May: I Come Again - Fab, Trip 21

On February 21, 2024, still in trip-hop February, I shared Sneaker Pimps - Squaring the Circle here.

I had previously shared most of the Sneaker Pimps catalogue on the August 19, 2018 36 Chambers Nike Dunk High here.

In the fall of 2021, Sneaker Pimps began issuing a series of four sets of remixes of songs from Squaring the Circle called Rework Collection 1 - 4. I have compiled a collection of some of those tracks just for this revisitation. I selected mainly remixes by Liam Howe (AMP), it seems. I just liked them best. 

 

Sneaker Pimps - Rework reworked, NØ Comps., 2025.
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Fighter (AMP remix)
Child in the Dark (AMP remix)
Alibis (AMP remix)
So Far Gone (AMP remix)
SOS (AMP remix)
Stripes (AMP remix)
Paper Room (Markus Guentner remix)
Black Rain (AMP remix)
Love Me Stupid (Simonne Jones remix)

 

 

 

 

Although I previosly shared Sneaker Pimps studio recordings, the band has numerous live recorded sets well worth the listen. This is one of my favorites. This is a part of the ''Live at the I.C.A.'' set of recordings, also known as ''Home Taping''.

Let Liam explain. Liam sez:
     '' ''Home Taping'' was a club night that we organised around the release of Splinter in 1999. It was held monthly at the Institute Of Contemporary Art on the Mall in London (next to the Queen's house). As we all grew up in the 80's, we were very aware of the term ''Home Taping'' (the practice of taping records or radio onto a compact cassette at home). The music industry, which before the advent of the cassette recorder hadn't suffered any significant piracy, suddenly panicked and thought record sales would plummet due to the popularity of the humble cassette. They began a campaign to dissuade kids from copying music, its slogan: ''Home Taping is killing music'', its logo: a cassette perched on a pair of crossed bones (as in skull and cross bones).  The reason why we loved home taping was that, not surprisingly, this practice was not exclusive to us and it seemed that everyone who loved music had tapes that they had made or had been given to them which were totally formative in their musical and cultural development. The whole concept of the night was to invite people (famous and not famous) to send in their tapes and we would simply play them back. The idea was to cover 6 songs that were important to us and in true home taping style they varied quite stupidly from one to the other. We decided to perform them totally live, almost jammed, on 3 keyboards and an electronic drum pad. We stood 4 across the stage like 'Kraftwerk'. The thing I find most interesting is that this recording hints at the humorous part of the Sneaker Pimps, a part mainly kept under lock and key. Certainly I felt that playing Stevie Wonders 'Superstition' in a Kraftwerk kraut rock style was testimony to our comic intentions.''  

This one was recorded in 2000. This set is their most famous gig, featuring covers from David Bowie to Bjork.

Sneaker Pimps - Live at the I.C.A., Liam Howe released bootleg, 2000.

The Chauffeur (Duran-Duran cover)
Golden Brown (The Stranglers cover)
Venus as a Boy (Bjork cover)
Reward (Teardrop Explodes cover)
Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie cover)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder cover)

 

 

Revisiting,
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