LOCUST – NO-ONE IN THE WORLD (ON SLACKER’S WAVELENGTH)
Here’s a bit of Dutch IDM techno from Locust given a progressive house remix by Slacker.
Curiously, Locust is someone who doesn’t seem to have apeared here before, when I was doing the alphabet. Which is odd. I knew Locust was Mark Van Hoen and that he recorded recorded awkward music that sat somewhere between ambient and techno and that his work was released on R&S/Apollo. I assumed he was Dutch. Seemed reasonable. Not so. According to discogs “LOCUST is MARK VAN HOEN, a born and bred Londoner who has been working in television and radio since leaving school at 16. Locust is music that Mark, and only Mark, has performed and recorded. His initial series of releases on Apollo covered the years 1983-1987 and 1991-1994; the compositions on all these records were generated almost entirely using analogue synthesizers. With the follow-on album, Truth Is Born Of Arguments however, things changed quite substantially. Partly instigated by the explosion of the Jungle movement, but mostly by developing new techniques, this album was based on sampling and digital sound manipulation.
Here’s something that was originally released in 1996 and then remixed in 1998 by Armand Van Helden and Slacker (Shem McCauley). The vocal is provided by Wendy Roberts. Slacker did mainly progressive house remixes. And so it proves for this remix, taking Locust’s slightly awkward original properly onto the dancefloor and making the most of the vocals.
Locust – No-one In The World (On Slacker’s Wavelength – Master Mix)
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