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Friday 29 August 2014

Switzerland


Weatherall techno week continues- stop groaning at the back, yes, I can hear you. I think this will be the last one, and these tracks weren't even on the tape I found but they would have fitted very well.

Switzerland were, I'm pretty sure but feel free to correct me fellow anoraks, Martin Price's post-808 State outfit. Sabres Of Paradise did three mixes of their track Inflight but they were never released, white label only. I don't know why.

I went to Switzerland once, about 12 years ago- a conference for medics and scientists dealing with the set of genetic diseases called lysosymal storage diseases or mucopolysccharidosis. Our son, now 15, has MPS1 and we were invited to give a parental perspective. Lake Geneva is beautiful. We took a cable car part way up  a mountain. On the Saturday evening I sat with an Italian geneticist and we smoked the biggest cigars I have ever seen. He got through the whole thing. I didn't.

Inflight Mix #1 has Bunnymen Cutter-esque style strings and a breakbeat. Mix #2 has rave keyboards, a chopped up vocal and a breakbeat. Mix #3 has a big electronic bassline and sax. All three are very good and I can't choose between them, so have all three.

Inflight (Sabres Mix One)

Inflight (Sabres Mix Two)

Inflight (Sabres Mix Three)

Edit: when I wrote this post I still had some bandwidth at Boxnet. Now I don't- you can listen to them but if you want to d/l you'll have to wait until Monday.

6 comments:

Dunproofin' said...

Really liking the percussion on these - breakbeats and that trademark sabres delay hits.

Swiss Adam said...

Dunproofin'- I've got some tracks by you.

martin said...

nice one adam, never knew about this and neither does discogs. Oh to have a few hours in the chairmans cutting room with a box full of CD-Rs, there'll be so much unreleased goodness!

mark@murmurresearch.com said...

i so want this...incidentally, i have an unreleased Sabres lp, on cassette, full of stuff like this, including a couple of the best things he/they ever did...he scrapped it, aside from Theme and Wilmot, to record what is now their first lp...i must get that cassette out and transfered on to something more robust
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Swiss Adam said...

Mark- if you can get that digitalised I'm sure there'd be some people around here that would love to hear it.

Matty said...

Agree with Swiss Adam, Mark please get digitalising