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07 February 2003

New records are now online at Primalrecords.com, so without further ado, here's this weeks picks:

JAY TRIPWIRE "Uh, Fever" Worship (Promo) [House, Tech-house] Our prolific friend to the North drops a 12" on the respected Philadelphia label, Worship, and hot doesn't even come close to describing this one. Tough, quirky, dubby, and percussive, you'll find "Fever" boiling over on the dancefloor. Essential.

www.worshiprecs.com
www.jaytripwire.com

UNKNOWN (PINK FLOYD) "Hey You" (White Label) [Tech-house, Progressive] DJ Three has reportedly been playing it for months, but when this little number came in it smacked us all upside the head with how good it was. Tough, West Coast beats with a progressive sensibility are intermixed with a pulsing, low-slung bass, and tastefully sampled bits from the original. This will do some damage on the dancefloor when dropped at your local nightspot, guaranteed. Limited.

C83 "Back In The Day" (Original & EK Mxs) (En:Vision) [Breaks] C83, or Class Of 83 as they’re also known, are quickly becoming the ones to watch in the breaks scene, and their latest release can most definitely attest to it. "Back In The Day" is at heart a breakbeat re-rub of Mr. Fingers’ "Can You Feel It?", but is actually a revision of Nasty Habits’ "Liquid Fingers," and it utilizes the unmistakable pad and bassline to devastating success. On the flip, the EK remix takes things to the opposite end of the spectrum by barely using any of the original sounds, sans a small snip of the bassline, toughening up the overall vibe for a more nu-school breaks approach. In
the box!

www.envisionrecordings.com
mysite.freeserve.com/classof83/index.html

Also new this week is new production and remix work by East West Connection, Satoshi Tomiie & Little Green Men, Cass, Amma, Steve Bug, Idjut Boys, Harold Heath, Kojak, DJ Linus, Stacy Kidd, Jay-J & Chris Lum, Supreme Beings Of Leisure (with a dope Charles Webster remix!), Mathias Schaffhauser, Afro Deep, and more!

On the restock tip, we've got Jeff Bennett's Direction Changes EP on Morris/Audio back by popular demand, Olivier Desmet and Chuck Diesel's Run For Cover EP on Odds And Ends, Lance DeSardi's massive Land Shark project "Tie Me UP" on Coco Machete, plus more Nightshift and Detour backstock. Phew!

(Justin Corbett)

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