Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Track Of The Day: A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray (François Kevorkian's Smoothie Mix) (Juice Box/Fontana)


I’ve always been confused by this release, as it’s credited to Lisa May and the release itself is ‘The curse Of Voodoo Ray’. There’s little to zero insight on Discogs, and the vocals on the original are credited to Nicola Collier. Anyway, there are zero vocals here, which was released around the same time as Francois K reemerged as a producer of some pedigree, (Not that he’d gone away. However, this release, along with the Floppy Sounds remixes that opened proceedings on his Wave label sort of reinvented him I think). This remix, like those he did of ‘Ultrasong’, has a spacey, minimal feel and continue to be unique and ahead of their time. Emphasising space and echo while driving forward with some momentum, this very overlooked version of a unique classic is some sort of template for a dub house experience.

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