Bros — I Quit (The Acidic Mix) (320k)

Back in late 80s they used to have acid house remixes of boy pop band tunes in Britain. That’s some­thing I didn’t know back then but Bros as a phe­nom­e­non was famil­iar to me because of this Finnish pop­u­lar cul­ture mag­a­zine (not talk­ing about that par­tic­u­lar issue).

(Mix of the Week is our not-so-weekly sec­tion where we present good mix­tapes: either our own or found on the internets)

Timmo — Finnish UG Deep Vol. 1 [Platinum.ac Deep Techno] (320k, 113MB, 49:42 min)

Here’s the story — finnish inter­netz forum Plat­inum used to be pretty much num­ber one for some elec­tronic music back in the days. Don’t know about now­days. So, this Timmo guy of a dj decided to make a mix out of “deeper techno” demo tunes he had col­lected from Plat­inum forum dur­ing the years 2000–2003. So here you go, all finnish music.

Oh and never mind the last mix between tunes by Akrid and Har­ri­son Fnord, Ser­ato going men­tal prob­a­bly because of dust on the needle.

TRACKLIST
1. CRC — Durch­sichtig
2. CRC — Sig­nal
3. DJP — Pelto
4. Kalle M — Sprout
5. Kalle M — Paskasaav­ista
6. Kolmio­Draama — Talvi­Uni
7. Juha Vilkamo — You
8. Akrid — Con­nec­tions
9. Har­ri­son Fnord — John­stons Organ

Bonus one too. Can’t make up my mind if this is once again those utterly unnec­es­sary “mod­ern­ized” cover ver­sions of 80s good­ness. I like the video though.

There are a lot of things to be say about Todd “God” Terry.

–Todd Terry has always pre­ferred rap and freestyle over disco or house.
–Maybe that’s why he infused those styles into his iden­ti­fi­able style of house music. Or was it because he couldn’t get a deal for the rap?
–At the begin­ning he was just copy­ing what the Chicago pro­duc­ers did but while they always mim­ic­ked the disco records, Terry sam­pled straight loops.
–His favorite sound sources include Arthur Rus­sell and Mar­shall Jefferson.

–He might have been among the first peo­ple who cre­ated the tem­plate for sample-driven dance music.
–As a doer, not as a stu­dio per­fec­tion­ist he cre­ated aston­ish­ing amount of mate­r­ial at the time when “Party Peo­ple” came out. A week for a sin­gle, two weeks for an album.

What we have here is Greed’s remix of  Terry’s “remix” of Class Action’s Week­end. And an accap­pella to go with, or ore­capella in this case.

Week­end (Ore­capella) (WAV)
Week­end (Greed Remix) (320k)

Sav­age Progress — My Soul Unwraps Tonight (Extended Mix) (320k)

Right. Tomorrow’s gonna be Finland’s inde­pen­dence day. I’mma take it slow then. But tonight… Well, get drunk while danc­ing my ass off at a party I’m going to — see the flyer above.

Today’s cui­sine at the moment is finnish lager beer, cheap whiskey, and cheese chips while get­ting ready for the night. Theme of the lyrics for “My Soul Unwraps Tonight” kinda con­tribute to the over­all feel­ing. Or not. Slow tempo syn­thy pop funk disco new wave what­ever with sorta cos­mic vibes fits this moment anyways.