99th Floor Elevators

Hooked, The Track With Nine Lives

Adrian Fusiarski — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:53:18 +0000

First post in over a year but 2009 should see a flurry of new 99th Floor Elevators activity! To get the ball rolling, ‘Hooked’ has been picked up for the remix/re-issue treatment again, this time by Suesse Records in the UK for possible release early in the new year. Expect a bit of a ‘genre switch’ with Suesse known for cutting edge prog/tech-house and electro.

There’s new mixes to come from Suesse Records label boss Richard Colman, Ministry of Sound resident Richard Dinsdale and also one from Mark Trophy (who is also part of the Trophy Twins remix/DJ team).

99th Floor Elevators - Hooked (Richard Colman Remix)

Related Links
Suesse Records (Discogs.com)
Radius Music
Main Stage Artists

The new mixes will be available on all the main download platforms, including Beatport and TrackitDown.

Original Hooked Promo Video Posted

Adrian Fusiarski — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:05:32 +0000

Way back in 1995 when ‘Hooked’ first appeared, PWL saw fit to splash out on a rather cheesy promo video for the track. The video was actually very rarely seen though did make a few appearances on MTV Europe and late night UK TV.
After much searching we managed to actually locate a copy of the original video which of course is now floating around via YouTube so I guess everyone can see it now and see how daft it looks, but hey, all fun stuff I guess and just in case you were curious….

I’ll Be There Gets USA Release, Finally

Adrian Fusiarski — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:31:51 +0000

We were toying with the idea of sticking out ‘I’ll Be There’ on vinyl in the USA a while ago, but such has been the swift demise of the already ultra niche vinyl market over here that it just didn’t seem worth it. Instead we’ve put all the best ‘I’ll Be There’ remixes onto one maxi CD EP and called it (not surprisingly), ‘I’ll Be There Remixed’ on our own Buzzsonic Records label. Its only a very limited pressing but you will alternatively be able to grab the tracks in the USA on iTunes shortly (sometime next month hopefully) and burn your own CD that way I guess too if you prefer.

We’ve just set up a PayPal page if you want to buy direct from us here (cheaper!). CD Baby will also be distributing which means you can walk into your local record store (in the USA) and order it there if you prefer that method thanks to CD Babys affiliation with Super D, one of the largest music distributors in the USA.

We’ll be having fuller details, how to order etc here within the next week or so, just a few production details to finalize and it’ll be ready to go. If it all works out like we hope we’ll be putting together a similar package for the ‘Hooked’ remixes. Its the first time anything by the 99th Floor Elevators has been issued in the USA so its just to tie up back catalog loose ends and hopefully give us a bit of a profile before we start to issue music from other artists and new stuff from the Elevators.

In the meantime you can register your interest by contacting us via our MySpace page, or subscribe to our RSS feed here to stay up to date with any news.

Tommy Bedlam ‘Tekattackin’

Adrian Fusiarski — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:02:49 +0000

Was cleaning up my MySpace profile last week and wandered off on a tangent somewhere and stumbled across Tommy Bedlams (aka Ry Thomas) profile. For once I didn’t reach for the mute button when the inevitable music sprang into action. The track in question was the cracking ‘Tekattackin’ which is a very European sounding stomper, more Hard Trance than Hard House and just the kind of energetic monster we love in these parts.

The track has been snapped up by Traffic Records the well respected label run by Vinylgroover and the Red Hed and you can hear a sample on the Tommy Bedlam profile page (see link below). Brilliant stuff and re-affirming my faith in the harder stuff!

Hooked House Remixes

Adrian Fusiarski — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:45:09 +0000

Apologies for the criminally long gap between posts but nothing pressing to report, alternative temptations etc etc ! Anyway there are another couple of new(ish) mixes of ‘Hooked’ floating around of late, one from 7th Heaven and one from Nik Denton. For a change there’s a move away from the well beaten path of Hard House remixes as ‘Hooked’ has been tweaked to death in that area by the best I guess so…..

The 7th Heaven remix kind of updates the spirit of the original version and the Tony De Vit and Simon Parkes remix from way back in 1995 ! If you like it commercial and liked the TDV epic version you’ll love this one.

Nik Denton offers up one of his funky chunky house remixes which gives the track a nice funky swagger and even a bit of street cred for once!

The two mixes will be served up as a very limited 12 inch single next month via Toolbox House though there is already a one sided 12 inch pressing (only about 110 copies I think) that you can find exclusively at Hard To Find Records.

Both mixes are already available as downloads too from places like Trackitdown, XPress Beats and 3Beat Digital

To hear samples of the new mixes try the download sites above, they all have previews. Trackitdown offer the option of either Wav or 320kb MP3 formats for download. None of that ropey low bit rate stuff you pay for at iTunes.

You can hear the Tony De Vit mix in all its glory on the 99th Floor Elevators MySpace page.

If you fancy a copy of the 7th Heaven limited edition one sided 12 inch go to Hard To Find Records, they ship worldwide and I have personally been using them without any probs for years internationally (shipping to Florida) and domestically (when I was in the UK). You can blag a copy for around $2 plus shipping at the moment.

1000 And Counting !

Adrian Fusiarski — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:27:53 +0000

Well, no big deal to anyone else but us right here but we added our 1000th ‘fan’ on our MySpace page today which is quite astonishing when you consider its been completely word of mouth, we havn’t DJ’ed or done a gig in over six years and there still proves to be a groundswell of support that we never really plugged into until the MySpace phenomenon took off. So…

Meanwhile, plugging into this new network we’ll see how our remix ep does using MySpace as its marketing edge (or part of). We’ll have all the new remixes of ‘I’ll Be There’ available in the USA, Japan, Canada and Australia via iTunes pretty soon. The remix package will also be available on CD in the USA on our own Buzzsonic Records label. Its an impressive package too with three hard mixes from Killer Hurts, Nik Denton and Paul King and three house mixes from Nick Harrington, Nik Denton and Brad Smith. There will also be a Radio friendly Lucid Labs mix too. Anyway..

There’s also a bunch of other stuff in the pipeline which we’ll mention in the next day or so.