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INTELLIGENCE

Not to be confused with Bradford's Unique 3, Awesome 3 hail from the Salford and Wythenshawe areas of Greater Manchester and were semi-prolific during acid house / rave's first wave around 1990.

"Fire-fly" was recorded in 2021 and sees the group adopt trance-like leanings into their hardcore breakbeat formula, especially given the track's soaring female vox. UK rave stalwart Mark XTC is on hand, gifting the track a stadium-crushing, main room arrangement, still plugging that breakbeat vibe rather than opt for his (more traditional) 4-to-the-floor smash-a-thons. There's also a tidy sub 4 min, radio friendly cut - handy given the plethora of online radio shows gracing our airwaves post COVID. 


STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Wythenshawe's piano house stars reunite with fellow rave stalwart Mark XTC on hand with extra energy.

TRACK LISTING

A Fire-Fly (Aberdeen Beach Ballroom Club Mix) 
B1 Fire-Fly (Mark XTC Mix)
B2 Fire-Fly (Manchester Radio Edit)

De La Soul

Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump - 2023 Reissue

Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump is the fifth studio album by De La Soul, released on August 8, 2000

Among the guests on the album are, Redman, Tash and J-Ro of Tha Liks, Xzibit, Busta Rhymes, Mike D and Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys, Busy Bee, Freddie Foxxx and Chaka Khan. Mosaic Thump returned De La Soul to chart territory again thanks to the hit singles "Oooh.", and "All Good?".

"Oooh" was nominated for a Source Award and the album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap Performance By A Duo or Group.

TRACK LISTING

Spitkicker.Com/Ray R.
U Can Do (Life)
My Writes
Ooooh
Thru Ya City
I. C. Y'all
View
Interluden
Set The Mood
AllGood?
Declaration
Squat!
Words From The Chief Rocker
With Me
Copa (Cabanga)
Foolin'
The Art Of Getting Jumped
U Don't Wanna B.D.S.

Various Artists

Artificial Intelligence - 2022 Reissue

Avaialble on vinyl  for the first time in 30 years, Artificial Intelligence includes rare early tracks by Aphex Twin (as The Dice Man), Autechre, Richie Hawtin (as UP!), B12 (as Musicology) and Alex Paterson (The Orb), the latter featuring co-production from Jimmy Cauty (The KLF).

First release in Warp’s 1992 - 1994 Artificial Intelligence series that consisted of Artificial Intelligence, Surfing On Sine Waves by Polygon Window, Bytes by Black Dog Productions, Electro-Soma by B12, Dimension Intrusion by F.U.S.E., Ginger by Speedy J, Incunabula by Autechre, and Artificial Intelligence II.

Original gatefold sleeve reconstructed by The Designers Republic. Album re-cut by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering on classic black wax.

TRACK LISTING

A1. The Dice Man - Polygon Window
A2. Musicology - Telefone 529
A3. Autechre - Crystal
A4. I.A.O - The Clan
A5. Speedy J - De-Orbit
B1. Musicology - Premonition
B2. UP! - Spiritual High
B3. Autechre - The Egg
B4. Dr Alex Paterson - Loving You Live 

The Intelligence

Live In San Francisco

“For folks who dig A Frames, Country Teasers, Wire, Gang of Four, pita chips and dad’s boozy breath, may we present The Intelligence, captured live in a truly subterranean underground show space below SF vintage clothier Vacation.

“Lars Finberg: a name synonymous with artisanal hand-crafted, locally brewed, and organically-farmed song lasers. Hilarious, fast, tour-tight and ballsy—the band has all these perks in pocket, and all that on borrowed gear! I’ve watched this band go through many variations over the years and in their own right all of them have been marvelous. This particular version of the line up is constructed entirely of road-dogs. These guys don’t fuck around—or maybe they only fuck around, who can tell anymore? They drink, they get bawdy, they shred, and when we asked Lars if the band would be into doing a small show in a basement in the Tenderloin in SF for a live LP, he asked ‘What should we play?’ and I replied ‘nothing but the hits’— and they did exactly that.

“The Intelligence and Lars himself are masters at the penning of hits—hit after hit after hit—and with a soft-shoed tippity-tap of crowd work and banter, you can really smell the basement on this one and feel the cobwebs grazing the top of your head as you go deaf in one ear from the eye level PA pointed directly at your soul hole. If you love this band then this is a great live LP of them scorching the hits and talking trash. If you don’t know this band (shame on you) then this is a good place to start.” —John Dwyer

TRACK LISTING

1. Virgos
2. Dating Cops
3. Debt & ESP
4. We Refuse (To Pay The Dues)
5. Whip My Valet
6. Evil Is Easy
7. Thank You God For Fixing The Tape Machine
8. Estate Sales
9. Janitors
10. (They Found Me In The Back Of The) Galaxy
11. Confidence
12. Telephone Wires
13. Males

Harmonic 313

When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence

After a taster EP in 2008, Mark Pritchard returns with the first long player under his Harmonic 313 guise. "When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence" that the ex-Global Communications man is keeping up with the current musical underground, because we get everything from wonky-hop to dubstep, bassline and grime here, combined with his love for Detroit influenced techno, acid house and a more 80s sounding electronic palette. He's just one of those producers who knows how to lay down the best beats, bass and keyboard combinations to get the crowd rocking. Includes tracks featuring Phat Kat, Elzhi and Steve Spacek.

Intelligence

Deuteronomy

If musicians painted images with their instruments, The Intelligence's soundscapes would be set in a grainy, ash-gray world, among piles of scrap metal and busted machinery, with discarded computer parts blinking in cobwebbed corners and factories belching out toxins at irregular intervals. It'd be a black-and-white wasteland of humanity, a post-apocalyptic industrial revolution, warmed only by the distant loops of a delayed, disembodied guitar riff. At the center of it all would be Lars Finberg, delivering deadpan lines like 'Going out with you is like going out with a cop'. He'd be pounding bent garbage-can lids with one hand and programming distorted beats on his keyboard with the other, a one-man laboratory of intoxicating post-punk experimentation. The music is so jagged and cinematically poetic and dusted in clouds of lo-fi noise that listening to it at different times can conjure completely different visions. It's par for the course for Finberg, who has participated in some of Seattle's most exciting musical forces such as the A-Frames and The Dipers. The Intelligence are demanding attention in and beyond the Northwest, creating a new direction in sound based on the fundamental elements of bands like The Fall and PiL, yet beneath the post-punk clang lies a serious pop sensibility.


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