everything except for this -- the semi-anonymous release as A.R.K. from 1988 -- which seems to be Alex and Rudy's post-"Pump up the Volume" gesture at "yeah we can do club music too". hARK at all the clumsy scratching and sampling -- one in the eye to Dave Dorrell and CJ Mack!
i doubt if this rocked many club floors but an enjoyable then-modish / now-dated detour from the otherwise immaculate ARc of their discography proper
seem to remember "Listen Up" got an extravagant Paul Oldfield in full "National Geographic" mode write-up in MM -- stuff about escarpments and moraines and so forth -- "National Geographic" was MM deputy editor Stickboy Sutherland's disapproving term for the direction our writing had lately gone in (climaxing with my use of "sastryugi" in a cover story on Loop)....
their music at its grandest (see, or hear, below) really did seem to demand metereological or geological tropes
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