Finnish electronic musician Ukkonen has restructured and reimagined a range of house classics in this inventive mix for No Pain in Pop. Often familiar but not often identifiable, even the biggest club bangers half-implied and fleeting, while it’s dark and intense rather than straightforwardly arms-in-the-air euphoric. As he explains,
“I had a vision, or a dream.. in which I saw and heard a Detroit from an alternate reality, where the only difference was in the music: odd numbers were the norm, nothing was ever in 4/4, nothing ever sounded quite right or wrong. People were going wild for it, the music and dancing couples spilling into the street. It was the early 90’s and a new sound had been developing, a multi-layered swirling mass of rhythm, never quite lining up, never quite falling apart. Simple melodies, that when played together created mind boggling and and ever evolving combinations. I could hear the music like I was actually there, but I think it was just a dream..”
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Carl Craig – Science Fiction (Ambientized and Ukkonized in Fives Version)
Cybotron – Alleys of your Mind (Ukkonized Version)
Channel One – Technicolor (Ukkonized Version)
Juan Atkins – Flash Flood (Ukkonized Version)
Derrick May – The Dance (One Sample Version)
Kevin Saunderson – Bassline (Ukkonized Version)
Model 500 – Interference (Ukkonised Version)
Carl Craig – Future Love Theme (Hardened and Irregulated Version)
Psyche – Elements (Ukkonized Version)
Carl Craig – Sub Seducer (Ukkonized Version)
+ “There’s one un-named track hidden inside one of the above.. can anyone name it?”
via NPiP