he soul mechanik brothers operating under their creative use name have taken a pair of stone cold underground club classics and extended and amended them for modern use. cat stevens >was dog a doughnut< has appeared several times over the years in many shapes and sizes, this definitive extended version has to be up there with the best of them though, allowing the dislocated funk of the original to simmer away before reaching boiling point. similarly riuchi sakamoto’s timeless classic >riot in lagos< should be mandatory listening for anyone with an interest in electronic music, an absolute masterpiece in it’s original form, this version takes the meat of the track straight to the dancefloor where it’s turned into a juicy electrofunk sandwich of tastily huge proportions