Tue, 25 Aug 2009 / RA
We're hooking up with Process Recordings to give you the chance to remix Abe Duque and Blake Baxter's "What Happened?" - a modern classic if there ever was one. The winner will have their mix featured on a new remix package alongside versions from Marc Romboy and Max Cooper.
What dancefloor were you on when you first heard Abe Duque and Blake Baxter's "What Happened?" At that time, Abe Duque had spent a few years in the wilderness. He'd fallen from a regular on the European techno touring circuit to eking out a living as a carpenter, with barely enough money to release his own music - the legendary early Abe Duque Records twelves, one-sided, with messages from Abe hand-scratched into the vinyl lacquer on each release.
And with good music drowning in a rising tide of bad mainstream minimal, Abe and Blake Baxter were both at their wits end. Blake recorded a killer vocal over a dark, springy Abe groove, asking where the love had gone. "The Limelight, NYC. What happened? Can someone tell me? Studio 54. We all know what happened..."
The 12" took Abe and Blake right back to the centre of techno - twenty-five thousand sold on vinyl, and dancefloors round the world asking "Hip house - what the f**k happened? Drum and bass - what happened?" Now, as the world drowns under a new flood of conga-afro-minimal, Process Recordings and Resident Advisor have set up a remix competition for Abe Duque and Blake Baxter's legendary track, "What Happened?"
To enter, you will need to join the Abe Duque list via the Process Recordings site. If you aren't registered on their site, then you will not be able to obtain the parts to remix the track, or be eligible to win the competition.
After the competition closes on October 1st, Abe Duque himself will decide the winner, and it will be released as part of the Abe Duque Classics package including remixes by Marc Romboy and Max Cooper, as well as a spanking remix of Disco Nights by Jay Haze. Abe Duque's new Don't Be So Mean album can also be picked up in shops now.
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