I Don't Know Why I'm Telling You Any Of This

Continuing the recent Nancy and Lee theme this is Fallen by the much loved and much lamented One Dove. One Dove were Scotland's premier post acid house dub-techno band, featuring the voice of the lovely Dot Allison, also featured recently round these parts. I know Drew will disagree, saying the original Soma version of Fallen is superior, but to my ears this Weatherall version, the Nancy and Lee Mix, is by far the best. Seven or so minutes of bliss.

It's half term in England. We may be off camping for a few days, so if nothing happens here until Friday we're under canvas somewhere. Hopefully dry.

Fallen (Nancy And Lee Mix)

Dot Dot Dot

Finding this song, We're Only Science, from Dot Allison's second solo album We Are Science gives me the perfect excuse to post this picture of Dot. Or finding this picture of Dot Allison gives me the perfect excuse to post this song, We're Only Science, from Dot's second solo album We Are Science. Either way round, this was song was also worked on by ex-Two Lone Swordsman Keith Tenniswood.

http://download839.mediafire.com/m3nr7ibpruxg/zn41dkmcd1xep5n/01+We%27re+Only+Science.wma

Mo Do

Dot Allison's Mo' Pop single from her first solo album (after leaving the still wonderful sounding One Dove) is a glorious slice of left-field pop from 1999. A kind of 60s soul-pop, Dot's breathy vocals make the verses dreamy and half asleep and the chorus a huge waking up. The follow up a few years later, We're Only Science, saw her go electro-clash. This is a cracking song.

I don't know what's going on with the way the link looks- it won't let me change it for some reason.

http://download105.mediafire.com/i77cz3a1v0vg/rro5x11ml685tcx/08_Mo%27_Pop.m4a

Death In St. Petersburg

This popped up earlier on random play and I'd forgotten how good it was- Death In Vegas' Dirge (Cossack Apocalypse Mix). Part of a 12" remix promo of Dirge (with One Dove's Dot Allison on vox) the other side was the Adrian Sherwood dub remix I posted ages ago. This remix takes DiV to Russia with a lovely extended finger picking intro and some vocal samples, then ramping up the ramshackle groove for eight minutes, all mist, fog, fur hats, revolutionaries and cossacks on horseback. The remix was by The Chocolate Layers, Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey of Pulp who provided a remix of Black Box Recorder posted here last month. This is a really good remix if somewhat unsuited to the glorious sunshine we've got in M33 at the moment.

dirge cossack apocalypse.mp3#1#1