Ron's Reworks #2 vinyl

More from the mysterious Ron's Reworks series, which seems to specialise in good old-fashioned re-edits of tracks played by the late, great Ron Hardy (or at least that's how it appears to us - whoever is behind the project is keeping quiet). The real killer here is A-side "Your Brain On Music", a slightly beefed-up and tooled up version of an Italo-disco-era chugger rich in driving bass, spacey synthesizer lines, proto-acid sounds and almost symphonic electronic chords. Elsewhere "Be Bizarre" is a tight, mostly instrumental revision of an electrofunk era big studio rock number - all squelchy synth bass, glistening guitar riffs and stuttering drum machine beats - while "Call Me" is a fine scalpel edit of a sparkling boogie jam.