Track Of The Day: Moodymann - Bosconi (Planet E)

 

The other side of ‘Dem Young Sconies’, so often overlooked; ‘Bosconi’ is every bit as sonically interesting as the A, probably because it really does sound that it came out of the same recording session. The two tracks are two sides of the same coin, with the more languid, horizontal sound of this track playing off against something more upfront and abrasive. Kenny Dixon Jnr very quickly established a sound which is simultaneously abstract and soulful, wrapped it in mystique and, in the process, became house music’s most enigmatic producer. It can often feel like he gets away with murder, but that’s all part of the appeal.

Track Of The Day: Miles Davis - Interlude (CBS)

It’s been a while since I posted anything by Miles. How did that happen? Anyway it’s Monday, I’m resting up after some minor surgery and out of action, so how about an interlude that lasts over twenty minutes and is a completely immersive piece of fusion. And I think the world is starting to catch Miles up as far as this era of his artistry is concerned. The album on which this features, ‘Agharta’ divided a lot of listeners at the time. Which I imagine was part of the motivation for making it in the first place. I guess that’s easy to understand when comparing stuff like it, recorded in an afternoon in 1975 at a concert in Osaka, to what came before ‘In A Silent Way’. There’s such a minimalist approach, particularly to Davis’ own input, compared to what was previously expected of jazz musicians. So without wanting to overstate anything, this is as out there as it gets, at any period in the evolution of music.

004.15-BARDO-IVAN+VLADIMIR

 

Vladimir · 004.15-BARDO-IVAN+VLADIMIR

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 48 : DJ Sundae

 

Sound Metaphors · Sound Metaphors Mix Series 48 : DJ Sundae

Track Of The Day: Connective Zone - Dude (Delsin)

 

Originally released just as this century was starting on Emoticon, Connective Zone’s ‘Qwerty’ EP badly needed a rerelease to prevent it from becoming a “lost classic” and to defang the Discogs sharks. And it’s aged very well. ‘Dude’ is a wonderfully lush break beat banger, which bangs as much as it can while under a metaphysical headlock. So it sounds blissful as it’s twatting your head against a brick wall.

Rhadoo @ SUPER DOMMUNE - 27.03.2026

 

Track Of The Day: The Black Dog - Parallel (General Production Recordings)

 

First released in 1991, and then later in 1995 as part of a compilation, ‘Parallel’ is a great example of the incredible sound that The black Dog were producing at that time. The design and density of this track is as good, if not better, than anything that came before and has been released since. It’s wonderful when hearing music like this for the first time and trying to imagine what inspired it. Your head really starts spinning at the thought of the multiple concepts that are involved in the imagination necessary to put this tune together. So apart from the music, the mystical dimension to this composition really comes through. And once the grey matter has grasped the calibration of transcendence, you are in the right place to be taken somewhere else.

Track Of The Day: Mood ll Swing - I See You Dancing (Groove On)

 

If we all hang around long enough every Mood ll Swing release will make it onto these pages. It’s as inevitable as Tom Cruise winning an Oscar in his dotage. Anyway, as far as I can see this gen hasn’t been posted yet. Iy has the hallmark groove of a classic Mood ll Swing track with added drum rolls, but what sets it apart is its synth work, which up close sounds like a wildly flanging guitar. One to raise the hairs on the back of your neck on the dance floor when all else is lost to inebriation me thinks.

Track Of Yesterday: Galaxian - Forget About It (Foul-Up)

This is one of Galaxian’s best, even though it might sound a bit earnest for some. Atmospheric and, as a result of some sterling work with disembodied voice transfiguration, sinister and poignant simultaneously. (Read that last bit in the exaggerated accent of a hippy Californian futurist). A set ender if ever I’ve heard one, leaving the crowd to disperse to their early morning food for thought.

Trommel.241 - Carl H [recorded live at Evasion Festival 2025]

 

trommel · Trommel.241 - Carl H [recorded live at Evasion Festival 2025]

Track Of The Day: Sten - Eccentric (Dial)

 

File this under “one of those tracks I’d forgotten I’d bought but I’m glad I did”. Sten, aka Lawrence is the label head of Dial, along with Carsten Jost and Turner. And this piece of gothic flavoured, cinematic deep house sounds like it emerged straight from the watery, boggy steppes with its menacing credentials intact. It’s a wall of sound tune, immersive, sinister and uncanny which has the power to sweep you away on the dance floor or, equally, take you to another dimension while sitting in your metaphysical drawing room wrapped up in your thoughts and insulated from the outside world.

Track Of The Day: Morgan Geist - Lullaby (Environ)

 

A quarter century since this was released. That makes you think innit. I can remember going into Black Market Records in Soho to buy this. And when ‘Miura’ came out shortly after 9/11 I repeated the process. This is such a great, understated track though. Three parts electro and three parts disco, lifted from the lino onto the dance floor. I used to play ‘24K’ out a lot more, but would throw this on if the crowd needed a Kraftwerk fix. Bloody marvellous.

Innershades - Heritage Vol 2 (Altered Circuits)

 

Title: Heritage Vol. 2

Artist: Innershades

Label: Altered Circuits

Cat Number: ALT023

Genre: Evocative Sleaze

1: Mind State

2: System Breach

3: Fuse Memory

4: Rhythm Composer

I guess if anything it falls into the loosely-categorised compartment of “club music”, currently used as a coverall for the dark, the seedy and the messy, then this might be a good example. The kick is stronger on ‘Mind State’ and ‘Rhythm Composer’, with the latter running away with itself into the hills of trance. ‘System Breach’ and ‘Fuse Memory’ are lighter, and a little slower. There are certain motifs that cover most bases here though. Such as the electronic barrel organ sound that Innershades seems to be particularly fond of. This dominates ‘Mind State’ particularly and pops up sporadically on tracks 2 and 3. It has arpeggios in its DNA. There’s a very euro disco through the looking glass feel to the whole release which is a very good thing. However, a little bit more variation on a theme would be nice.

Anne Clark - Our Darkness (Dark Entries)

Title: Our Darkness

Artist: Anne Clark

Label: Dark Entries

Cat Number: DE-340

Genre: Electro Disco

1: Our Darkness (Remix)

2: Our Darkness (Dub Mix)

3: Our Darkness (Razormaid Mix)

4: Sleeper In Metropolis (Extended Remix)

5: Poem For A Nuclear Romance

I have to confess that this is a new one on me, whether or not it was played in the clubs I used to frequent in mid 80s Liverpool. A very minimal, dense and autodidactic piece of work. The vocal is spoken and comes across as somewhere between a proclamation and a poem, delivered in such a way as to amplify the pain between the lines.This type of stuff has always been appealing on the discerning dancefloor, the one that treads a fine line between hope and despair. So, It’s easy to see how it was so influential in the early Chicago and Detroit scenes. There’s not much variety between the three versions here btw. ‘Sleeper In Metropolis’ goes down a similar path, utilising slowed down breakbeats and an intense, arpeggiated synth. ‘Poem For A Nuclear Romance’ terminates this release and is very much of its time. I’m glad I didn’t hear this at the height of the cold war. Maybe play it before watching ‘Threads’, just to get in the mood?

 

Track Of The Day: The Slits - So Tough (Island)

 

Still sounding fresh today, ‘So Tough’ appeared on ‘Cut’ and has funk in spades. The rest of the world is still catching up with stuff like this, in spite of it being almost fifty years old. And if there is one group which was ahead of the curve at this time it was The Slits. No other quartet playing at that time made light of such a wide range of influences and, in the process, managed to fuse them into something unique. The Pop Group would not have existed without them, nor the next generation of DIY beat combos. Their influence runs deep and they aren’t lauded enough.

Track Of The Day: System 7 - Alphawave (Plastikman's Acid House Remix) (Butterfly)

 

Here are gentle hippie folk System 7, aka Steve Hillage and Martine Giraudy, getting theremin treatment from Plastikman, aka Richie Hawtin, at the height of his powers. There’s something so satisfying about the sound that comes from the 303 on this track. It’s ust a kick and a long drawn out acidic squelch until the handclaps come in, and they sound magnificent too. This is big room techno before the concept existed, but the beauty of it is is it’s excellent. Not a loopy cop out. And once the hi-hats come in at around4 minutes there’s no going back. The intensity just builds and builds. Layer upon layer of sound battering you into submission. And yet it manages to remain eternally funky.

Track Of The Day: Robert Hood - Museum (Axis)

 

From the ‘Minimal Nation’ double pack on Axis that I discovered while leafing through the disorganised boxes in Salinas, a record shop in Montmartre in the early nineties. Tracks like ‘Museum’ defined Robert Hood’s artistic vision at the time and usher din a whole new approach to techno which was undeniably from Detroit, but darker, more introspective, funky and subtle. ‘Museum’ is probably most notable for its elastic approach to syncopation. So much is done with singular elements in this track. Less is more innit.

Track Of The Day: Peace Division - Feel My Drums (Fuju)

 

If Peace Division are known for anything, it’s for their all-out percussive bombs, most of which coincided with the west coast tribal tech house boom at the turn if the century. ‘Feel My Drums’ sort of eponymously explains this. Like a lot of the tracks of the time it sounds better pitched down. Even doing this doesn’t distract from the sonic maelstrom that you find yourself in the middle of though. The drums are the sharpest tool in the box here, with the other elements ranging from the dub, to the parasitic, synthetic embellishments that provide focal points throughout. This was made more than twenty years ago and the magnitude of this sound has never been replicated.

Track Of The Day: Holloware Squad - Surface Intention (Emissions Static)

 

An incredible, early piece of work from Carl Finlow, amongst others. ‘Surface Intention’ is the AA side to the magnificent ‘Moonax’. It’s a brooding, intergalactic monster whose power is in its restraint. I mean the drums don’t kick in until around half way through. It’s all about rewarding the listener, but it is also a bit of a tease. I like tracks where the different elements seem to have been atomised. Everything here feels like constituent base element meltdown. This what happens when you attempt to put a tune in a centrifuge and then try and make sense of it while your head is still spinning.

Track Of The Day: Sweater - Feelings Of The Future (Omnidisc)

 

It’s great when a track sums up its title in such a contradictory way. ‘Feelings Of The Future’ is one such expression. This would have been appropriate in the mid eighties, around the time I visited Berlin for the first time, (about to go for the second this June), and the cold war was in full swing. Not that I was A space-age synth disco connoisseur at that time. That would have made life more interesting. It did seep through though, from time to time. And whether or not I was immersed in it, this track IS it. The “looking back to look forward” aesthetic distilled into fine freaky minutes.

Track Of The Day: E.R.P. - Multipole Vector ll (We're Going Deep)

 

This has recently been released on the excellent We’re Going Deep’ which is overseen by Paul Wise, aka Stasis. The back catalogue is pretty special, so getting Gerard Hanson to contribute is the cherry on top of what has been released so far. All of the tracks are more than worth your while, and I’ve chosen this one because it underscores a lot of what makes Hanson such an outstanding producer. The elements within; sinister growling base, spacial awareness of sound, the disparate flourishes and embellishments which gather around the space but never seem to crowd it out, and the momentum it has, which isn’t always apparent in electro, but is definitely one of Hanson’s calling cards, all contribute to make this track unmistakably one of his. Tracks like this soundtrack our dreams and our imagination And although this is a reworking of one which is nearly twenty years old, it still sounds like the future.

Track Of The Day: Jay Tripwire - What Kind Of Voodoo? (Big Chief)

 

One of many tracks that Jay Tripwire has made over the years, and also one that perhaps typifies more than most a very particular era in house music. This tribal sound, imported mainly from the west coast of America, was everywhere around 25 years ago. You do have to wade through the tech house marshes to extract the good stuff however. So many labels and artists, but maybe only a handful were producing this sound with any real flair. It was absolutely huge in clubs like Wiggle and its various offshoots, and is having its day again. I guess the essence of it is fusing tribal percussion with dub and a thick low end. There are plenty of mutations though. Anyway, this is a lovely piece of work so get the drugs out and throw some shapes.

Track Of The Day: cv313 Plays Mike Huckaby - Our Life With The Wave (Intrusion Dub) (Echospace)

 

A lovely, sensurround dub excursion. Mike Huckaby, who died in 2020, left a wonderful legacy and this eloquent piece of abstract dance flies on the energy generated by its own sonic emissions. It’s another one of those tracks that you can get completely lost in and which unravels slightly differently each time. It’s make up a multitude of inflections based upon whatever you happen to be thinking about.

Justin Aulis Long | KALEIDOSCOPE

 

Track Of The Day: Blue Muse vs Studio Nova - Guerilla Tactics (Zodiak Music)

 

I remember buying this from Tag Records in Rupert Court many moons ago, It was a regular haunt for me and Mark Collings was as responsible as anyone for emptying my pockets of disposable income. It’s nothing remarkable, but its tribal overtones and wild pitch veneer make it pretty irresistible, One of those to break out as a slightly more interesting functional piece of sonic topsoil.

Track Of The Day: Air - Le Soleil est press de Moi (Source Lab)

 

Paris in the mid 90s was such a fertile bed of creativity and productivity were electronic music was concerned. And in amongst all of the house and filter disco there was also a very strong trip hop scene. Air sort of came along via that, while remains completely unique amongst it all. And this track, with its woozy ambience and cinematic scope feels like an abstract beat venture encased in amber. Frozen in time but still encompassing more than its era. A great track that sort of folds in on itself. Very introspective and made for a non specific headspace, while still having a universal feel. Dopplereffekt stepped up to remix duties, which sort of seals its magnificence.

Track Of The Day: Dayglo Maradona - Rock Section (Faber & Faber)

 

Dayglo Maradona was Andrew Weatherall and Julian Cope, each of who turn in a version of the same track on this release. It’s Lord Sabre’s remix being featured today though. ‘Rock Section’ being named after the main protagonist of Cope’s awful ‘One Three One’, “A Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel”. I say awful because up to tied time it’s possibly the worst book I’ve ever read. And saying it needs a good edit isn’t the half of it. Anyway, no such issues with this superior piece of shape-shifting psychedelic chug, that just unravels and unravels, doing its thing in amongst the multitudes. Maybe I need to revisit the novel, after all I did finish it.

Track Of The Day: The KLF - Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard (KLF Communications)

 

Absolutely swatted after running the Cambridge Half Marathon earlier today. So here’s something that’s going to finish me off and see through that slide into oblivion. I have to cook a roast first though so, in for a penny.

Colin Dale - Abstrakt Dance Show - 05.03.2026

 

Track Of The Day: Big Audio Dynamite - E = MC2 (CBS)

 

Odd to think that Mick Jones’ Big Audio Dynamite was the only post Clash project to emerge with any credibility or lasting legacy. This particular track was huge, and is apparently inspired by the films of Nick Roeg, the verses each reference specific films and the spoken word samples come from ‘Performance’. Anyways, it’s a nice piece of work and takes my back to 1991 when I was at Rutgers University in New Jersey and BAD played an open air gig on the campus, along with The Farm and Downtown Science. Memires are incredibly hazy, but I was definitely there. There is an extended remix of this track ,but it’s not that much longer than the original. So, it’s another one crying out for an edit innit. And why not a future ALFOS classic? Or has it already done its time there?

Track Of The Day: Baris K - 200 (The Asphodells Remix) ([Emotional Especial])

 

The Asphodells, aka Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J. Fairplay, pimp ‘200’ by Baris K into some sort of transcendental accompaniment  to a parallel universe Turkish Delight ad. This is distilled Convenanza. Understated, layered and mystical. If you’re out and about, stick this on.

Track Of Yesterday: Federsen - Solstice (Syncrophone)

 

This track came out yesterday I think so, as it’s been a while, I made good use of Bandcamp Friday and bought the EP. This is the pick of the bunch because it drives that little bit more and uses bongoes, keys and a subtle spoken phrase to help it along. These motifs are important and underrated. More to the point, Federsen is a great producer and Syncrophone is one of the most vital labels in recognising and releasing underground tunes that span a depth spectrum wider than  the Mariana Trench.

Track Of The Day- Adapta - Vohx Continues (Frustrated Funk)

 

Great record win which each separate element seems to be doing its own thing, yet everything falls together. The 303 is probably the dominant element, but the portentous synth swirls heighten the drama and eventually come to dominate just as much. There’s a feeling of collision on this track, between the past and the present. The old and the modern. Adapta was, I think, Bitstream straight outta Northampton Not too far away from where I’m typing these words as the crow flies. Amazing music. When will there be more?

Track Of The Day: Ultraviolet - Union (Stacey Pullen Remix) (Music Man)

A massive track on the 90s South London/Croydon tech house warehouse axis. Stacey Pullen was one of the premium remixers around this time, even if he didn’t do that many 9quality over quantity for sure). After Silent Phase he didn’t do that much under his own name anyway. However, what he did do is memorable. This remix interweaves at least three percussive motifs with an undulating low end synth as well as high end melodic squeaks. Sounds shite? Well it’s ace. I saw him DJ twice. Once at The Rex inn Paris, and at Space at Bar Rhumba. Amazing both times.

Spring 2026 paul-mitchell

 

paul-mitchell · Spring 2026

Track Of The Day: Projekt PM - When The Voices Come (Kay Kay Mix) (Guidance)

 

Track Of The Day- The Hacker: Fadin Away (Heinrich Mueller Remix) (Good Life)

Hitting its stride somewhere between Italo, Kraftwerk and a very DIY aesthetic; this remix for the Hacker from Heinrich Mueller is yet another example of the latter’s versatility and a great example of a track turned inside out by its reinterpretation. The original being a very passable piece of electro with a wistful undertow, something that the remix remodels and amplifies.

Coyote Live Bodega Feb '26

isitbalearic..? · Coyote Live Bodega Feb '26

ani/live Eighty Two: Kia & livwutang @ pe:rsona

 

Animalia · ani/live Eighty Two: Kia & livwutang @ pe:rsona