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Ralph Falcon - The Dig - 13-May-09 11:11 AM
The original is quite spooky enough, but Radio Slave does his party trick and extends it into a 13-minute slab of tribal techno terror, the pulsing black heart of dancefloors last year and one of his best. He keeps the lead riff which would be equally at home on something by Lustmord - theres a great dark ambient remix in there somewhere. That mix is certainly not Umeks, who turns in some rather prosaic electro-techno.

New Order - Blue Monday - 24-Nov-08 06:33 AM
I wasnt born when this came out, and embarassingly only stumbled on it when it got on those Snickers ads. Still, its an extraordinary piece of work, combining the electronic disco of Giorgio Moroder with a very post-Joy Division sense of gothic melancholy to produce an emotional complexity rarely matched in our "oh yeah! Rock the dancefloor! All night!" obsessed age. Would be one of the tope five house tracks ever, if house had been invented yet.

Tigerskin - Peter's Secret Weapon - 24-Jun-08 12:07 PM
Title track nicks a few guitar notes from "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" to adorn a functional, groovy minimal-prog house tune; "Suzuki Rider" sticks Detroity stacked keys over a heavily syncopated groove for a warped tech-house ride. But youre really after "Wanted", which builds the atmosphere around a minimal beat before dropping a gorgeous and meaty synth hook, which dissolves into a string shadow of itself and back again. A tune to remember: tense, soulful and beautiful.

Paolo Mojo - 1983 - 26-May-08 04:21 PM
In a way, you have to feel sorry for poor old Paolo - here he is, cooking up a nice little rolling prog number with some tasty synth work and a cheekily-nabbed new beat lead, but what would otherwise be a perfectly usable track is blown out the water by a stomping rework from label owner Prydz. He takes the original and makes it longer, louder, funkier, spacier - in fact, just plain BIGGER. Few tunes have ever quite deserved the oft-used raver cry massive! as much as this one does. The arrangement is a masterclass in keeping everything rolling for as long as possible before switching it all up, and the result is 12 minutes of tune with nary a wasted second. Top drawer stuff.

Bent - Waiting For You - 26-May-08 04:14 PM
Danny Howells has knocked out a few choice cuts over the years, but this tops em all. Clattering drums halfway between post-punk and tribal house, an insistent two-beat guitar loop, a few mental synth sweeps, and a bassline to die for. For the last three minutes of this epic track, the whole thing rearranges itself nicely and gets quite spooky. Immaculately done, and one of the best tunes of the last couple of years.

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