stakka bo - great blondino (alien abduction mix)

i'm quite sure that i never heard the original back when this was released but i did hear of the title because it sounded funny. stakka bo or johan renck is one of those guys who is a bit underrated musically, i've heard a lot of his backcatalogue on later days and he had great songs and really good lyrics.

"here we go" is one of those where i didn't know that it was a sarcastic commentary to modern consumerism, then again with my command of english i wouldn't know anything about that in '92. the song could easily been about how he much liked icecream, all that matters was that insanely catchy hook.

anyhow with this song i saw the single a while ago in a store, i don't remember if it was charityshop or secondhand but i wouldn't buy it but i saw names who did remixes on it that attracted me to it. first of all, lucky people center and nåid who did a slowburning dubby techno version, saint etienne who did a wonderful version that is very mid 90's saint etienne. 

but of course the main attraction of me was the "alien abduction mix" by monkey mafia or jon carter. i've mentioned before that i'm a fan of jon carter and quite like his beatmaking. here he kicked up the tempo a bit and used a few selected bits from the original and went in his own direction. 

that way happened to take a swift route to jamaica as it incorporates the "bam bam" riddim. infact the original bassline uses the same notes as the infamous riddim (who's mostly known as "murder she wrote" by chaka demus & pliers). carter doesn't stay in the dancehall completely and it overall sounds very mid 90's uk hiphop-flavoured big beat.

in the same lines another favourite monkey mafia remix that is an favourite, "filthy" originally by saint etienne. but then again also like "tear the whole joint up". this remix is very jon carter and it's really great.

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