This popped through my letterbox the other day, the 41st installment from the FABRICLIVE mix cd series, this time featuring the kings of stripped out disco James Ford and Jas Shaw aka ‘Simian Mobile Disco‘. First thing I did when getting into the studio with this was blast it right the way through from start to finish and its quite an intense journey! The mix takes unreleased gems, progressive, tough and spacey sounds and shows the quality at which these improvisatory musicians work the dancefloor.

“We dug through a lot of stuff that’s not very current. With a lot of mix CDs, you do them and you know it’s just going to go out and do its thing, but we always think a fabric mix is something that sticks around a lot longer. We weren’t aiming to make it the most current mix of tunes; of course there will be a few new things but a lot of it is us digging back into our record collections, just the stuff that people may have forgotten about, or that went overlooked.” - Simian Mobile Disco

Tracklisting:

1. Tomita - The Firebird - Infernal Dance Of King Kastechi [Clean Version] - SonyBMG
2. Sisters Of Transistors - The Don - This Is Music
3. Simian Mobile Disco - Simple - Wichita
4. Hercules And Love Affair - Blind [Serge Santiago Version] - EMI
5. Smith N Hack - Space Warrior - Errorsmith and Soundhack
6. Discodeine - Joystick - Dirty
7. Shit Robot - Chasm - DFA
8. Perc & Fractal - Up Tool - Kompakt
9. Metro Area - Miura - Environ
10. Worthy - Crack EI - Leftroom
11. Moon Dog - Suite Equestria - Roof
12. Fine Cut Bodies - Huncut Hacuka - Chi Recordings
13. Bentobox vs Chordian - Aemono - Imprimé
14. Jelo & DeadMau5 - The Reward Is Cheese - Rising Trax
15. Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep Deprivation [Simon Baker Remix] - Wichita
16. Popof - The Chomper [LSD Version] - Turbo Recordings
17. Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium - Basta
18. Paul Woolford Presents Bobby Peru - Erotic Discourse - 2020 Vision
19. Moebius Plank Neumeier - Pitch Control - Sky Records
20. Plastikman - Spastik - Mute
21. Green Velvet - Flash - Relief Records
22. The Walker Brothers - Nite Flights [Album Version] - SonyBMG

So, if you like your dance music dripping with originality, pace and to keep you on your toes as you listen, check out FABRICLIVE 41 when it hits the shops on the 11th of August. Fabricfirst members can get their hands on it from the 4th of August.

The CD is also packaged in the usual premium way with an embossed tin, artwork on the sleeve which is also repeated inside. Nice.