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You’ll recall that The Herbaliser were feeling no ill effects after the move Ninja Tune to !K7 with the release of Same As It Never Was . ‘Can’t Help This Feelin’ was one of the top tracks and featured the vocals of Jessica Darling (no relation to Daedelus Darling) who does her best 60s soul diva/Motown sound.

I’m sure Gilles Peterson said he was going to play The Heliocentrics remix on his show last week; did he? Can’t see it in his track listing. Can’t have as it’s brilliant. We’re really getting dirty now as Sun Ra Ethio-jazz gets dub influenced into the funk-soul original; I think this is so beautiful. If you get this also check Dub Colossus In A Town Called Addis as between the two of them it’s sort of Mulatu Astatke and Heliocentrics all over again. The Heliocentrics have really got this spot on as funky jazz cinematica; this is so hot!

Beardyman’s Glitchbox Hackjob is near on five and half minutes of Beardyman hacking up in a glichy manner; clearly, I can’t put it better than the man himself but it breaks it up nicely with snatches of dub/hip-hop/soul/electro.

I’ll be doing my best to find out about the Heliocentrics extended disco dub remix but I’m happy to think this is one of the tracks of the year.

Great Yellow Submarine inspired artwork and check out The Herbaliser playing a headline show with a full band at The Scala in King’s Cross on Wednesday 5th November, 2008. There’s gonna be fireworks!

Reviewed - The Herbaliser - Can’t Help This Feelin’ (!K7) Cat. No. !K7226EP Release date: 27th October 2008
Tracklisting:
A1 Original Version (3:22)
A2 A Cappella (3:22)
A3 Instrumental (3:22)
B1 Beardyman’s Glitchbox Hackjob (5:29)
B2 The Heliocentrics Remix (3:19)

Links
www.herbaliser.com
www.k7.com
www.myspace.com/k7records
NINJA TUNE presents THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF SOLID STEEL
Jon More (Coldcut), Ollie Teeba (Herbaliser), DJ Food + DK, DJ Kentaro, Bonobo, Hexstatic, PC, J Mountain + Very Special Guests
Date: 6th November 2008: 21:00-03:00
Venue: The End, 18 West Central Street, London, United Kingdom
Price: 12.50 (available from www.ninjatune.net/tickets)
Started by Coldcut as one of the best shows on the then-innovative pirate KISS FM, Solid Steel has always been about the finest, most surprising, most eclectic and all-round wonderous mixing. DJing as a kind of curation, as choreography, as art. As fun. The spirit of the radio show (run to this very day by the mighty DK) has also led to a series of critically-acclaimed and rather wonderful mix CDs. We’d call it a brand, or a lifestyle, if that didn’t cheapen it a bit.
So before The End ends, check out the great soundsystem, a sprung floor and some of the finest DJs you’ll come across. It’ll be more than Solid. It’ll be sensational…

Lineup:
Room 1
09:00-9:30 DK records!
9:30-11:00 Jon More (Coldcut)
11:00-12:00 DJ Kentaro
12:00-01:30 DJ Food & DK
01:30-03:00 Hexstatic

Room 2
9.00-10:30 PC
10:30-12:00 Oli Teeba (Herbaliser) / Bonobo
12:00-01:30 Bonobo / Oli Teeba (Herbaliser)
01:30-03:00 J. Mountain