WOEBOT

I found this record six months or so ago in the now defunct Reckless shop in Islington and I paid a miniscule $5 for it. Sonton, as I found out recently in Johnny Trunk's mighty survey of Library Music, was a heavy-hitting German Library collection with nuff distribution power and marketing muscles. The Sonton covers in the tome are quite as fantastic as this one. What really sold me on the disc was a loop on the fist track which I immediately pegged as being archetypically Basement Jaxx-ish.

The economy of loops is a strange thing. The entire record might be drek, but so long as there is a nifty drum-break it's worth money. Or some money anyway! Man, Madonna sampling Abba's "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man after Midnight)" on "Time Moves Fast", that's a total no-brainer innit. I've caned that track at weddings for years, real dark nordic power to it.

Sacha, my best-friend and celebrated dealer, came round the other evening, and he mentioned he was visiting the Jaxx to sell them records. He was also apparently quite low on stock, so I did what I never usually do and gave him the Sonoton "Disco" record to sell to them, pointing out the sample.

Round at Felix and Simon's gaff, Sacha produces the disc. "This", he declares, "is a totally Basement Jaxx record!" Cue baffled expressions, raised eyebrows etc as the tune spools into the room. He has to GIVE the record to them, throwing it into the deal. I was gutted when he recounted the story to me, but slowly (as ice thaws) I've come to see the funny side of it.

Given their total disinterest in it I've decided to offer the loop here for everyone's amusement. Was I really so far off the mark? Can anyone make a better track with it than the Jaxx could? If so I'll host the result.