manalogue

I feel like I’m suffering a little from A.D.D. or something. There’s always so much to do and so little time to do it. With some massive changes coming in the Manalogue family it’s impossible to focus on anything for long before something else pulls my attention away. (There’s a bit of a hint there as to what’s going on. Here’s another: it’s biological but not at all related to the blog.) Yer not here for personal quagmires – yer here for beats so on with it shall we.

Here are two remixes of a track from songwriter, DJ and Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek, the mastermind behind wistful Anglo-pop wunderkinds ROSES, KINGS, CASTLES. The track “Entroubled,” by its authors own admission, is a quirky little summer alcopop of a song certain to wrap listeners around its nimble fingers. On its own, the original isn’t Manalogue material however the remixes come from both BOY+GIRL and GEEK CHIC SOUNDSYSTEM, both fittingly transforming the track for the dancelfoor.

“Entroubled” is being released via Mr Ficeks own label, The Sycamore Club, which takes its name from the community centre of the council estate that he grew up on in Bletchley, Milton Keynes. You could go there on Friday night to meet girls or Saturday morning to fight boys.

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MP3: Roses, Kings, Castles – Entroubled (Geek Chic’s Spot of Bother remix)

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MP3: Roses, Kings, Castles – Entroubled (Boy+Girl remix)