Track listings for editions of Off The Beaten Track.
Since we could tell you a lot more on-air about what we play than we actually do, the listings below are fairly comprehensive in detail. We welcome enquiries about anything we've played in the past (if we can remember anything about it that is...). (We don't have full details here yet, but we're working on that...)
Featuring:
On-U Sound - Mind And Movement Control
Jeb Loy Nichols - As The Rain (On-U Sound Remix)
Sly Dunbar - Mr Bassie
Creation Rebel - Starship Africa (Section 1)
Blue Pearl - Naked In The Rain (Pure Trance Mix)
Suzuki Keiichi - Satellite Seranade (Transasian Express orb mix)
Keith Hudson - I'm Alright (orb mix)
The JAMs - It's Grim Up North (original version)
Unitone HiFi/Muslimgauze - Babylon
Keith LeBlanc - Here's Looking At You/Steps
Keith LeBlanc/Jello Biafra - Message From Our Sponsor
Fats Comet/DJ Cheese - King Of The Beat
Keith LeBlanc - Whatever/Men In Capsules
Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Jungle 10"
Dub Syndicate - No Alternative (remix)
Adrian Sherwood - Ri Ra track
Jesse Rae - Pride
Little Axe - Blue
Bim Sherman - Can I Be Free From Crying?
On-U Sound System/Andy Fairley - Privatise The Air Pt. 2
African Head Charge, edited from "Off The Beaten Track", 1986 On-U Sound Records ON-U CD (1998 reissue). Adrian Sherwood production.
1988 Rham Records RS8804. The hit version was the "Ricky Rouge" Remix (an alias for Gerald himself), but the original beats all johnny-come-lately versions.
1986 Dance Mania Records DM003.
1986 London Records/DJ International LONXR105. Darry Pandy was the big guy with the big voice. Huge crossover house record, followed quickly by number one hit "Jack Your Body" from Steve 'Silk' Hurley.
1988 Sleeping Bag HAKT16. Dirty and crude just how we like it. Early TOdd Terry production.
1987 KLF Communications JAMS24T. First release by The KLF under that name, a glorious tribute to the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu's obsession with Whitney.
1988 CBS promo XPR1344. "Rebuilt by DJ Slack and the Democratic 3", but never released for obvious reasons. Backed with "I Owe You Nothing (The Blues Bros Bootleg Bustup Mix)".
1987 CBS TRENTG4. Another astonishing remix from CBS, remixed by legend Lee 'Scratch' Perry who "in the artist's opinion is a 'Real Genius' and in a past life had to have been one of the twelve disciples". Babies and cows abound.
1996 Grapevine CDREG4. Version of the Wailer's "Sun Is Shining" This dub mixed at King Tubby's studio, reissued on Rodigan's Dub Classics Serious Selection volume 1.
2000 Green Tea GTT CD04. From the "In The Jaws Of The Dragon" dub set featuring dubs from tracks from their first two albums for Green Tea.
1999 Green Tea GTCD002. Their own original version from "One Punch".
1982 Next Plateau BROX163. Killer John Robie production with vocals by Jenny Burton. One of the greatest.
1999 Spinyl/Pandisc PD8946-2. Miami bass, taken from "First On The Blox".
2000 Neurodisc/Priority P2 25451. Taken from "The Greatest Hits".
2000 NMG Entertainment. "Magic Mike scratches his way through a series of high octane, old school workouts that stay closer to the high tech sound of Miami with body shakin' low end booms and absurd high speed scratching". Right.
as above.
From "Booming On Pluto - Electro For Droids", 1997 Virgin compilation by David Toop. AMBT 20.
1983? Tommy Boy TB831. Another John Robie production/mix, this time with Arthur Baker.
1983 CBS. In full, the 12" mix. Bill Laswell production, featuring Grandmixer DSt and Michael Beinhorn.
1983 Island/Celluloid 12IS146. And here he is again in his own right, again featuring Laswell and Beinhorn, and the vocals of Bernard Fowler, later to become vocalist for Tackhead, and formerly voice for the Peech Boys, whose "Don't Make Me Wait" mashed up the dancefloors in early New York dance/electro days.
1986 Cutting. This version from Cutting Records' mid-90s remixes retrospective and also featured on "Booming On Pluto".. there are earlier and better mixes.
Hard to get for many years, made much easier by its inclusion on "The Best Of 1985 - 1999" on Virgin, CDV2882.
Taken from their compilation "Electro Megamix" on Rephlex CAT065CD.
Pandisc PD8924-2. Dallying with Kraftwerk tunes is always a dangerous thing, but they just about manage to pull it off in Miami bass style here.
African Head Charge, edited from "Off The Beaten Track", 1986 On-U Sound Records. Adrian Sherwood production.
Audio Active are a Japanese band, who started out mostly playing reggae/dub and have migrated to harder drum'n'bass/techno-esque sounds with dub influences. 1996 Beat/ On-U Sound Records. Adrian Sherwood production.
A dull club record remixed in acid house style, and featuring the vocals of the best female rapper there ever was. She's now a criminal psychologist. 1988 Club/Phonogram.