Title: Skip
Artist: ScanOne
Remix: Cursor Miner
Label: Combat Recordings
Cat No: COMBAT06
Release: 3 March 2006
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Tracklist:
A Skip 1
B Skip 2
C Skip [Cursor Miner VIP]
With The 4 Guardians EP doing damage all round, staunch Combat operative ScanOne drops two further bassbin bombs for the label, enlisting the machine-funk mangling talents of the mighty Cursor Miner on remix duty.
“Derrick May famously likened techno to George Clinton meeting Kraftwerk in an elevator. Well, ScanOne's [Skip] rocks out next-level 2-step electro like a midnight face-off between Drexicya and Radioactive Man at Brixton tube station.” – Uberdog, Toxic Dancehall
::Skip::
Rinsed on the Breezeblock and road-tested at recent Combat night-strikes amid other weapons in ScanOne's sonic arsenal, [Skip] delivers the goods in two full-fat flavours. After much deliberation we still couldn't decide which version was better, so released both of them, with a remix. 'ave that, fuckers!
Drawing influence from the Rotters Golf Club school of snare 'n' squelch, [Skip 1] rolls out a transmuting brute of a bassline over a glitch-ridden 2-step electro groove. Feel the weight of those strapping drum hits, lose yourself in the glazed, resonating pads that drop in and out of the mix, and keep a check of those bass freqs – or you may have a speaker-flapping fart-a-thon on your hands!
[Skip 2] unleashes a dense, mechanical electro workout, surging along with a bubbling electronica undercurrent to reach the majestic, melancholy midway bass-drop. Stirring strings carry the cut through to completion, with ScanOne teasing the tearing bassline out of his magnificent melodic beatscape. If you got your rocks off to his recent Radio 1 Breezeblock Bomb, keep those tissues in reach.
[Skip - Cursor Miner VIP] We all know there's nothing minor about a remix from Cursor Miner. Upon hearing Skip, the irrepressible Rob Tubb hacked out his favourite elements, took them into his East London laboratory and proudly emerged a few weeks later with this bastard mutant sibling. Peppered from head to toe with Cursor's trademark mash-up edits, this VIP mix finds disgustingly crunchy bass blaps eating their way into the muscular, staggering groove while a colossal flailing ride cymbal ensures maximum neo-rave satisfaction.
::Skip:: will be released on Tan-goh, one of five auspicious days throughout the year on which traditional Samurai families celebrate growth of their young, and their progress toward the status of Warrior.
On the same night will be a joint sonic assault in south London featuring ScanOne, Cursor Miner, Boxcutter, Blackmass Plastics, Paul Blackford, Warlock, Stormfield, Interakt, Delta 9 and more.
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