Just when I think, that’s it. Game over. There’s nothing left to buy that I’ve waited for half a lifetime on CD …they keep proving me wrong! I’m a fan of the band Ross Middleton started with his brothers, Scotland’s Positive Noise. And Gary Barnacle is on dozens of releases in the Record Cell as his facility with reeds make him a go-to sax player in the 80s…and beyond. By the 21st century I have been collecting their scant few singles as Leisure Process; a band on Epic Records who never managed to get an album out, but their singles were dancefloor catnip!

Like anything else produced by Martin Rushent in the ’83-’83 period, we paid attention to what he was working on. There were only four Leisure Process singles issued, and I have three of them in the Record Cell.

The only one that’s kept me from compiling a Leisure Process CD in my REVO series has been the lack of the 7″/12″ of “A Way You’ll Never Be.” “Love Cascade” was an Epic track. So much so that it’s among the earliest Razormaid re-edits which I duly have a copy of as well! Now the busy beavers at Cherry Red have green-lit [via sub-label Strike Force Entertainment] a best of all possible worlds collection that compiles all of their released singles as well as their unreleased album, “Remarkable People With Interesting Lives!” Another orphaned album resurfacing after way too many decades…and we’ll take what we can get! Here are the facts – previously unreleased material in red.

Leisure Process: The Complete Epic Recordings – UK – 2xCD [2025]

DISC 1 | The 12” and 7” Singles, B-Sides and Remixes

1. Love Cascade (12” Version)
2. The Sun Turns Back
3. The Fluke
4. A Way You’ll Never Be (12” Version)
5. Rachel Dreams
6. Cashflow (Million Dollar Mix)
7. The Emigré 2
8. Anxiety (Neurotica Mix)
9. Company B (Extended Mix)
10. Love Cascade (7” Version)
11. A Way You’ll Never Be (7” Version)
12. Cashflow (7” Version)
13. Anxiety (7” Version)
14. Love Cascade [KD remix 2024]
15. A Way You’ll Never Be [KD remix 2024]

DISC 2 | Further Versions and Unreleased Tracks

1. Love Cascade (Dance Mix)
2. The Fluke (7” Edit)
3. Cashflow (DJ Edit)
4. The Emigré
5. The Company
6. Sweet Vendetta (Rough Mix)
7. Pentagon (Rough Mix)
8. Learning To Love (Rough Mix)
9. Interesting Lives (Rough Mix)
10. History Of My Heart (Rough Mix)
11. Call Me President (Rough Mix)
12. Cashflow (Rough Mix)
13. Anxiety (Rough Mix)
14. New Song 1 (Unreleased Instrumental)
15. Untitled (Unreleased Instrumental)
16. Son Of Untitled (Unreleased Instrumental)

The project is guided by reissue producer Barney Ashton-Bullock who oversaw the stellar Peter Godwin “The Polydor Years” 2xCD that Strike Force Entertainment put out last year that I finally got this summer as part of my Godwin-fest ’25 celebration. [Review to follow, one hopes!]. And I see he’s included previously unreleased tracks so raw at the end of disc 2, that they lacked names on the master tape. There are also two ringers – Post-Modern remixes from last year of two of the singles appended to disc 1.

The package will reach ears on November 7th and Cherry Red is pricing it to move at only £14.99. More than fair for two CDs worth of material. The package comes with 32 pages of liner notes in the booklet with words from Mr. Middleton himself along with producer Ashton-Bullock. It’s penciled in on the tightening up…but still incredibly long Monastic Want List! If it also whispers in your ear, then DJ hit that button!

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