Auteur Labels: Robs Records [LTM]

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LTM present a new volume in the ongoing compilation series Auteur Labels, here profiling cult Manchester dance imprint Robs Records. Founded by Joy Division/New Order manager Rob Gretton in 1990, Robs Records was effectively the 'Factory Dance' label that Tony Wilson refused to back. Active for a decade before Rob's untimely death in 1999, Robs and sister label Pleasure released a raft of excellent underground dance music, much of it by Manchester artists such as Sub Sub, Mr Scruff, Digital Justice and Strangebrew, as well as Factory veterans A Certain Ratio. Robs also licensed occasional choice imports, including Roy Davis Jnr and Beat Club, whose cult hit Security is here remixed by Bernard Sumner. The best known track on the compilation is Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) by Sub Sub, a number three chart hit in Britain in April 1993. The 77 minute remastered CD covers the years 1990-1999 and features a detailed label history and archive images. DUE OUT APRIL 26 2010.

01 SUB SUB Aint No Love (Ain't No Use) 02 BEAT CLUB Security (Sumner Remix) 03 A CERTAIN RATIO Forever (Jon Dasilva Fix Mix) 05 SPACER IV Sirocco 04 STRANGEBREW SKy Life 06 ROY DAVIS JNR & JAY JUNIEL Egyptian Jazz 07 J-WALK Buggin' Becky (Balihu Remix) 08 MR SCRUFF Chicken In A Box 09 ANAMBI Our Love Climbs Higher (Extended Mix) 10 RACK-IT! Tarantella Ritual 11 DIGITAL JUSTICE Theme From It's All Gone Pear Shaped 12 A CERTAIN RATIO Listen To The Sound 13 SUB SUB Inside Of This

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Am lookin' forward to it & will buy it,but 'Ain't No Love,Ain't no use'?? Far too obvious & needless,all the world has heard it & got it....& I don't take to slagging off any of LTMs' catalogue,I have loads & they're great,mostly,but didn't really want to see that on there...ho hum :\ohwell:

kel wrote: Am lookin' forward to it & will buy it,but 'Ain't No Love,Ain't no use'?? Far too obvious & needless,all the world has heard it & got it....& I don't take to slagging off any of LTMs' catalogue,I have loads & they're great,mostly,but didn't really want to see that on there...ho hum :\ohwell:

Yeah, I would have preferred "Space Face" to be on there (I think it's only ever appeared on CD on a Hooky Hacienda compilation thus far?), however still looks like quite a good comp.

Hopefully, there'll be some Sub Sub reissues out at some point?

The Robs comp is brilliant.

So much more to go at aswell though. That's one of the reasons for the blog I've done. It's all part of a campaign to get LTM to release batches of the old Robs product!

Seriously though, you realise how good some of the releases were and how overlooked they've been.

I'll be adding more Sub Sub/ ACR/ Beat Club tracks alongside the 12" from various Robs rosta artistes so hopefully it will get some of us dusting off their turntables!