Now we have the busy party organising period behind us we got some more time on our hands for different things. Like rearranging the collection and doing some edits. A thing we do as a preparation to making music of our own and to make some songs more playable in our sets. Not aiming for world domination with that one. So not planning on doing much more with them than just playing them in our dj sets. And that’s what most people who are making edits should do. 9 out of 10 I can’t keep but thinking that the edits that are bootlegged are things you could easily do yourself. Making the intro more steady tempo wise so it’s easier to mix, cutting out the boring bits and making the end mixable. Or they just release rare gems as bootlegs to get some cash the easy way. Only few do something really interesting.

Among those few there is the Disco Deviance series for me. All 3 releases were spot on. But they took masters of the re-editing business like Greg Wilson and Ashley Beedle aboard. Can’t do much wrong that way. Another re-edit I dig a lot is Todd Terje’s mix of Chic’s ‘I want your love” that playfully refers to KDJ’s classic “I can’t kick this feeling”. Sets the dance floor on fire each and every time.

Third edit that really blew me away is a rework of Angela Bofill’s “People make the world go round”. Since I heard Snowboy play that tune a couple of years ago, accompanying it with the words “here”s some Broken beat from 1979”, I’ve been a hooked to it. Found it only a couple of months ago on vinyl and tried to mix it in most of my sets since then. But the songs structure in the beginning isn’t aimed at dj’s like me who are not from the quick mix variety. Like to layer it and slowly work it in. Keeping the groove and everything. And because there’s not a decent intro before the song really starts it was hard mixing it properly (mind I’ve only got the album, not the 12 – don’t know how the intro is on that).

But now that problem is fixed thanks to KAT records and some blokes called Basement soul. Their edit gives the song a proper intro and not in the “lets take the first few bars and loop ‘em” way. They do it properly (and in a way that’s beyond my technical abilities for now). Nice and good for you all because now you’ll certainly hear it in near every set of mine. Other edits on the release are strong too. A reshuffle of the Gap Bands “Outstanding” and a song I don’t know but reminds me of the more “acid” Acid Jazz like Pal Joey and D-Influence produced back in the days. Breaksy, danceable stuff. Whoever did this, because the name “Basement Soul” is new to me (and not related to Kid Sublime – I checked), did a good job. Check it out.

You might want to check other releases by this label too. And tell me something if you find a batch of them. Missed most of them. And Disco Dalglish played their first release last Saturday and I need that.