Free Download: Tori Amos - Professional Widow (ANTWON&NTM 2015 EDIT)

For Tori Amos fans her Boys For Pele album era in '96 & '97 was an especially glowing time. It was considered then as her least commercial and accessible material released yet debuted at #2 in the US and was her first to debut in the top 10. Fans had a reason to celebrate big time as it sold well, had a multitude of layers to try and penetrate plus scored a huge and now timeless dance classic. Professional Widow, thought to be about Courtney Love, is in its album version a funky, hellish and brutal song filled with harpsichord and sharp vocals and lyrcis that borrow from Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Sphinx. For the single release it had a huge makeover by Armand Van Helden that cut up the lyrics with *it's got to be big* looped as a mantra + added in the song title. It also added a gorgeous club beat for the ages. The result was a huge #1 in the UK that became a club classic. Welsh duo ANTWON&NTM builds on this remix with a sleek deep house feel. Love how it adds a contemporary vibe yet doesn't lose the shimmer of its roots. The guys from Swansea truly offers something new and big that Tori's picky widow would have no problems accepting. Top marks!    

Free Download: Chaka Khan - Fate (Gy Fos Re-Drum Disco Mix)

Aaaah, ain't nothin' like dancin' to disco classics on warm summer nights! Thus was the sheer force of Chaka Khan's disco power in 1981 that her now classic Fate never was released as a single from her album What Cha' Gonna Do For Me. It's even the second to last track on it! Also, it's pretty impossible to not have danced to it as Stardust's Music Sounds Better With You samples the intro and obviously was a monster hit in 1998 and now a true 90's dance classic. Anyway, the original is a flawless exercise in disco funk and we can nevah get enough. UK producer Gy Fos adds some oomph with a re-drum disco mix that incorporates that Stardust extended intro magic and it's perfect to play loud and on repeattttt. 'nough said - d.a.n.c.e! 

Premiere: MNEK - Believe (Cher Refix)

MNEK has a knack for taking well known songs and refixing them into a whole new track. Like this one of Sade's No Ordinary Love for instance. So good! Tonight he's treating us to a fresh new take on a track that's been played to death - 1998 landmark single for Cher - Believe. The then pioneering electronic processing of her voice is here replaced by a more soulful take and musically it sounds like it would fit any garage compilation from early 00's. Cool! Love the chorus building up here and how it's a 180 take from the dance original. Check out below; thoughts?