You can’t avoid the new fab four and even the city’s soul-jazz club, The Buff, has hosted a party for the boys. So don’t be surprised if we find some jazz-funk remixes from You Could Have It So Much Better on Domino any time now.

In the meantime, The Buff’s newly-launched record label release thier first 12” by The Fusion Experience which is apparently ‘inspired’ by the infamous psychedelic voodoo sequence in James Bond’s ‘Live And Let Die.’

When you talk of: “Latin-jazz piano and Brazilian-inflected live percussion and crashing cymbals as slightly crazed werewolf-like howls echo through the mix, shortly before fearsome Hammond organ” you know it’s the type of Afro Art/Schema inspired dance floor action that Hectic is into.

However, it’s the b-side remix that’s caught my ears. The highly rated Sidewinder has remixed the track on a ‘Afro Remake’ and has gone jazz funkin’ clavinet style. You may still be playing Sidewinder’s album, Resolution which contained single ‘Ego Riot’ (that got the Yam Who? treatment on 12”) or his excellent remix of Break Reform’s ‘And I’ (which has just been included on XFM’s Nick Luscombe and his compilation, Flo-Motion Volume 2, see links below) or even ‘The Adventure ’ on Nick Matthew’s Slice of Paradise CD.

So you can almost smell the quality. Buff haven’t stopped there either, they’ve also signed up a seven-piece band, Everything Treatment. There’s a forthcoming album and some great reactions already from friend of Fly, Simon S (Break Reform/Abstract Blue Recordings) “The Everything Treatment album is class. Great variation in the tracks and very well produced.” Look out for the new Everything Treatment 12” available from 28th November 05, featuring ‘The Theme From…’, ‘Sola’ and a remix of ‘Sola’ by Square One.

So if you love your soul, funk’n’jazz, here’s a label and club to be aware of.

The Fusion Experience - ‘Scaramunga’ (Buff International) Cat. No. BUFF001 [12”] Released 14.11.05
Keys, vocals and written by Raymond Harris. Bass: Steff McCluskey. Drums: Tony Soave. Produced and mixed by Raymond Harris and Marco Rea. Tracklisting: A1: 12” version (6.43), A2: Radio edit (4.12), B: Sidewinder’s Afro Remake (5.20).

Links:
The Fusion Experience www.thefusionexperience.com
The Buff www.thebuff.co.uk
THE FUSION EXPERIENCE : Scaramunga @ Phonica
Radio 1 Blue Room: Tracklistings Sunday Morning Haze with Chris Coco 11 September 2005: Paul McCartney and Wings - ‘Live And Let Die’.
James Bond PS2 From Russia With Love on www.games.net
XFM Nick Luscombe presents Flo-Motion every Sunday, 22:00-00:00 for “chilled out electronica”. For playlist information, visit the Flo-Motion.
Nick Luscombe: Flo-Motion Vol 2 (Kudos Records) also includes Solar Apple Quarktette’s ‘Do You Love Me Too’ (Unforscene mix), One Deck And Popular ‘Inner Space’ (Umblu Mix), Sebastien Tellier’s classic ‘La Ritournelle’ plus Jonny Trunk (Reasonance FM), Husky Rescue, HKB FiNN, Thomas Fehlmann and Dimlite and others [Released 12.09.05, Launch party at The Big Chill Bar with Jonny Trunk and Nathan Fake].
Franz Ferdinand www.franzferdinand.co.uk