GLASGOW DJs Teamy and Larry’s riotous Wrong Island night has been running with varying degrees of regularity at Sauchiehall Street’s Nice’n’Sleazy’s since 2007, as well as on occasion at the Sub Club and Berkeley Suite. The final instalment of the night is on Saturday, so we invited the pair to look back over the past nine years and pick their five favourite Wrong Island tracks.
Ata Kak – Daa Nyinaa
Larry: Ata Kak’s discovery by Brian Shimkovitz of the wonderful Awesome Tapes From Africa is one of my favourite things to have happened to dance music in recent times. The story of how he tracked down this mysterious, untraceable Ghanaian enigma is something special in itself. His is a totally unique, raw, DIY sound that merges his scatty Twi dialect rap and singing with influences of electro, hip-house, disco, ragga, Highlife...you name it, it’s all there. http://bit.ly/2c2yGx2
Vijay Benedict – Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki.
Teamy: Pretty sure we’re the only night that plays Bollywood disco tracks alongside techno. I really wish the disco era in India had lasted a bit longer than the three to four years it seems to have, as there’s a perfect marriage of styles and ideas in almost every track I’ve found. I know almost all the words to this, though I’ve no idea what 90 per cent of it means. Deliriously good. http://bit.ly/2cbr5hv
Tony G – Simple Dreams (Young Marco Remix)
Larry: I’m a huge fan of Young Marco as a producer and a DJ. He takes the original’s beautiful acid bassline and replicates it with a tropical pan flute-like synth sound to delightful effect. Fresh house music with a Balearic sensibility. http://bit.ly/2cikXV6
Fern Kinney – Love Me Tonight (Damon Martin & Ben Rymer Edit)
Teamy: Last time I played this Seth Troxler appeared to say it was in the top three ever. I told him it’s in the Top one. The original version on the album is great but this edit ekes it out to eight minutes of bliss. http://bit.ly/2c2xv0u
Oni Ayhun – OAR003B
Larry: Olof Björn Dreijer – one half of The Knife – made what is probably the finest example of emotionally-drenched techno ever. I think I bought this for the flip and only ever played that side out once. Drop this and the whole dance floor falls in love. Teamy once described this as the sound of falling in love, and I ain’t gonna disagree. http://bit.ly/1AiNss8
Wrong Island, Saturday, September 10, Nice’n’Sleazy, Glasgow, 11pm to 3am, £3
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