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Been on the Hefe and Splanky at Caerphilly Food Festival, so strap in and lock on.

Frankie Knuckles - Feat Jamie Principle - Bad Boy (Unreleased Mix)

Spaced-out, tuned-in, stripped-back house (when does it become electro, I don't know). It all starts here.

Bruce Haack - Blow Job

Set the title and lyrics aside for a second and bathe in this other-worldly electronic noodle. Kanye West sampled it in 2019, so put that aside, too, and just go with it, it slaps, trust me.

Clive From Accounts - Alan B

"Lockdown took its toll on Clive. Not the isolation or sense of impending doom - that was normal - but specifically the worldwide marmite shortage in April. On the verge of a 'Driving to Dundee barefoot' style meltdown, Clive found solace in his 20 year obsession with Alan 'foot on a spike' Partridge.

Taking Musique Concrete to its textbook conclusion, Clive has made music only using sounds from TV series 'I'm Alan Partridge'. Over 100, mainly foley samples were repurposed into the two title tracks of the Alan EP."

I mean, that might be true. What is true is that Alan B is a tidy little broken-beat shuffler. With Alan's face on the label. And that's enough for me.

Blvck Spvde - YOURZZZ

Right, I've had this list rumbling for a while due to my difficulties with YouTube, and I've forgotten where I came across this. I think it might've been on One Glove but I'm not 100%. Another spacey house number (at least this is from 2025). The vibe will switch in this list soon, I promise beb.

Planet Ha Ha - Home

Who wants to hang around 2025, straight back to the 80s please drive! No idea how to describe this, is it synth-pop? That term doesn't quite cut it. "Inspired by the film E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial" according to Discogs.

Schneider TM -  Frogtoise

Yerr fella that did that glitchy downtempo cover of The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, also did this glitchy downtempo gem. So there we are.

Cristalli Liquidi - Volevi Una Hit (Extended Version)

An Italo take on LCD Soundsystem's You Wanted A Hit? All day, mate, all day. Here for it.

Aztec Camera - Somewhere in My Heart

And there's the change of vibe. Big mum banger.

Cam'Ron - Oh Boy (Clean Version) ft. Juelz Santana

Vibe shift complete. Big early-00s banger to finish. Kthxbye.

Home time

If you get a wheel* on both Sarahtonin and Flo Dill then you're doing something very right in my book. Add in a little mystery (I misheard the name of the remixer) and then make it a free download on Bandcamp when you eventually find it and you're in very special territory. Like one of the tracks of the year territory.

So, what I thought was LCD Soundsystem - Home (Tom Skarkitt remix) is actually Tom Sharkett - Just Do It Right, a light spacey edit of the LCD banger. And as it is well unofficial, you might want to get your skates on and download it now before it's pulled down...

(The other track on Futuro Edits 001 is a twist on a Paul McCartney/Wings track if that's more your bag.)

*I can't remember if it was actually wheeled but I stopped what I was doing and the chatrooms were abuzz appaz.