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.
