bassomatic - old school revival

hello. on the day the world discovers if the hype for the new gorillaz album is worthy i have decided to take it right back. right back to 1990. innocent days when house, reggae, hiphop were blended to make quality pop songs, when bands and characters like neneh cherry, bomb the bass, s'express and baby ford stormed the charts making the world a lot more smiley, colourful and downright funky. during this william orbit created bass-o-matic - a dayglo, acid house, ibizia fuelled collective. the first album was pure genius mixing klf like trance epics ('set the controls for the heart of the bass') all the way through to the glorious ska'd up 'fascinating rhythm', via the genre busing 'ease on by' that has the most melting mash of soul and dubbed up bass lines to have hit my stereo. i'm certain massive attack were listening. gorgeous. unfortunately the second album, 'science and melody', didn't continue the chart dominance factor, despite have a couple of cracking tracks, so william went off to play around with world music, ambience (the 'strange cargo' trilogy) and various production masterpieces ('one dove') before being brought back to the pop world by madonna many years later. even so .. let us rejoice in the glory of those 2 long gone classics, here in slighty remixed forms. > ease on by - ram factor 10 mix : here > fascinating rhythm - claudia cannigga mix (remix by renegade soundwave) : here onwards mark e ireallylovemusic