New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Global Underground) - Layo & Bushwacka!'s love affair with music started as teenagers at the dawn of acid house; it's led both of them through techno, breakbeat, electro, dub, electronica, and any other pigeonhole that's been thrown up in its wake. Emerging blinking into the light almost two decades later with a sound that fuses all their influences, they've maintained their position at the head of the pack. It's the same outlaw spirit of eclecticism that still informs their five hour DJ sets, whether at their spiritual home The End in London, a beach in Brazil (the inspiration for this album), or a superclub in Ibiza or Argentina. It's this spirit that turned the limited edition 12' 'Untitled' into a global anthem, becoming 'Love Story', and crashing into the charts worldwide in 2003, including the UK Top 10.
Layo and Bushwacka! have come a long way from the teenager who frequented Clink Street's acid parties and the kid who dropped classical music for the hardcore scene. Together they took the emergent strains of techno, tech-house, electro and breakbeat and welded them onto blues, classical and film soundtracks of the last hundred years, creating the dance floor sound for our new century.
The first decade of the new millennium has seen global club culture stretch its tentacles ever further. The rising epicentres of clubbing are no longer restricted to those affluent, Western nations of old, some of the brightest beacons are to be found in the new world. Rio is one such city.
On this album, Layo & Bushwacka! offer up a mix of the old and the new. CD 1 is a treasure trove of classic, lost gems, and defining moments in the evolution of house and techno. Ellis D rubs shoulders with Marshall Jefferson via Daou, Lil Louis, DJ Pierre, Francois K, and Eddie Flashin' Fowlkes are all present, as are the likes of Cajmere, Detroit's Kenny Larkin (with a rare Hawtin mix of 'We Shall Overcome'). If you want to know how we came to the music you hear today, then this is no better introduction.
CD2 is all about more recent and forward-facing bumpy, electronica. Phonique, Pier Bucci, Guy Gerber, Stefan Goldman, Martin Buttrich, and Henrik Schwarz are all included for your listening pleasure. Also included in the mix are a host of Layo & Bushwacka!'s own material, including 'Tabloid' and 'Saudade'.
Tracklist:
CD1
Ellis D - Took My Love Away
The Daou - Surrender Yourself (Ballroom Mix)
Marshall Jefferson Presents Truth - Open Our Eyes
LB Bad - Touch Me! Touch Me!!
Kym Mazelle - Taste My Love
N.Y. House'n Authority - APT.1A
Blunted Dummies - House For All
Da Rebels - House Nation Under A Groove
Sheila - Acid Kiss
Lil' Louis & The World - I Called U (Why'd U Fall)
Liaisons-D - Future FJP
Master C & J Feat. Liz Torres - Can't Get Enough
Pierres Phantasy Club - Dream Girl
Francois K - Hypnodelic
Eddie Flashin Fowlkes - Move Me
Sine - I Like It Deep (Soozee Kreemcheeze Mix)
Jaya - One Kiss
KC Flight - Planet E (House Mix)
Fingers Inc - Never No More Lonely
Metro Area - Proton Candy
Fallout - The Morning After (1990 Remix)
How II House - Time To Feel The Rhythm
Cajmere Feat. Dajae - Brighter Days
Kenny Larkin - We Shall Overcome (Richie's Loonie Mix)
Soul Boy - Harmonica Track
UBQ Project Feat Kathy Summers - When I Fell N Love
CD2
Phonique - Bang
Hug - Fluteorgie
Tiga - 3 Weeks (Troy Pierce's Move Until You Leave Mix)
Pier Bucci - Hay Consuelo (Samim Remix)
Guy Gerber - Belly Dancing
Stefan Goldmann - Aurora
Paul Ritch - Samba
Richie Hawtin - Spastik
Adam Beyer - A Walking Contradiction
Bushwacka! - Long Distance
Jesus Loves You - After The Love/Layo And Bushwacka! - Ashes Remain
Henrik Schwarz - Walk Music
Patrick Chardronnet - Ledge
Layo and Bushwacka! - Tabloid
Martin Buttrich - What's Your Name?
Larry Heard Presents Mr. White - The Sun Can't Compare (Long Version)
Riley Reinhold - Lights In My Eyes
Layo and Bushwacka! - Saudade Remix
