VA: pt 1 - After Hours

When I was preparing the Transglobal Underground - Backpacking on the Graves of Our Ancestors, I seemed to recall that I had another version of "Temple Head" somewhere, but search as I might through all things TGU, I couldn't find it. Being obsessive, I searched out its source on Discogs. There was a version on a TGU Temple Head 45 but I couldn't find that anywhere in my music.

Then I saw that the track I was thinking of ("Temple Head (the Pacific Mix - Airwaves") was on a Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs (both of Saint Etienne) compilation Fell from the Sun (Downtempo & After Hours 1990-1991. I looked through my Various Artists folder & there she be...

This got me thinking about Various Artist releases. I have a slew of them, but I never really listen to them. I mostly just source them for individual tracks. I've mentioned before that I mostly listen to complete rekeases by single artists. I enjoy taking the trip as they intended (or someone intended). I don't have a gripe against comps or mixtapes. My problem is that as I'm listening to one, I hear a track I really like, & off I go to find the album it was released on, to listen to it in its entirety, if possible. Some tracks are only on certain compilations. Those are the ones I set aside for my own mixes. Otherwise I just find the original release, throw it on the player, & the Various Artists... is forgotten.

But as the search for the Transglobal tracks showed me, I don't even really know all the songs on all the Various Artist releases I've accumulated. They're not sorted or filed anywhere. That's not too good of a system. So this month I am going to be sharing only Varios Artist releases that I stumbled upon a I fell down this rabbit hole.

Might as well start with the one that started this all... 

 

 

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs - Fell from the Sun (Downtmpo & After Hours 1990-91),
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Higher than the Sun (Higher than the Orb extended mix) - Primal Scream
It Could Not Happen (Essential Trance Hall mix) - Critical Rhythm featuring Jango Thriller & Vandal
Cascades (Hypnotone remix) - Sheer Taft
Afrika (Love & Laughter remix) - History featuring Q-Tee
Floatation (original version) – The Grid
Speedwell (Bob Stanley/Pete Wiggs radio edit) - Saint Etienne
Fallen (Andrew Weatherall album version) - One Dove
Temple Head (Pacific Mix - Airwaves) - Transglobal Underground
Just a Little Bit More (Electro instrumental mix) - Massonix
U Make Me Feel (Running Water aka Workhouse mix) - Elsi Curry
I Don't Even Know if I Should Call You Baby (Marshall Jefferson Symphony mix) - Soul Family Sensation
Snappiness (7" edit) - BBG
Never Get Out the Boat (The Flying mix) - The Aloof
Spiritual High (The Moodfood megamix) - Moodswings

 

  

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