Proof that house music makes everything better here in this stellar Primal Scream remix release. Two tracks — “Ready To Go Home” and “Love Insurrection” — get taken to the dancefloor by a house music remix dream team of Terry Farley and Wade Teo, Hardway Bros, and Black Science Orchestra. The melodic/melancholy lift at the end of the chorus in Farley and Teo’s string-laden, funky vocal remix of “Love Insurrection” is worth the entry charge alone, it’s just beautifullly done. Their dub of the same tune is an absolute killer too, more of a rich luscious instrumental than a dub really, that puts the sumptuous orchestration, rich piano chords and neat funky guitar licks at the centre.

Black Science Orchestra also turn in a main mix and a dub, both of them distinctly old-school ’90s flavoured, with a “Funky Drummer”-esque beat and, in the case of the main mix, a big four-bar chord-stab progression that becomes the main hook. Their main remix works really well but the dub is even bigger, a relentless churner of a tune, with that rolling break beat underpined by a gorgeously dark synth riff.

Hardway Bros’ remixes of “Ready To Go Home” — again a vocal and a dub — are both high tempo, high energy rollers with loads going on in the mix, part-Balearic, part-tribalish dub house, part some other dark thing, and again, the dub with another excellent synth lead stab works more for me than the vocal mix.

Farley and Teo also remix “Ready To Go Home,” their excellent vocal version recalling the OG Primal / Boys Own glory days in a suitably uplifting fashion while — and apologies for being that guy — it’s beaten by their acid-gospel dub of “Ready To Go Home” which is just stellar. Quality.

⚪️ Ready To Go Home / Love Insurrection Tracklisting

Primal Scream: Ready To Go Home / Love Insurrection (Remixes) (BMG / 12" Vinyl + Digital)
1. Love Insurrection (Black Science Orchestra Vocal Remix)
2. Love Insurrection (Black Science Orchestra Dub)
3. Ready To Go Home (Terry Farley, Wade Teo Dub Remix)
4. Ready To Go Home (Hardway Bros Vocal)
5. Ready To Go Home (Hardway Bros Dub)

(Editor’s Note: These remixes are scattered across multiple vinyl releases and most seem out of stock. Download shops seem to have one remix or two but not all.)

⚪️ Disclosure Statement

This record was submitted as a promo.

⚪️ Previous Coverage

❇   Features: #TheTeardown Making The Spaces Between’s “Ghosts” with Terry Farley & Ashley Beedle (2021)
❇   Features: Essential Angel Moraes: Life In Stereo (2021)
🎧   Mixes: Ashley Beedle mixes SANCTIFY vol 2 (2021)
❇   Features: Ashley Beedle: The 5 Magazine Interview (2016)

 

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