Uploading — at least to youtube — Prince’s original version of Erotic City is out of the question , so here is the George Clinton’s version edited by Sasso. Perhaps unnecessary edit but nevertheless useful. If you ever become tired to Prince’s falsetto you can play out loud this version as it is faithful to the original.

‘Erotic City’ is definitely in my personal all-time top 10 or something like that.

More Christmas presents. Muddyloop are giving away free album in glorious 320 kbps quality. Yam. This is what they said about it:

“Six years ago we wrote and produced an instrumental chillout album called “The Loverider Series” that got signed to a record label. The label ended up shelving the album due to distribution problems so the release never got to see the light of day. Finally unearthed from the vault and specially presented for you for the first time ever, its Muddyloop’s lost album. The 11 tracks showcase an early Muddyloop soundscape of chilled quirky beats with an electro-eightiesness…”

Go here for the download.

“Kitkaliitto is a collaborative band of 3 friends from Helsinki to flesh out their ideas in music and visual arts.” First release from the guys came out quite recently on Kann Records: the Swamp EP. Deeper territories of house with some hints of techno, and definitely jazz. Get the digital release from Beatport, Whatpeopleplay or Junodownload. As for the physical copies, VINYL/WAX I’m referring to here, it’s a limited pressing but Juno Records got some as does Hardwax. And then there’s always Discogs. In Finland I’d go to Stupido.

Swamp EP by Kitkaliitto

And then couple of freebies. Both are still only demos but sound quite finished tracks to me. Kitkaliitto — Helsinki (Instrumental Mix) — click here to download (256kb). Great, deep “gypsy-house”.

Helsinki (instrumental) by Kitkaliitto

Kitkaliitto — Ella — click here to download (320kb). Deep house with some jazzy touches of trumpet. Loving the vocal sample and overall vibes here. Top notch.

Ella by Kitkaliitto

(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