Blake Baxter: What Happened EP ADR007

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Slinky acid grooves with Blake Baxter wispering about the dead club scene, lazers, and fucking. Came out a few months back and it is a club hit in Detroit. Recordtime cannot keep it on the shelves, apparently.

Anyone else heard it yet? I am all about it!

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago)

fits your name pretty well i'd say. i like it, not alot but i like it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:55 (twenty years ago)

this was out in may, i think, though it took me months to track down a copy. i recently read that it had sold some 10K copies. it's included on abe duque's new longplayer on disko b.

i love the tune, btw... easily one of my top 10 singles of the year. i know it's cheesy to say it, but it's like house/techno's "losing my edge."

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 05:53 (twenty years ago)

I like how for most everything in the song he says '...what happened' (or 'what the fuck happened') but when he gets to 'techno' he says 'what's happening'. :)

― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago)

Haven't heard it yet, but Abe Duque's pretty ace as far as I'm concerned.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Had a quick scan of online record stores and yup, no one has it in stock. Damn.

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago)

i think the LP is out in feb (i'm assuming it will also be on vinyl). as i understand it, all the abe duque records were no-promo, no-PR affairs, pretty much word-of-mouth alone. if reviewers wanted to write them up, they had to buy them... which is in part what explains the slow growth of "what happened," i think - the fact that there was a buzz about it at sonar in june, and now six months later people are still discovering it and talking it up on ILM.

anyway, wicked track. and it fucking kills it on the dancefloor!

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I've been anxious to hear some of his stuff from this year for ages, keep seeing it on setlists and stuff, but no dice as regards seeing it in the record store.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago)

That "champagne days and cocaine nights" record is available on one of those nice lectroluv picture disc samplers, ronan. Also has Carretta's "wicked game" on it.

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago)

it's crazy how many copies this has sold, especially for a record that is just a slab of black vinyl without even any labels on it. one shop here in glasgow reckon they have sold nearly 700 copies of it. i heard ages ago that it had been licensed to a major but it doesn't seem to have appeared yet. there's another couple in the series that are pretty good too but 'champagne nights, cocaine days' and 'what happened?' on this ep are deffo thee ones.

anyway, good for abe. he's been plugging away for years and years and deserves lots of success. hollis house!

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)

as in hollis queens?
also, isn't he (or his family) an ecuadorean immigrant? if so, that's rad - he must be the only one in the house & techno scene!

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)

yup, he's an ecuadorean living in hollis, queens.

― stirmonster, Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit yeah we had that Lektroluv sampler, for ages!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

The Abe Duque mix that came out on Disko B a few years back is still a fucking stormer.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I finally got to buy this, it really is amazing.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

i like 'acid' a lot, abe and blake

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

I played this out in singapore a couple months back and everybody went nuts. Who'd'a thought it?

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

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