- After Trailmix's robo-house recasting of "You Make Loving Fun" and Tom Croose's nifty and echoey dub-down of "Never Going Back Again" those symbols of '70s SoCal pop excess (insert Stevie Nicks' cocaine story here) have come back around as dance floor bombs. That trend continues with Prince Language's celebratory edit of a Lindsey Buckingham tune from his debut album Law and Order. Language tightens up Mick Fleetwood's kick and keeps all the curlicues of sighed ahhs and chimes and Buck's always-nimble guitar that buoy the productions of his main group, stretching them out nice and long and making for a rapturous (hell, even drug-free) moment on the floor.
While Lee Douglas's edit on the flip is not another edit of the man (it's apparently some obscure post-punk track), it nevertheless conjures the other side of Buckingham: that of the dark, paranoid tweaker (think "The Ledge" and "Tusk"). The drums get stripped down to the bone (though not quite to banged-on Kleenex box levels that the man would've deployed), propelled instead by a chiming glockenspiel. It's all breathless pants and jittery negative space from there, sure to cause sweating and heart palpitations.
Tracklist A Lindsey Buckingham - On The Double (Edit De Prince Language)
B Boris Midney - These Times (Edit De Lee Douglas)