Following up on that Ciara vs Sasse mash-up, here it is in VIDEO form. I managed to find the original ‘Get Up’ clip and then edit it a little in Premiere so that the lip sync matches the slower speed of the acapella in the audio. Unfortunately this always seems to get desynchronised a little when uploaded to YouTube but it just about works still.

Hopefully the clip will be allowed to stay up. I haven’t bothered with YT after they suspended my old account while I was on holiday back in the Summer - never knew if this was more because of the promo edits such as the one above or because of footage of England goals I’d added for people to enjoy (probably the latter because some of those may have been commercially available). All very annoying. But hopefully I’ll get the other music vid edits done so far (inc. the Madonna/Biosphere/Autechre one from Ultramix 94) back on YT - in the meantime you can watch most if not all of them in the Flowplayer on the right >.

Oh and you may have noticed the new graphics on this site - a big improvement I think. Unfortunately I stupidly flattened the Photoshop file ft. all the different elements on different layers so will have to redo from scratch for further alterations.

Thanks to the evergood South Bank Show for introducing me to this installation by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles. Titled ‘Babel’, it’s a tower of various types of transistor radio, tuned to different stations. Great concept, would love to see it.

St. Etienne - Chaos In The Gym, Walkman
Walkman is a straight disco number from their ‘98 Midnight Groove EP, Chaos In The Gym is their rework of a Peter Thomas composition for a tribute compilation of his works (as far as I can tell).

Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance (Crookers ‘Wow’ Mix)
Well it’s an improvement on the troublesome original.

Slagsmalsklubben - Sponsored By Destiny
MONSTROUS electro-pop from last year’s Boss For Leader LP - deserved to be big somewhere somehow but with a name like that perhaps difficult. Great track title tho.

Digitonal - Ana Kata
Opening track from this year’s Save Your Light For Darker Days LP. A mix of electronic ambience and classical strings.

Par-T One vs INXS - I’m So Crazy
Disco punk jam from the early 00s. still good, and weirder than it’s success suggested.

Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle - Your Love (You Got The Love Mix)
A mix I hadn’t heard before. the arpeggiated pattern sounding different yet again. more ambient synth touches, a rougher breakbeat dropped in…and then ruined by a re-recorded non-Staton vocal and some rubbish synth-guitar (wouldn’t have bought it if I’d noticed this). Stick to the original bootleg!

Red Snapper - Hot Flush (Sabres Of Paradise Mix)
Another great Weatherall remix. will always remember Coldcut seguing from this into the Doctor Who theme on their much-loved Journeys By DJ mix CD. To be honest I prefer the original mix of ‘Hot Flush’ tho.

Fontan - Early Morning (Studio Version)
Another nice ‘Balearic’ rework by the new masters of the said vibe - desperate for a new album tho.

Kraftwerk - Expo 2000 EP
To replace lousy low bitrate versions from all those years ago (original mix would’ve been one of the first 5 MP3s I ever downloaded).

Bought a lot more than usual this month so here are some recommendations (and a few links):

Fix - Flash, Player’s Anthem
- already had the brilliant Dope Computer from the same EP (the Electrowerk edition from 2003 but the tunes are at least ten years older) but it’s always been labelled as ‘Flash’ or just ‘Fix’ and it’s all still really confusing. All tracks produced by Orlando Voorn, an often terrific and perhaps under-appreciated producer of jittery techno and warm electro over the years. Everything on this EP directly and obviously inspired by P-Funk.

Late Of The Pier - The Bears Are Coming
- first thing I heard by them and immediately loved but nothing else on the increasingly hyped album has grabbed me yet.

Queen - Greatest Hits II LP
- it was only a fiver so why not. lol ‘Invisible Man’ etc.

Dirty Dapz, Dotstar, Flirta D & Skats - I’m Not Playin’
- the only thing I liked the sound of from the Channel U Vol 2 compilation (also cheap on itunes). Hectic but compelling grime, the like of which I rarely hear these days. Sound quality is a bit shit tho frankly. Only thing missing is a bassline…

Chaz Jankel - Number One, Call Me (Bonus Dub)
- LOVE ‘Number One’, a meditation on success or just a simple but thoughtful 80s pop song done well - reminds me a bit of Julian Lennon’s ‘Too Late For Goodbyes’ (good? bad? okay). This guy was born up the road from me in Stanmore, Middx so props.

The Tough Alliance - A New Chance LP
- slept on this for too long despite liking ‘Something Special’ immediately. whole album sounds good, a fair few AR Kane vibes and more. We could do with more bands that sound like this in the UK.

April March - Chick Habit
- surprised this is from as far back as ‘95, don’t think I heard it until ‘Death Proof’ which is annoying because it’s great and fiendishly sticky.

Barbara Morgenstern - Come To Berlin
- seems like a cheap promotional theme because of the lyrics but good atmospheric electronica anyway.

Ghostland Observatory - Stranger Lover
- The Rapture meets Zoot Woman uptown - would mix well with the Jankel actually.

M - Pop Muzik (Steve Osborne Mix)
- U2 used this as their intro music during their PopMart tour. I think it’s a worthy compliment to the fun original, for empthasising the importance of the subject with it’s epic whirling tone and bigger beats (so ‘97).

DJ’s Unite - Vol. 1 (Remix)
- A brilliant spacey ardkore tune I could not ID for years so grabbed it from a recent Moondance Anthems comp as soon as I realised what it was. Up there with the genre’s greats.

1. Concerned about how much my confidence in my own ability (probably higher than ever) is not matched by an ease with which I can demonstrate this effectively. Will work harder and faster on this.

2. A lovely new typeface called Hiruko. Some similarity to a typeface I’ve been thinking of having a go at creating (hence the mention). It would be my first if so, but high time such an endeavour was attempted.

3. Lemon Jelly’s ‘Man Like Me’ video from 2005’s ‘64-’95 album.

Overlooked this track at the time but really like it now - terrific break loop (when it kicks off at 1:10), good use of sample (Ralph Tresvant’s ultra-smooth ‘Sensitivity‘), dreamy tones and of course Airside’s video offers charming, stylish imagery (I like the volcano eyes and the silhouette birds best). They’re due a new album now surely.