Blog Sunday, 12 July 2009
This is a mysterious looking one-sided 12" on the Beau Monde label that's got a mental 'post-apocalyptic' story etched onto the other side! The guy who produced it is Scott Edward, who also did stuff as Uriel if that helps.
It's brilliantly old-skool spacey electro in sound, but somehow manages to sound up-to-date as well (well, 1995 up-to-date anyway). It gets 4/4 after about 5 mins and would be a great tune to build up a set with.
A lost wee gem, which I'd completely forgotten about until spotting it just there. Go check it oot...
Phillip T. Love, frontman said...
Sweet Jesus - I've been hoping someone would post this for years. A stone-cold nu electro classic and no mistake. 'The Return and Revenge of the Majic-12' is another slice of vinyl heaven and is well worth checking out.
Blog 16 July 2009 at 19:35
I coudn't find much information about the artist and the label, so if you have any additional infos, please contact me, because I'm very eager to learn more about this guy and the label.
"The Last Battle" is the fourth release on the Beau Monde label, produced by Scott Edward Hodgson aka Majic-12 who also released super dope funk and disco under the alias Uriel.
This is a funky electro jam with a new twist. You can definitely hear the old-school influence but he managed to give it a new direction, something, that in my opinion not many artists have succeeded in (in regard to an original old-school 80s electro flavour).
There is no track on the B-side, only a cut in text:
"THE LAST BATTLE:
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, that was once the Earth, twelve men stand poised to battle out the last dying seconds of a sick planet. The two surviving crews, in their anti-radiation track suits, face each other for the last ever burnoff.
For twelve days and twelve nights they turn their tricks of precicion and provocation, when without warning the desolate sky folds in on itself and they are erased for ever in a deafening silence.
The twelve breakers of the last hour pass through to the other side of consciousness, to a life beyond life, an existence beyond existence, where they battle for eternity on a lino so vast in every direction, that it stretches the minds concept of distance.
Here they will stay crystallised for ever as immortals of a street paradise."
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I LOVE THAT SHIT!!!
MELODY MAKER Feb 3rd 96
Scott Edward's base camp, Beau Monde, has been releasing quality Detroit-influenced techno for about a year now, and this track shows where its roots are firmly locked. 'The last Battle' relies heavily on electro, with Herbie Hancock influence lurking in the foreground. A long rumbling electro breakdown at the beginning makes this a gem, especially when it slams into breakbeat balminess and shady acid oblivion. The beginning of a long and ultimately successful battle.
Joanne Wain
MIXMAG Feb 96
It's worth buying this tasty bit of neuvo electro just to check out the cool etchings on the flipside. But if , as so many people do, you insist on some music on your records, the single side of computerised beats and badness should suit you just fine. Rock Steady Are You Ready?
Black Market