The Ratpure

I still wanna know about the alternate 'HOJL' I downloaded though. Hopefully, it's the album version but probably not.

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better daft punk/trevor jackson stylee than more distressed photocopy font.

That cover is cool, lots better than the Playgroup one too. It's got the 'moved-on-up-ness' of Discovery's cover in relation to Homework's-and mo' props for using their actual faces.

Trevor Jackson was also there and I told him I found an old Brotherhood 12" in a quid bin. "Always sad when they end up there", he said, probably fuming inside. I told him I'd been listening to Playgroup a lot over the weekend (I was trying to figure out where that duff reggae number fit into the scheme of things and I was mostly listening to 'Bring It On', 'Medicine Man' and 'Too Much'). "You're a madman", he told me before leaving.

I saw the Rapture at Tribal Gathering's big acid house warehouse thing in Manchester on Saturday and they blew my mind. They were in a small backroom with graffiti everywhere and sweat dripping off the roof playing to a crowd which was really jumped up, not least after the DJ before them played Go and then Hardtrance Experience.

Anyway they really gave it everything and seemed to enjoy it so much, the singer was screaming and then stage dived, it really felt like a seminal moment of the year, I enjoyed them as much as anything else this year, and I am firmly a dance fan.

Sister Saviour is a dementedly good record.

I would've been at Tribal too, but I couldn't afford to return to a place I semi-hate, spiritually and financially.

they should be on top of the pops, daytime radio 1, radio 2, the works, let nothing hold them back!

also got tickets to the gig at Heaven on sept.30th...

Pete, I was hoping to find out if anyone here would go but I found out too late for a message. I was the only black person there if that helps. And yeah, they are grebt indoors.

Pete, I was hoping to find out if anyone here would go but I found out too late for a message. I was the only black guy there (probably, there was one obnoxious-ass 6'5 dude, but I think he left) if that helps. And yeah, they are grebt indoors.

the echoes version
the insound version
the 12" a-side single version

(then the mixes:)
the 12" b-side morgan geist mix
the musik disco punk version
the playgroup dj kicks version
the colette no 4 version

i think i know the version that barima is talking about though... it's the insound tour support EP version.

Heh, DFA's the label, innit?

The non-remix version I heard had tinnier higher pitched percussion after the "shakedooooown" part, that's as much difference as I noted.

I am enjoying the Cosmos remix alot, it's not better than the original and there's not alot of point to remixing HOTJL but it's still cool.

I wasn't so into the remixes-I think Geist just about covered it all, though Middleton gave a good stab.

that is the version from the insound tour support EP.

When you say the ends, are you refferring to "are you really from the ends" ends?

I'm gonna give the 'Killing' rmx another listen. There was some potential buffness there, but why it ain't on vinyl anyway mystifies.

It's stuck on "processing" permanenty.

They just seem to have so many songs based on the same, rather staid, four-four tempo, with negligible verses above and fairly basic rhythms below. I guess it doesn't help that I think the singer's weak (perhaps there are two? the yelpy one and the one I barely notice?) and am not too fond of the DFA's production. But I'm left still feeling like I'm missing out on something: I should by rights like them and yet I can't work out what's likeable about them at all.