One of those records where the radio edit is better than the full length version. The radio mix peaks at *just* the right moment with the "humanoid" vocal sample coming in and causing delirium on the dancefloor. Somehow the 4.59 mix misses the boat on that crucial aspect and shoe-horns an unnecessary 4 bars in there and ends up sounding *wrong*.
It becomes a good lesson in how NOT to arrange a track, but its genius anyway , so what the hell........
Still a total classic and as fresh as the day i heard it at a warehouse party in blackburn in 88. It's awful to hear updated versions of it remixed though, as it is a timeless keystone in house music history, and defines itself in that place like a rock.
If you compare the original to the music of today, you will gasp at the amazing production and the pure energy thats in this track, which always leaves you breathless when you play it out at high volume. It's also the only REAL acid track to break the british pop charts, which is a hell of an achievement in itself.
Indeed like someone said earlier, you only have to look at the work that Dougans and Cobain wrote after this masterwork under the guise of FSOL, it's almost like a precursor of what was to come.
Diggers rating 10 out of 10
Stakker needed someone to engineer on the music for what eventually became the Eurotechno video and got Brian Dougans to work with them.
Stakker sent Morgan Khan a video tape of their graphics which had some of the sound that Scott, McClean, Dougans were developing on it.
Morgan invited them to his studio in Ealing London and here Colin Scott, Mark McClean and Brian Dougans recorded Humanoid. The Evil Otto sample “Humanoid” from the "Berzerk" videogame, which provided the name of the track, was recorded by Dougans in an arcade on Ealing High St.
Originally called “Humanoid” to be put out by Stakker through Morgan Khans label Westside Records, it was released by Morgan as “Stakker Humanoid” by “Humanoid” to avoid copyright issues.
A dispute had arisen between Dougans and Scott / McClean and before the record was in the shops Stakker and Dougans split. It was the end of their working relationship. It had lasted just over a year.
The soundtrack for Eurotechno was later totally remixed and overdubbed with new sections added by Colin Scott and Simon Monday in the digital studio that Colin Scott and mark McClean had set up in the Goldcrest building in Great Pultney St in Soho.
This soundtrack is on the Eurotechno video and on the CD recently released by rephlex.