Artist: Various
Title: A Tribute To Arthur Russell
Label: Electric Minds
Format: CD
Released: November 16
The songs of disco innovator Arthur Russell, who died in 1992, as revisited by the likes of Yam Who?, Faze Action and Andy Spence of New Young Pony Club.
The spirit of 70s New York, both in terms of disco and punk-funk of Liquid Liquid and ESG lives large, although through these new versions the link between then and today’s grooves becomes wonderfully clear. ‘Tiger Stripes’, for instance, redone here by Max Essa, is so close to NYPC’s big tune to date ‘Ice Cream’ it’s unreal.
The feel of tracks like ‘Make 1 2’ (Yam Who? Featuring Mary Moore’) is very old skool - all cowbells and live sounding playing, rather than pristinely programmed. You can almost imagine the thing being one segment of a week long jam being performed in a loft somewhere. That’ll either fill you with dread or send you running to the record shop - sorry, I mean feverishly clicking on iTunes - but this blogger is definitely of the latter persuasion. Class disco action.
8/10
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