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Hybrid - Finished Symphony - 15-Jan-04 01:47 AM
"Finished Symphony" is perhaps best known in the UK as the theme music for BBC TV's boxing coverage.

Beloved* - The Sun Rising - 14-Jan-04 03:50 AM
WEA and The Beloved ran into a bit of trouble over the vocal sample on this track (the one that appears just after the title in the chorus). It actually came from "A Feather On The Breath Of God", an album of 12th-century plainsong released by the tiny independent label Hyperion, who not unnaturally were rather miffed that they hadn't been asked! In the end they settled out of court for a modest sum. The same sample turned up again the following year in Orbital's "Belfast", but this time it was properly credited, with Hyperion getting their rightful cut.

KLF, The - Justified & Ancient - 08-Jan-04 03:19 AM
Bill Drummond talked about recording this single in a BBC documentary about Tammy Wynette broadcast shortly after her death. Bill had always wanted to work with her because "Stand By Your Man" was one of his favourite records of all time. But when The KLF played the "Justified And Ancient" backing track for her to sing along to, she couldn't do it. It turned out that her usual way of working was that she would lead, and her backing musicians would follow her, rather than the other way round - so she had never had to stick to a strict tempo. In the end they just had Tammy sing it a cappella, and then did a lot of timestretching on the vocals to make them fit the track.

Bomb The Bass - Winter In July - 22-Nov-03 12:45 AM
This was the first commercially-released record to be mixed in "3-D Sound", a technique which it was claimed at the time would be as revolutionary as the introduction of Stereo had been thirty years earlier, with the advantage that unlike the unsuccessful four-speaker Quadrophonic system, this technique required only the regular two speakers. The single was premiered on Mark Goodier's "Evening Session" show on Radio 1 following a simultaneous broadcast with the TV programme "Tomorrow's World" which demonstrated the technique using a remixed version of "Megablast". Actually, the "Megablast" remix was better than this, with sounds flying all around the listener's head; "Winter In July" is much more subtle. In retrospect, it maybe wasn't the best choice of song to launch 3D sound onto the market, though it did reach the UK top ten. As for the technology, it didn't quite catch on in the way some had predicted, though some artists dabbled with it to great effect - Orbital's "Snivilisation" album has some wonderful 3D mixing - and it has now been largely superceded by the five-speaker Surround Sound system. It's almost as if Quadrophonic never flopped.

808state* - Lopez (Metaphorically) - 26-Oct-03 03:51 AM
A really nice original track in 5/4 time but the package as a whole feels like a wasted opportunity as none of the remixers (not even 808 State themselves) rise to the challenge of creating a club mix in 5/4, instead trying to shoehorn elements of the original into the usual 4/4 beat. The result is, in all cases, a complete mess.

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