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Everybody needs a 303…
If you’ve got an iPhone and are a fan of acid house and/or old school electro beats, then this is the application to get.
Audiorealism have managed to emulate three classic and influential Roland machines from the eighties; the TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines and the TB-303 bassline synthesizer.
Impressively, the app faithfully reproduces the sound of the originals, which would probably set you back a few thousand if you were to track them down in working condition.
Find out more at Audiorealism’s site, here.

Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold
I’ve added this simply because it’s one of my favourite tunes, ever. It’s been remixed loads of times, as most classic tunes do, but nothing beats sheer Manc grooviness of the original 9:53 version.

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Babe Ruth – The Mexican (long version)
This track is the original and has been covered an remixed so many times, itself sampling the riff from ‘A Few Dollars More’. Unbelievably, it was released in 1973 – perhaps it was the subsequent remixes and sampling that makes this version sound so good and kept it’s solid drum and bassline alive. It was included on their ‘First Base’ LP.
Jellybean Benitez ripped it off in 1984 with great success, but the version that stuck out (for me) was Orange Lemon’s ‘The Texican’ and ‘Dreams of Santa Ana’ in 1988, creating a massive underground club hit up and down the country.