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well, redeployment is what I really mean - using it against its original meaning - in a way that the original singer or songwriter might not approve of, i.e. hymning drug states.

I'm going with the rave examples because I love the lovesong into drugsong switch - but there's probably as many in hip hop and quite a few in dance genres that aren't hardcore / darkside / jungle Gabber has a bunch e.g. redeployments of Cutting Crews "I Just Died In Your Arms" - i...

Tasmin Archer's endearingly earnest #1 hit about the space race as Humankind's premature folly, an Icarian quest beyond our proper sphere, has been sampled by a bunch of dance producers and I'm never quite sure which is the version I heard on the pirates This below sounds closest but I'd swear...

Orca isolate a gorgeous bit of singing from Beverley Craven's #3 hit, amputating it from the sappy chorus Splicing lines from the second verse ("You look like you're in another world/But I can read your mind") into lines from the first verse ("It's four o' clock in the morning/And it starting...

"Vibes" = killa tune that keening edge-of-hysteria vocal sample ("save the last dance for me... won't you save it for me") is such an archetypal jungle feeling, you don't get in any other kind of music - not even the most diva-fabulous house flashes me back to the summer of '94

Or this sultry twitcher on the flip

Talking of "Jungle Fever", there is something uniquely feverish and humid about his sound, on tracks like "Let's Go" especially - you can almost see waves of vaporized moisture rippling of fit and that's carries on to the great UK Garage tunes like this brittle jittery beauty

Another really nice one I hadn't realised was Chris

Earlier this year I actually made a YouTube playlist with every single Chris Mac tune in it - or at least nearly every single one - in the UKG era he did some run of the mill remixes so I started flagging at that point. but yeah I think I have every hardcore and jungle tune there, at least where...

not capitalizing the name potential bad boy has led to confusions (or are they just taking the piss?) can i vote twice each for 'work the box (let's go)' and 'bad girl'? cos there's loads of other good ones, but those are the supreme Chris Mac tunes (pre-UK Garage at any rate)

it's really good isn't it - it's making me sway a little and nod off in front of the computer - sapping the will to do any work

definitely worth something if it's in good nick, which only playing once would suggest. it's a nice thing to have with the liner note and the gatefold and all that, but if i had one, i doubt if it'd be getting much repeat play. i burned it off a friend but i don't think i've played the CD-R...

yeah that's the bandcamp blurb but it's such a long, expansive blurb it is effectively like an old school liner note like quite a few of these 'release rationales', not sure it does the music any favours

no never did. yeah that nails the vibe. i liked moments in it but i can't imagine going back.

Dunno, but I don't think MMM was that, even though many said it was - he seems to have sincerely thought it was an electro-acoustic masterwork. Didn't he push for it to be released via Red Seal, the classic division of RCA?

Nor this from another ex-Velvet, which is a major omission in terms of nutty artist statements - Lou Reed exalting his methamphetamine symphony Metal Machine Music (subtitle The Amine β Ring - a reference to chemical structure of amphetamines) “NOTATION – When I started the Velvet Underground...

I can't remember and I'm not going to look through all the pages but I don't think this has been posted

was toying with throwing this to the Dissensus wolves anyway - James Holden's new epic This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities released this very day I have liked some of Holden's stuff before, analogue maximalism you could call his style - this might be a wibble too far for me...

here's another great rendition of "While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping" off a British TV youth show, followed by a nice interview where she explains her technique and inspirations

Well it's not like they've haven't been exposed to all that - Miles Davis and so forth. But it's all been water off a duck's back. Completely impervious to it, they are. When they were really little and I was doing lot of childcare, I would be playing electronic avant stuff, Stockhausen, Ligeti...