A Trip To The Moon

Achluo

LENG SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Riding a wave of critical praise and positive feedback for his most recent Emperor Machine album, the fabulous Island Boogie, Andrew Meecham returns with a typically wild and dancefloor-focused set of dubs, ‘versions’ and remixes.

According to Meecham, Island Boogie is his most personal set to date – a full-length excursion that not only delivers perfectly formed expressions of his dub-tinged, off-kilter synth-boogie sound, but also tracks that draw deeply on his earliest influences and long-held musical expressions.

It’s fitting, then, that this remix EP begins with his own sparse, stripped-back ‘version’ rework of ‘S-S-S-Single Bed’, a fine cover of the mid-80s Fox single featuring the vocals of Michelle Bee. Meecham’s dub-wise revision is a skeletal and driving affair, with snippets of echoing guitar, colourful synths and Bee’s distinctive vocalisations rising above a weighty dub disco bassline and rock-solid percussion.

It's followed by two revisions of album favourite ‘Wanna Pop With You’ from A Love From Outer Space main man Sean Johnston under his now familiar Hardway Brothers alias. Combining his own love of raw, analogue-sounding electronics and trippy dancefloor psychedelia with select elements of Meecham’s original – percussion, synth sounds, crisp guitar licks and elements of Séverine Mouletin’s lead vocals, Johnston’s main ‘remix’ is a weighty, mid-tempo treat. Arguably even better is his accompanying dub, which is more groove-and-effects focused and makes more of Meecham’s superb original bassline. It’s heavy, spaced-out and undeniably intoxicating.

To round off the package, long-time friend of the label (and sometime contributor) Rose Robinson dons her Tigerbalm pseudonym and gets to work on ‘La Cassette’. Brilliantly cutting up Séverine Mouletin’s vocals, she delivers a driving slab of spaced-out, synth-heavy dub disco that adds more weight and energy to Meecham’s original. It’s a fittingly on-point way to close out a superb selection of club-ready revisions.

LENG SHOP

The Emperor Machine - Wanna Pop With You (Hardway Bros Dub)

Starcrost - Quicksand - slowed & reverb

Comin' Home Baby

This track has been remixed and has a new baseline with a new bassist.

70/80s dance Remix/remaster

Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label

You're My Everything

Kates Bush (Coyote Nocturnal Edit)

This is the dub of my remix of this classic track by Hamilton Bohannon.

Mixed at Right Track NY on their brand new new SSL console in Studio B around January 1983, I believe this may have been one of the first three of four sessions done on it when no one even knew what this console was capable of. 

I don't remember having an engineer, just a lot of help from head tech Bob Schwall as well as whoever was the assistant engineer, and it was difficult session but quite fun and we made it through.

Additional Keyboards: Hubert Eaves III, Lenny Underwood

Comin' Home Baby

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