revenge

after quite a decent disco hiatus, i have been slowly and steadily rediscovering my love for the genre.. and on a day like this, its very easy to slip back into the warm groove. especially when the revenge is the one providing said groove.

yes, today has seen me unpack a lot of his back catalogue. hours of fun listening to be had for sure. i have to say that im not a fan of everything that graeme clarke puts out, but when hes on form: "damn hes good."

this isley brothers rework comes straight from slow burner heaven.. a bit of a dubby flavour to this one, thanks to a deep grooving bassline and wandering high range synths.

Isley Brothers - Between The Sheets (The Revenge Rework) (alt)

anyone else feel the biggie connection in that one? sorry, probably a dumb question.

i couldnt believe my eyes when i saw this edit. the foo fighters' 'everlong' was possibly one of my favourite tracks from my grunge era and to see it re-edited by revenge was mind boggling.
im still trying to wrap my mind around the idea, but basically this edit is of the acoustic version of this track and features added percussion and some lush strings..

Foo Fighters - Everlong (The Revenge Rework) (alt)

possibly the highlight of my day though has been rediscovering this little stevie wonder edit called 'night flight'.. it was doing the rounds in late 2008, so hopefully you have already come across it. if not, please grab it immediately - its smoky groove is absolutely crucial.

The Revenge - Night Flight (alt)

i also came across an interesting little mash up/edit that he did of pharrell's frontin' and bobby brown's 'on our own' (hilariously from the ghostbusters soundtrack). i wasn't really sold on the whole concept, but the bobby section was pretty damned excellent. *90's hip-house pop ftw*

Bobby Brown - On Our Own (alt)

still down

yep.. its true.. were still down and its really starting to hurt.. sorry guys- fixing this problem on $0 budget is proving to be tricky.

until we get it fixed, ive whipped a quick, rough header so we arent just sitting on a white background. and i guess well have to resort to good old mediafire to share musics. not ideal but im sure well live through it. sorry.

ok. so- thanks to adult arts club and their amazing podcasts, i have been able to get aquainted with downtown party network..
yes, i too was dubious when i heard that they were called "downtown party network", but after a tiny bit of investigation, i discovered that they were in fact awesome.
check 'heartbreak dancing' for example- a swirling, jacking yet thoroughly cosmic disco banger..

Downtown Party Network - Heartbreak Dancing mediafire link

if you are anywhere near russia or lithania, make sure you get along and see them- they are playing with morgan geist and pete herbert in successive weeks. oh yeah.

the revenge has also been getting quite a workout on my headphones recently.. aka graeme clark, the revenge is defs at the top of my favourite dusty vinyl re-editers list.. he has a real class about how he picks his tracks, and he does just enough to really bring these tracks back from the dead.. this kashif track for instance is great.. thick, classic slow burning funk that you can't really miss.

Kashif - Help Yourself To My Love (The Revenge New Jersey Soul Mix) mediafire link

while im on this external link s**t, i thought i would get y'all to go and have a look at and.id's soundcloud- in particular 'euphoria':

and.id - Euphoria soundcloud link

making tech house music with a live jazz band is hard at the best of times (i think), but and.id do it really well.. if you like what you hear, toddle along and pick up the mix that they recently did for allez allez.. very different and very good.