Lin­dell­tron­ics — Avar­rus­funk (320k)

Tommi Lin­dell is a syn­the­sizer wiz­ard of some sorta from the younger gen­er­a­tion in Fin­land. He has had his fin­ger­prints on many things since early 80s through com­pos­ing, arrang­ing, pro­duc­ing or just by play­ing instru­ments on many many Finnish albums. This Lin­dell­tron­ics thing is more or less a project which has ele­ments of humor innit. “Avar­rus­funk” is nev­er­the­less a great instru­men­tal electro-funk cut from Trendibu­umi album (Trendibu­umi is a Finnish word mean­ing some­thing like trend craze).

The older gen­er­a­tion of Finnish syn­thy heroes? Erkki Kuren­niemi and Esa Koti­lainen are per­haps the biggest names.

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)

Left­field — Release 3 (320k)

The debate cir­cu­lat­ing around the roots of dub­step has been going on for years, guess it would have been so ever since the generic term dub­step came into promi­nence some­time around 2002.

I won’t be get­ting into depths with this thing right now but related to topic here’s an inter­est­ing track by Left­field. As can be seen this cut is already some 14 years old. Proto-dubstep?

Robert Owens — I’ll Be Your Friend (Glam­ourous Mix) (320k 8:53min 20,35MB)

It was a good day — yes­ter­day I’m talk­ing about. Some nice stuff from local flea mar­ket for dirty cheap. This one by Robert Owens hap­pened to hit me hard. The orig­i­nal ver­sion was a crossover hit in 1991. This remix was put together by David Morales. Some­what a leg­end also…

The jacket pic­tured above I bought from another flea mar­ket at the very same day. Woo-ha!

Such a grey day in Rovaniemi with fog and clouds being as one big mess. Some­how this track fits the feel­ing I have. There’s cer­tainly some of that 90s into it. The “Yeah!” vocal sam­ple is famil­iar but I just can’t get my head around to remem­ber where it’s from orig­i­nally and/or where it’s been used also.

There’s a record label with the name U-Trax but it seems like that has noth­ing to do with this duo of Nello & Pierre Jerk­sten. Discogs has this to say about other half of the duo: “Nello was espe­cially known for his rough use of the TB-303 sound. He died on August 5, 2001 from a drug over­dose.” Can’t do any­thing but love a guy who had those kinda 303 ten­den­cies (not in “Yeah!”, damn) even though he worked with some Swedish euro-dance acts such as Melodie MC and Drömhus…

(FYI — drugs are bad mmmkay. And oh dear, yes, I’m pretty famil­iar with euro-dance cheeze. Was forced to hear heaps of that stuff while sit­ting count­less hours in the back seats of var­i­ous cars drink­ing too much beer in the late 90s. Some of those tracks are actu­ally kinda decent. Huh?)

U-Trax — Yeah! (320k)