Boxheater Jackson - We Are One (Mighty Force)

 

Title: We Are One

Artist: Boxheater Jackson

Label: Mighty Force

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Genre: Cosmic Chug

1: Bring Back The Love (Mikey Young’s Master)

2: Intergalactic Lover

3: Don’t Complicate

4: A Place In Time

5: One Nation (Vocal Mix)

6: Bangin’ On The Walls Of Time

7: Pump Pump

8: The Awakening

9: Evacuation

10: Why Can’t You See

Boxheater Jackson is, according to the notes that accompany this release, Big Vern Burns. This is a person who has his acid house papers well in order and who is currently “hiding out in deepest darkest Cornwall making chugging cosmic Acid House.” This is, I feel, the perfect occupation for that type of person who wants to cloak their subversion under the auspices of normality. “What are you doing dear?” “Just pottering around the garden in between churning out space disco in the shed”. It’s a complete lifestyle when it reaches this stage, and its something for us all to aspire to. And these ten tunes that have emanated from the foothills of the mystical south west are in sync with the mind of he who made them just as much as the environment within which they were conceived. There’s a rave within us all, and this is no better illustrated anywhere than by these different facets of electronic pastoral hedonism.  This album is full of highlights, all of which could be written about without a hint of contrivance. However, some random highlights include the slowed down sleaze of the vocodertastic ‘Intergalactic Lover’; the similarly vocal – distorting, but more deliberately anthemic ‘One Nation (Vocal Mix)’; the Marshall Jefferson inflected ‘Bangin’ On The Walls Of Time’; the epic ‘Why Can’t You See’ with its shifts and metamorphoses that are helped along by a very necessary spoken word; and ‘Don’t Complicate’, which repeats sage advice intermittently. It’s good to see that all of the tunes on this album are at least 6 minutes long, giving plenty of stress free space for mixing, and that they also have the acid house disco blueprint at their heart. Now all I need is a boxheater to complete the listening experience.