In 2012 Andrew Weatherall and DJ Harvey played a back to back set at Trouw in Amsterdam, the only B2B set Harvey has ever played apparently. It was recorded but for reasons unknown the set has remained locked away in the vaults of Resident Advisor ever since- until a couple of days ago when RA launched it onto the internet, causing some excitement and fuss. It's already been streamed over 33, 000 times. It's at Resident Advisor's Soundcloud page which you can find here.
It starts out slowly, Andrew and Harvey playing some slow mo, cosmic warm up tunes, bringing things up gently. There are times when its fairly easy to spot who might be on the decks- Andrew with that chuggy, ALFOS, cosmic sound, all synth arpeggios and tracks that build insistently over time, keeping the bpms in the 122- 127 range. The disco- dub edit of Echo And The Bunnymen that featured at ALFOS nights makes an appearance. Harvey drops the spangly disco, the funk and the soul. There are times when it could be either of them making the selection. It's six and a half hours of fun, ideal for an August weekend with the sun out.
In 2011 Harvey released an album Locussolus, pulling together three 12" singles and some remixes into one long player, Harvey's discoball, party house sound spread out over eleven tracks. Andrew remixed Gunship, a disco/ dub affair very much capturing the stellar Weatherall sound at the time- chugging rhythms, spaced out synths, low slung bass and whooshes and whirls.
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