Taken from former Rainbow keyboardist Tony Carey’s ever-so-slightly-offensively titled 1982 instrumental  album Yellow Power,  the track ‘Radio Tokyo’ re-entered my consciousness yesterday when Mike Simonetti featured it on his stupendous FACT mix.

Drawing influence from Japan, Carey’s debut album has been described by the man himself as being “cult birth-of-techno cutting-edge at the time” and it’s hard to disagree with the Rainbow dude when the LP is packed with futuristic electronic sounds and synths. Radio Tokyo is a whirling yet slightly dystopian sounding Italo song, and is a splendid cut from this much sought-after record.

Still a dodgy album title though….

Tony Carey – Radio Tokyo

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