Tangent Edits Vol.1

Groove Latin, Brazil

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Label

Mr Bongo

Release date

October 18, 2024

Vinyl

Black

One of London’s most loved underground parties, Tangent, celebrates its 10 th birthday this
year with a new compilation on Mr Bongo. Its residents, John Gómez and Nick the Record,
have curated a selection of prized, rare and dancefloor-ready tracks that have soundtracked
the past decade of their parties. Alongside remastered reissues of these original cuts, the CD
version of the compilation also houses three incredible edits from Nick, John and Dan Tyler of
the Idjut Boys. These were too good not to press onto vinyl, so we’ve given them the
standalone 12" they deserve.
Contextualising their edits Nick states, “Tangent was not only the place for us to play the music
we love the most, it also became the testing ground for our edits. It was really helpful being
able to see the effect each of these had on a dancefloor before the records were released and
many of them also became firm Tangent classics.”
Up first, Nick is joined by Dan Tyler (Idjut Boys), who he runs the edit label Record Mission
with, for a furiously feel-good re-edit of Leo Basel’s ‘Quelle Drôle De Vie’. Basing their edit
on the 1987 ‘Special Remix’, it does what any great re-work does, dropping the sections from
the original that don’t quite hit the mark, whilst focussing on the gold in amongst it all. The
result is a slice of peak-time, French boogie joy, that will warm even the coldest hearts.
John then joins Dan at the dials for a cosmic revamp of Love Isaacs 'Surprise Surprise'. A
serving of ‘80s electro-funk, dripping in swagger with a highlife tinge. John and Dan extended
the grooves for maximum dancefloor power, space echoing it into the stratosphere at all the
juiciest points.
Lastly, Nick takes on Rick Asikpo and Afro Fusion 'Let's Get High' from the super sought-
after 1980 album, Got To Be Me. Celestial, gospel-infused soul from Nigeria, Nick homes in on
the energetic last 2 minutes of the original as the building block of his 12-minute edit. A
completely reworked, feverishly paced creation, Nick switches the sections around, saving the
slow, soulful segment for a brilliant cosmic breakdown before the track erupts back into its
full flow. Synthesised, jazz-funk elation from start to finish!

A1. Leo Basel - Quelle Drôle De Vie (Nick the Record & Dan Tyler Re-Edit)
A2. Love Isaacs - Surprise Surprise (João Gomes & Dan Tyler Are Predictably Delayed Rework)
B1. Rick Asikpo and Afro Fusion - Let’s Get High (Nick the Record Re-Edit)