- Could this be the future of resource pooling in the dance music community? Ellum Audio provide the outlet for a clutch of remixes of TV Baby's "New York Is Alright," which is being released on another label—DJ Spun's Rong Music. Spun and Mark "Blakkat" Bell's "Minimal Mix" is a deep, 4 AM trip into the darkest corners of house, with wrecking ball beats that crunch and decay, and a paranoid synth line. The title of Blakspun's "Acid Dub" leaves little to the imagination. Amid a backdrop of depth charge booms, the tension is gradually ratcheted up by a 303's bounce and flutter.
Ellum Audio boss Erik Estornel, under his Maetrik guise, dunks the track in a vat of waspish synths, loping beats, thunderclaps and crowd-pleasing breakdowns, but it's the Idjut Boys remix that sticks longest in the mind. Playing more on the crazed, ESG-style vocals of the original, the Brit house stalwarts manically switch between tempos, flooding it with jingling percussion, wild-eyed drum rolls and dabs of out-there acid.
TracklistA1 New York Is Alright (BlakSpun Minimal Mix)
A2 New York Is Alright (BlakSpun Acid Dub)
B1 New York Is Alright (Maetrik Remix)
B2 New York Is Alright (Idjut Boys Remix)