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Saint Etienne's classic debut album HVNLP1 - Fox Base Beta received a loving rework by Richard X.  

'The end result is as good as the original, which makes it close to perfect.' 
***** The Guardian

You can buy the album from the Heavenly Emporium:
http://tinyurl.com/5wpop6f

http://www.saintetienne.com
http://www.heavenlyrecordings.com

Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Fox Base Beta, Richard X)

Urban Soul ‎– Alright
Label: Polar Records ‎– POL-001
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM 
Country: US
Released: 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Deep House

Urban Soul - Alright (Original)

Raven Maize - Forever Together

The Balearic Gabba Soundsystem is back, back with a new EP that features three more leftfield remixes from curious electronic specialist Enzo Elia that have all been licensed officially by Irma Records. The source material for his three unhinged reworks is a track by 90s Italian house duo Soft House Company and two from cult Italian DJ and producer Don Carlos.

Soft House Company released only two EPs, both in 1990, but made a big impact with them: pretty much everyone has heard ‘What You Need’ and that’s the track that gets remixed here. Elia turns it into a slightly more bouncy and disco leaning cut with raw silvery drums, huge vamping piano chords and those classic vocal cries and already Eddie C and Gerd Jansen have been playing it. At the breakdown there is the sound of waves breaking on a beach before pianos go wild: It’s a freewheeling and sure fire party starting track that still does the trick nearly quarter of a century after original release.

Don Carlos was behind such seminal club tracks as 1991’s ‘Alone’ and produced five studio albums in the nineties and naughties. He fuses Afro rhythms with deep house vibes and has DJed all over the world since the 70s. The first of his to get re-worked is ‘Overture’, which starts with tropical bird cries, whistles and loon calls. It’s the sound of a humid jungle that gets slowly consumed by lush pads, delicate piano melodies and stirring string sounds. With a truly magical atmosphere and uplifting joyousness permeating the whole thing, it cannot fail to make you feel on top of the world.

Finally, Elia tackles ‘Chicago’ (a track that’s already been supported by Soft Rocks) and does so with swathes of mesmeric effects. Organic hand congas, breathy vocal snippets and a bristling nebula of synths, pads and strings all dance around each other in reservedly euphoric symphony.

This might just be one of the most beautifully and bizarrely Balearic releases yet from the ever unhinged Balearic Gabba Soundsystem.

Soft House Company - What You Need (Enzo Elia Balearic Gabba Style)

Jump - Funkatarium

Greg Wilson says: " ‘Dirty Talk’ is a track with a bit of history, going back to my time at Legend and Wigan Pier during the early 80′s. I bought it in from Spin Inn in Manchester, the North’s main import suppliers back then (the essential shop outside London for DJ’s like myself, who specialized in upfront black music) – it was on an Italian label called Zanza. This was a track that I could quite easily have missed, as it had been ordered in by Harry Taylor, who looked after the DJ’s who were playing in the regions gay clubs, where they went for a more European sound (the overwhelming majority of tracks played in the black clubs were imported from the US). However, aware of the Electro-Funk direction I was pursuing (at a time when pretty much everyone else on the scene had dismissed this new musical development), Harry brought the track to my attention, knowing that, although I wouldn’t have touched the vocal version with a bargepole, the instrumental ‘USA Connection’ would be right up my street.

There was no such term as Italo Disco at the time, this wasn’t coined until the following year (by German label ZYX), so ‘Dirty Talk’ was, and will always remain, full-blooded Electro in my eyes. The upshot was that it became one of the biggest tracks of 1982 within the black clubs up North, having perfectly fitted into what I was playing at my venues, then the most popular nights on the scene. It wasn’t the first Italian 12″ to go big with the black crowd (although most people would have been completely oblivious as to the European origins of these tracks) – others included Harry Thumann’s ‘Underwater’, Firefly’s ‘Love Is Gonna Be On Your Side’ and Electra’s ‘Feels Good’.

However, this record’s influence would be felt far beyond the black scene. Hewan Clarke, a DJ I knew as a Jazz specialist who appeared on the same bill as me at numerous All-Dayers, had become the resident at a new Manchester club that had opened a few months earlier, in May ’82 – this was The Haçienda. Although their clientele mainly consisted of students and Indie kids, Hewan, obviously clued-up to what was happening in the black clubs, picked up on ‘Dirty Talk’s’ success and began to play it himself. One night whilst it was on, a couple of the guys from New Order came into the DJ booth and asked what the record was and if they could borrow it from him as they were working on some new stuff in the studio and wanted to take it in as a reference. As things turned out, it became a key influence on their next single, the record that would bridge the gap between Indie and dance, taking them high into the charts and breaking them big style commercially – the mighty ‘Blue Monday’ (which became the best selling 12″ of all-time).

It was something of a ‘what goes around’ moment when I was approached in 2007, a quarter of a century on from when I first played ‘Dirty Talk’, to put together a new edit for Flexx, a Belgian label, who’d acquired a license for the track from Tony Carrasco, who co-wrote and co-produced it. I added a few overdubs and incorporated a loop from the follow-up single, ‘Wonderful’ (which was also a big black tune), for my version."

Klein & M.B.O. - Dirty Talk (Greg Wilson Edit)

Turntable Orchestra - You´re Gonna Miss Me (Fingerman´s Classic Edit)

Tony Scott - That's how i'm living (1989)

On The Prowl launches their new sub label with OTP Party Breaks #1. NYC house legend Marcos Cabral from Runaway (DFA, Rekids, I'm a Cliche, Wurst, Chinatown, Mule, etc) solidifies the backbone of what's to come. Expect nothing less than to hear the sound of the current wave of NYC dance music with upcoming releases featuring NYC artists that we know and love. On "LIfetime Groove" (Marcos Cabral & Shux Edit), Marcos teams up with Chinatown Records partner in crime Brennan Green to rework some roller boogie magic (or, could it possibly the prepubescent sounds of Bobby Brown and New edition?!) The result is an epic twelve minute adventure, jam packed with Balearic overtones and dubbed out feel good vibes. An instant classic!

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