Well it's Sunday here, so sod it..

What to pick?
Some weird Japanese shit no one's interested in, perhaps?
It's Sunday though, so need something mellow as we lick our collective hangovers / medical conditions / end of year tax returns and get ready for a dry bumming by the Villa.
Just don't mention the B-word, FFS.
Okay, mention the B-word.

BALEARIC!

Artist: Quintus Project
Title: Night Flight

Quintus Project - "Night Flight," was made 1985 and released via private-press on Quintus Project's album "Moments" in a limited edition of only 300 copies. The original is a kind of laid-back emotional synth pop number with a beautiful piano solo in the final third, clocking in at just over seven and a half minutes long.

I'll list the original here out of respect and because it feels like the best version to put up if hearing for the first time. But will include the Lexx and Psychemagik 14-minute remix for those that might be interested, as they both have some merit.

KOTS Take: Lovely tune, and ticks the boxes of what I really love about discovering old music that works in the here and now. This record was just sat there from 1985 doing nowt. 300 copies, waiting to be found and revived. When it was found and reissued in 2011 it semi-blew up (Balearic, innit). The reissued 12" now sells for 60 odd quid. It sounded so now then, and even in 2025 it could easily be a recent release and nobody would bat an eyelid. Apart from the effect of the MDMA perhaps. Transcending its age. Majestically simple, chuggy and wonderfully hooky. Only one verse and that's it. The piano solo, a Jools Holland-esque honky-tonk amble was laid down in the first take, pop pickers!

"I can see the light again, after all these years, as I feel alive again.."

Walter Quintus, German violinist, bassist, composer, producer and engineer from the heyday of the Krautrock era. He was an award-winning concertmaster of the Bremen youth orchestra and 1970, he formed a band "Beazzic Conservatory", which caused some interest in major record labels in the UK. In 1971, they change their name to Parzival and their debut album became a great success for the band, with them becoming superstars of early Krautrock in 1970. On the climax of their success, the band splits in 1973 and Walter continues to produce bands, whilst working on solo and collaboration projects until his death in 2017.

Bowling Walter lad, you blew up, then did your own thing, and wound up getting nearly 6 million listens on Spotify (bet that earned you about 5 quid 🙄)