Review: The mid-90s are back in a big way, so Norman Cook has decided to revisit one of his biggest cuts from the period in the company of rising star Lexa Hill - the carnival-ready heaviness of 'Sex On The Streets', a breathless, whistle-endowed club hit from 1995 first released under his lesser celebrated Pizzaman alias. The pair's re-make - a slightly more house-centric but no less incendiary take - comes backed with an even sweatier Fatboy Slim re-edit. The riffs, beats and big builds are still there - tweaked a little for added excitement - but the biggest change is the addition of a stretched-out breakdown that makes much more of the 1995 original's quirky, hippie-era spoken word samples, which feature an American TV evangelist warning of a collapse in moral standards.
Review: Another outing for Norman and Dan's club monster from earlier in the year, this time complete with a remix from Poland's leading tech-house duo Catz N Dogz. Their re-rub is the most dramatic yet, and leans heavily towards the techno side of the tech-house equation: it opens with an insistent throbbing synth riff (think Moroder meets Jonny L's 'Ansaphone') that plays throughout, then tops it with a dramatic analogue lead line from the John Carpenter school of thought - as well, of course, as that distinctive "all the ladies in the house" vocal. Also included is the Original Mix, for anyone who didn't pick it up already.
Review: Little is known of the illusive Dorothy, also affectionately known as Django the Bastard. Word is they reside in a secret studio in El Santoro, Los Angeles. They emerge from cult underground status to present new track "Firefox" on the legendary Southern Fried Records. A neon-lit yet absolutely emotive piece of mood music taking in deep house, minimal and nu-disco influences all at once, and supported by the moody electro-noir of "Silencer". The latter goes for more of a Italo-ish dark disco vibe, which will appeal to fans of material on labels like Correspondant, Nein or Roam Recordings.
Review: There are two mixes of 'All The Ladies' to choose from here, but as one of them is the original 12-inch mix that we reviewed back in March, let's concentrate on the remix from man-of-the-moment Rebuke. He takes 'All The Ladies' down a darker, techier path, toughening up the drums, putting the vocal through the FX mangle and, most importantly, adding a rough-edged n' rave-y bass synth riff all of his own. No great surprises there, then, but it's safe to say his rub will extend the track's dancefloor longevity for at least a few more months.
All The Ladies (Lord Leopard's Xtra Funk mix) - (6:33) 128 BPM
All The Ladies (12" version) - (6:30) 128 BPM
All The Ladies (dub) - (6:23) 128 BPM
Review: You'd expect a collaborative single from two of the most renowned party-starters on the planet to be suitably sizable, and this first studio hook-up from Eats Everything and Fatboy Slim certainly fits the bill. In its original form (track two), "All The Ladies" is a stomping, sweat-soaked, energy-packed bounce-along crafted from a canny combo of thumping, kick-driven drums, booking bass, jazzy swing-time samples and the kind of cut-up hip-hop vocal snippets that have always been a massive part of Norman Cook's work. It comes backed by an arguably even sweatier dub, as well as a fine EP-opening rework from Bristol-based Lord Leopard. He imaginatively re-imagines the track as a loopy chunk of rubbery, disco-driven loop funk - think Basement Jaxx's "Red Alert" for the 21st century and you're close.
Review: Fatboy and Eats joining forces - and on Southern Fried to boot - is surely a prime example of "nominative determinism" in action. But it makes sense, too, because both the Brighton veteran and the Bristol not-so-veteran are known for a knack with a crowdpleasing tune, so to misquote 'Hart To Hart': when they came together, it was always gonna be moidah! We'll all probably be sick of it by August, but only because 'All The Ladies' - with its filtered, rolling drums, looped-up hip-house vocal, cheeky jazz brass and Pavlovian snare rolls - has Feelgood Hit Of The Summer written all over it.
Review: AB/DC is the powerful pairing of two industry heavyweights: New York legend Arthur Baker - whose contributions to electronic music as a producer and remixer extends all the way back to the early '80s and Britain's 'Baron Of Techno' Dave Clarke - still known as one of the scene's hardest working and revered DJs and whose seminal Red Series of 12"s in the mid '90s are integral to the sound's bloodline. Originally released in 2003, the looped-up and driving funk attack of "This Feeling" gets a deserved digital reissue by Southern Fried, plus a couple of modern renditions. MeMeMe head honcho Man Power gives the track a dirty disco flavour assisted by some hands in the air vocals and sleazy arpeggios, then London based disco head Cody Currie (Better Listen/Razor-N-Tape) delivers a suitably lo-slung perspective that's rather sexy indeed.
Review: Having finally drawn a line under their Spiral series after five colour-coded releases, tropical foliage enthusiasts Fluida return to Southern Fried Records with a typically humid single. "We're So Far" is warm, lucid and evocative, with exotic Indonesian instrumentation, dreamy chords and hushed jazz cymbals weaving their way in and out of a tactile, tech-house-meets-deep-house groove. As you'd expect, the track increases in intensity as it goes on thanks to the introduction of a foreboding bassline, but for the most part it's a hazy and quietly loved-up treat. Remixers Audiofly naturally take a slightly different approach, wrapping Fluida's raw and rough bassline and drowsy chords around an arpeggio-driven groove. It's a very fine rework, all told.
Review: Norman Cook still manages to remain relevant through three decades of electronic music. From his beginnings in indie act The Housemartins and chart toppers Beats International through to massive house 12's as Pizzaman and Mighty Dub Katz, to name but a few. His Fatboy Slim moniker has no doubt been his most successful venture, but unlike the funked up and party starting breaks of old, Cook now goes for a pumping electro house vibe on new single "Boom F**king Boom", a bass driven groove with a cheeky vocal refrain that takes its cues from current scene heroes such as Dirtybird or This Ain't Bristol.
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