Brenda Taylor, NYC Peech Boys - You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too / Don’t Make Me Wait (Dr Packer & Michael Gray Reworks)As no strangers to the West End Records back catalogue both having taken on remix duties individually in the past 2022 sees Michael Gray and Dr Packer combine to give two classics the Rework treatment. Brenda Taylors seminal You Cant Have Your Cake And Eat It To is finessed into a contemporary disco standard: Taylors voice still cutting through with plenty of soul while synth and pianos provide the groove. Dont Make Me Wait cuts a slightly edgier

” Cutting through the chaos of early 2020

’ and ‘Walking in the sun’

a function that in no way offsets the records assured narrative purpose

and the London energy of his upbringing

up until the first half of the 2000’s

and "Mälestuste Teel" (1974

Lukkas and Ibicenco duo Reisdentes Balearicos serving up three wondrously lush revamps for the heads

White Vinyl Repress of the Paranoid London LP from 2014

Sir Elton John

now reissued in the right form including both vocal and extended instrumental versions

This is music that barely escaped the hard drive and yet percolates at the edges of the algorithm 30 years later

industrial strength electro/techno fusion should check the brain-melting insanity