In Flagranti - Grand Central Shuttle

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  • Sasha Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor are experts in trash culture. Each release under their In Flagranti moniker is grimy, funky disco, almost invariably accompanied by a clip from Gloor of found footage from the late '70s or early '80s that best captures the feeling of the music. Softcore porn, as you can tell from the image to your right, is often an option. Gloor's clip for this 12-inch starts at a Playboy Pajama Party, with 'Codependancy' as its soundtrack. Hef and the ladies are dancing to the housiest track here. It's a hard-charging track that sounds almost like an edit (much of In Flagranti's work does). Release comes in the form of Tom Jones (or a damn good impersonator) blabbering on about "asking you to spend your whole life with…" We only get to the "me" late in the game, but that's the charm of Flagranti and the whole edit culture: these samples are teases, half-remembered moments of tunes that are unlikely choices to be remodeled into funky disco gems. The title track that comes before it on the A-side is just as unlikely. Flangranti loop an insistent punk-funk bassline and a wheedly synth underneath singer Arthur Owens, who himself sounds like an edit version of himself. (Either that or he loves to repeat phrases ad infinitum.) The Rapture might do well to take notes. On the flip are two remixes of 'Coquine'. The first, the 'Sanctuary' mix, is a smash waiting for the proper dancefloor to work its magic. Stuttered vocals, stuttered percussion, stuttered bass, it's something like what might happen if Akufen had spent his formative days at the Paradise Garage. Solid stuff. The 'Supermarket' mix, on the other hand, straightens things out and unleashes the cowbell. Supermarket here is an unfortunately apt name, because in its attempt to appeal to an imagined audience, it ends up lacking the crazed zeal of the rest of this 12-inch's contents.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Grand Central Shuttle A2 Codependancy B1 Coquine (Sanctuary Mix) B2 Coquine (Supermarket Mix)
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