everybody was freaking...

ye, haven't done a post in 10 days, been more busy watching flicks and shit instead. but either how, the title comes from that cevin fisher track from like the 90's, "the way we used to do it". good track, annoying as hell vocal. i've grown a bit sick of the roland clarke-y type vocals that is on house vocals, with y'know, preachy monologues about when house wasn't house, it was disco. which leads me to the track. France Joli, before i heard a mashup from ApolloZero combining the beats of her "Your Good Lovin" and Britney's "Slave For You" vocal, i never knew who she was about, and what she was doing. I heard the mashup, loved the beats, got on discogs to find out more about the girl and saw that she had alot of releases on respectable disco label Prelude. I'm bringing you "Come To Me"

This track was her first single, produced by Tony Green. Released in 1979, as the main single from her first album titled "France Joli", well, it was a 4track ep, but ye, good tracks on that. Got me a playable copy of the vinyl. It was featured on the studio 54 soundtrack but in edited form, this is the full monty

France Joli - Come To Me (zShare)


And on a completely unrelated and late note. this is probably the best video of Fergie's "London Bridge" i have ever seen, not that it was hard to top the original video or something.

can't seem to find you anywhere

this is the skinny on this one, i got it from a mate of a mate who noticed that Nathan Fake (SAW/Traum/Border Community) did a remix of Annie's My Best Friend and had it on his MySpace player for a few weeks during june i think, but it wasn't available for download. so what he did was that he streamripped it by pressing play and then recording the audio in audacity. The quality is quite good, but nowhere playable in a club. but really, this isn't a club track. This is very Nathan Fake style, has his very distinctive touches of glitchiness and reverb & effects.

The original Annie track is the last track on her brilliant Anniemal album. And i *think* it was written about her fiancée Tore Kroknes aka Erot. Erot was a brilliant producer, he did his own brand of deep house that had a very warm tone to it, it was very well done. Tore passed away in 2001 after a longer time in illness due to his heartproblems that was with him since his birth. Before his tragic death he produced a number of excellent tunes and especially one for Annie being her first hit called "The Greatest Hit" which was a classic already when it was released. Anyhow, i can go on & on about Tore & his phenomenal works but i recommend all of them.

Annie - My Best Friend (Nathan Fake Remix - Streamrip) (zShare)

beware of the dogshit

fucking ell, i turn on mtv for once in like one month. what the hell do i see, Jamelia, doing her "rock" thing, i'm thinking, ok, this looks ok, then i turn the mute button off. and i hear a very, very, very familiar riff. And i'm thinking, this might just not be what i think it is, feck you me, it was. The sound of Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus. now, i shouldn't be appalled, seeing i liked the Gloria Jones/Soft Cell sampled S.O.S. by Rihanna. But i just don't think this one is good. It's corny that they re-used the concept from the Rihanna track by writing completely new lyrics and just using one line from the original track also it's appalling that it's Stuart Chricton who produced the track.

Also the Timo Maas remix of the Depeche Mode track is crap, i don't know what was the deal with bringing out YET another Depeche Mode remixorama, especially if you are going to let Mr Ketamine himself Ricardo Villalobos do a 12 minute "mnml" version of "The Sinner In Me".

The tune i'm bringing you people is, DJ Shadow's remix of the less known instrumental DM track, Painkiller, it's good shit. ye, Get it on the remixes 81-04 2xCD

Depeche Mode vs. DJ Shadow - Painkiller (Kill The Pain Mix) (zShare)

nothing ever changes, the autumn rain seem to last for ages

so, i don't who else isn't partly sick of the ever going autumn period that seem to be taking place. because it's sure as hell isn't winter. ye, i'm really not going to go into the global warming malarky that was on the topic during the ever so hot summer & later summer/autumn. southern Sweden has had one dash of snow and it came really out of the blue. i remember that day, not the date tho, but it was a mildly cold day and then like in the afternoon you see snow. and it just froze up the ENTIRE city of Stockholm, because no one was prepared for it. it was October and fuck knows who had planned to put on their winter tires then. so it was chaos for that day, the next day people got their winter tires on their wagons and then it was business as usual, the dash of snow also leaded with a sense of optimism, that it really wasn't just going to be a warm autumn, fuck me, was we all wrong. November, which usually is the most dreary, cold & miserable month was reformed. if anything we got February weather for the most of period. shit is fucked up. but due to the lack of snow, we get like what people in (what then used to be) warmer climates consider as the winter period. we get ever going cold rain periods. it's annoying, but that's how it is. ye, now i've done my rant, now for the tune

J.Axel aka Jonathan Axelson aka Ronin (for his techno releases)'s music has left a big impression on me. Ye, it's deep house than most people has done before but you can't go wrong with some silky smooth deep house. His album "Deepness Is Served" was released on his own Bohéme label and it's great and you needs to go buy it, it's the shit. You Give Me (Love) was the first track he did for album and first in his collaboration with singer Astrid Suryanto. The track was first released on US label Strata and had some remixes by Chris J, Geche & Lypid. The version i'm sorting you out with is an re-edit that J.Axel himself did, called Rain Edit, good version this one, i got it on some like "lounge compilation" (read: compilation full of chillout & deep house malarky). Ye, hope you like it.


J.Axel - You Give Me Love (Rain Edit) (zShare)

are you supposed to be clowns?

one of my favourite breaks tracks this year has to be a track that i heard in a radiosession this summer. by an act called IF:IM. The track is called "Clowns" and was released on US breaks label Downbeat productions and features vocals by a bloke called Dean Forest. Superb track, starts out gentle with a nice broken groove, and builds up slightly in a Hybrid-esque style with some pads, strings, guitars and some echoed vocals and goes into a minor breakdown to bring in the vocal in full and then brings in a vicious bass that is lovely. Absolutely brilliant, very driving and ye, brillant track.

if:im feat. dean forest - clowns (zShare)

and if you like it, like me. go cop it at Chemical Records

a high maintenance chick missing her diamonds

So, Lady sov is making a name for herself in yankland, they managed to do that by putting in a recycled Kevin Briggs meets Tetris type beat. It's bad, but if they would have put the track with some proper grime bass they wouldn't have liked it. Hot97 might have still played it tho. Anyhow the original track is whack but certain people sorted her out with proper beats. Like... UK Mashup producer who added the beats from Ed209 & Ken Mac's massive "Hell Yeah!!!" onto it. and the result is immense. Get it at Dunproofin's Site also download his Cathy Cosmos (Cosmos Take Me With You-Breaks mix + Cathy Dennis - Touch Me) mashup & his Hard To Boot (Hard Fi - Hard To Beat + Daft Punk - Digital Love) mashup

also going to include JME's rework of 9 to 5 since that also had a shit original beat
Lady Sov - 9-5 (JME Remix) (zShare)

Tell me the secrets of your soul

There's always been something special with Sade's music, their style of Cocktail Jazz is very easy consumable and Helen Adu's vocals everytime with me. Her vocals are always easily transposed onto some deep housey grooves and she knows it, but she refuses to acknowledge it and strong dislike of house has stopped some of the greats getting to do proper reworks of her & her bands music. Infact the only proper house remix that has been done is by Ben Watt (of EBTG fame) for "By Your Side" and it was horrible really. But ye, her dislike didn't stop any house producer to go do remixes anyways.

And this one here was done in 1995, by famed Detroit techno producer Kenny Larkin. Released originally in 1995 on Illegal Detroit as Sade - "Surrender Your Love" with a Stacey Pullen Remix on the flip. This is a rework of "Give It Up" from the album "Stronger Than Pride". Kenny took it as it was from the album and timestretched it up to a deephouse tempo and then worked his magic by adding a seductive groove & a deep bassline and keeping the track really interesting for over 11minutes. It's a wonderful ride and a killer track. I recently got this remix after wanting it ever since i first heard a while back. I got it on the latest Sade Remixes 2x12" Bootleg (Sade Remixes - The Best Off).

A1 Love Is Stronger Than Pride (Mad Professor Remix)
A2 Surrender (Kenny Larkin Remix)
B1 Kiss Of Life (Deep Mix)
B2 Feel No Pain (Nellee Hooper Mix)
C1 Turn My Back On You (Heff's Mix)
C2 Sweetest Taboo (Extended Version)
C3 Somebody Already Broke My Heart (Excursions Mix)
D1 I Never Thought I'd See The Day (Hani's Musk Men Remix)
D2 By Your Side (Ben Watt Mix)

I haven't even bothered to check out the other ones, altho Mad Professors remix of "Love..." is great. If you know what's up, go cop the vinyl, i'm leaving you with the mp3 of Larkins remix. I can't praise it enough, it's the shit

Sade - Surrender Your Love (Kenny Larkin remix) (zShare)