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artist:	DOWNTOWN SOUNDS
title:	CLASSICS VOLUME 1
label:	FATTY FATTY PHONOGRAPHICS(UK)

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A Block 16 - Electrokution (Daniel Wang And Brennan Green Evolusive Mix)
B Sweet Cream - I Don't Know What I'd Do (If You Ever Left Me) A Pablo And Shoey Rejig

New Fatty Fatty Phongraphics release, includes a Daniel Wang and Brennan Green remix, and is handsomely packaged in a full colour picture sleeve (see below)

After the success of Pablo and Shoey's 'Rejigs' series, Fatty Fatty Phonographics steps things up a notch with 'Downtown Classics Vol 1', featuring the big tracks and out-there obscurities that have worked the floor at the long running Dublin club collective's nights.

Side A makes room for all 13 minutes of Daniel Wang and Brennan Green's jaw dropping mix of Block 16's 'Electrokution'. Block 16 were Ray Mang and Harvey/Idjuts collaborator Pete Z, and their 'Morning Sun' LP on Nuphonic got lost among the label's messy demise in 2001. It didn't stop The Unabombers proclaiming it 'Album of the Year - We are kneeling' nor Daniel Wang taking up the baton and releasing this gem on his Balihu label, taking the hypnotic electro stylings of the original on a right journey by adding some propulsive Loft style disco and a totally unexpected melodica led dub reggae coda, Augustus Pablo stylee. The original Balihu 12 has shouts to both Harvey and Dutch Italo-disco don I-F on it, and that about sums it up where this marvellous piece of 21st Century musical madness is coming from.

On the flip we have ourselves some joyful charity shop disco in the form of Sweet Cream's 1978 screamer 'I Don't Know What I'd Do If You Ever Left Me'. All Pablo and Shoey had to do to this little gem was create a lovely extended percussive intro before letting the insistent riff and squealing moog of the main song go.

A favourite of Larry Levan's at the Garage by all accounts, it's hands in the air chorus and brassy disco swagger meant it went all the way uptown to Studio 54 in disco's commercial peak year. More importantly, it has consistently plastered smiles on the faces of peak-time Downtown dancefloors since 2003, and we're delighted to share it with the world now!