Few people are onto great records as quickly as a great record store.
After years spent discovering gems in Phonica’s end of year lists, it made sense to give them a regular space on FACT. Every Saturday, Phonica staff will pick out the five vinyl records you should grab this week.
BASIC CHANNEL
Q-Loop
(Basic Channel)
Two vintage 1995 Basic Channel cuts make the leap from CD to vinyl for the very first time, going under the oh-so-dub-techno titles of ‘Q-Loop (Full Length’, ‘Q1.2’ and the ambient ‘Mutism’. We repeat: very first time on vinyl!
MK
‘Strider’ (Oracy Remix)
(Mojuba)
Marc Kinchen has finally been getting his dues since his Storm Queen remix, um, stormed the charts last year, so it’s no surprise that someone’s gone digging in the vaults. ‘Strider’ is an Detroit techno obscurity from 1991 that never made it onto ‘Get It Right’, a very early MK release (with Area 10), and now it’s been reissued alongside a remix by Mojuba’s Oracy.
AMADOU & MARIAM
‘Ce N’est Pas Bon’ (JD Twitch Edit)
(Autonomous Africa)
Optimo’s JD Twitch unleashes his edit of Malian stars Amadou & Mariam (originally created in 2008 for his DJ sets) as a limited edition, hand-stamped 10″ on his fascinating Autonomous Africa label, which he told FACT about last year in a thought-provoking interview. All proceeds go to the Mtandika mission in Tanzania.
GEORGE THEODORAKIS
The Rules Of The Game (1978-1996) LP
(Into The Light)
The third archival release from Into The Light is a collection of mostly unreleased recordings by Greek composer George Theodorakis, who used his ridiculously well-equipped studio (the legacy of his more famous dad Mikis) to create these cinematic, occasionally New Age-y slices of electronic pop-meets-library music.
JORDAN FIELDS & LEANDRE DJ/TONY BOZAK DJ
Re-Edits/Larry Levan Influenced Disco Dubs
(Trax Repress)
Chicago’s Trax label lines up a goody bag of re-pressed booty-shakers featuring two disco edits from Jordan Fields and Leandre plus a trio of Larry Levan-inspired dubs by Tony Bozak. Both sides originally came separately as one-sided promos.
