Do You Want It?

A saucy Saturday selection sourced from Swiss-based duo In Flagranti, with a smattering of smut over sixty minutes.

Try saying that three times with a mouthful of muesli.

I first heard the Sasha Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor's early excursions as In Flagranti around 2002, on a giveaway CD with the excellent Jockey Slut magazine. Further explorations of the internet revealed a plethora of remixes and, over time, I have quietly amassed a modest selection of their music and mixes.

Today's selection focuses on the decade from 2008 to 2018, mostly their reworkings of other artists, but with a couple of their own from 2013's Headrush EP, simply because I liked the song titles (!) 

A broad range of (sub)genres here. although all designed to make you move. I like the fact that there's a distinct In Flagranti feel without pinning themselves down to a particular motif or recurring theme. 

Anyway, over to this pair of wrong 'uns to strut their stuff. Enjoy!

1) Confusion (In Flagranti Remix): Motel77 ft. MIIIA (2018)

2) Curious Red (In Flagranti Remix): I Led 3 Lives (2009)

3) Bell Common Tunnel (In Flagranti Remix): Tronik Youth (2017)

4) Kontrol Termination (In Flagranti Remix): Volta Cab (2017)

5) Disco For The Devil (In Flagranti Mix): Bottin (2009)

6) Dope As Shit (Single Version By In Flagranti & Erol Alkan): In Flagranti (2013)

7) I Love London (In Flagranti Vintage Mix): Crystal Fighters (2009)

8) Testify (In Flagranti Re-Play): Hifi Sean ft. Crystal Waters (2017)

9) Who's There? (In Flagranti Remix): Riton & Primary 1 (2009)

10) Toiletries For Bottoms (Single Version By In Flagranti & Erol Alkan): In Flagranti (2013)

11) LookLookLook (In Flagranti Remix): Golden Bug (2008)

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Nine Times NEIN Equals Fifty Nine

Or, nine tracks from the tip top NEIN Records label in a fifty-nine minute Dubhed selection.

With the exception of label boss Neil Parnell's automatic inclusion with Tronik Youth, I've tried to pick artists that have rarely if ever featured in previous posts, such as Two Mamarrachos, Cabaret Nocturne and Bit Marten, the latter with the completely on-the-nose First Time.

An eclectic and electric bunch, all dedicated to the beat, mostly from the last two to three years but a few from the last decade to enhance the flavour.

A testament to Neil's vision that NEIN has been a quality label from the outset and maintained that level for over a decade.

1) Saturate (Single Version): Jobe (2023)

2) Overlution: Tronik Youth (2023)

3) Teach Me (Damon Jee Remix): Two Mamarrachos ft. Snem K (2017)

4) First Time: Bit Marten (2023)

5) Bird Lagoon (Mordisco Remix): Durand (2020)

6) Open Market: Fabio Kstro (2024)

7) Green Karma (Roe Deers Remix): Cabaret Nocturne (2017)

8) San Pedro (Tayga 90's Feelings Remix): Astroloop (2023)

9) Never Let You Go (Single Version): Ali X & Ximena (2018)

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A Glitch Repeats

Sixty minutes, ten tracks, one decade in the life of MAN2.0 aka Mark Bailey.

My recent NEIN Records catalogue buy has significantly boosted the quantity of MAN2.0 music and remixes in my collection, and this is only a good thing as I've been a fan since I discovered Mark via his remixes and releases on Paisley Dark Records a few years ago. Last year, he took the next logical step by launching his own label, Embryonic Soundwave.

Today's selection plucks selections from the past decade, spanning 2017 to 2025 and trying to avoid repeating tracks (or at least versions) that I've previously used elsewhere on this blog.

Starting off with the brilliantly-titled Anti-Chug, the selection takes in remixes for Perry Granville, Tronik Youth and Soft Cell, as well as MAN2.0 releases including last year's superb CTRL ALT DEL and wrapping up with Cosmikuro's stunning rework of 2023 single Red Shift.

May your weekend be full of sunshine, inside and out. I think this is the ideal soundtrack.

1) Anti-Chug (Single Version): MAN2.0 (2017)

2) Fake Robots (MAN2.0 'Counterfeit Machinery' Remix): Ulises Arrieta & Javier Martinez (2019)

3) CTRL ALT DEL (Tronik Youth Remix): MAN2.0 ft. Precious Blood (2025)

4) Turbo Rave (MAN2.0's Cabin Fever Remix): BT COP (2020)

5) It's A Mug's Game (MAN2.0 Edit): Soft Cell (2022)

6) Shake Up Your Mind (MAN2.0 Remix): Steady State (2021)

7) Glittering Lights (MAN2.0 Remix): Perry Granville (2023)

8) Seedling (Single Version): MAN2.0 (2017)

9) Don't Space (MAN2.0 Single White Female Remix): Tronik Youth (2017)

10) Red Shift (Cosmikuro's 'Hold Your Breath' Mix): MAN2.0 (2023)

2017: Abandoned EP: 9

2017: Heavy Machinery EP: 8

2017: Plan Your Journey EP: 1

2019: Fake Robots EP: 2

2020: Turbo Rave EP: 4

2021: Shelter Me: Beats For Beds: The Remix Album: 6

2022: FREEDLS: Sexy Dinosaur From Outer Space: 5

2023: Glittering Lights EP: 7

2023: Red Shift (Late) EP: 10

2025: CTRL ALT DEL EP: 3

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All of these - and more - are available to buy online and if this music pushes your buttons, tickles your fancy or sugars your plum, then I highly recommend MAN2.0's Operator EP, on Embryonic Soundwave, last December.

From Beyond To The Intimate And Infinite

A return to my recent NEIN Records haul, this time showcasing From Beyond aka Alex Wastnidge.

Alex is a frequent contributor to the NEIN catalogue, with a ton of releases and remixes as From Beyond dating back to 2019. I first discovered the label during lockdown and I've been following with interest since then.

When browsing for an image that I could use for today's post, I stumbled across Alex's LinkedIn profile and his posts for The MCAT Blog at the University of Oslo. This is lifted from the former:

I am a Music Technologist/Researcher with a background in Music Production, Audio Engineering, Audio Programming and Education. I developed "Deep Steps", a MIDI step sequencer with an integrated user-trainable generative neural network. Deep Steps was presented at The International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity 2024. This work covered AI in Music, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, Co-Creativity and User Experience.

As someone with an - at best - rudimentary understanding of music technology, my mind was boggling at that paragraph alone. However, you can read more about Alex's work on the MCAT Blog here.

What got me here in the first place though is the music and, contrary to what the above may suggest, the appeal for me of Alex's work as From Beyond is it's warmth, it's - dare I say it - humanity. This is electronic music designed for the dancefloor, but it never feels clinical or perfunctory. 

Prior to my big purchase, I would buy NEIN releases on a regular basis and anything with From Beyond attached was pretty much guaranteed to be of interest. Today's selection provides 10 examples of this, at just over an hour. 

All releases on NEIN between 2019 and 2025, with an accidental bias towards the 2022 Datamaskin EP, and reciprocal remixes between From Beyond and Viper Patrol, I think it gives a good account of what Alex is about and why I like the music.

It tickled me to start the selection off with a track called Welcome and wrap up with the ironic Q&A of Where2Now and Not The Future, as that is where we are inevitably, inexorably heading, whether we like it or not.

1) Welcome (From Beyond Remix): JG Outsider (2021)

2) No Rest (Single Version): From Beyond (2019)

3) Night City (Single Version): From Beyond (2022)

4) Murky Waters (From Beyond Remix): Viper Patrol (2025)

5) Villa Straylight (Viper Patrol Remix): From Beyond (2025)

6) Found Again (From Beyond Remix): Lusca + Tronik Youth (2020)

7) Datamaskin (Single Version): From Beyond (2022)

8) Axial Tilt (Single Version): From Beyond (2023)

9) Where2Now: From Beyond (2022)

10) Not The Future (Single Version): From Beyond (2024)

2019: No Rest EP: 2

2020: Cash Us EP: 6

2021: Together EP: 1

2022: Datamaskin EP: 3, 7, 9

2023: High Orbit EP: 8

2024: Not The Future EP: 10

2025: Slow Is Smooth EP: 4

2025: Villa Straylight EP: 5

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Tekno Tronik

A welcome return to this blog for Tronik Youth aka Neil Parnell, with a very belated follow up to the first Dubhed selection that I posted in August 2024.

Neil also heads up the NEIN Records label, which has been a go-to for me since discovering it on Bandcamp approx. 6 years ago. I've been on the mailing list since and NEIN releases are a regular addition to my shopping basket.

Last week, I received an offer that I couldn't refuse, an opportunity to buy the entire NEIN Records back catalogue at a frankly unbelievable discount. Even allowing for the considerable number of releases I've previously purchased, it was still such a bargain that I would have been silly not to.

Transaction completed, I've now added well over 1,500 tracks to my collection. It's going to take a long time to sift, sort and listen to it all...!

Tronik Youth music alone is a daunting prospect, with dozens of solo and collaborative EPs and albums, standalone releases, scores of edits and a remix CV that probably edges into three figures on NEIN Records alone.

 

Rather than feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume, much of which I haven't heard yet, I've instead followed my original rule of thumb in creating a snappy, 45-minute selection that can pair with my previous effort as a C90 cassette-friendly side.

As before, today's selection is a mix of Tronik Youth tracks, edits and remixes (of and by), 8 songs in total, spanning 2017 to 2026.

If you like what you hear, head over to NEIN Records on Bandcamp and buy.

Given the treasure trove of music, I can guarantee that I will posting further artist selections from the NEIN Records roster throughoout 2026.

1) Arabia Felix: Sarv + Tronik Youth ft. Monixa (2024)

2) Zulu Whiskey Zulu (Gemini Brothers Remix): Tronik Youth (2017)

3) Bumpy Rider: Tronik Youth (2023)

4) Seedling (Tronik Youth Remix): MAN2.0 (2017)

5) Electric Baby: Tronik Youth (2017)

6) Kill It (Single Version): Tronik Youth (2022)

7) Don't Space (Ands Mega Remix): Tronik Youth (2017)

8) Happy Days (Tronik Youth Remix): Ackerman (2026)

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You can find the previous selection, Elect Tronik, right here.

For those of you poised to ping your letters of complaint that I'd hoodwinked you in thinking today's post was all about Belgian rap/dance popsters Technotronic, I offer a crumb of consolation.

The cover art is a crop of the cover for their 1991 album Body To Body, which I put through a LunaPic filter and then further played around with lighting and exposure.

The hand and leg in question belongs to Reggie aka Réjane Magloire, the voice and face of Technotronic for their second album. In looking this up, I was sad to read that Reggie died of a heart attack in October 2023.

Desperate To Disappear And Still Be Someone

Continuing with the A-Z of artist releases from 2025 that I haven't yet bought, but are on the shopping (long) list for this Bandcamp Friday.

Yesterday covered A to F; today, it's my picks of artists from G to M, specifically

Gwenno remixed by Cornelius

Horizontals aka Leo Zero

Ibibio Sound Machine

Jah Wobble

KLOUDs

Little Annie & Baby Dee ft. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

MAN2.0 remixed by Tronik Youth

Gwenno's fourth album Utopia came out in July, her first predominantly in English, with previous albums in Welsh or Cornish. What's not changed is Gwenno's way with a song and this carries through into the Utopia Remixes EP, released last week. Versions by QUINQUIS and Stone Club both recommended, but I've opted here for the unexpected and delightful remix from Japanese legend Cornelius. 

Leo Zero has been a busy man this year and it's been hard to keep up with everything he's put out there, including two excellent EPs as Junk System (there's a third to come), 20-track disco monster Nebulon Systems Vol. 1, plus a ton of edits, remixes and one-offs.

Wild Light by Horizontals is Leo's ambient/balearic project, 10 tracks of on-the-nose bliss, including this one. 

I was a bit slow on the uptake with Ibibio Sound Machine, but I'm now all in, so the arrival last week of a new EP, Anyone Like You, is very good news indeed. In addition to three versions of the title song is the "cosmic funk" of Jagaban, featured here. The title is from Hausa, a widely spoken language in Nigeria, and translates as "leader of warriors". 

When Jah Wobble drops an album called Dub Volume One, you know what you're going to get, and you know it's going to be great. And of course it is.

Written, performed, and recorded entirely solo by Jah Wobble, mastered by Anthony Chapman (Collapsed Lung) and issued on Dimple Discs, the indie label founded in 2018 by Damian O'Neill (The Undertones, That Petrol Emotion) and Brian O'Neill (not related).

I could have chosen any of the eight tracks, opting here for the wonderfully titled Tragic Slav Dub.

KLOUDs is a collaboration between Ukrainian-born Sam Levin aka Zullah, and Israel's Itay Menashe aka Fistuk. I can't say that I've heard of either of them, but I really like this 2-track single, pairing PALMS and Côte D'Ivoire. Released in August on the Stereo MC's label called - what else? - Connected, it's a welcome ray of sunshine and recollection of summer in this damp, dark English winter.

I have loved Little Annie, since I first discovered her music in the early 1990s, courtesy of Adrian Sherwood / ON-U Sound. As the title suggests, With is an 8-song collection of 21st century collaborations with like-minded artists. 

The album opens with a rousing 2008 live version of Yesterday When I Was Young with Marc Almond and ends with Some Things We Do, from Swans' 2014 album To Be Kind. Included in between are team ups with Coil, Kid Congo Powers, Paul Wallfisch and Larsen.

I've gone for State Of Grace, the title track of the 2012 album by Little Annie & Baby Dee, featuring Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Last but not least is MAN2.0's latest, on the ever dependable NEIN Records label. I'm a big fan of MAN2.0's previous music and mixes and this 5-track EP from July offers up two versions of CTRL ALT DEL (with Precious Blood) and three of Nightmare Walking.

All five tracks mean business, including this stunning remix by NEIN label boss Tronik Youth.

More tomorrow.

A Pair Of Portmanteaus

Parvale = Neil Parnell & Ian Vale

Jezebell = Jesse Fahnestock & Darren Bell

I do love a portmanteau name and when Nein Records label head Neil Parnell teamed up with Ian Vale, Parvale was created and new EP Breaker City the first fruits.

The lead track is an unashamedly heartfelt love letter to Acid and Breakbeat, blending the best of both into 345 seconds of compelling body music. 

I've greatly enjoyed Neil's releases and remixes as Tronik Youth and relatively recently caught up with Ian's work, so I was pretty much bought into this concept before hearing the track. That first listen sealed the deal.

Who else do you turn to for a remix than Jezebell? In their own words, Breaker City is "gone cut'n'paste and pop 'n' lock", dropping the tempo but not the attitude. A recurring sample of "nice 'n' slow" provides the remix with its name and, as you might expect, it's a slick, groovy six minutes that thrills from start to finish.

Closing track Drip Dry brings the BPMs right back up, another consumate and confident example of Neil and Ian's ability to pull from the past whilst reaching forward. At once evocative of the late 80s/early 90s and fresh as a springtime flower, it's another winner for me.  

Breaker City was released on 21st February but if you hang on to Bandcamp Friday to buy, even more of your hard earned pennies will reach the artists. And whilst you're at it, check out more of the Nein Records and Jezebell back catalogue too.

Elect Tronik

Today's selection features Tronik Youth aka Neil Parnell, and is a follow up of sorts to last Wednesday's spotlight on recent purchases from NEIN Records, the label Neil co-founded with Ian Considine over a decade ago.

 

In a 2018 interview celebrating 5 years of NEIN, Neil described the label's mission as "trying to spread some dark magic around the worlds dance floors" and this brief, C90-friendly mix attempts to reflect some of that in his own remixes and releases as Tronik Youth.

Most of the tracks are from the last few years, but I have included Tronik Youth's debut in 2006 with a remix of Listen Up! by Gossip. At the time Neil, a record shop boss and DJ, got involved with a friend who ran Back Yard Records. The two discovered and signed Gossip, Neil had a go at doing a remix and the rest is history.

 

If you're new to Tronik Youth and like what you hear, head first to NEIN Records on Bandcamp, where you will find a fair few Tronik Youth releases, re-edits and remixes of other label artists for your listening pleasure. 

However, a quick online search will also throw up a vast catalogue of music released on other labels and with other artists in the past two decades, as 2014's Suicide Doors on tici taci (included here) illustrates.

 

1) Cult Haze (One Of Us) (Tronik Youth 'Ritual' Remix): Dan Wainwright (2021)

2) Wrong System (Jay-Son Remix): Tronik Youth (2024)

3) Suicide Doors (Inaigo Vontier Remix): Tronik Youth (2014)

4) I Say Yes (Tronik Youth Remix): Cosman (2024)

5) Listen Up! (Tronik Youth Remix) (Edit): Gossip (2006)

6) Red Shift (Tronik Youth Remix): MAN2.0 (2022)

7) Serpens Caput (Tronik Youth Remix): Celestino (2023)

8) Ghosted Me: Tronik Youth (2024)

 

2008: Rework It: 5

2021: The Universal Energy Within EP: 1

2022: Red Shift EP: 6

2023: tici taci Decade Volume 1: 3

2023: We Are Nothing But Space Dust Remixes EP: 7

2024: I Say Yes EP: 4 

2024: Tronik Youth Club Edits EP: 8

2024: Wrong System EP: 2

 

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Flowers Don't Get Old...At Least, Not The Ones You Sent Me

Sticking with last week's Bandcamp Friday haul, this is a 45-minute selection of remixes from one-off singles and EPs, including a couple from last year that I missed first time around. 

in celebration of Liz Truss being confirmed as Prime Minister (this immediately sprang to mind), I've dropped a few Truss-isms into the mix.

More BF goodies tomorrow.

1) All That You Want (Joe Goddard Remix): Ibibio Sound Machine (2022)

2) "Cheesy Truss" (2014)

3) Looking At Your Pager (Solomun Remix): KH aka Kieran Hebden (2022)

4) "Literate Truss" (2013)

5) Flat Strings (Tronik Youth Remix): Cosmosolar (2022)

6) Sub Spacial (A Space Age Freak Out Dark Paisley Mix): From Beyond (2021)

7) Red Shift (Jezebell's Inner Child Mix): MAN2.0 (2022)

8) Safesurfer (The Machine Soul Innerworld Dub): Julian Cope (2021)

9) Cherokee (Dennis Bovell Remix): Animal Collective (2022)

10) "Awkward Truss" (2022)

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