There should be a name for this sort of thing that happens: you listen to an album, fresh off the press, and one of the tracks strikes you just so. It’s not the single, no, and it’s probably not even the second single. It might be buried somewhere, or it might just be the track after the single, or kind of long and windy with the sorts of introductory sections that the pop radio disk jockeys just hate. What’s wrong with you, jockeys? Long intros are great. Anyway, can you guess what I’m getting at? This happened to me the first few times I listened to Arnaud Rebotini’s album, this thing that is nameless.

The album is Someone Gave Me Religion and it’s really quite good. There was a single several months back with a pretty hot B’wohh remix just when he was on his ascendancy. There’s a lot of variance – some pretty hard electro tracks, some contemplative downtempo analog sounds and here and there some sort of vaguely Gothic interpretation of Vitalic. These are the really good ones. So, buried in the album (not really – it’s track 2, but the one before it is a shade over 13 minutes long, so it’s buried enough, and it’s an album, do people even look at tracklists anymore?) is this track called “Another Time, Another Place” with some nice buried vocal and emotive saws and some really hot tightly gated claps. Hot claps, everyone! Gotta get the hot claps on your track.  This is the one that stuck with me, and now, several months later, we’ve got an absolutely stuffed remix package for this very track, which is maybe meant to bring to mind Lana Turner and Sean Connery, and does a little bit.

Best of the bunch is from Acid Washed. Fresh off a really wonderful Yuksek remix (the best one), this is sort of a spiritual cousin. Lots of points for maintaining the melodic center while adding that rolling, rumbling, propulsive love.

Second prize goes to JBAG who have been on a bit of a roll lately. Really crisp, sort of a Discotexas night version. No stream, but the whole release is out on 7th November, so just buy it then. 11 tracks – there’s Gucci Vump, Mustang and Turzi Electronic Experience on there as well! You have no excuse.

Another Time, Another Place is out 7 November on Blackstrobe. Get it here.