VARIOUS ARTISTS The BYG Deal (2009 UK 22-track CD album - On paper a label like BYG shouldn't have worked. A collapsed business plan salvaged from the flames of a Molotov cocktail. A makeshift label built around second hand music, handshake deals, alter egos and backstabs after scratches; resulting in an unexpected explosion of positive and spiritual energy emerging from political turmoil in an unsympathetic era united and guided under a divine symbol - that was stolen as a marketingmascot from a plastic key fob. Between 1968 and 1974 the combination of B, Y and G might not have been the surefire code to financial fulfilment but the indelible contribution to experimental pop, free jazz, spiritual prog rock and total space music would continue to send positive vibrations through future generations of progressive pop. 'The BYG Deal' featuring early, rare, desperate and covert recordings by Vangelis, Gong, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Brigitte Fontaine, Jean-Claude Vannier and members of Soft Machine, Procol Harum, Popera Cosmic, Visitors, MAGMA, Aphrodite’s Child and Los Bravos).