Update!

Youcancallmepelski.com has been absent from duty for a while...oh...and you feel that numb, dry feeling at the back of your throat? the pounding heart-rate? nervous sweat beads ebbing down your forehead? Don't worry: you're just experiencing a couple of symptoms after being denied of Pelski for three weeks ... but ... youcancallmepelski.com is back with an abundance of new tunes and savvy pelski-isms. (From now on all self-referencing in third-person will be put aside). Now, you may remember my Midfield General post included a last-minute inclusion of a lousy 'Disco Sirens' radio rip. A weak effort, I confess. Anyway, I eventually got my hands on a nice little 320kbps version.

This starts with whirring sirens and contagious female vocals - half-rapping, half-talking, half-screeching, spread across a clunking-great funky bassline. Everything about this production reeks of monument and epic: from the enormous funky retroness to the ballsy racket of those screeching sirens. You can tell Justice had a hand in this (Xavier De Rosnay produced), while Soulwax' David Dewaele helped Midfield General out with the mixing too:



The Midfield General - Disco Sirens [pelski highly recommends]


Adds some drum patterns, lots of effects, then speed it up, chop and hack away at it, and you have boy 8-bit's bouncy reworking of 'Disco Sirens'. A bit muddled, but all good fun:


The Midfield General - Disco Sirens (Boy 8-Bit Remix)

Utah Saints are back:


Remember Utah Saints? No, neither: I mean all the way back in '92, I was just wheeling round in my little Fisher-Price buggie, aged six, while Utah Saints were packing out stadiums. It sounds like old-school rave, with cheesy, catchy vocals. Self proclaimed sample-dons, they loop a great Kate Bush vocal sample (from 'Cloudbusting') in 'Something Good'. The classic tune (that shot to no. 4 in the charts back in '92) has been given a new lease of life on 'Something Good '08' - where the original is remixed by Van She, High Contrast, Prok & Fitch, eSquire, Ian Carey. The original still trumps though.

Utah Saints - Something Good [pelski highly recommends]

Van She Tech produced the best remix. Chris TalBlaze dropped it neatly into his 30min mix a couple of weeks ago. This had me desperately scrabbling around for a copy. It's a subtle and mature remix; not overtly mashed up, but the small and cardinal alterations demonstrate Van She Tech's increasingly great remixing abilities. The Kate Bush samples are distorted ever-so slightly and chopped into snippets, and the whole track is given a more futuristic tone. Gone are the old-school sounds (well...almost gone) replaced by a polished sheen:

Utah Saints - Something Good (Van She Tech Re-Edit) [pelski highly recommends]