VERTIGO MIXED (MIXED BY ANDY VOTEL)

I can't recommend this album highly enough. For those of you with a record collection heaving with lesser known albums by Nucleus and Bob Downes, you probably won't find much to shout about with this album. However if you are familiar with Heep, Manfred Man and the more well trodden paths of 70's progressive rock, then this CD is a total treasure trove of sound bites and snippets from bands that you've never encountered in your rummage through your local second hand record store. But believe me you'll be rummaging a lot more closely after you've heard this!

Andy Votel's taken his favourite intro's, choruses and solos from a massive stock of Vertigo albums, many of which are not credited on the CD notes, and spliced them all together to produce one continuous flow of music. And the music you hear is some of the funkiest, jazziest, heaviest rock you've ever had the pleasure to discover.

After a few listens of this album, you'll find yourself going mad trying to pick out which clip relates to which artist, and then spending the next three months trawling the internet to find copies of their full length albums so you can hear what the rest of the song sounded like.

Essential listening - a masterpiece of progressive rock - you better believe it!