I was silly enough to have hope last week! Ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! That sure was funny and stupid of me! Silly me! We’re all doomed.
Hawkwind
Silver Machine (12 Inch Remix)
Silver Machine (New Remix)
Silver Machine (Reconstructed By Utah Saints)
I got it guys. Let’s build a spaceship, call it the Silver Machine and blast the fuck out of here. That’s the only way. What else are we going to? I’m serious. At this point it’ll be easier to build an interstellar spacecraft than it would be to convince the people of our dying planet not to treat each other like the fecal matter of subhuman parasites. I know a guy who can get us some steel (I’m from Pittsburgh after all) and I know some good artists who can paint the thing all rad. Anyone know any quantum physicists on the verge of cracking faster-than-light travel? You’d really be doing me a solid.
These remixes are from two different records I picked up relatively recently. The first two are from a 12″ single called Silver Machine – Infected By The Scourge Of The Earth. Do not ask me who The Scourge Of The Earth is. I don’t know. I mean, I know who 2017’s literal actual scourge of the earth is, but I do not know anything about the artist who called himself that in 1999, which is when this single came out. The 12 Inch Remix is, quite honestly, hot garbage, but the New Remix is pretty great.
The last version, remixed by the immortal Utah Saints, is from a 1996 remix compilation entitled Future Reconstructions – Ritual Of The Solstice. The majority of that album is not very good. However, it shouldn’t be surprising that when you give an amazing group an amazing song to work on, the results end up being pretty good. Actually, I’ve heard enough lousy remixes by The Orb and Aphex Twin to know that’s not always the case, but in this instance it’s 100% true. Their remix is dope as fuck.
The band’s biggest hit single from 1972, “Silver Machine”, was re-mixed by The KLF’s Jimmy Cauty, with additional bass and guitars by Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd), under the name Infected By The Scourge of the Earth. The mixes were released as promos by EMI as a white-label 12″ and CD (catalogue DECLIPSE1999), the 12″ containing “12” Mix” and “New Mix”, the CD containing “Radio Mix”, “12” Mix” and the “Original version”. The “12” Mix” and “Radio Mix” were included on 30 Year Anthology and The Ultimate Best of respectively.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epocheclipse
follow-up initial e-mail incorrect, sorry
Scourge of the Earth is Jimmy Cauty i.e. half of KLF.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/32390-The-Scourge-Of-The-Earth
apparently it’s Jimmy Cauty from amongst others the KLF so there is an Orb connection in there
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