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.

It just goes on and on on but not for one moment is the motoring monotony of ‘Acid Eiffel’ not in unison with every facet of human emotion but anger. You’re moving fast but the landscape around you, the exposed strips of red and white light, the elongated cascade of faces and structures, seem to be moving even faster. Sadder still, I only visited Paris for the first time this year and it just didn’t feel quite this bloody romantic. The greatest European techno-trance track of all time. Feel every beat, bell clap and bass tone.

Choice - Acid Eiffel

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g9CVc3TqGDo

So this is some weird and rather rubbish release of Braxe’s ‘Addicted’ (from Kitsune X comp) with new vocals. I’m just curious as to whether this was inspired by the ‘Crank Addict‘ mash-up I made earlier this year, or maybe there were other mash-ups going around using the same Braxe track. Too coincidental otherwise!

One other thing that intrigued me tho. Kela (don’t know his stuff too well but liked his ‘Boom Accessories’ track from about 5-6 years ago)’s stuttery vocal hook here sounds lifted from the Van Helden remix of Apollo Four Forty’s ‘Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Dub’ 11 years ago. At least that’s where I immediately recognised it from. RUM.