Layo and Bushwacka! - Night Works

Yes. Utterly boring dad house for Moby fans to pretend they're still "with it".

Love Story is a beautiful thing and a wonderful moment of the year.

LAYO AND BUSHWACKA HOWEVER ARE BORING PROG DULLARDS WHO DESERVE MUCH MUCH HATRED FOR THEIR RADIO 1 STAGE SHOW ON SATURDAY NIGHT. Wankers. I am not buying the album based on reviews that it was shit prog house. Their DJ set was the worst thing I've ever seen, no exaggeration, and I was banged off my head after Orbital and in the mood for dancing. It still sucked massively. MASSIVELY.

Didn't see them on the Radio 1 stage but their live show in the dance tent kicked arse.

I shallpost my thoughts on the album as and when I've decided whether I like it or not.

Let The Good Times Roll is GRATE though.

You're right actually, the live show was good.

Why can they be good live and be such terrible mind numbing bores when they DJ? I mean I am totally honestly saying it was the worst DJ set I've ever seen.

that's OK--you could've been asked to review the album (which SUCKS) by a publication that refuses to reply to your queries on the review's status a month after they assigned it....

I feel I further fulled the myth that I'm somehow a largin it dance ignoramus by whole heartedly backing "Love Story" recently, only to find yourself and a few others had heard and hated the album.

I was right about Shakedown, god was I right. Is the album as proggy as that bloody crap DJ set?

What I've heard of Night Moves is larely uninspiring. The good bits of the first album were much much better. It seems they've largely forgotten how to construct a good groove.

It's not really "dad-house" though ("Love Story" excepted)... "dad- breaks"?

It's not really proggy though... more 'cod-jazzy' if you ask me.

Oh?

See I really liked Love Story, even when I found out the version I'd liked was the Tim Deluxe remix.

It seems they've largely forgotten how to construct a good groove.

You mean like "Deep South"? Because I really liked that.

Yeah, "Deep South" is utterly gorgeous.

Don't have much to say about what you're all talking about but does anyone know if there's any way of getting hold of a copy (vinyl)of their bootleg mix of Billie Jean?

Wow - what happened to these guys, man? This album was amazing. I regret to say I never bought any other releases of theirs.

they have outgrown their use

I'm not sure if you're saying they suck now Bimble but it appears they have new stuff out: http://www.layoandbushwacka.com/

This album was good - when it was called LOW LIFE!

It's a funny one - they still appear on all the dance-orientated festival bills, like the Plump DJs and Stanton Warriors and all those other breaks acts that briefly threatened to go massive four or five years ago. They probably still draw more people in on the basis of their name than most electro or minimal DJs. Yet I have no interest in ever seeing them ever again.

Despite starting this thread I can't remember a single second of Night Works bar Love Story and Let The Good Times Roll. Breaks is weird really - I'm sure there must be some amazing stuff out there but I can't be bothered to sift through to find it. But so many people I know still rave about it... unlike minimal or electro or even dnb it feels like really blokey music. Or for people who are still nostalgic for the early 90s before garage and trance became massive and ruined it all.

Still, Love Story feels like one of those tunes that will be around forever, and will come out as Love Story 2008 in a few years or something.

I feel the opposite, "Love Story" will never ever be played again it seems.

It's like HUGE in 2002 and then gone, like most of the big records of 02 actually, except perhaps the LRD remix of "Silver Screen Shower Scene". Things changed alot since then.

Now Layo and Bushwacka 12s come out and you just hope there's a decent remix on them, that's if you even bother to get past the rancid UK graphic designer End recordings sleeve, and the invariably nasty piece of crappy vinyl (Soma also terrible for this).

They really are a thing of a different age, I know I always say this but these acts are kept alive by having major distribution deals, nothing more!

As for breaks, it's a really weird genre, at its worst it is truly unbearably awful.

The fact is electro has really killed it off I reckon, it's stolen all the things about breaks that were interesting, the "newness" allowed by the lack of ties with real house/techno, the white rockiness thing that breaks tried to do has been utterly trumped by electro, just so little appeal left.

Every breaks DJ I know bought "Zdarlight", buys every Great Stuff release, "Washing Up", etc etc etc.

"Deep South" is deathless though i think - that could actually come out on one of the housier minimal labels today (Mobilee totally, except it's a bit too pop maybe) and everybody would love it.

And most of the breakbeat stuff on the first album remains the most fun breakbeat music I've heard.