Richard Rogers' Black Booby project returns to its re-edit roots after taking a brief Chi-town house diversion with Gene Hunt & co. on BB07. This time around Rogers takes the reins on A2 and B1, while an unnamed engineer joins the Black Booby fold for A1 and B2…
First up on the A-side there's 'Sun Lab Export' from Rogers' mystery partner, an edit of the super-unknown 'Laxton Superb' by Dutch 80's electronic outfit Spectral Display. Described by Rogers' cohort as "an ethereal, twilight groove - extended and ripened like a forbidden fruit... I like the original song but it has some key changes that I thought took away from the strength of it, so…"
Next up is 'I Need Somebody Raw' a new take on disco's campest hero Sylvester's 'I Need Somebody To Love Tonight'. "I loved the wonky bassline of the original," Rogers explains, "so I wanted to give this one more of a dancefloor feel and to set the tone for the BB10 special, where we really go to town on old Sylvester songs!"
Then moving on to the B-side, we have 'Jungle Booby' which is already attracting some underground heat, as this reworking of late 70s French disco group Kikrokos' track 'Jungle D.J.' sees Rogers take the original's intro for a long session on the dancefloor in its own right, "I found out about Kikrokos from Ron's Edits and the Members Only series and I wanted to create a whole track from the intro, so the strings got changed up to create a fuller section and highlight that super special bassline."
Finally, 'And She Walks', a take on Kazino's 'Binary', sees them revamp the original B-side (of Around My Dream) by highlighting its darker sonic sensibilities. Described as "a driving, hostile rhythm track underlying a foreboding song, reworked to bring out the menace in the groove - there was a relentlessness to the original version that we wanted to heighten..."
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