The SM Corporation - Hammer '86 mp3 album

Comes with bonus CD & pin badge set

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/148724-the-sm-corporation-hammer-86-Every week there's one remarkable twelve inch unearthed from somebody's archives, be it some obscure italo treat or an old techno/house blinder rescued from collector scum obscurity. This amazing piece of wax went straight in my bag I tell you. To say this is the first time it's actually seen the light of day is bordering on the criminal.The original 'Hammer '86' is a fabulous electro-tech-disco stomper with a deep, strident 80's female soul vocal and some real exotic and enticing effects that lend it a darkly sensual edge. Absolutely loving the beats on this. You could not keep still if you heard it in a club. Unless you're dead. Some gorgeous searching synths and it's shivers up the spine a-go-go. I feel gutted when it ends and put it on again twice. Apparently the band recorded the track using metal workshop implements, on a cheap Yamaha keyboard with an attached microphone.The genius big yin of Glasgow club music, JD Twitch transforms the track into a more EBM/industrial-flavoured stomper, laying bare the SM Corps original influences such as Severed Heads and Skinny Puppy. Hear him disembodying the vocal slightly, reducing the exoskeleton of the song to a ghostly echo. It's like he's fed it a big line of ketamine and watched it fly.Finally, the Great Lakes Mystery version of 'Hammer '86' is a very radical re-working with a quite different vocal in the mix, a graceful and darkly atmospheric piece of work. It's a stunning slice of ethereal electro pop that culminates in elegiac chamber strings and near-choral male vocals. Truly a classy re-imaging. Grand, celestial and ambitious, tinged with an epic sadness.