Saint Etienne - Like A Motorway FLAC

Saint Etienne Heavenly Breakbeat Techno Synth Pop Idm 1994

Genre:	Electronic / Pop
Performer:	Saint Etienne
Title:	Like A Motorway
Style:	Breakbeat, Techno, Synth-pop, IDM
Date of release:	16 May 1994
Label:	Heavenly
Catalog Number:	HVN 4012
Country:	UK
FLAC album size:	2967 mb
MP3 album size:	2889 mb

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Tracklist

1	Like A Motorway (Chekhov Warp Dub) Engineer – Steve DubRemix, Producer [Additional Production] – The Dust Brothers	9:18
2	Like A Motorway (The David Holmes Mix) Engineer – Gary Burns, Jagz KoonerRemix, Producer [Additional Production] – David Holmes	13:01
3	Like A Motorway Engineer – Ian CattMixed By – Rick Smith	5:43
4	Like A Motorway (Skin Up, You're Already Dead) Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Autechre	8:24

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
HVN 40CD	Saint Etienne	Like A Motorway ‎(CD, Single)	Heavenly	HVN 40CD	UK	1994
HVN 40 CD	St. Etienne	Motorway ‎(Cass, Single, Promo)	Heavenly	HVN 40 CD	UK	1994
HVN 40, HVN40	Saint Etienne	Like A Motorway ‎(7", Single)	Heavenly, Heavenly	HVN 40, HVN40	UK	1994
HVN 40 CS	Saint Etienne	Like A Motorway ‎(Cass, Single)	Heavenly	HVN 40 CS	UK	1994
SCR 660371 2, 660371 2	Saint Etienne	Like A Motorway ‎(CD, Maxi)	Heavenly, Heavenly	SCR 660371 2, 660371 2	Europe	1994

Credits

Design – Anthony Sweeney
Photography – Paul Kelly
Producer – Saint Etienne
Written-By – Stanley, Wiggs

Notes

Original mix recorded at Cat Music Mitcham
Mixed at Lemonworld Hornchurch
Design by Anthony Sweeney @ Fusion

Both labels incorrectly state that the record plays at 45 rpm.

Barcodes

Barcode: 5 025006 290403

Companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Creation Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Creation Records Ltd.
Recorded At – Cat Music
Mixed At – Lemonworld

Video

Nnulam

You have to commend St Etienne for their admirable choice of mixers on this release where even the original version - an upbeat pop number with pretty, poetic and ultimately quite poignant vocals - is mixed by Rick Smith of Underworld.

The first remix comes from the Chemical Brothers - around a year before ditching their earlier Dust Brothers moniker - with midtempo breakbeats, deep bassline and some great sections of melodic distortion (I guess you need to hear it yourself to understand what I mean there).

Next up is David Holmes, accompanied by his regular Sabres engineers, with a combination of bassline, percussion and acid-line that sounds not unlike Hardfloor. He recorded a lot of long (10+ minutes) techno tracks like this around 1993/4 but his mixes of 'Come Into My Life', 'Smokebelch II' and particularly his own epic 'Johnny Favourite' on Warp from the same period are more effective.

The single saves the best till last. I'm sure that some fans of nu-skool glitched-out Autechre will dismiss their remix here as being too pretty but if, like me, you love the IDM masterpiece that is their 'Amber' LP then you really need to check this out. The exquisite composition takes an entrancing metallic percussion loop and adds elegant tones and a single repeated syllable. The central ambient breakdown is so long that whenever I listen on a Walkman I always think that I must've lost myself in the music and not noticed the break and surely this must be the outro now because the break can't be this long... but then finally the percussion drops back in, a whole three minutes later. Quite sublime, and easily one of my favourite Autechre tracks.