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Khaled - N'ssi N'ssi - The Unreleased Dubs - 19-Nov-08 06:52 PM
This track, although now dated, has always intrested me because of its connection to Jazz/Funk Disco. It is essentially a reworking of Motivation by Atmosphere in funky disco house style with more than just a nod to the Morales mix of Daddy Freddy.I remember at the time a lot of commercial proffesional Dj's playing this out in clubs around 1993/4.
All other Dimitri's subsequent mixes that contain the Motivation tracks bassline,keys etc are nowhere as good as this. So in short if you like the track Motivation and want the best house mix then this is for you.

Invisible People, The - Love Beats - 30-Oct-08 07:20 AM
This slice of deep moody house was created by Lee Newman and Michael Wells better known as GTO.
In 1993 Lee Newman was interviewed by Dave Clarke for his radio show on Brighton's Festival FM.Whilst playing this track Lee Newman explained.
"We came up with the name Liberty Trax to make the record look like an American release also we shrinkwrapped it, again to make it look more like a Import as they were very much in demand at the time"
Then, with a devilish laugh, she adds "It fooled a lot of people but if you look closely at the etchings it clearly says Townhouse an Englsh vinyl pressing plant ! "
As for the tracks forget the A side it's all about the Tropical Beats. A sublime slice of deep beats and bass with a small amount of looped sax, not groundbreaking but a great tool track nonetheless.

Snafu (6) - Situation Normal - 03-Aug-08 12:12 PM
Situation Normal All Fucked Up.
Snafu are a psychedelic country blues band whose small but impressive output may have gone under most peoples radars but come highly recommended.Having just the right amount of solid funk rock drums and bass backing they get away with not really excelling at providing the "blues" but with some tracks have some really trippy ARP synth solo's more akin to the space rock sound than country blues their sound is also warm and playful.

A fun use of the vocals from the track "Lock & Key" from the above LP can be heard on the "Lindstrøm - Feedelity" Remixed Vol 1 track "A Blast Of Loser".

Also recommended is their cover of the Otis Redding classic "Hard to Handle".

Unknown Artist - Les Edits Du Golem - 14-Jun-08 06:15 AM
Ahmed Fakroun.
Born in the Libyan city of Benghazi, he spent long periods in the UK and France in the 1970s and 1980s, recording a handful of singles and albums.
Reduced to a mere mention in specialist music encyclopedias after Libya's years of international isolation made it difficult for him to market his music to the outside world.
However, he recently came to prominence among obscurity-hungry club DJs when some of his early songs were rediscovered, re-edited and reissued anonymously.
Ahmed Fakroun looked set to make his mark in world music circles in the mid-1980s when his album Mots D'Amour, combining traditional Arab instruments and melodies with electronic music and dance rhythms, was released on the Celluloid label in France.
But then came the US aerial bombing of Libya in April 1986, followed by years of international sanctions, as evidence of terror links turned Libya's government into a pariah of the West and seriously impeded its citizens' freedom of movement.

"When I look to my press book, I found the articles stopped in 1986," he told the BBC.
"It was so difficult for me to be in two places at the same time".
"To take a plane to go from my home town to any part of the world, I had to go across the Tunisian border to Jerboa, about 700km, or take a boat to Malta overnight, then [travel] the next day to the other part of the planet. Imagine the rest of the story."

As it happened, record companies did manage to market Arabic pop to international music fans at that time, but Fakroun missed out.
Instead, all the action came from neighbouring Algeria, as Khaled, Cheb Mami and others introduced the world to the North African sound known as rai music.
And that seemed to be that, until about a year ago. Then a New York-based DJ known as Prince Language unearthed an old Ahmed Fakroun track called Soleil Soleil, re-edited it and put it out on a 12-inch single, renamed Yo Son.
"Prince Language delivers an edit of an 80s obscurity that sounds like it could have been an outtake from Talking Heads backing an Arabic R group," said one.
A few months later, some French DJs working under the name of Les Edits Du Golem released a 12-inch EP featuring a tune called Pyramide - in reality, a re-edited version of Fakroun's 1977 single Nisyan.
Even though neither record was authorised by Fakroun, he was grateful for the renewed exposure.
"I was very happy that these tracks are still alive in people's minds," he says.
"Thanks to those DJs from all over the world, playing and re-editing and refreshing those tracks. No, I don't mind. It's good for me to hear them in a good re-edit or mix, as long as they respect copyrights"

Amended and edited from bbc website 14/06/2008

Ahmed Fakroun / Belle Epoque - Yo Son / Bamalama - 14-Jun-08 06:12 AM
Ahmed Fakroun.Born in the Libyan city of Benghazi, he spent long periods in the UK and France in the 1970s and 1980s, recording a handful of singles and albums.
Reduced to a mere mention in specialist music encyclopedias after Libya's years of international isolation made it difficult for him to market his music to the outside world.
However, he recently came to prominence among obscurity-hungry club DJs when some of his early songs were rediscovered, re-edited and reissued anonymously.
Ahmed Fakroun looked set to make his mark in world music circles in the mid-1980s when his album Mots D'Amour, combining traditional Arab instruments and melodies with electronic music and dance rhythms, was released on the Celluloid label in France.
But then came the US aerial bombing of Libya in April 1986, followed by years of international sanctions, as evidence of terror links turned Libya's government into a pariah of the West and seriously impeded its citizens' freedom of movement.

"When I look to my press book, I found the articles stopped in 1986," he told the BBC.
"It was so difficult for me to be in two places at the same time".
"To take a plane to go from my home town to any part of the world, I had to go across the Tunisian border to Jerboa, about 700km, or take a boat to Malta overnight, then [travel] the next day to the other part of the planet. Imagine the rest of the story."

As it happened, record companies did manage to market Arabic pop to international music fans at that time, but Fakroun missed out.
Instead, all the action came from neighbouring Algeria, as Khaled, Cheb Mami and others introduced the world to the North African sound known as rai music.
And that seemed to be that, until about a year ago. Then a New York-based DJ known as Prince Language unearthed an old Ahmed Fakroun track called Soleil Soleil, re-edited it and put it out on a 12-inch single, renamed Yo Son.
"Prince Language delivers an edit of an 80s obscurity that sounds like it could have been an outtake from Talking Heads backing an Arabic R group," said one.
A few months later, some French DJs working under the name of Les Edits Du Golem released a 12-inch EP featuring a tune called Pyramide - in reality, a re-edited version of Fakroun's 1977 single Nisyan.
Even though neither record was authorised by Fakroun, he was grateful for the renewed exposure.
"I was very happy that these tracks are still alive in people's minds," he says.
"Thanks to those DJs from all over the world, playing and re-editing and refreshing those tracks. No, I don't mind. It's good for me to hear them in a good re-edit or mix, as long as they respect copyrights"

Amended and edited from bbc website 14/06/2008

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