form after the difficult second album. Zouave finds the C Cats in funky mood again, save for a wholly unnecessary cover of You've Lost... The whole album has the feeling of early-mid period Shriekback which will no doubt please a few out there. Shake The Mind is truly amazing!

A1 Wind Howl
A2 Betty
A3 He's Crazy
A4 Taksim
A5 Ishta Bil Habul
B1 If You Steal
B2 Take Me To The Beach
B3 You've Lost That Loving Feeling
B4 Shake The Mind

Ghost Rattling

C Cat Trance - Khamu (She Sleep Walks)

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Ink Records (INK 6) in 1985 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Some of you have been enjoying these recent C Cat posts. So, to continue where we left off, here is their second long-player. Khamu is much more art-rock than ethnic-funk, a bit as if David Sylvian had gotten off the plane in Istanbul rather than Tokyo, if you get my drift.

A1 Puritaines
A2 Barefoot Doctor
A3 The New Hassan
A4 (Screaming) To Be With You
B1 Rattling Ghosts
B2 The Old Man
B3 Simple Helen
B4 Miss Manners

The Scream

C Cat Trance - Screaming (To Be With You)

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Ink Records (INK 1223) in 1986 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. More mysterious Middle Eastern funky delights from those groovy C Cats.

A1 Screaming (To Be With You) (Volta Rouge Mix)
B1 Let Me Sleep
B2 Dangling On A String (Instrumental)

Suicide Bomber

C Cat Trance - She Steals Cars

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Ink Records INK 126) in 1985 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. A highly evocative sleeve wraps itself around the powerful second C Cat single with lots of Middle Eastern textures layered over a pounding percussive dance beat - this ain't Ofra Haza folks!

A1 She Steals Cars
B1 Rattling Ghosts

Dreams Of Leaving

C Cat Trance - Dreams Of Leaving

Ripped from a 12" vinyl record released on Ink Records (INK 123) in 1984 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Here is some brooding dark funk from the C Cats which was to be their first single. The sleeve imagery is a huge clue as to the band's direction over the next few releases.

A1 Dreams Of Leaving
B1 Dangling On A String

Here Kitty Kitty..

C Cat Trance - C Cat Trance

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Red Flame Records (RFM 19) in 1983 to high resolution 24-bit flac. On first listen to C Cat Trance's debut you'd think they came from Sheffield - they certainly have that Hula/Chakk/Slab! hard indie funk vibe which is always appreciated here at ESWA Towers. C Cat Trance (as daft a name as any) actually came from Nottingham and were fronted by former Medium Medium funkster John Rees Lewis. With a career spanning six singles and four albums, Rees was highly productive and blended in Middle Eastern/North African textures to his work with some credible success. Here is the first of his C Cat work and as these posts develop you'll notice some very familiar recurring themes. 

A1 Hypnotised
A2 My Tattoo
B1 Railway Magazine
B2 Let Me Sleep
B3 Untitled
B4 Dangling On A String