Liquid Liquid – Optimo
Another weekend and yet another music festival comes upon the Labs collective. This time a Sunday all day number beckons in the shape of the Electric Frog Festival. Looking at the line up, one act sticks out as having the ability to deliver the Friday classic…..Liquid Liquid. Liquid Liquid were formed in the post-punk underground [...]
Dj Rolando – Jaguar (Jeff Mills mix)
Today sees Glasgow’s Rubadub Records celebrate 18 years in the business with a special event at the Sub Club tonight featuring Jeff Mills (more on that this afternoon!). So we thought it’d be apt for today’s classic to be from their old friends – Underground Resistance. Rolando’s “Jaguar” from 99 was probably one of UR’s [...]
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
Formed out of the Wild Bunch in Bristol in the late 80′s Massive Attack have lasted the pace more than most electronic acts formed at that time. With six albums under their belts with various line ups they are masters of the blissed out trip hop sound that came to life during the inception of [...]
Tricky – Aftermath
As some of the Phuturelabs collective will be knee deep in T in the Park madness this weekend, I thought I’d dig out a Tricky favourite for today’s Friday classic. The man himself will be playing live in the Slam Tent on Sunday and this one’s sure to appear in the set. After departing from [...]
Daft Punk – Da Funk
Back from holiday and was hitting some old Soma releases that brought me round to French housemeisters Daft Punk. “Da Funk” was the second of their two releases on the Glasgow label and the bands first major commercial success that had the major labels queing round the block. After a review that called their guitar [...]
Hardfloor – Acperience1
Today we worship at the altar of the 303 and one of it’s finest warriors – Hardfloor. After a couple of releases on Sven Vath’s Eye Q imprint, it was their third release – “The Hardtrance Acperience EP” that brought them to mine and most of the world’s attention. Released in 1993 and still sounding [...]
The Future Sound of London – Cascade
Earlier this week we covered the new FSOL album “Environments 3″ and it got me thinking about my favourite tracks of theirs. So for today’s classic I’ve picked probably my favourite track from their mammoth back catalogue. “Cascade” was the first single from their amazing “Lifeforms” album and it just totally blew me away with [...]
Friday Classics – Aphex Twin & Leftfield
The Labs crew are on a road trip this weekend to the Rockness Festival on the banks of Loch Ness, home of the famous monster! So we thought we would give you a taste of two classics from the line up this year. First up we have the musical genius Richard D. James aka Aphex [...]
The Sabres of Paradise – Smokebelch II (Beatless mix)
Andrew Weatherall, Jag Koonzer and Gary Burns AKA The Sabres of Paradise unleashed this ultimate morning after tune in 93 on their debut album “Sabresonic”, and despite releasing two more albums and a whole host of amazing singles and remixes, for me, this tune will forever be remembered as their finest moment. Absolutely beautiful stuff. [...]
The Art Of Noise – Close (To The Edit)
Like buses, you wait ages for The Art of Noise to turn up then two come along in a row. Paul gave me inspiration last week with his Prodigy remix and so this week my Friday classic is for me the best Art Of Noise tune around “Close (To The Edit)”. Released in 1984 in [...]
