DBX - Losing Control (Remixes)

Three techno-tastic remixes of the Daniel Bell classic, courtesy of Carl Craig, Robert Hood and Richie Hawtin. They're all fairly minimal, but the original was as well so I guess that's fair enough.

A great wee tune, which I'd forgotten about until I saw it staring at me there out of a random box...



DBX - Losing Control (Remixes)
A - Carl Craig Remix
B1 - Robert Hood Remix
B2 - Richie Hawtin Remix

Buy it here

Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album

This Sonic Youth side project was released between their two best albums - Sister and Daydream Nation. It sees them in experimental mode, complete with two Madonna covers and a karaoke booth recording of Kim Gordon singing Addicted To Love. Very ahead of its time, featuring beatbox, samplers, nods to rap music, krautrock and 'silence' (a great one for the pub jukebox).

I hadn't listened to this for years until very recently, when I was framing up some album sleeves for the living room and stuck it on (this album's one of the chosen ones).

Aye, a great wee oddity well worth checking out...



Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album
Needle-Gun
Untitled (silence)
G-Force
Platoon II
MacBeth
Me & Jill/Hendrix Cosby
Burnin' Up
Hi! Everybody
Children of Satan/Third Fig
Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu!
Addicted to Love
Moby-Dik
March of the Ciccone Robots
Making the Nature Scene
Tuff Titty Rap
Into the Groove(y)

Buy it here

Basic Channel - Phylyps Trak II

Quite possibly my favourite Basic Channel release, both sides of this are absolutely stunning. Sometimes my favourite track is the one with black text/silver background and other times it's the silver text/black background. The one that I always heard in clubs/DJ sets was the silver text/black background one. At first I thought it was just a repetitive hi-hat for 13 mins. Tsk tsk - what was I thinking?

Here's what someone said on Discogs, put better than I ever could:

"You could easily sum this track up with one word: hypnotic. It's the kind of track you hear on the dancefloor and you just don't want it to end. It has a perfect rhythmical structure that just keeps your body moving; whether that's your head nodding, your feet tapping or your hips swinging.
It's got the dub/reggae bassline, the techno hats and bundles of clipped spacey reverb that alters minutely thoughout the track (and not forgetting those brief moments where a metallic stab/double tap is fired into the mix).
Combining dub sensibilites and aesthetics with techno is commonplace nowadays, but when I listen to 'Trak II' it never ceases to fill me with wonder how Mark and Moritz managed to create a track that is unique; in every sense of the word."

Go check it oot:



Basic Channel - Phylyps Trak II

Buy it here

Dajaé - Is It All Over My Face (Choice Remixes)

Not strictly a cover of the Loose Joints disco classic, but this certainly has the title repeated quite a bit throughout. Let's call it a tribute...

There are two vocal-as-fuck mixes on the A-side which are pish (H&F and E-Smoove - no thanks). What you're getting here is the cream of the crop, namely two Green Velvet mixes and a Cajmere mix. What is it with these Dajaé 12"s, eh?

I love that wobble-board sound that he uses. Rolf Harris eat your heart out...



Dajaé - Is It All Over My Face (Choice Remixes)
B1 - Is It All Over My Face (Green Velvet's Vox Mix)
B2 - Is It All Over My Face (Green Velvet's Crush Mix)
B3 - Is It All Over My Face (Cajmere's Underground Goodie Edit)

Buy it here

Green Velvet - Portamento Tracks

See all those remixes of Flash that did the rounds ad nausea till everyone was sick of them? Get them to FUCK - this is the real deal. The track that led to a generation of UK clubbers wanting to take laughing gas originally turned up as track B1 on this EP.

This was the second Green Velvet release, after 'Velvet Tracks', and came out on Relief in 1995. I could not believe what I was hearing at first, all four of these tracks got played to death for a long time - can't believe the vinyl's held out as well as it has.

Track A2 is uncredited on the label and ends in an out of sync locked groove. I've done a wee fade on it for you.

Any time I saw him live around this time (in either guise) he got those vocals nailed by singing into a set of headphones plugged into the mic socket. Don't try this at home kids...



Green Velvet - Portamento Tracks
A1 - I Want To Leave My Body
A2 - Fake & Phonie
B1 - Flash
B2 - Explorer

Buy it here

Cajmere - Feelin'

Hmmm, I seem to have been neglecting the plethora of Cajmere & Green Velvet records that have been a huge part of my record-buying life. This was one of the later releases that I picked up, credited as Cajmere but much more GV-like in sound. Chunky beats ahoy! Three excellent tracks, but the pick of the bunch surely has to be 'Eighties' which is classic Green Velvet-style madness.

Nothing from outside Chicago today...



A - Feelin'
B1 - Electric
B2 - Eighties

Buy it here

Jump - Funkatarium / Groovalution

Shock horror - a prog house track! This was an anthem back in the day, from the very brief period when I attended Slam at the Arches before heading to the darker territory of Pussypower then Pure.

This was from the time when I had no idea about dance music, and only got the name of this track via a random phone conversation with a guy when his flatmate was playing it in the background. I got him to go and get the title of it and it was duly purchased the next day.

It's all about the breakdown with bells on, at around the 1:30-2:00 mark. Sounds slow as fuck now, needs to be pitched up to about +3 or thereabouts but I've ripped it at the traditional 'green light' setting for you to do what you want with.

Never bothered with the b-side (Groovalution) before just ripping it there. Fairly average but I'll let you make your own mind up.



A - Jump - Funkatarium
B - Jump - Groovalution

Buy it here

Panash - Spare Parts EP

Panash is/was Ashley Marlowe, one third of Conemelt and half of The Corridor. A 'Ripped In Glasgow' legend, in other words. He's the dude that I spoke to on the phone that time...

This EP came out on Special Emissions as a white label in 1996, and is lo-fi as hell. Loads of really grating noises and percussive madness prevail right through all four tracks.

More of this kinda shit in the pipeline, courtesy of Ashley's Two Straight Roads label.



Panash - Spare Parts EP
A1 - Bumpstart
A2 - Prang
AA1 - Theme From Camshaft
AA2 - Speedo

Buy it here

Andrew Weatherall - Double Gone Radio Vol 1

Just in case anyone doesn't have it, here's Vol 1 of Mr Weatherall's Double Gone Radio. It appeared last October on the Rotters Golf Club website. So I guess that means it'll be a biannual treat then...?

Another excellent tracklisting as you can see, including an as-yet-unavailable track by the man himself.



Andrew Weatherall - Double Gone Radio Vol 1
1. El Tecolote / Calvin Cool (white label)
2. Boy with the Be-Bop Glasses / The Dawn Breakers (Omni Recordings)
3. Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots / The Cheers (Atlantic)
4. Old Fat Benny / Raw Meat (Sleazy records)
5. Rockit N' Roll / J.D. Smith (Ambassador Records)
6. Final Kick / The Tall Boys (Big Beat)
7. Feel Like a Woman / Selfish Cunt (Sparrow's Tear)
8. R+B Paul / Sleaford Mods (A52 Sounds)
9. Visions Arise / S.C.U.M. (loog)
10. I'm Good, I'm Gone (Metronomy Remix) / Lykke Li (679)
11. All the Little Things that Make Life Worth Leaving / Andrew Weatherall (Rotters Golf Club)
12. Paranoiaclaustrophobia / Basement 5 (Island)
13. Hatbox (Bees Version) / Lark (Care in the Community)
14. Tardis (Brendan Lynch Remix) / Lark (Care in the Community)
15. Visit Colonel / The Oh Sess (Tomlab)
16. Dole Drums (The Wolfe Howard Theme) / Billy Childish and the MBEs

Bango - Sphinx / Mystical Adventure

This sees Stacey Pullen in a different mode form the norm, Sphinx being an organ-led track with a nice wee breakdown in it, but Mystical Adventure is where it's at - featuring all those classic Detroit sounds that you'd expect.

Fraid that's all you're getting today as I'm struggling like fuck due to an over-indulgent Easter weekend. I feel like the guy at the end of the Weekender video. Too many eggs...



A - Bango - Sphinx
B - Bango - Mystical Adventure

Buy it here