A much needed Saturday pick me up mix; after watching some horrendous football on TV. Aeroplane tears it up big and destroys the bleak midwinter blues with some delightful dancefloor ready tuneage. Oh and there's also an exclusive from Classixx!
Tracklisting :
1. Pop & Eye - Give me a fight 2. Friendly Fires - Hurting ( C2 Instrumental Mix ) 3. Great Weekend - That's the thing ( to do ) 4. Chemistry - Funky People 5. Parallel Dance Ensemble - Shopping Cart ( Maxxi Soundsystem Remix ) 6. Ruf Kutz #4 - 4 Ron 7. Miguel Migs - Close Your Eyes ( Deetron Dub ) 8. Art Department - Tell me Why ( Brennan Green Remix ) 9. Lula Circus - Fake Blood, True Wound 10. Classixx - A Fax From The Beach 11. Harmonious Thelonious - Trans Harmonic System
Check out the groovy artwork accompanying the first single from Ladyhawke's second album, 'Anxiety'. And yes the song is groovy too, thankfully no style over substance here. 'Black White & Blue' was written and produced by Ladyhawke, aka Pip Brown, alongside long time collaborator Pascal Gabriel.
There is a time and a place for remixes. This isn't one of them. 'Remixes' sounded half like a GCSE music technology coursework and half like the backing music from the pause menu on a generic racing game.
For tracks that are supposed, and indeed are individual interpretations they all sound creepily similar. Nu-Jazz is precarious at the best of times but these have been remixed to the point where it offers nothing new, which is the very point of doing a remix in the first place; to create something that sounds new. Getting down to it, the Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix was the only one that was passably listenable, while the remaining 9 tracks descended into clunky mismatched blippy synth horrors. It's an album which very nearly makes me sound damnation on Kraftwerk for playing about with their keyboards. Very. Nearly.