Heavenly Remixes 4 Andrew Weatherall Volume 2 Vinyl LP 2022

Tracklist

1. Dance Your Life Away (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - audiobooks feat. Andrew Weatherall
2. Heart Failed (In the Back of a Taxi) (Two Lone Swordsmen dub) - Saint Etienne
3. Compulsion (Andrew Weatherall remix) - Doves
4. Dead & Gone (Andrew Weatherall remix) - TOY
5. Out The Window (Andrew Weatherall remix) - Confidence Man & Andrew Weatherall
6. Gandhi (Andrew Weatherall remix II) - LCMDF
7. Bonita Mañana (Sabres of Paradise remix) - Espiritu
8. Devils Angels (Andrew Weatherall remix) - Unloved

Andrew Weatherall was Heavenly’s first true friend. By the time the label was born in the spring of 1990, he was already an inspirational sounding board, as well as a fellow traveller on the bright new road that stretched out ahead thanks to the massive cultural liberation of acid house. Back then, every energised meeting could be turned into a fortuitous opportunity in this burgeoning new underground economy. Bored of your job? Start playing records out! Start a club night! Get in the studio! Start a label! Just don’t stand still. Andrew would follow two of those commandments for the rest of his life, and he’d have a hand in the others at various points as well.

Andrew’s mix of that first Heavenly record is very much a product of its time. The World According To Sly and Lovechild is a swirling bass punch topped with a hypnotic marimba line and the kind of ecstatic diva vocal that you’d hear coming out of the speakers all night at post-Shoom clubs like Yellow Book. His take on the label’s next release — Saint Etienne’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix of Two Halves) — would set the template for his next three decades of audio exploration. A drawn-out imperial dub, the track builds and builds with a moody intensity (partly down to the melodica played by Weather Prophets legend Pete Astor) that’s far more Kingston JA at dusk than Kingston-upon-Thames at kicking out time. It’s both a dancefloor record to get lost in and headphone psychedelia of the highest order — a perfect example of what he did better than anyone else.