Posted by Budgie at April 29, 2005 03:15 PM

#1 in an occasional series...

Over the coming months I'll be occassionally raiding my HD and unearthing some great lost bootlegs, and here is the first one.

Track : ST3PAN0VA - "DUB MONDAY"

New Order's seminal "Blue Monday" track is no stranger to the bootleg scene. It's been sampled, chopped and looped many a time with even Kylie Minogue using it for her bootleg style Brits performance of "Can't Get You Out Of My Head". The original itself is no stranger to having the remix treatment, with people like Hardfloor, Ritche Hawtin and even Quincy Jones all having a go at it.

I downloaded St3pan0va's track expecting the usual treatment that bootleggers normally give "Blue Monday", y'know, the classic drum beats with some other vocal plopped on top. But this, this was in another league.

The two startling points of this remix is that, one, it actually has Bernard Sumner's vocals on it (I didn't think there was an acapella of "Blue Monday"...), and two, the backing track used is not the usual well known version of the song.

Listening to this, you would swear that St3pan0va had built a time machine, set the controls for Jamaica's legendary Studio One, convince the house band to perform and record a reggae cover version of the New Order song and then he's handed the master tapes over to King Tubby to filter through his Echo Chambers...

Is it all an original production? Is there a traditional dub take of "Blue Monday" kicking about that has passed me by? I don't know. But, I do know that this is one of the better remixes of "Blue Monday" I have ever had the pleasure to listen too, even better than some of those official ones.

Enjoy.

Go Visit : St3pan0va (is this his site? It may be. If it is, it gives the game away as to how he got Sumner's vocals...)
Go Buy : New Order - Substance 1987

Feel free to leave a comment about this track in The Pipe section of the forum

Ta,
Budgie.