Name: Craig Thomson - Work That by Craig Thomson
Duration: 6 min 30 s
Description: A new release on Begbie’s Trainers from yours truly …a chuggy monster that “Worked that Sucka to Death “….watch this space for some new releases

Tracklist: https://bit.ly/3GYt5ED

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Sean Johnston (@hardwaybros): "Trying to condense 30 years of musical heritage into a 60 minute mix with a talent like Andrew's is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. Over the three decades that I knew him I was a fan, a friend and eventually partner in A Love From Outer Space. The body of work he left behind runs into many, many hundreds of tracks and covers just about every musical genre known to humanity,  (which of course reflects his relentless creative curiosity and spirit). I decided in the end not to overthink it, and just to roll with a concoction of my favourites, and, as Andrew would have said, tried not to make the joins too obvious..."

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Andrew Weatherall tribute: Sean Johnston's 'Sail We Must' mix

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Pet Shop Boys - I Want A Dog (Baxter P Sunbather and Alan Livie Re - Edit)

In a convergence of two of the most celebrated names in contemporary electronic music, Karsten Pflum steps out on Central Processing Unit with the Liars EP. As anyone who has followed either Pflum’s work for labels such as Worm Interface/Furthur Electronix or the Sheffield imprint’s recent run of top-quality electro joints will have expected, this coming together proves to be a match made in heaven.

What we have here is a tour de force of modern machine music. With Liars, Pflum achieves that rare feat of making something that is at once boundary-pushing yet also thrillingly immediate, his attention to detail shining through with each well-placed snare hit or leftfield structural choice. Equally apt for home listening or dancefloor deployment, Liars is a delight for heads and hedonists alike.

Constantly evolving while also cleaving to a relentless groove throughout, opener ‘WAN1’ is a brilliant scene-setter for Liars. The track slinks between sections of seething post-Drexciyan acid and eerie vignettes which balance out haunted house synth licks with the sort of punishing bass blasts that recall early grime classics like Youngstar’s ‘Pulse X’. A sly shift of key halfway through the track only serves to redouble ‘WAN1’s restless brilliance.

After ‘WAN1’, ‘LOLA’ represents something of a gear-switch. The track’s wiggly opening bassline is a red herring - make no mistake that we’re fully into braindance territory on this one, the drums skittering across the mix as Pflum fills the track out with jungle-adjacent delays and softly insistent synth pads. As ‘LOLA’ goes on, blurts of synth and some stiffening in the drum work pushes the track into pure rhythm workout territory.

First B-side ‘MOUSFOLK’ somewhat splits the difference between Liars’ A-sides. This track has ‘WAN1’s unyielding stomp and prominent acid bass line, but the helter-skelter drum breaks and wandering keyboard lines are very much pulling from ‘LOLA’s zanier energy. As with the other joints here, ‘MOUSFOLK’ is elevated by Pflum’s composerly touch, the Dane frequently throwing in new sonic tidbits - a skippy snare tattoo, a single-note synth loop which sounds like a hovering spaceship - that reinvigorate the mix.

Pflum’s musicality is at the fore once more on closer ‘BALM’. For the first section of ‘BALM’, a rich and sombre keyboard fugue, you’d be hard pressed to say whether you’re listening to a producer of club music or a contemporary classical maestro. The way Pflum builds this central motif up with deft broken-beat drum programming, a wheezing synth countermelody and distant vocal sighs is equally delightful, the whole track coming off like a kindred spirit of the electronica-infused experiments on Radiohead’s 2000 masterwork Kid A.

A brilliantly unorthodox collection of electro-braindance hybrids, Liars is a barnstorming Central Processing Unit debut from the seasoned Karsten Pflum.

RIYL: AFX, Silicon Scally, DMX Krew, Matmos

Liars

Karsten Pflum - Liars

A new release on Begbie’s Trainers from yours truly …a chuggy monster that “Worked that Sucka to Death “….watch this space for some new releases

Craig Thomson - Work That

a co-production by  Baxter Park Sunbather and Dean Nelson

Dirty Windows - GBTOR Hip House rerub

Next up we have a somewhat of a stalwart of the dundee scene, having been making rooms bounce since starting their 'Going Back to Our Roots' nights many moons ago, BPS and his stage companion Danny Walsh have been providing just enough music from bygone decades past to keep the original generation happy whilst also introducing a whole new generation to what they missed. 
Mixing the old with the new is what they do best, 1.5hrs of fun here.

Baxter Park Sunbather (Roots) (Localproduce011)

A couple of things this week made me revisit this edit. Firstly Greg Wilson featured it in a 'Festival Anthems' selection he recently uploaded to Mixcloud - http://tinyurl.com/d6yvsbc - and secondly it was featured in the closing scene and credits to this weeks episode of Mad Men. The combined effect meant that a fair few people have been downloading the version I uploaded here 3 years ago (which was also only available as a low quality MP3), so I thought it apt to give it a 'spit and polish' and make a remastered WAV version available for download. 

Even if you downloaded my original version you should grab this too as the remaster kicks like the proverbial mule!  :)

And finally, I'm looking to fill the gaps in my summer DJ schedule so if you've got anything in mind, mail me at jonathan.moore1@gmail.com

Tomorrow Never Knows (Leftside Wobble Edit) Remastered WAV

Alan Livie and BPS-Space-Uranus mix.wav

Resident DJ from Going Back To Our Roots and The Korova Conspiracy ...sporadic producer ....keen editor and studio builder…. Played at various clubnights up n down the East Coast … used to go by the name Baxter Park Sunbather

Craig Thomson - Work That

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