from Melody Maker, dated Sept. 17th.
Orbital, the ORb, Laurent Garnier, Leftfield, Spooky and The Dust
Brothers are just some of the names who have donated exclusive tracks to
"the Serious Road Trip"- a three CD benefit set for Bosnia, which has
been compiled by Drum Club's Lol Hammond and Charlie Hall with Ben Turner
and Push from Melody maker's Orbit section.
The compilation feathres 21 exclusive tracks which are all new cuts,
mixes or out-takes from the leading names in the UK dance world.
All of the profits will go to Serious Road Trip, an organisation which
has been providing humanitarian aid to Bosnia and Croatia since June 1992 .
It's main objective is toun regular convoys from Coratia to Bosnia,
targteting the areas that have been hardest hit by the fighting. They
also run numerous children's projects designed to provide psychological
relief from the suffering.
The idea for the compilation came about when The Drum Club's Midi Circus
projects imprint emerged as the only record company in the UK prepared to
release Hardbag's "Ceasefire", after major record companies and small
independent dance labels refused to touch it because it was a non-profit
making record.
The track, which feathred live samples of Bosnian chilldren collected by
Matt Bumble (one-half of Hardbag with DJ Red Marc), was finally released
with all profits donated to Serious road Trip.
The next logical step was to put together an entire album, and most of
the dance industry was forthcoming, keen to dispel the myth that people
invollved in club culture are hedonistic and uncaring.
Drum Club have already been involved with Serious Road trip after playing
live with Orbital at the successful Fun-Da-Mental vs Sugarlump party at
London's Linford Studios last October. The night raised #5000.
Already, MMTV have chosen the release of this new compilation album as
the lead story on their regular news bulletins.
the full tracklisting of the first Cd is as follows:
Hardbag: "Ceasefire", "Laurent Garnier: "Rex Attitude", Leftfield:
"Release the Dubs", The Dust Brothers: "Be That Thing", Secret Knowledge:
"Nuttin' Dub", The Aloof: "circumstances", System 7: "Desir(live)",
Finitribe: "UGT '94", Higher INtelligence Agency: "Delta", Drum Club:
"space Angel STation(starburst mix)".
the second Cd features: Lionrock: "soundtrack in a palace of delights",
Spooky vs Chapterhouse: "we are the beautiful", Loop Guru: "Yayli(Unity
Vibrations)", Trans-Global Underground: "El Hedudd(10 beats to the
Border)", Banco De Gaia: "White Paint", Pressure of Speech: "Pressure of
Speech", Ege BAm Yasi: "eight Ball", Pip(from DiY): "Midnight Vibration",
and The Orb: "Plateau".
the third Cd contains an excllusive live cut of Orbital performing
"Remind" at this year's Glastonbury festival.
The LP is exclusively available to Melody maker readers from next week
and will then be available in the shops. The release will also be marked
by a special one-off party in a central London location feauring DJ sets
form many of the artists included and special appearances from the UK's
leading DJs who were unable to donate tracks for unavoiadable reasons.
for further details contact Ben Turner on 0956-367182.
mikebee
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