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What is this madness?! Well if I told you that such mavericks as Jimmy Cauty from the KLF and sound artist & scient Jem Finer (responsible for the 1000-year long composition 'Artangle' which begun playing at at the end of 1999) where involved, it might go some way to explain this neuvo-folk-lyre-jungle hurdy gurdy oddity which you have before you!

Conceived as 'It channeling the two greatest forms of folk music this country has produced: that of the peasant’s lyre and drum’n’bass.' it does what it intends to do with intesity - delivering a soaring free party jungle jam guided by flailing hurdy gurdy! 

The "Back to the 90s" mix has all of the chaos and euphoria and gurdiness of the original "Hurdy Gurdy Song", only twice as much of it - more chaos, more euphoria and much more gurdiness.

The original was always a certified banger custom made to get to No 1 in Bavaria. Now it’s been remixed by the hottest band from Germany’s largest state, Mothers of the New Stone Age. In a cultural exchange that has been officially twinned with Local Psycho into (nearly) six minutes of stunning slow motion sound, completely reimagining the original's addictive madness as a super heavy low frequency medieval ambient dub.

Finally, the Stone Club mix sees the people behind the country's hottest megalithic fanclub deconstruct and pull and reshape "The Hurdy Gurdy Song" before adding trippy vocal samples and seismic distortion to create a spaced out spiritual ambient dronescape that stretches out over twenty plus minutes of supreme, beautiful, horizontal oddness.

'A brutal whiplash of junglist breakbeats and the bagpipe-like sound of the ancient hand-cranked hurdy-gurdy.; Mojo

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: KLF-related madness featuring Jem Finer who wrote that 1000-year composition to mark the beginning of the new millennium. Proper barn-dancing free party tackle as they recklessly mix hurdy-gurdy with drum and bass.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. The Hurdy - Gurdy Song (Back To The 90's Mix)
2. The Hurdy - Gurdy Song (Mothers Of The New Stone Age Remix)
3. The Hurdy - Gurdy Song

Side B
1. The Hurdy - Gurdy Song (Stone Club Extended Remix)