32 Years Of Weatherall, a personal choice - the remixes

on 6 Apr 2021
This is the second of my tribute compilations, this one collecting a remix from each year. This was put together for the 2nd birthday after Andrew passed, 06/04/2021. Compiled by Martin of the Flightpath Estate

On Andrews birthday last year I released my first 30 years of compilation picking up a collection of released and unreleased original tracks and productions by Andrew, one from each year. This year I'm doing the same for his remixes. It is frankly a near impossible task - by my count there are 245 tracks remixed by Andrew with over 430 sanctioned verisons of those across his career and a smattering of as-yet unreleased remixes. Everytime you approach this with a blank piece of paper the result is different. So this is a snapshot, one moment of choice on the remix career of an absolute maestro and legend, I didn't try to overthink or be too obvious or yet too exclusive. Rest in peace Andrew x @thelinosquares

1989
Andrew cutting his teeth as part of Boys Own and only two choices. Happy Monday's Hallelujah is a played to death certified classic, let's go with the slightly less popular Boys Own remix of That Petrol Emotion, released on promo in 1989

1990
starts off with an immensely hard challenge. Do we go for the well known tried & tested classic Weatherall flourishes - Come Together or Loaded by Primal Scream,
New Orders world cup remixes or Floatation by The Grid. Everyone will pick a different track here. Mine is the classic remix of St Etienne, which is one of those I heard on Radio 1 way back and spent an age and a relative fortune back then tracking it down

1991
Another vintage year, work with the Primals continues with Don't Fight It and Higher Than The Sun and the release of Screamadelica. other standouts with Finitribe, The Orb and Love Corporation
but the remix of The Drum by The Impossibles has taken in a godlike status. According to Hugo Nicolson it was the last track they worked on together and is a bit of a sleeper classic

1992
More Jah Wobble, James, FSOL, One Dove for the first time, '92 is spoilt for choice. This Yello mix is a perfect straddle of the indie dance sounds gone and the Sabres sounds to come

1993
Sabres Of Paradise is born properly and remixes abound with some big names - Dust/Chem Bros, K-Klass, Leftfield, New Order, Stereo MCs and Utah Saints. The various Bjork remixes are all great in their own way, The Springs Eternal mix of One Day sounds so typically 93 Sabres it may as well be a Sabres track in its own right

1994
1994 saw Andrew do some hard techno with Dave Hedger as Lords Of Afford and The Sabres high bar continued with one of the massive high points of a great year is the four phased Jam J reworks with James but it seems impossible to split. Other notables for Therapy?, Transglobal Underground, Primal Screams dub workouts of Jailbird, 1994 was also a huge year for 'trip hop' and this sometimes pervaded into the Sabres sound and the remixes they did, Bomb The Bass with a dub trip hop workout.

1995
AW transitions from working with the Sabres to working with people called Dave, namely Harrow and Hedger, closing the year with someone called Keith (Tenniswood). Remixes abound, from the final sabres outings for Black Sheep, Chemical Bros, Orb, Red Snapper and Renegade Soudwave, but three sabres remixes in a row needs a new parter and the first results of Bloodsugar partnership: -3 by Percy X on Soma gets three reworkings, Emissions 1 features here with some typical Weatherall bleeps but Harrow drums and bass influencing

1996
A quieter year for remixes as his own productions get launched everywhere. Two Lone Swordsmen enter our remix compilation for the first time with their lesser known remix of Dark Globe, a proto breakbeat track getting the nod over the big players of the year David Holmes and Sneaker Pimps

1997
Half heading into more electro territories this year but the other half of Weatherall is in full deep house mode, shown best by his remixes for 4AM, Ballistic Brothers and this particularly funky one for Restless Soul

1998
remixes slowing down with only about ten known releases this year. The epic remix of Spiritualized Come Together is astounding but too long for this collection, Red Snapper have all sorts of tangential connections to Andrew and one of the Bogeyman remixes gets included here in its squelchy funky hybrid-house

1999
Only 10 years into his career and i'm exhausted by this foolish challenge! Choosing one remix from the 10 or so this year is tricky, could go Electronic, Rae & Christian, Luke Slater and more but i've gone for a probably lesser known fuzzed electro breakbeat workout from the Sugarhill box set - Funk You Up by The Sequence

2000
Swordsmen in deep electro territory this year on remixes and productions. remix wise Leftfield, Primal Scream, Saint Etienne and even Paul Weller get a look in. But the remix of Come On Let's Go by Broadcast takes it - stuttered vocal sample, beats in and out, very typical of the Swordsmen/Rude Solo excursions of this time

2001
Did 2ls really remix Starsailor? That'll be on for the 'old rope' bank account! Other acts this year included Calexico, Lali Puna and Stereo MCs but this lesser known remix of Anthony Rother in his Psi Performer guise gets selected with a real piece of dirty dark dancefloor electro

2002
Beth Orton, Slam and Sweetie got remixed in a pretty quiet year but Keith's solo output as Radioactive Man got lots of attention and assistance by Andrew through the years, the Chairman rubbing up Nightbus To Nowhere for an upbeat spacey second remix here

2003
An incredibly quiet year as 2ls were going through a cocoon into rockabilly territory and AW was tuning his vocals. Still a few good remixes though and Fujiya & Miyagi get the nod over Primal Scream

2004
A revisit to Throbbing Gristle's United and Shystie are the others in a small pick in 2004 but leading the pack is 2ls in full-on live band mode on Villalobos' Dexter and the basslines to inspire a new wave of post-punk bands

2005
somewhat barren year but three choice remixes from Battant, Delphian Complex and I Am Kloot. I Am Kloot's fuzzstrumental does exactly what you expect from a swordsmen remix around these years - all live drum sounding and fuzzed up basslines

2006
Just a single remix in 2006. Primal Scream come back to the guvs attention as Bloods gets the 2ls rockabilly treatment, undeservedly tucked away on a B side to Dolls

2007
Battant, XX Teens and X-Press 2 get remixed in 2007 as Swordsmen remixes end and Weatherall remixes begin (again), this time working with Steve Boardman. Siouxsie heralds this new dawn with quite an upfront techno dancefloor banger compared to what had preceded oozing with Siouxsie Sioux's vocals

2008
Mostly a year for remixes and some great ones including David Holmes, Fuck Buttons and Primal Scream. The little known VV Brown gets a bit of uptempo dub breakbeat workout here

2009
Some great remixes here included big hitters Manic Street Preachers and Doves. Tim Fairplay, soon to be part of the Asphodells gets a track remixed by Andrew on the Boardroom compilations. U Know U Jack on a track portending to the ALFOS sound

2010
a few class remixes along the ALFOS tip creeping in. Grinderman Heathen Child is a standout of the Masterpiece album so going a bit deeper a dub of the dub for Steve Mason gets my pick for the bassline

2011
next wave of remix high continues with abandon. Clock Opera, Locussolus, Soft Rocks, Horrors, Tim Fairplay but Alice Gold's Runaway Love is a certified ALFOS hit

2012
A strong year which includes Cut Copy, Daniel Avery, Toy, The Horrors, Wooden Shjips and a remix of ALFOS partner Hardway Bros, but i've gone for a superb lesser known digital only remix for Pablo on Soma

2013
Asphodells and AW remixes this year and some strong tracks including Obsession by Craig Bratley. But Andrews workings of Another Perfect Life by Moby are just so anthemic and meaningful now and everytime i hear it I can't help but think of the lovely tribute in Leeds last March as part of Inner City Electronic

2014
Atari Teenage Riot, Julian Cope, Richard Sen and Sam Roberts all get the remix treatment this year but after working together for so long AW meets Primal Scream for the final time on Goodbye Johnny for a compilation based on unfinished works by Jeffrey Lee Pearce of the Gun Club

2015
If only Beck had got released this year like it should have done but we're still spoilt for choice on the remix front. Black Devil featuring Convenanza organiser Bernie Favre got a double remix but this Mugwump remix seemed to be kicking around on ALFOS sets for months and had us all salivating before it finally got the long awaited release in 2015

2016
Craig Bratley, Solar Bears, Liminanas and Unloved remixed this year but I've gone with my only unreleased track in this collection - Piano Magic Exile got featured in Andrews NTS show and even though it's fabulous that's where it stayed. Hopefully it will get a full release one day

2017
Loads of fantastic remixes for the likes of Confidence Man, Orielles, Sexual Objects, Early Years, Phil Kieran. Four mixes for Yello are outstanding and accidentally mean they get their second feature, this Half-Life remix could be a throwback to earlier sounds but still sounds bang up to date

2018
Huge year for remixes - audiobooks, Confidence Man, Marius Circus, Noel Gallagher, Eyes Of Others and Tracey Thorn. The Twilight Sad, having not worked with Andrew on their album, did persuade him to do a remix, the superb Videograms, bizarrely only having a digital release, on a full on 80s New Order meets Depeche inspired trip

2019
quiet year for the guvs recent standards but his remixes of Scott Fraser, Silver Apples and Unloved are edged out by the WRF reworking of Meatraffle which sounds so much like a Fort Beulah track it fits in wonderfully with that boxset

2020
Andrew completed a number of remixes before he passed and at least three we've still not seen formal release of yet but 2020 did see remixes of the Venetians Antipodean synth pop and Andy Bells Glok. The latter as part of the superb Glok remix LP gets the final track in this compilation and sees full on Woodleigh Research Facility soundscapes as demonstrated on the full year of digital singles and the plethora of catalogue still to come
1989 That Petrol Emotion - Abandon (Boys Own Mix)

1990 St Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix Of Two Halves)

1991 The Impossibles - The Drum (12 Inch Mix)

1992 Yello - Jungle Bill (Sabres Of Paradise Part 1)

1993 Bjork - One Day (Springs Eternal Mix)

1994 Bomb The Bass - Darkheart (Sabres Of Paradise Main Mix)

1995 Percy X - -3 (Emissions 1)

1996 Dark Globe - Take Me To The Sound (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)

1997 Restless Soul - Psykodelik (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)

1998 Red Snapper - Bogeyman (5 Day Wonder Remix)

1999 The Sequence - Funk You Up (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)

2000 Broadcast - Come On Let's Go (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)

2001 Psi Performer - 1968 (Two Lone Swordsmen Fragment's Re-assembled Mix)

2002 Radioactive Man - Nightbus To Nowhere (Chairman's Rub 2)

2003 Fujiya & Miyagi - Electro Karaoke (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)

2004 Villalobos - Dexter (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)

2005 I Am Kloot - Gods & Monsters (Two Lone Swordsmen Fuzzstrumental Mix)

2006 Primal Scream - Bloods (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)

2007 Siouxsie - Into A Swan (Weatherall Remix)

2008 VV Brown - Crying Blood (Andrew Weatherall Dub)

2009 Tim Fairplay - U Know U Jack (Weatherall Remix)

2010 Steve Mason - Boys Outside (Andrew Weatherall Dub 2)

2011 Alice Gold - Runaway Love (Weatherall Remix)

2012 Pablo - Stratus (Weatherall Remix)

2013 Moby - Another Perfect Life (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

2014 Primal Scream - Goodbye Johnny (Andrew Weatherall's Nyabinghi Noir Mix)

2015 Mugwump - Until You're Worth It (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

2016 Piano Magic - Exile (Andrew Weatherall Remix, Unreleased)

2017 Yello - Frautonium (Half-Life)

2018 The Twilight Sad - Videograms (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

2019 Meatraffle - Meatraffle On The Moon (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

2020 Glok - Cloud Cover (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
last edit: 6 Jul 2023