Rub N Tug - Scanners Live Edit

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  • After everything we've seen from Eric Duncan and Thomas Bullock it's hard to imagine the DJ duo having a debut anything at this point, but the truth is that their combined discography to date has been fuelled by menagerie of aliases and side projects, including Dr. Dunks, C.O.M.B.I., Still Going, Map of Africa and Laughing Light of Plenty. So finally seeing the Rub-N-Tug name in the artist slot on this release is remarkable in itself. For this occasion, like Jake and Elwood Blues, they've put the band back together, assembling members of the Rub-N-Tug family, including Golf Channel's Justin Vandervolgen and the Sweeney cousins (Spencer and Matt). The two tracks on this 12-inch are a live edit and an instrumental of tracks off a forthcoming full-length, and if you've been keeping an eye on either Duncan's edits or Bullock's projects for Whatever We Want Records, you won't be surprised to learn that they are both rock. Sleazy, blues-based, dirty-ass, Mick & Keef rock & roll to be exact. True to its name, this "live edit" of "Scanners" sounds like a hairy jam that's been chopped down, Can style, into a floor-ready freight train that begins with a two-fisted piano vamp over bricklayer drums, and winds its way through hills and valleys until a sizzling outro groove featuring Cornelius Byrd, a long-time Rub-N-Tug party MC, who croons "rrruubbbb…and tug!" over and over. If the A-side is the furious partier, the B-side is the Sunday hangover. On "All 4 U" a gorgeously-eerie Mellotronish choir provides the spectral sheen on a more contemplative, shambolic jam that starts acoustic and grows into a mellow, midtempo groover with all the good comedown vibes you could ask for.
  • Tracklist
      A Scanners (Live Edit) B All 4 U (Instrumental)
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