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This was a post lurking in my drafts folder that I never did get round to doing anything with, and I’ve just noticed Acid Ted posted the first single by this collective so by way of answer this is the second single, Substance.

Substance

Substantially Soulful

And as well as the single, there were a few remixes by sometime KLF collaborator Tony Thorpe (aka the Moody Boys).

Substance (Moody Boys Amen Version)

Substance (Moody Boys Juvenile Version)

Substance (Moody Boys Savage Version)

Buy Bocca Juniors items at discogs.

With many thanks to littlepixel for very generously sorting me out with a copy of the video in question, as requested this is the mp3 soundtrack from the same for slinky.

And just to close out this post, here is Coldcut vs. The Orb - Kiss FM Part 1.

More substantial posts to come in future, I promise.

I spend my days chasing a 15 month old around my home, and find very little time for musical indulgences these days, but I promise I will get back into the saddle in future. Probably around 2023.

Anyway, does anyone out there have The Orb - Patterns & Textures video in an electronic format? I’ve only just realised I can’t find my VHS copy of it after moving earlier this year, and it seems fairly rare these days.

RIP Isaac Hayes.

This isn’t the way forward. Anyone suspected of illegal file sharing? What do the ISPs think the reason people are paying for broadband is?

Over the last year or thereabouts I’ve been posting the Warehouse Raves compilations among others, where am I going to find them if my physical copies are somehow lost and I want an electronic version? It’s not going to be high on the list of records to be added to iTunes or napster or whatever proprietary crap store appears in future. My only option would be expensive copies from ebay or similar. Bah.

Catching up with some other comments I didn’t address in the last post:

Orbital - Frenetic (12″ version) : Incorporating a previous Orbital collaboration, Golden Girls - Kinetic. This is the version from Flux Trax 02, and I think this is the Cubic 22 remix. Kinetic was originally a track by the Pied Piper, but the later version in collaboration with Paul Hartnoll was attributed to Golden Girls.

I was going to title this post “Frenetic, Kinetic, demands your soul” as I’m sure this is a lyrical extract from an old house/techno track, but as I can’t quite place the track I have in mind I didn’t do so. If anyone can piece together what track I’m referring to, a name would be most appreciated. I can’t see past Stock Aitken & Waterman’s Roadblock right now.

Duh, it’s M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume, that’s why Roadblock was stuck in mind, also my interpretation of the lyrics was slightly wrong. Funny how it takes a few words to jog the brain into doing what I asked of it.

Lost - Techno Funk was the track I was referring to in a previous post as an answer track to Frankie Bones - Call It Techno.

Yello - Unbelievable(Techno remix) : A long time since I’ve heard this one, and I can’t believe how much it sounds like a lost KLF Pure Trance release. Not what I would typically associate with David Morales.

And finally, Primal Scream are on the verge of a new album, and the first track has been remixed by Andrew Weatherall, arguably responsible for much of their success on the back of Loaded. Loaded was a reworking of the Scream’s I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have, based on a sample from an Italian Bootleg version of Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians - What I Am.

Orbital items on ebay.

Delia Derbyshire invents Techno in the 1960s.

So, I mentioned BBG - Sn/appiness previously and said I’d post the original, instrumental version. Some may be puzzled by my insistence in adding a forward slash to the title, and there is a reason for this. The original white label version I saw of this had the slash due to it being one part Snap - The Power and one part Soul II Soul - Happiness. Also, it’s a snappier title than Sower or Poul. I’m not all that sure it made it from the white label to a signed up version with elements of Snap still intact, although it does sound reminiscent of it in parts, so I guess that may explain why the track title differs from my memories. Or of course, I could be making it all up. Again.

I could have sworn I had a remix CD of The Power from the late 90s or so, but I can’t seem to find it. Not really sure that’s a huge loss to be honest. I did post the original version (that is, the version that inspired Turbo B’s take on it) last year, so I guess I couldn’t find it at that time either.

Moving on. The Aloof came up in the last post and eddiesaint mentions similarities between The Aloof - One Night Stand and the Foo Fighters’ In Your Honour, anyone happen to know if they share a theme?

Also, some things I was recently asked for; The Sabres of Paradise - Lick Wid Nit Wit, Paul Weller - Kosmos & Wildwood (Portishead remix), LFO - Tied Up (Acid mix) & Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Acid Edit).

Rather than start blethering about something else down here, a quick round up of some things I found while trying to dig out some of the other tracks.

Frankie Bones - Call It Techno (House mix) : IIRC, this inspired an answer track which basically turned the vocals around (swapping Brooklyn for London, for instance) from Lost, Steve Bicknell’s project. I can’t seem to find that though.

Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling (MK Dub of Death) : Shaky Glaswegian vocals down mixed into club monster.

Soul II Soul - Keep On Movin’ (Burning Bass Club mix) : No idea where this comes from, but I’m pretty sure it’s not 1989. I could swear that’s the break from De’Lacy - Hideaway. Also, I noticed a Teddy Riley mix of Back To Life and misread this as Terry Riley. That could have been awesome.

Telefon Tel Aviv - Street Spirit (Fade Out) : Fairly straight cover of the Radiohead track, only available on the split vinyl release of Exit Music, the Radiohead covers album which everyone only remembers Mark Ronson - Just from.

Saint Etienne - Kiss And Make Up (Midsummer Madness) : Hazily summery Pete Heller remix of Saint Etienne’s second single.

BBG items on ebay

Continuing with the compilation album posts, Spiritually Ibiza rounds up a load of the usual suspects of that particular era and some tracks that I’ve previously posted as part of my Short Film About Chilling post almost a year to the day ago.

This album unfortunately commits a cardinal sin in my eyes in that several of the tracks are edits of the originals, which is something I find most frustrating these days when I’m trying to find a definitive version of something.

I’ve never actually been to Ibiza, but I seriously doubt I would enjoy it. I made it to Ayia Napa one year to attend a family member’s wedding, and it made me think of Blackpool and I kind of suspect Ibiza is much the same. If it isn’t, and somehow I’m dissing the most awesome place on Earth, then by all means let me know. That said, there are thousands of people who are happy to pay 100 quid to watch the guy from Manumission shag his wife on stage while covered in foam, so I might be missing the point somewhat.

Picks from the first disc for me are :

Audio Deluxe - 60 Seconds : Based on a sample from “For A Few Dollars More”, a wonderful downbeat track that was later ruined by an unnecessary vocal version.

A Man Called Adam - Barefoot In The Head : This isn’t all that great a track to be honest, but without A Man Called Adam we wouldn’t have Leftfield, and I don’t think I would want to live in that world.

Blow Monkeys - La Passionara : I can’t remember why the Blow Monkey are particularly well known, I think Doctor Bob or whatever he was called was an outspoken critic of Thatcher, which dates this whole thing horribly are we’re probably on the verge of the Tories getting back into power after 20 or so years out.

Electra - Autumn Love : Sampling from Donna Summer (and Soul II Soul I think), this is one of the most Ibizathy tracks I can think of.

And from Volume two of the same:

Solid Gold Easy Amex featuring Red Box - Enjoy : Still one of my favourite tracks of this era. “I Love This Record” indeed.

I was going to post BBG - Sn/appiness, but it’s the bloody Sweet Inspiration vocal version which I will have no truck with.

Bocca Juniors - Raise (62 Steps To Heaven) : Thrashing Doves samples, Anna Haigh vocals, Argentinian Football allusions and a slightly terrible rap from Protege aside, this i the unofficial theme to this place.

Sheer Taft - Cascades(Hypnotone remix) : Thomas Taft is a chancer.

The Aloof - Never Get Out The Boat (Gosh mix) : Apocalypse Now sampling mellow house track, for a band that went on to record some fantastic dark vocal house that was ignored by the greater populace. In particular, One Night Stand should be in everyone’s consciousnesses, but sadly it’s merely unknown these days.

As per usual, if you have a hankering for anything on the discs that I didn’t post, just say the word.

You know, I can’t be the only person that finds Come Together being used to sell phones slightly odd.

Spiritually Ibiza One and Two on discogs.

As previously promised, Flux Trax 02. This one I might have had some input in as I remember sending an email to the record company responsible when I bought the first one, and I had included a note of some tracks I thought might be suitable for inclusion in any second volume that may come in future, and Robert Armani - Circus Bells (Hardfloor remix) was one of those picks. Then again, the compiler (who I assume was Richard Norris again, but the sleevenotes don’t make any mention of this as they are fairly minimal) may well have already decided on that same track themselves. I had written to them to ask if I could download the Flux screensaver from the first volume anywhere as my computer at the time seemed to have an issue finding the data portion of the CD. This was a Pentium 75, with a three speed CD-ROM (which I think was only available for about a fortnight), and 32 Mb or RAM which cost something like 100 quid per stick of 16Mb at a time because they had to be paired. These days I have a Gigabyte of memory in my pocket and it cost about a fiver at most from Hong Kong and not from dodgy blokes in Glasgow. Whoever was reading the email was nice enough to send me a 3.5″ disc with the program on it. Anyway, I digress.

Model 500 - The Chase : From the incredibly productive Juan Atkins, an insistent bleepy track which I used to confuse with the Giorgio Moroder track with the same name from the movie Midnight Express.

Disco Evangelists - De Niro : An Ashley Beedle & David Holmes collaboration, based on a section of based on Ennio Morricone - Cockeyes Song from the soundtrack to ‘Once Upon a Time in America’. Supposedly originating from David Holmes’ love of Sunday afternoon sessions in the cinema while calming down after the night before.

Vinyl Blair - Horsework : Neeeeeighhhh. Steve Dub & Billy Nasty collaboration.

Jaydee - Plastic Dreams : One of the most remixed tracks I can think of, it seems to be dusted off every year for yet another pass. I can’t think of any that match the original.

Robert Armani - Circus Bells : Although not mentioned on the sleeve, this is the Hardfloor remix. To be honest, it would be impossible for it to be anyone else responsible for this raucous take on the track.

Forgemasters - The Track With No Name : The first release on Sheffield’s domineering Warp Records, and sounding like nothing else at the time.

And again, any requests for other tracks from either compilation and I’ll post them at a later time.

Buy a copy of Flux Trax 02 on discogs.

Many years ago Radio 1 in the UK used to be ruled with an iron fist in the mornings by Simon Bates, and integral to his cruel domination was a segment called “Our Tune” in which a disastrous tale of romantic woe was read by Bates over the Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet, an example of such is here and has been kindly provided by Radio Rewind. I was going to make light of Our Tune, but my god that piece is depressing.

Anyway, I was actually looking for my copy of Jedi Knights - New School Science as it has a similar spine to this album, however as it’s one of the definitive compilations of the music of that time, Flux Trax is worth a mention. Compiled across two volumes by the very lovely Richard Norris, there’s not much point in going back over the big guns on the discs as I’ve probably posted them in the past, but instead I present to you, dear reader, some of the lesser known tracks on the compilations over this post and another one in future.

Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is : Overshadowed by it’s sibling Strings Of Life on the other disc, this is a straighter techno track but by no means less revolutionary. Still sounding incredible 20 years later.

Underworld - Rez : Well, this is perhaps better filed under big guns, I have a particularly fond memory of Darren Emerson DJing at Atlantis in the Sub Club, and he spent most the might teasing this in and out of his set until the club blew up when it was finally played in total. Also, I haven’t previously posted this as I was mostly sick of the track after about 1999.

Empirion - Narcotic Influence 1 : Giving Them Drugs.

FUSE vs LFO - Loop : Richie Hawtin collaboration with Mark Bell & Jez Varley. As summarised by the sleeve notes, Detroit vs. Leeds vs. Frankfurt vs. the World. Also, by adding the acronyms of FUSE & LFO you can derive the anagram Souffle. FUSE is an acronym for Further Underground Sound Experiments, LFO is an acronym of Low Frequency Oscillation, but if you were anywhere near the UK Top 10 in 1990 you probably knew that when the self titled debut molested the charts and bewildered your dad. This LFO is, of course, not the American Lyte Fluffy Ones.

Ron Trent - Altered States : Heavily inspiring the track Positive Education by Slam on this same compilation, the genius of Ron Trent’s original still out performs it’s imitator. Additionally, I believe Ron was 15 when he recorded this, and I imagine there is evidence of this on his myspace page but myspace tends to make me go blind.

Fingers Inc. - Can You Feel It? : The best known version of this makes use of the sermon from Rhythm Controll - My House, but this is probably the track that most people associate said sermon with. However, this is the instrumental version, which is kind of odd as the sleeve notes to Flux Trax refer to the “My House” vocal, yet its conspicuous by its absence.

Buy Flux Trax on discogs. Oh, and BTW, I haven’t forgotten the requests for Sabres/Underdog - The Theme or the LFO/Aphex stuff, I’ll get to them in the next post.