Liam Howlett didn’t do many remixes but they were all pretty good fun and this one allowed him to indulge and pay tribute to his hip-hop beginnings somewhat. Comic-book menace with funky breakbeats and the ominous brass build-up works really well. The track is busy enough to never sound boring.

Method Man - Release Yo’delf (The Prodigy remix)

 

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.

Embedding this because it cheered me up (briefly) this morning:

Huge tribal-ly Latino house opus by MAW’s Louie Vega from which India’s soaring vocals immediately became a sampler’s favourite (appearing on a couple of Jungle tracks that same year as well as on Vega’s own co-production with Eric Morillo, ‘Reach’, the next year). A video exists in my mind similar in style to Los Lobos’s ‘Kiko And The Lavender Moon’ but with added elephants, dancing and rotating symbols.

River Ocean - Love & Happiness (Yemaya Y Ochùn)

Track also features on Ultramix 94 (part 07) altho I only just noticed that the Flash-based audio players on the Ultramix site don’t seem to work with the new version of Firefox (but they’re fine in IE) - will try and sort that out ASAP.

Just a little idea I had on Friday afternoon. An experiment in colour coding more than anything else. In no vertical column should the same colour appear more than once as a ‘majority’ and no two colour combination should appear more than once (EXCEPT with their majority-minority roles reversed). THIRDLY no colour should appear in a chart directly below a chart featuring the same colour. Make sense? Well it took bloody ages to make it work in the end! But fun.