Buried treasure #7 - Acid Rock - Rhythm Device (re-edit)

A song which seems to have been forgotten over the years is Acid Rock by Rhythm Device (Frank Dewulf). It was a revolutionary record because it introduced a harder rock sound in dance music. Basically, you can compare it to what the Chemical Brothers did a decade ago and what Soulwax are doing now.
Frank Dewulf - one of Soulwax's heroes by the way - released a string of classic tracks under the B-Sides monniker for Music Man way back in the days.

Anyway, if you go looking for this record, there are two versions: the original in a yellow sleeve and the remix in a red sleeve. Both are equally good, although I prefer the breakbeat in the remix version. I used both versions to come up with my own re-edit.

A day (re-edit) - Clan of Xymox

Clan of Xymox were a Dutch darkwave group, which had its origins in Xymox, an eighties synthpop band. They left their mark on the Belgian and Dutch new wave scene with A Day, released in '85. Years later, it was selected for the influential Club Class-X new wave compilation on Antler Records.
The original lasts over 9 minutes but is in its full length a bit too melodramatic for my taste. Which is a shame, because some parts are really excellent. So, I cut up the track, left all the mellow bits and this is what I came up with.

Jacking on the disco floor (re-edit)

I came across this track today on a million-selling seventies pop album which I'm not going to name. Actually I was looking for one of the hits on it, but this one immediately caught my attention with its moving disco strings over a funky & jacking beat. The only thing I didn't like were the verses, so I re-edited the whole lot, expanded the great parts and voila: this re-edit was born.