Ah, the mid 90s! Hands up if you can remember them, or more importantly hands-up if you can remember Way Out West?
Way Out West for the dance cross over group (Nick Warren and Jody Wisternoff) that produced excellent progressive house tracks that did well in the charts but appealed to the dance massives. So they were big in the charts and big in the clubs – I loved them.
So enough nostalgia, let’s bring things fast forward to 2010. Recently revitalised Deconstruction are releasing on the 29th March a remix package of “The Gift” by Way Out West. As well as an up to date Way Out West version, the original (the first time available of digital download) and an outstanding remix package (Gui Borrato (“Fallopian Remix”), Michael Woods, Logistics and Tek-One) providing everything from a tech version from Gui Borrato to a Logistics’ drum and bass version. And woah! hang on to your bass-bins – you gotta check out the dubby Tek-One version.
Whilst the original will always be a classic, and the WOW version maintains much of the beauty of that, time has moved on, and indeed so has my listening style so the Logistics and Tek-One versions are a fresh and exciting take on the classic and are by far my favourites.
But this release isn’t by accident – this ties in nicely with their new material (“We Love Machine”) and a remix package, Way Out West are also headlining The Glade and appearing at Glastonbury this summer.
