Dance Like a Machine

With the number of MP3 blogs around now it's getting hard to get in there first with any kind of important new release. Gutterbreakz has just posted an excellent review of the Analord series, which I have been dilligently buying and kind of enjoying. I dunno, it's all good, but if I played any track from the 9 records so far to someone who hadn't heard Aphex before they wouldn't have the same reaction as I had the first time I heard 'Selected Ambient Works 85-92' or 'Didgeridoo'. I mean those two records in particular opened my mind to the possiblities of dance music, and saved me from wasting the 90s buying Sebadoh 7"s instead of being wasted dancing in fields. I'm looking forward to number 8, which by all accounts is the best of the bunch so far, but to be honest with this series I get more joy from stroking my lovely binder than from actually listening to the tunes inside.

Another record I should certainly have mentioned before now is the Vitalic album. Trouble is that since I already owned the 'Poney EP' and 'Fanfares EP' the album was a bit of a disappointment as I already had half the tracks. That's not to say that if you aren't a vinyl junkie you shouldn't rush out any buy this immediately.. you should. It's great. But after three years leaping round my room to 'La Rock 01' I was hoping for a bit more payback.

This is the only track from 'Poney' not included on the album. I guess it's not been included as the arpeggiated synths are starting to sound a little dated, however it's still a killer track... right up there with Poney Part 1 & La Rock 01. What a 12" that was. (As I have previously mentioned.)

VITALIC - YOU PREFER COCAINE

After the release of the Poney EP a Vitalic remix was de rigour for any self-respecting techno artist. All are worth a listen (Lady B, Bjork, Shari Vari, Miss Kittin & Basement Jaxx are all the ones I can think of) however pick of the crop was this breathtaking metallic reworking of Slam's 'Visions'.

Click here for dancefloor devastation.

SLAM - VISIONS (VITALIC REMIX)

EDIT: RESULT! I have finally fixed my FTP problem having tried just about everything short of reformatting my hard drive. Turns out the problem is a rogue Windows Update. It was hotfix KB893066 if you are interested - or more to the point if you end up having the same problem with FTP timeouts. Thanks Bill!

Also I made a terrible error earlier in the post. 'You Prefer Cocaine' dated? WTF! Now i'm home with it pumping out of my stereo rather than my earphones I realise that I was talking shit. Sorry 'bout that.