Track of The Day: Bassomatic - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Bass (Virgin)

From the golden age of raving and bridging the gap between the new breed and the hippies, here’s Bassomatic, akaWilliam Orbit, sprucing up a Pink Floyd classic as only he knows how. What I like most about this track is its speed and, therefore, its versatility. The bpms are relatively low, so its the quintessential “bridging” warm up track, picking up the pace and the drama enough to hand the next DJ the crowd in the palm of his/her hand. The problem with that is how to follow it? Anyway, absolve yourself of that issue by playing it at peak time, focussing the crowd on the evergreen vocal. There’s a wet density about the track, such as that experienced in the rainforest of the mind; there’s also more than one electronic “ethnic” motifs, which work particularly well when you’re battered (ie: you give less of a toss about them)/ All in all though, a great track which., for no apparent reason popped into my head for the first time in years this morning.