TD008
Team TD get back to it... paying their own oddball homage to some of our DJ deities in the form of Talking Drums Volume 8.
Keeping things diverse-yet-disco, this little mover grooves through Muzic Box pump, Lofty symphonics and a Ku-curveball with a smile on its face and a pep in its step.
Limited Press - Numbered Insert - Drum Fun Guaranteed.
TD007
Slip this delirious disc out of the lime/slime green sleeve and you're up close and personal with the new chapter in the TD saga.
A dance floor triptych of such seismic scale that the crew spent two years trying to wrangle the tracks on wax, finally finding a plant with the power to press them up.
Sprawling across the A-side is the devastating 'Doner Summer', an instrumental extension of some lost Munich disco masquerading as an Anatolian excursion. Ditching the vocals and cutting the kase, the crew lay down a galloping groove topped with Turkish licks and disco strings, take us into the psychedelic swirl of a tumbling drum breakdown before hitting the big red button marked banger for a searing second half. Firing up the hardware, TD blast this one further into the Phuture, dropping technoid sequences, nagging 303 and Cowley-style FX fuckery for a full on club assault.
In the alternate B-side universe, Hans Zimmer lost his dread note and Denis Villeneuve was forced to turn to Talking Drums for the Dune soundtrack. They obliged with the sci-fi rai of 'Chaba Ranks', reshaping an Algerian OG with a dancehall kick, off beat vamps and star-crossed synths, then letting loose with a heavy bass tone.
|In time honoured fashion, the team also drop a dub version, cutting out the vocals and focussing on those additional elements for the wildly cosmic 'Chaba Skanks'.
Now who's getting the spice in?
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Serdov
We've been gaga for this strange slice of private press freak-funk for a few years, and just had to channel its inner Metro Area into our very own Unclassic. Road-tested and ready for deployment - then those fine folks at Terrestrial Funk whacked it on their wonderful comp of Armenian cuts, with a Fundido edit to boot. Well, we went back and forth on this and decided that our interpretation was distinct enough and too damn good to keep to ourselves - so here you have it in a pay what you want stylee. Happy Bandcamp Friday!
Cruiser
Here's a little space heater we dug and diced a few months ago before realising we already had it on a Light Sounds Dark. Rather than bootleg the bootleg we figured this might fly as a freebie / pay what you want. There's enough crackle and hiss to keep John Peel happy while the headnod bass and cosmic keys remind me a little of the Dirty Edits from way back when. Happy Bandcamp Friday folks!