DJ Bacon Vinyl & CDs

Review: DJ Bacon's new edits LP Super Disco Raps takes two forms: firstly as a full-length 16-track LP, and secondly as a selectors' single edition, the latter of which you see here. 'Vol. 2' hears two extra remixes that did make the big disc's cut, but Bacon decided they also suited a limited edition 7" release for good measure. Playability is the implied reason: on the A we've a glossed-out disco scratch-tool remix of Wu Tang Clan's 'Gravel Pit', on which ghostly rap acapellas are laid to a lackadaisical funk beat, and on the B there's a similar version of Ultramagnetic MC's's 'Moe Luv's Theme', which loops and skips about an unmistakable four-beat, wax-scrubbing hook.

Review: DJ Bacon is probably the singular most eminent edits master to stock his serial releases on our digi-shelves; this credo alone is more than enough to turn heads for his latest limited 7”, ‘Bad / Theme From SWAT’. Here the auspicious Aussie reworks the ineluctable opening theme music from S.W.A.T., the ‘70s police procedural that more or less inaugurated the genre, but not before he detourns any actual swattage with a reworked version of LL Cool J’s breakout hit on the A.

Review: *Sharp intake of breath* - DJ Bacon is BACK, with another ressued cut of one of his timeless club-honed hip-hop edits. This time Bacon hosts a dialogue between three astronomical hip-hop and/or supergroups, The Beastie Boys, Bar Kays and Kool & The Gang, to produce mirror-image fusions of each of their most enduring chart-toppers. First up is a cogent mishmash of Beastie Boys' 'Hey Ladies' with the Gang's 'Ladies Night'; the second is an equally beguiling mix of the former's 'Shake Your Rump' with the Bar Kays' 'Shake Your Rump To The Funk'. But enough historicising, just listen!