One of the musical highlights of the last couple of years round at Bagging Area Towers has been the quality and quantity of Andrew Weatherall's remixes. Primal Scream 'Uptown', David Holmes 'I Heard Wonders', Doves 'Compulsion', Manic Street Preachers 'Peeled Apples', VV Brown 'Crying Blood', Detachments 'HAL', Siouxsie Sioux 'Into A Swan' and Fuck Buttons 'Sweet Love For Planet Earth'. Don't think I've forgotten any. A massive return to form and no mistake.
This one sneaked out in the middle of last year. I got a very nice hand stamped and numbered copy of the 7" from Rough Trade's mail order. Honkeyfinger is a one man band (see also Dennis Hopper Choppers), and plays blistering blues, all distortion, screeching and stomping. AW strips it back a bit and boosts the drums up, lets it get into a groove. This remix sonically has little in common with the drawn out disco of Uptown or the blissed out noise of Sweet Love For Planet Earth or the dub-rock of Compulsion, but it's an interesting addition, and one for your Weatherall Recent Remixes compilation cd or iPod playlist. Or is it just me that does that sort of thing?
running on empty weatherall remix.mp3
This one sneaked out in the middle of last year. I got a very nice hand stamped and numbered copy of the 7" from Rough Trade's mail order. Honkeyfinger is a one man band (see also Dennis Hopper Choppers), and plays blistering blues, all distortion, screeching and stomping. AW strips it back a bit and boosts the drums up, lets it get into a groove. This remix sonically has little in common with the drawn out disco of Uptown or the blissed out noise of Sweet Love For Planet Earth or the dub-rock of Compulsion, but it's an interesting addition, and one for your Weatherall Recent Remixes compilation cd or iPod playlist. Or is it just me that does that sort of thing?
running on empty weatherall remix.mp3
It's not just you SA.
ReplyDeleteI like it.
Fuckin ell Drew, that was quick. Glad its not just me.
ReplyDeleteNo it's not - i even print up snazzy little sleeves for the Cd-r's i'm that sad. And i wish he'd hurry up and remix Marching On Together :-)
ReplyDeleteI do sleeves too. I spend far too much time doing Google Image searches for pictures of him for compilation cds.
ReplyDeleteThat Marching On Together comments just clicked with me. Think Glory Glory MU would be better.
ReplyDeleteNah he wouldn't touch that with a bargepole - Jedward have more chance :-)
ReplyDeleteWeatherall playlist on iPod? Tick.
ReplyDeleteDoes Weatherall comps for friends? Tick