Name: Minsky Rock Megamix II
Brand: Working Men's Club

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

HVN64112

Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

With Etched B-Side

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-07-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5400863096243

Total Cap

Black 12"

Artist

Working Men's Club

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Heavenly

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Working Men's Club is a UK band hailing from Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England. Formed in mid-2018 by vocalist/guitarist Sydney Minsky-Sargeant, guitarist Giulia Bonometti, and drummer Jake Bogacki. After the release of their debut single Bad Blood, the band evolved towards a more electronic sound. Bonometti and Bogacki left the project and were replaced by bassist Liam Ogburn, and multi-instrumentalists Mairead O'Connor and Rob Graham. Graham left prior to the release of Fear Fear, the band’s second album in 2022. His replacement, multi-instrumentalist Hannah Cobb, also plays with Ogburn.

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Minsky Rock Megamix II takes its own fearless journey through the heart of the Fear Fear album; on its way, it samples snatches from each of the album’s tracks and places them into glimmering new musical surroundings, all pinned to a constant metronomic beat that turns the whole thing inside out to create one streamlined, super-heavy whole.

Over twenty-three (cosmic) minutes, the track finds the pulse of ‘Fear Fear’ and follows it onto the dancefloor. Within this new mix, fragments of familiar tracks are twisted out of shape before being reborn with pounding Nu Beat basslines, Blackburn rave stabs and tweaking acid riffs that curl around minimal electro rhythms in a seamless mix. 

Vocals are taken out of their original context and cut &amp; pasted into a new stream of consciousness, forming their own manic hallucinations. The result is an utterly mesmerising trip that feels like stumbling across a 21st century Detroit pirate radio station in full joyous flow. 

&nbsp;‘Minsky Rock’ is the brainchild of Working Men’s Club frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant and producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys / M.I.A.). They previously remixed the band’s self-titled debut album.

Minsky Rock Megamix II

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Discover Minsky Rock Megamix II by Working Men's Club. A mesmerizing journey through Fear Fear album, remixed by Syd Minsky-Sargeant and Ross Orton. Available in 12" format from Heavenly.