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Betty Botox - Mmm, Betty!
Some mothers do have ’em
The Frank Spencer flippancy of the title masks a serious highlighting of re-editing as an art-form by JD Twitch, veteran DJ-producer from the Scottish club scene, including the legendary Optimo club. The man has been at the forefront of resuscitating unlikely forgotten gems in DJ sets, helping kickstart the space-disco revival on his Optimo excursion for Eskimo. Betty Botox is his re-edit project, cutting and splicing obscure gems to create longer, more dancefloor-friendly tracks in the fashion of the original disco producers before they started creating their own tracks out of other people’s masters as remixes.
The set includes some stunning reworks of obscurities and oddities, including Love Of Life Orchestra’s Beginning Of The Heartbreak getting its two sides spliced together to create a spangled anthem, while The Residents’ Diskomo nods at Suicide in its wayward journey. Other delights include the classic rave of 80s Australian band Severed Heads, Italy’s Pankow and Adrian Sherwood taking Prince to the funny farm on Boys & Girls, and a mindblowing assault on Hawkwind’s Valium Ten, which shows how the Masters Of The Universe could be the true techno pioneers! Other outings straddle disco-not-disco, cosmic shuffle or simple off-kilter weirdness, climaxing gloriously with the percussion extravaganza of Zed’s Fremen.
Endless | Flight CD 2
Reviewed by Kris Needs
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