Ron Hardy #25 12”

In some ways, it’s amazing that the illicit RDY label is still finding unreleased, overlooked, or little-known Ron Hardy edits and productions to fill their vinyl-only series. This is their 25th release in six years, and they show no signs of calling it quits. All three tracks here are on a stretched-out, dubbed-out electronic disco tip, beginning with what appears to be Hardy’s reel-to-reel extension of Disco Dream & The Androids’ quirky 1979, Moroder-ish arpeggio-jam “Dream Machine”. Flip for an all-instrumental dub take on Craig Peyton’s decidedly wonky, electro-disco cover of “Be Thankful For What You’ve Got” and “116 BPM Trax”, an un-credited, boogie-era, proto-house jam full of bubbling electronics, cheeky synthesizer riffs and clanking drum machine hits.