WEEK 31

In late 2011, the ever-active beatsmith Fulgeance released the Step-Thru album on rx:tx Rec. as a limited-edition CD with hypnotic cover graphics. It was his "back to the roots" project - no fancy stuff, just simple and effective production that focuses on the key elements that make people move - the track's rhythmic swing, its bass melodies and haunting hooks. 
Now, besides releasing heavy loads of new material on his own (last LP "Cubes on Musique Large") and as one half of Souleance, Fulgeance finally sits back, relaxes and tosses four tracks from Step-Thru to four different remixers. 
To start with the three hit French combo, first up is VECT, who is consistently producing some incredible out of the box hiphop & classy futuristic r'n'b beats. His take resulted in a head nodding piece, less of a remix than a total remake of the album opening track "Whut It Iz". 
On the B side of the 7" there's Moresounds, the Parisien dub and beats champion, who is lately on fire with his self-titled EP and who has previously released fierce tunes on Om Unit's Cosmic Bridge label. He delivers a deep and jukeish remake of the "Wet" track. 
The digital only version of the release also features 2 additional tracks. 
The third remix from the French connection comes from the b-boy duo Funky Bijou as they add some melodic funk to the rightly titled "Raw" track. 
To top it o here's Oknai, one of the most gifted, focused and consistent 
young talents from Slovenia whom we know for his excellent "Ain't a 
Dream" EP. He delivers a tight, subby, low down version of the track 
"Square".
credits
releases 20 January 2014 
Original songs by Fulgeance 
Mastering by Gregor Zemljič at gz-mastering.com 
Design by ease at madeofwood.fr 
A&R by Borja Močnik 
Managing editor Uroš Veber 
Editor at large Marko Peljhan

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http://www.mixcloud.com/LeFtOoO/show564-new-joe-fatima-dam-funk-snoop-dogg-milosh-christian-rich/
soundcloud.com/xlr8r (free download)
https://soundcloud.com/xlr8r/fulgeance-square-oknai-remix
Sound Color Vibrations
http://soundcolourvibration.com/2013/12/20/step-thru-remixes/
Le Mellotron
http://www.lemellotron.com/2014/01/09/whut-it-iz-vect-remix-fulgeance-ft-fresh-daily-step-thru-remixes-2014-rxtx/


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Whut It Iz Feat Fresh Daily (VECT Remix)

Mukat Edits - Afro Disco Boogie Edits Volume 1
Label: Mukat Edits
Catalog#: Mukat Edits 001
Format: Vinyl, 12" (limited)
Released : 26 Nov 2012 (UK)

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Mukat Edits - Baby Come On (Edit)

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Todd Terje's remix of Dolly Parton's 'Jolene'

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Kinky Vinyl’s second release welcomes the amazing Ghetto Chords.

Ghetto Chords is more than just your typical kind of House music maniac. With raw sampling techniques and the extensive re-use of Jazz, Soul and Blues chords, he is trying to reinvent the sounds of the ghetto. His latest release "The Doctrine" on High Strings Recordings reached number 5 in the Traxsource Deep House top 100 last month. This Ep of 

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Ghetto Chords - Busted Smokin'

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Matt Hughes - Sunshine

Black Devil Disco Club_"H"  Friend (French 79 Remix)

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Get U Back Again

Trivia

First Play by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1. First Feedback from Maxxi Soundsystem, Anja Schneider, Tiga, Claptone, Luke Solomon, Patrick Pulsinger, Waifs & Strays, Pezzner, Doctor Dru, Prince Language, Greg Pidcock.

Premiered by Datatransmission:
http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/news/debut-transmission-mickey-disco-lights/

The Exploited Records poster boy steps back into the spotlight with a winning formula that’s gained him support throughout clubs worldwide.
Belgian producer Mickey delivers a sensual groover that’s destined to get those juices flowing.
This deep and seductive burner carries some solid disco and house elements that are arranged in a way that sounds completely fresh.
Berlin’s Exploited can be counted on to deliver those world-class house grooves, often equally bringing both a classic and modern flavor with their releases, and the latest from Mickey does a wondrous job of bleeding these seemingly-different elements together in his latest single ‘Disco Lights’. A chunky house stepper with a rollicking bass groove, jaunty piano stabs and some mean, vintage funk sample appropriation. Its a lively, juicy fruit slab of bumpin’ disco house.
’ This guy’s roll ain’t ending any time soon by the sound of things.’ (Mixmag)
’ The general trend in house music as of late has been a bit on the dark side but it doesn’t mean that the best music has been in that territory.’ (Magnet Magazine)
See Mickey playing 'Disco Lights' at Dour Festival for the first time:
https://youtu.be/t0xzqkQHJvA

First Feedback:
Maxxi Soundsystem: Dope.
Anja Schneider: Support.
Luke Solomon: Love this.
Patrick Pulsinger: Cool.
Waifs & Strays: Really like this!
Bag Raiders: Killer!
Pezzner: Another win here from Mickey.
Doctor Dru: Happy duck!:) Rolling, mate.
Prince Language: Killer Track!
Will Clarke: Love it.

Artist: Mickey
Release: Disco Lights
Label: Exploited
LC: 15799
Cat: EXPDIGITAL104
Published by: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing

Releasedate Beatport: 31.08.15
Releasedate I-Tunes: 14.09.15

Disco Lights

Mickey - Disco Lights | Exploited

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Edit The Edit ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’ (greg wilson edit of pta mash-ups)

112 bpm

Previously limited vinyl only in 2007 & 2009.

Of all the tracks I’ve played since my DJ return at the end of ’03, this has been undoubtedly the most requested. It was very much a signature track for a number of years, and still makes an appearance from time to time nowadays.

It all stems from when I picked up a 12” from Piccadilly Records in Manchester during the summer of 2005. It was by The P.T.A (Paul Martin and Tyrrell) on Throw Away Records, and included two mash-ups, both of which used the vocal from Amerie’s ‘1 Thing’, which had been a big R&B hit earlier that year. On one side of the 12” it had been mashed with Massive Attack’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ (this was titled ‘Unfinished Thing’), whilst on the other, ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ by the Rolling Stones (‘One For The Devil’). Not only had each of these combinations melded brilliantly, but both had ‘Sympathy’ in the title. This impressed me no end – some genius juxtaposition going on there.

Listening closer it was clear that there’d been some tampering, but it wasn’t until much later that I realised that, apart from the Amerie acappella, everything had been re-created by Canadian producer / DJ Tyrrell, including Keith Richard’s iconic guitar solo, which sounded better than ever - I’d presumed that the version of ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ he’d used had come from some Andrew Loog Oldham type instrumental (as was the case when The Verve famously sampled Oldham’s orchestral arrangement of the Stones’ ‘The Last Time’, on their 90’s classic ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’), so this only added to my awe at what Tyrrell and Paul had somehow managed to magic up.

Brilliance on vinyl is all good and well, but I’d bought the track with the dancefloor in mind, so it was now a case of how it walked the walk. Straight away I had a problem – which side to play? They were both really strong and I couldn’t make my mind up at first, but then I went between the horns of this dilemma and decided to mix one straight into the other, as though it was a single continuous track. I originally did this live (they appear together this way on a recording from Birmingham’s much lamented Jigsaw night, where I played in August ’05), but then I decided to put together an edit so I could take the combined length down by about three minutes and tighten the idea up. I called this version ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’ – I utilized the percussion from ‘One For The Devil’ for the intro, before moving into the main body of ‘Unfinished Thing’, which then mixes back into ‘One for The Devil’ during the breakdown, reaching its climax with the guitar solo. To round things off I gave it a customary peppering of samples and spins.

The edit went Big with a capital B for me, and everywhere I went people were asking for it – it was one of those tracks you couldn’t stop playing because you knew that people would be disappointed not to hear it. When I came to put together my Essential Mix for Radio 1 in January ‘09, ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy’ was probably the first track on my list (the mix focusing on the tunes that had served me best since my comeback five years previous).

A limited 12” on the Edit The Edit inprint was made available in 2007 – as the name suggests, this was for my edits of other peoples edits (or mash-ups, as in this case). The original P.T.A release was fully credited on the label – I’d made contact with Tyrrell via email and he’d given his blessing for the 12” to be pressed. We got to meet for the first time when I was in London appearing at Plastic People in April ’07, where he’d hear me play ‘Two Sides’ over that killer system.

In 2009 it would re-appear on vinyl, this time as the second release in the Reactivate series (following on from ‘I Was A Teenage DJ’ / ‘Gotta Keep Workin’ It’), a new wave of DJ demand resulting from its Essential Mix inclusion.

Given that I can’t list the artists as Amerie, Massive Attack & the Rolling Stones (because two thirds of that trio are Tyrrell in disguise), I’ll stick to Edit The Edit ‘Two Sides Of Sympathy', which is how it’s been listed most often, Essential Mix included.

When I asked Tyrrell if he was happy for me to upload it here he told me to ‘go ahead, spread the love’. So here it is, maintaining the bi-yearly sequence – 2005 original P.T.A 12”, 2007 Edit The Edit 12”, 2009 Reactivate 12”, and now 2011 SoundCloud download.

Greg Wilson – August 2011


WEEK 31

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