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30/07/2025 - all Passion Tracking albums (Vol 1 - 7) are available.

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#21
Artists / Skratch
Last post by NRG Tracking - Sep 04, 2025, 08:15 AM
Real name : Nigel Wright

Pseudonym taken from the Passion Records recording studio "Skratch" of which he was a major contributor.

Released one track in 1985.
#22
Artists / The Jingle Belles
Last post by NRG Tracking - Sep 04, 2025, 08:12 AM
A one-off girl group who releaseda  holiday track "Christmas Spectre" in 1983.

A remixed version was released on CD in 1999.
#23
Artists / Heat-X-Change
Last post by NRG Tracking - Sep 04, 2025, 08:09 AM
Released one track in 1984 - Thunder And Lightning

Members:

Gareth Marshallsea (active between 1980 and 1992) and John Lewis (26/7/1944 - 3/2/1985 (AIDS))
#24
Artists / Dolmann
Last post by NRG Tracking - Sep 04, 2025, 08:03 AM
Real name "Nigel Dolmann", released one track in 1984 - High Sex Drive.

The track was released in South Africa as "High Set Drive" due to censorship restrictions.

Was also a bit player (credited as "young man") in the 1980 film "Prostitute".
#25
Artists / Precious
Last post by NRG Tracking - Sep 04, 2025, 07:58 AM
One hit wonder with the track "Taboo" in 1984 released on Passion and JDC.
#26
Artists / Nicci Gable
Last post by NRG Tracking - Sep 04, 2025, 07:56 AM
Nicci Gable was a London based vocalist who recorded on various dance labels such as Passion & Nightmare Records in the 1980's.

She scored club chart hits with "Strange Desire" "I Don't Give A Damn" and "Indian Giver".

Born 16th of January 1963

Relative of Clark Gable

Active between 1984 and 1987
#27
Artists / Michael Baker
Last post by NRG Tracking - Sep 04, 2025, 07:53 AM
   
US drummer in jazz, pop, R&B. He began touring in 1985 as a drummer. Worked with many pop and jazz artists highlighting your dispatch as music director and drummer for Whitney Houston. He has also worked with further great musicians such as Elton John, Sting, Missy Elliott, Christina Aguilera and Usher among others.
Michael and his arranging partner, Adi Yeshaya, have collaborated for many years on arranging assignments for both Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston. Now working and living primarily in Italy.

#28
Artists / Café Society
Last post by NRG Tracking - Sep 04, 2025, 07:51 AM
Café Society was a South African studio band active in 1984 and 1985.

They released two tracks (both cover versions) :

Somebody To Love
Relight M Fire

The band, which featured Julia Jade Aston of the defunct Working Girls for a period, was the brainwave of multi-instrumentalist/singer and producer Costa Anadiotis, formerly of "Fantasy", once one of Johannesburg's foremost club dance rock bands.
#29
Artists / Romance
Last post by NRG Tracking - Sep 04, 2025, 07:48 AM
Romance was a manufactured group consisting of Jessica Williams and Simon Soussan active between 1978 and 1984.
#30
Artists / Hamilton Bohannon
Last post by NRG Tracking - Aug 04, 2025, 11:19 AM
Real Name: Hamilton Frederick Bohannon

American disco producer, songwriter, arranger, and bandleader.
Born 7 March 1942, in Newnan, Georgia, USA; died 24 April 2020.

Moved to Detroit in the early 1960s and worked as sideman for Stevie Wonder between 1965 and 1967 and became arranger for all of Motown's top acts. When Motown relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1970s he remained in Detroit, formed his own band and released 21 albums between 1973 and 1990.