One of the many highlights from DFA 1979's bruisingly brilliant debut album "You're A Woman, I'm A Machine", "Black History Month" is nonetheless - by the ominous twosome's standard's - almost considered, pace-wise. Hell, it's even got (splutter!) backing vocals as well as the menacing cowbells and the usual bowel-quaking bassy implosions. DFA 1979 go pop then? We-ell, that's pushing it a bit, but it's a nice thought and an even better reality as it turns out.
As per usual, the remixes prove worthy of waiting around for, too. The "Sammy Danger Remix" ensures some mutant dancefloor action kicks in pronto: it's bassy, glitchy and real nasty gear, with breakbeats lobbed in like cuddly lambs to a particularly grisly slaughter. That's, er, actually quite a good thing on this occasion, strangely enough.
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Arguably better, though, is the "Alan Brake & Fred Falke Remix", in the sense that it's more radical. This time, these evil deskmeisters put DFA 1979'S murderous muse through a sequinned, flanged, discofied reshaping and the end resuts are the very epitome of smoooooth as our favourite scary Canadians go for a Barry White. Lovely. Or, in a very real sense, lurrvely. Baby.
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