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Top Four

by S.M. Nurse

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that's the boby 05:30
2.
frutta 07:29
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hot day in Istanbul 06:59
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my greedy policeman 05:56

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The year 2023 marks 40 years since S.M. Nurse split up. In their last year of existence, they made four of their best tracks. These tracks are now contains (in random order) on this digital anniversary EP:
TOP FOUR.

Male vocals on "that’s the body" by Robby Horsfall († 2013).
Remix "that’s the body" by Fred Tabois († 2019).
Remasters by Rude 66.
Special thanks to Jordi Serano, who released these tracks previously on vinyl by Domestica.

A brief history:
Around 1980 Menko Konings (EM / No Honey From These / Plastic Cocon / Top Tape) started the Amsterdam underground formation S.M. Nurse, first together with Jos Jak and later also with Anneke Stempher.
S.M. Nurse experimented with collage-like music and were inspired by N.Y.-ultra, disco e.g. The band mainly performed in the Amsterdam ultra-circuit, such as Oktopus on the Keizersgracht and D-Day in Paradiso. They also performed at Amsterdam clubs and discotheques as Mazzo on the Rozengracht and the transgender nightclub Madame Arthur in the Warmoesstraat. At Madame Arthur they gave their farewell concert.
S.M. Nurse played regularly on the legendary Dutch radio programmes RadioNome and Spleen and performed live on radio in the villa of the VPRO in Hilversum.
They also contributed to the cassette tape Turkish Delight at the Ding Dong label. Among releases were a live registration on a bootleg cassette tape, at the time available at Staalplaat in Amsterdam and a cassette tape on the label Top Tape.
During 1983, at the time that S.M. Nurse started to become better known, S.M. Nurse split up. After decades of silence, it was crazy when around 2011 three labels contemporary wanted to release S.M. Nurse: Minimal Wave (NYC), Walhalla (Antwerp) and Domestica (Barcelona). In the end has been chosen for Domestica as main label. Several vinyl releases followed…

More info about S.M. Nurse:
www.reverbnation.com/smnurse

The proceeds of this album (like all Top Tape productions) will go to new Top Tape projects.

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released January 2, 2023

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