- Not to be associated with the terrorist held responsible for blowing up buildings, the Unabombers are the latest DJ duo to come out of Manchester mixing up a tasty concoction of hip hop, house, funk, disco and grooves in that Mark Rae Grandcentral stylee.
Kicking off the mix with Kenny Dope's NY cut and paste flavoured Get On Down which smoothly mixes into Craig Mack's Flava In Ya Ear - which J-Lo sampled for a recent hit - the Unabombers get that head nod hip hop groove flowing nice and smooth before ripping into a remix of Rae & Christian's Get A Life with Bobby Womack.
Nipple To The Bottle by Grace Jones comes next for that 80's funk with that deep voice that made her so popular in funk/groove circles. San Fran house DJ Rasoul gets all acid jazzy with Another Love featuring the vocals of Star Stern.
One of the stand out tracks in this compilation is the cut and paste hip house of Let The Beat Hit 'Em by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with the beat controlled by none other than Clivelles & Cole of C&C Music Factory fame. Old skool throwbacks and vocal snippets along with some 90's style R&B singing - C&C's contributions (as a production pair) to the dance scene will be missed with Cole's passing back in '94.
Vikter Duplaix's remix of Incognito's Castles In The Air gets all samba-esque with a bit of latin percussion and Kool & The Gang turn on the percussive funk of Open Sesame with a really nice bassline that should get butts moving before the nu-jazz kicks in with Kaori's Good Life.
Freaks come out with the dubby dirty house on Turning Orange - 2 Please U which mixes nicely into Watch Them Come - ragga styled house from Roy Davis Jr feat. Peven Everett.
As a finale to this block party styled disco mix, Ashley Beedle's Black Science Orchestra give up the classic New Jersey Deep from '95 which is a familiar anthem with it's sexy guitar and strings.
According to the information sheet, the Unabombers' Electric Chair night in Manchester has been so popular that they've had to organise a road block to accomodate the number of people lining up to get into the place. It's quite refreshing to hear music mixed this way instead of that "untz untz" style that floods the market nowadays. A classy 21-track selection of tunes that suits a lounge environment as well as a club. You could say that the Unabombers blow up on this one.
For fans of certain tracks on this mix, they have also provided a 2nd CD of 11 unmixed tunes in their entirety.