Tune #105: Rabbit In The Moon - Deeper

Rabbit In The Moon is an American electronic music group that was established in 1992 by David Christophere (Confucius), Steven R. McClure (DJ Monk) and Steve Eachon (Bunny). The group represented the Florida breaks scene of the 90's along with DJs Kimball Collins & Chris Fortier.

RITM rose to prominence with the dancefloor classic O.B.E. (Out-Of-Body Experience), which was released in 1993 by Hallucination, an indie label set-up by Confucius & Monk for releasing their output. The track was later featured in various DJ mix CDs (with Northern Exposure being the most important one) and was also licensed to west coast label Hardkiss (East meets West) with new remixes. After 1994, they broke the American barriers and reached the European electronic music scene, performing remix duties for Orbital, Goldie, Cosmic Baby and Sarah McLachlan. Additionally, they collaborated with German group Humate (then consisted of Gerret Frerichs & Patrick Kjonberg) for the 4-tracker Hemispheres E.P. The success of the EP produced an additional release with remixes for one of the tracks-hemispheres (East).

Today's track is a B-side taken from a purple-tinted vinyl, released by Hallucination in limited edition. Deeper is a hypnotic breakbeat track that includes the representative breaks sound of RITM. Firstly exposed to it via Chicane's comp CD, it is certainly not a track to pass through. A nice trivia of Deeper is that it features a slowed down sample of Kate Bush vocals, taken from her song And Dream Of Sheep.

RABBIT IN THE MOON - DEEPER

In 2002 Monk leaves the group, which continues to exist till this day as duo (Confucius & Bunny). While I am not familiar with their latest sound, it seems that their live performances are very intense and cinematic, a sight worth seeing!

P.S. I'm weak so let me sleep and dream of sheep...

10-Year Blogoversary!

Whoa! Time flies... It has been 10 years since first post!

Let me present some stats for Music Miner, in order to extract meaningful insights.

I was 100% certain that the vast majority of tracks (presented by Music Miner) would originate from the 90's. It is absolutely my favorite era in terms of electronic music. The tracks from the mid-00's follow in second place (although I remember that during my teen years which were aligned with that period I was still listening music from the 90's). The third place belongs to the first period of electronic dance music (80's). My main reason to trace back tunes from that era was to gain fundamental knowledge in music genres that emerged during that decade. Furthermore, the last time period produced the smallest output, but this fact can be justified:

- During the first years of Music Miner I was mostly listening to music from previous periods than contemporary tracks.
- I was disillusioned with the state of trance music, which was my favorite music genre (trancecracker spotted!)

In terms of tracks per music genre, I expected the results a little worse (i.e. lacking diversity). Obviously, Trance and House are the prominent genres (almost a tie), with Techno coming third. However, other genres were also presented, with smaller contribution. I believe that during the last years I was exposed at a higher level in other music realms, leading to blog posts spanning different music styles.

Drilling down to music styles, Trance / Techno / Progressive House are cited largely. I am positively surprised that Electro made it to the Top-5. It is a music style that I need to dig in deeper for more obscurities (since the majority of them were known tracks). Another future goal would be to produce more output for other styles, especially Leftfield, Future Jazz & IDM.

The country breakdown presents the Great Powers of Electronic Music (for my ears at least); UK, USA & Germany. Although tracks from different countries were presented, one may notice that Dutch music was never my preference (even Belgians had greater contribution!). One thing that I am skeptical though is if I should have focused more on Greek music or not (the last years have been very productive and interesting).


Finally, you may find below a nice visual with the labels tagged in this blog via a non-stat manner!

What would be the future plans and status of Music Miner?  One could only wonder...

Tune #104: Gigi Flag - Nymphomaniac

The cosmic disco era of the 80's is worth digging, in order to find hidden gems like the following track:

GIGI FLAG - NYMPHOMANIAC (INSTRUMENTAL VERSION)



Gigi Flag was an one-off alias of Italo-Belgian bassist Gino Malisan. During the first half of the 70's, he was one of the core members (along with his brother Tony) of Esperanto, a Belgo-English band associated with progressive rock music. The band released three studio albums under A&M Records from 1973 until 1975, when the record company decided not to renew their contract. The large maintenance costs (expensive technical equipment, large number of musicians and technical staff) and the reduction of vinyl production due to oil crisis of '73 led to band's demise.

Gino Malisan continued to work as a producer for a limited number of disco/funk compositions from the late 70's to the mid 80's. One of them was Nymphomaniac under his alias Gigi Flag. The space synths and funky bass elements constitute a fine example of cosmic boogie track.

The original vocal version of the track can be characterized X-rated, for obvious reasons...

GIGI FLAG - NYMPHOMANIAC (SEX VERSION)


Many years later, Davide Armour & Philippe Mascerano performed a re-edit of the track, naming it "It's So Exciting (High Jingo Love Love Rework)", through their Boys From Patagonia project.

BOYS FROM PATAGONIA - IT'S SO EXCITING (HIGH JINGO LOVE LOVE REWORK)


The re-edit was released in 2012 by International Feel Recordings, an indie label of Mark Barrott. Additionally, the A-side of the release featured Rimini '80, a re-edit of another old track (Joël Fajerman ‎- Racines Synthétiques). If I am not mistaken, the latter was featured in some ALFOS sets of late Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston.

Since the 2012 re-edit is largely based on the original track, I hope that credits were given to the original composer.

Fun fact: Nymphomaniac was included in Greek LP Disco In, featuring on cover the ultimate Greek femme fatale of the eighties, Vina Asiki!