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Just bought this and it's mostly fantastic! I'm especially taken with tracks 9 through 14, but know nothing about the artists. Also The Harlequin Fours track is excellent - a skeletal house chassis developing into an ESG (yes, them again) vibe.

Anyway folks, pls tell me something about the more, ahem, up-to-date tracks/artists.

Tracklist below :

1. We - Maurice Fulton presents Boof
2. You're God - Ana Rago (I:Cube Remix)
3. Ciquri - Material (Discomix)
4. Set It Off - Harlequin Fours
5. Tainted Love - Impedance
6. Broken Mirror - Random Factor
7. Ma Foom Bey - Cultural Vibe (Love Chant Version)
8. Caught Up - Metro Area
9. The Sky Is Not Crying - Tiny Trendies
10. To Our Disco Friends - Smith 'N Hack
11. Tunnel Music - Zongamin
12. No Communication, No Love - Charles Schillings (Salt City Orchestra Mix)
13. March Of General - Nigo (Chicken Lips Conquest Dub)
14. Buggin' Becky - Jay Walk (Fully Bearded Mix)
15. Let's Get Jazzy - KC Flightt (Dopy Dub Mix)
16. Do Or Die - Human League (Dub)
17. Anti Social Tendencies - Parallax Corporation
18. Get Up Get Out - Ralphi Rosario
19. Still Hott 4 U - Bobby O
20. I Don't Care - Dexter
21. Gonna Make You Sweat - Wanda Dee (Acapella)
22. House of Jealous Lovers - The Rapture
23. Money B - Flying Lizards

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Sunday, 1 September 2002 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

March Of General - Nigo (Chicken Lips Conquest Dub) -- the guy from the ´a bathing ape´ designerclothes.

Anti Social Tendencies - Parallax Corporation --- think it´s the same guys as I-F (space invaders....)

Still Hott 4 U - Bobby O ---- bobby orlando who produced the first pet shop boys single along with the flirts, the barbi and the kens, lime etc

House of Jealous Lovers - The Rapture -- i think you find a lot on them if you search ILM

Money B - Flying Lizards --- one of the best groups ever.
http://home.netcom.com/~logan5/

― Jens (brighter), Sunday, 1 September 2002 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Random Factor - Broken Mirror ---- eighties-themed pop-minded micro-(not micro)-house from Playhouse. There's another mix of this on their Famous When Dead compilation.

Metro Area ---- Fantastic disco revivalists, and Andy seems to like them too.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 1 September 2002 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Nath sob sob when am I going to get that copy you promised me? :-(

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 2 September 2002 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Maurice Fulton fucks up house with filters, but think Felix da Housecat / Green Velvet rather than any squelchy French business.

Random Factor is Carl Finlow, Yorkshire-based Back to Basics favourite. Usually puts his stuff out on Ralph Lawson's 20:20 Vision label. Good shiat.

― Rick, Monday, 2 September 2002 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Also The Harlequin Fours track is excellent - a skeletal house chassis developing into an ESG (yes, them again) vibe.

The original of Set It Off (male vox) was by Strafe, released a year prior ('84, I think?). Both are equally great.

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Harlequin Fours 1985 then, wow!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 2 September 2002 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

9. The Sky Is Not Crying - Tiny Trendies - adam goldstone from new york

10. To Our Disco Friends - Smith 'N Hack - berlin maestros MMM

11. Tunnel Music - Zongamin - flesh records disko king

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

nineteen years pass...

19 years on, still my all-time favourite mix. I dunno wtf that says about me tbh.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 24 October 2021 01:46 (three years ago)

Yep this is an amazing mix - covers so much ground without feeling self-consciously eclectic, and in retrospect it feels like a skeleton key to a lot of the dance music trends that dominated in the years that followed: electroclash, punk-funk, disco revivalism, balearic etc. I could easily imagine basically the same mix being released on (say) Eskimo maybe 2 or 3 years later.

Also "The Sky Is Not Crying" forms a great emotional centre to the mix. One of my favourite house tracks.

― Tim F, Sunday, 24 October 2021 23:31 (three years ago)

No Communication, No Love - Charles Schillings (Salt City Orchestra Mix)

Salt City Orchestra and their remixes in particular deserve more love..

― scanner darkly, Thursday, 28 October 2021 02:14 (three years ago)

Ironically, it's actually not the Salt City mix that's on this but the superior Street Corner Symphony mix.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 29 October 2021 15:10 (three years ago)

SALT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaEwEaAC3N8

STREET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD5pePSUhu4

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 29 October 2021 15:20 (three years ago)

10. To Our Disco Friends - Smith 'N Hack

― missingNO, Friday, 29 October 2021 15:33 (three years ago)

Ironically, it's actually not the Salt City mix that's on this but the superior Street Corner Symphony mix.

― Heavy Messages (jed_)

It's actually erroneously listed as the Salt City mix rather than the Street Corner mix on some editions of this, fwiw, so the misunderstanding is out there already.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:08 (three years ago)

yeah got it from the OP

agreed not their most interesting remix
Sex-O-Sonique “Thought It Was You” and Underworld “Cups” remixes are absolute classics though

― scanner darkly, Friday, 29 October 2021 18:04 (three years ago)

of course, you've seen Léaud's Audition for The 400 Blows but in case you haven't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULovABBn2ds

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 29 October 2021 18:08 (three years ago)

haha! wrong thread obv

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 29 October 2021 18:17 (three years ago)

10. To Our Disco Friends - Smith 'N Hack

yeah this one knocked me on my ass when I first heard it

― brimstead, Friday, 29 October 2021 18:43 (three years ago)

It's great for about as long as Trevor lets it play but it is truly great for those three minutes.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 29 October 2021 18:50 (three years ago)

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