Monday's Long Song

Rude Audio made one of my favourite tunes/  EPs of 2021, the summer sounding skank- chug of Railton Ruckus. They've now returned to do the summer of 2022 a massive favour with a new track and EP, Big Heat. The title track is six and a half minutes of chuggy electronic dub house, the metronomic drums pushing ever on while the synths rise and fall and the timbales clatter around. There's a terrifc piano line that gradually works its way to the front of things.Big Heat is a proper groover, ideal for dancing to in dark basements or back gardens. 

The EP comes loaded with a pair of remixes, an eight minute one from Bedford Falls Players and a slightly shorter Rich Lane remix. 

The Bedford Falls Players remix extends it out and strips it down, focussing on the rhythm track and those timbales, then bringing the acidic squiggle of the 303 to the fore. The remix gets split in the middle by some samples, Hollywood coming to South London, before cutting back to the action.

Rich goes more laid back, steel guitar and washes of bliss, and then all dubbed out. 

All three versions of Big Heat plus two further Rude Audio treats, Rudely Fresh and Dust Devil remixed by Al MacKenzie, can be bought at Bandcamp, forty minutes of dubbed out house sounds for summer for just £4.