Conscious Of My Conscience - OUT NOW on Rebirth Records
January sees an awesome new Freaks release featuring Freaks long time cohort, Diz on vocals & Henrik Schwarz & Johnny D on remix duties. Already seeing early support from Pete Tong, Ewan Pearson, Kalebrese & Gilles Peterson.
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Derrick Carter and Luke Solomon relaunch Classic Music
Luke Solomon & Derrick Carter’s inimitable Classic Music Company sees it’s relaunch this month with Luke & Derrick continuing to head up the A&R on the label. They’ll be re-releasing the complete fully remastered back catalogue as well as featuring new forthcoming artists and tracks on the label. Watch out!
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Luke Solomon - Album "The Difference Engine Redux"
Released two years ago, Luke Solomon’s groundbreaking 'Difference Engine' album was heralded as one of THE albums of the year. Originally released only in a DJ Mix format digitally and physically, on Radio Slave’s cutting edge and highly acclaimed Rekids label, the album attracted a huge amount of attention and established Luke as a solo producer in his own right. Now, after much public pressure, the album is to be released in individual-track format. Luke has been busy in the studio reproducing, re-editing and reduxing tracks for this Reduxed version of the album.
Luke Solomon’s name had always been previously linked in reference to his band The Freaks, or with the ground breaking record label Classic Recordings he co-founded with Derrick Carter. However, since the release of The Difference Engine, Luke has been regarded as a solo producer in his own right. Luke has since gone on to co-produce and co-write several tracks on Damian Lazarus’s highly acclaimed ‘Smoke The Monster Out’ album alongside Arthur Jeffes (son of Simon Jeffes from the Penguin Café Orchestra), and also on work co-producing The Whip.
When originally released the album grew support from a wide range of fans, and received great praise in the press:
“2008” first classic album” I-DJ (Cover); ‘Inventive and astonishingly hooky” Guardian; “Much more sonically interesting than most techno albums” Q Magazine; “Abundantly clear this is far much more than a premium house album” I-DJ (Album of The Month).
So now Luke has returned to his seminal first solo album, which one is one of the most interesting, complex and diverse pieces of electronic music for a long time, with a re-vision in mind. Originally set out to be a DJ mix of original music, Luke has now re-approached the album, separate out the individual track, re-editing and extending several tracks and re-producing the others to produce a fresher, better sound to the album. Tracks such as ‘The Difference Engine’, ‘People Place Thought and Faces’, ‘Martin A Cello and Me’ & ‘Liquid’, have now taken on a new lease of life. They revision of the tracks has produced a more sonically powerful feel to the album. Whilst the re-editing of tracks such as ‘Top, Bottom’ and ‘Out Of Control’ has created an inspiring new feel to the album. The Redux version of the Difference Engine is now much more DJ friendly than the previous DJ Mixed format, and this was one of the reasons, after countless requests, that Rekids released the new version at behest of the DJ’s.
Luke began his professional DJ career in 1990 with a residency at Middlesex University, which is where he met cohort Justin Harris. He later went on to work with the highly influential Rob Mello and Kenny Hawkes at Freetown Records where he met a certain Derrick L Carter. After realising they shared a similar vision for house music, they co-formed Classic Recordings and dominated the underground house scene for a decade. Many crazy nights followed. He’s also the leader of the band The Freaks (alongside Justin Harris) who have a huge cult following and a recent top 10 hit to their name with “The Creeps‟, they are currently working with a 7-piece band and co producing a new album with Peter Hoffman of Richard X fame.
This Reduxed DJ friendly version of the Difference Engine is focused much more on the dancefloor, than it’s original predecessor. The hallucinatory journey of which was in no doubt a deep trip, focusing on the mind just as much as the body. Luke here once again demonstrates his unique production talents on breathing new life into his great debut album.
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Tracklisting
01. The Difference Engine (Redux)
02. The Beat Goes
03. People, Places, Thoughts And Faces (Redux)
04. Skin
05. Top, Bottom (Version)
06. Martin, A Cello And Me (Redux)
07. Out Of Control
08. Spirits
09. Open Fire
10. Junkie & Whores
11. Liquid (Redux)
Label: Rekids
Released: November, 09th 2010
Freaks Vs Robert Owens - "Right Now" - Rebirth Records
The Freaks aka Luke Solomon and Justin Harris are back in 2010 with "Right Now", a collaboration with the legendary Robert Owens - surely one of dance music's legends.
"Right Now" is a bit of a "lost" record that has never officially been released as a single but managed to make its way to Mixtapes and Compilations.
Now the record is being given the recognition it deserves by being released as a single onRebirth Records.
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Freaks - "UMakeNoSense" - Crosstown Rebels
Omnipresent on vinyl from the tail end of the 20th century to the first half of the '00s on their prolific Music For Freaks label, Luke Solomon and Justin Harris, AKA Freaks, resurface on Crosstown Rebels, showing that they've lost none of their edge with a typically off-kilter production.
"UMakeNoSense" in its original form has quintessential Freaks motifs: A bite of acid, samples vying for priority and a nice droning bass underpinned by a tireless beat. This serves as the mainframe around which sounds are draped on all versions featured here.
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Monumental - "Mandala" (Luke Solomon remix) - Low Pressings
Release number 100 is in the very capable hands of Mr. Nick Muir, a talented and renowned producer with one of the strongest production backgrounds in the UK.
Here we have an unheard classic (by some) under his Monumental moniker presenting a hands in the air-groovy-tech-beat yerself up on the dancefloor-saxtastic hit!
With remixes from Luke Solomon, Matt Rowan, Nils Hess & Henry Cullen, Flow and new live act Projekt Inertia - DJ’s will have to peel floor participants off the ceiling and clean the remains with a mop and bucket!
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