This track stands out because it’s the only bit of electro on which is one of the al time classic techno albums. Sterac’s ‘The Secret Life Of Machines’ got a complete airing yesterday while I was prepping a barbecue and it’s safe to say that it’s aged very well. Nothing sounds dated. On the contrary, it holds up with the best of them. Mills, Hood and UR. How anyone could say anything negative about it is beyond me and, although electro is not what I would be listening to this album for, this is a well-executed track that fits with the albums aesthetic and is, therefore of its type, sonically unique.
Monday, October 05, 2026
Sunday, October 04, 2026
Track Of The Day: Can - Halleluhwah (United Artists)
I know next to nothing about Can, which is a shame and something I need to resolve. Where they influenced by Beefheart? Listening to this I’m reminded of some of the Captain’s proclivities. A tendency to go off on a tangent while religiously riding the groove. The sonic similarities are obvious to me even if the lyricism lacks whimsy. Brilliant though. Nuts to think that this was broadcast twenty six years after WWll. Twenty six years ago it was the beginning of a new century and I wonder to myself how far, if at all, music has progressed since then. The speed at which it did post-war Wass remarkable. Kids were listening to Bill haley less than twenty years previously. And calling that revolutionary. This is where, amongst other p-laces, it really took a quantum leap though.
Saturday, October 03, 2026
Track Of The Day: DJ Agitated - Let It Ride (Dolly)
This is from the ‘Dolly 15’ compilation, which came out last year, and is featured here because I picked it out of the digital pile, to mix into a piece of dub techno, the name of which escapes me. This isn’t dub techno but definitely works with it as it does have some sonic similarities. The echoes and shards of sound that fall like glacial curtains. It can give the impression of being a bit techno by numbers, but the production is excellent and very subtle. It’s got as many layers as an onion and more soul than your average looper, which it definitely isn’t. A very accomplished piece of work by DJ Agitated, who really shouldn’t be.
Track Of Yesterday: Donato Dozzy - Astro (Tresor)
‘Astro’ is the title track of Donato Dozzy’s new LP on Tresor and as soon as I heard it I thought that it would sound great coming in before UR’s ‘The Final Frontier which, along with ‘Acid Eiffel’ is a strong contender for best track featuring the 303. As ever, for me at least, the acid has to be omnipresent but not overwhelming, and this does the trick. Pounding drums, supremely judged, amongst which the 3030 is penned. Around it there are subtle lifts and other embellishments which, while not overwhelming, make their presence felt. This is profound big room music with momentum.
Friday, October 02, 2026
Thursday, October 01, 2026
Track Of The Day: The Sandals - A Profound Gas (Open Toe/Acid Jazz)
I never owned this record, much to my regret. A friend of mine, Colin, who I haven’t seen for a long time, used to have it. I think hue was still living in Fort St. at the time. Fort St. was a place that I lived in for a year in the mid eighties, along with sundry other misfits. It had a reputation as a party house, and I wold often come downstairs in the middle of the night to find the living room occupied by total strangers who had found their way back there from the Chelsea Reach, or some other nNew Brighton hot spot. Anyway, I had left long before this record came out, but through Colin, and others before him, a connection remained. I remember playing tis a lot around the time it came out. I was living in Brighton at the time, my last year at university having just returned from a year at Rutgers in New Jersey. This is the instrumental. All of the mixes are great and I’ll post them soon. Produced by Leftfield.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Track Of The Day- Infiniti Feat. Juan Atkins - Martians at Work (Remastered) (Tresor)
‘Martians At Work’ has that rare quality of being of nothing else but Detroit, but also whimsical and onomatopoeic. If you’ve got an imagination that dabbles in such things, then use it to visualise a 1950s realisation of those weird space aliens engaging in gardening, or some other sort of manual labour. Juan Atkins? A funster? I don’t believe it!
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Track Of The Day: Talking Heads - Houses In Motion (Sire)
I have no idea why ‘Houses In Motion’ has taken up residence in my head over the past few days. If I’d heard a chug edit of it at Convenanza then there’s where the blame would lie. But I didn’t (next year maybe?), so there. Anyway, what a song, and here it is in all its unfettered, spontaneous live glory. I never saw them live, and they’re right at the top of my wish list. It obviously won’t happen but I’d splurge for the chance. Whenever I post a track by them I always think of being in Berlin in December 1984. The two releases that were postered all over town were '1984' by The Eurythmics, and 'Stop Making Sense', probably the best film of a concert ever. There have been others, but none featuring just one band that had the power to engage so grippingly over the course of the whole transmission. Out on their own.
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