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The Slits - Typical Girls (Brink Style) (from Cut 2009 Delux Edition)

The double CD edition of this classic Punk record came out about a week ago, and it's full of alternative takes and even a cover of I Heard it Through the Grapevine. I don't generally buy these kind of reissues but Dennis Bovell was at the controls, which means the studio was kinda cloudy. This version of my favorite Slits track is not far off from sounding like a track on Tago Mago. The magnetic tape was eaten by a Duppy and the holes it left behind created a beautiful piece of feminist Music Concret Dub. A really bent attempt at making an instrumental track.

Somebody should remix the video to this version. Some killer dance moves on that joint.

Played This Game Once Before

Terry Riley - Your No Good (from Your No Good/Poppy No Good 1967/2004)

An important and rather slept on piece of music thats essential for fans of edits. A crate digger classic Latin Soul record, or rather two of them slowly distancing themselves from one another creating primitive tape echo that eventually falls in on itself. The drifting away Harvey Avern Dozen bands are born Siamese twins in the belly of a Moog and are killed off in the end in a storm of white noise. I guess a lot of people still get off to In C and Music for 18 Musicians but No Good confuses me more than all that minimal synth jargon and therefore is better to these ears.