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Abba   Midnight Mouse (Mighty Mouse Re Work)

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Dream Machine


Written by Ch. Chayell, M. Ickx

Performed and produced by Rich Lane

In the UK Midlands of late 1988, shortly after the second Summer of Love, a 15 year old schoolboy, already immersed in Acid House and Detroit Techno, reads in one of the pretentious London-centric mags he devours each month about a new sound which could be the next big genre.  It's called New Beat, and it comes, of all places, from Belgium. This makes him pay attention -  he spent every summer holiday of his youth in one of the country's resorts, and had vague memories of stark, pounding electronic music emanating from club doorways late at night.

He makes a trip from his suburban home into the city centre determined to find some examples of this new music. After a lot of searching he comes up trumps: a compilation album called 'New Beat - Take 1'. He buys it on the spot and takes it home to listen to. As with most albums he's ever bought, he feels slightly cheated, after a couple of good tracks there's a fair bit of filler, and certainly no overriding 'sound' other than a somewhat slow and Euro Pop centric approach to House. Nothing like the aural fingerprint of Acid or Techno. But...

Some of the tracks pique his interest. They have a dark, early 80s synth heavy sound which reminds him of both the Synth Pop of his youth, and the mysterious music filtering out of those Belgian clubs as a child...

He has to wait till the very end of the album for the best of these - a track called 'Flesh' by A Split Second. The fascinating sleeve notes of the L.P. tell the story of how an already banging tune in the established Belgian style of 'Electronic Body Music' was played at the wrong speed (33 1/3 and +8 on the Technics deck) by an Antwerp DJ called Fat Ronny. The club went wild, and a new genre was born - Belgian producers trying to replicate the slower groove and dark timbres of this fateful bit of serendipity. The UK schoolboy gets more than a little obsessed by the tune...

The lad in question went on to form a career in dance music production, and after 25 years has decided to revisit this important and very personal piece of nostalgia, fashioning a complete, respectful and sample free rework of the track based on it's 'go slow' speed. 

This one is for the music mad schoolkid in all of us...

R.L.

Rich Lane - Flesh (Remake)

A Split Second - FLESH - Goryx Edit

Datadiamond (Ian Latchmansingh) creates synth-wave tributes to the functionally obsolete. The music follows the enthusiasm and nostalgia for absent technologies: it’s the perfect pairing with Martian Colony concept art, robotic housekeeper, or an adult CD-ROM. Similar artists include Jacob 2-2, Neon Indian, and Com Truise. "Visit Future World", laden with samples from vintage EPCOT attractions, is a tribute to the future that never arrived.

Horizons

Mac Thornhill, Who's Gonna Ease The Pressure (Big Mac Mix)

Rondò Veneziano - La Serenissima

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Melody

OUT NOW

Oliver Heldens - Melody (Original Mix)

The Nightgroovers - Do It All Night ( Vocal Club Mix feat. Deanna )

A Split Second - Flesh

My edits got taken down from Bandcamp - but pick up the originals there now and I'll send over a package of edits as well for free :-) 
Bandcamp WAV :: https://andybuchan.bandcamp.com/

New Order - Blue Monday (Andy Buchan Edit)

Yello - Bostich

Alone in Tokyo

On Command

few days ago, something special happened at the end of a show in France where I was playing b2b with mamene S3A.
the sound engineer, waited for the place to be empty and just played this beautiful track for the staff and the artists packing their stuff and it had a really strong effect on me. something beautiful, out of time, lost in a little snowy village, this song I know since I was a kid sounded different and affected me.
the funniest part of the story is that S3A did a France Gall edit few weeks ago to pay his tribute to this wonderful and talented artist, thanks to him for opening the road.
here it is, only three days after the show cause it feels linked to that moment for ever to me.
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hope you'll like it fam.
folam.
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mastering : Mangabey (thx mamene)

France Gall - Ella Elle L'a (Folamour Edit)

Meldony

Dimitri From Stoke On Trent ‎– The Nice One Innit Edits
Label: Hands Of Time Gold ‎– hotgold IV
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo 
Country: UK
Released: Mar 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco

https://www.discogs.com/Dimitri-From-Stoke-On-Trent-The-Nice-One-Innit-Edits/release/2805821

A Split Second - FLESH - Goryx Edit

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