System Express by System 7
Lifted by the success of their club singles and their live shows, System 7 released System Express - an album of remixes – in October 1996.
Some of the remixes were taken from the singles and some were specially remixed for the album. The album was sequenced as a continual DJ mix with all the tracks linked together.
Starting with an 11 minute edit of Richie Hawtin’s dynamite Plastikman mix of “AlphaWave”, the album also features Carl Cox’s techno remix of “Hangar 84”, Jacob’s Optical Stairway’s drum & bass remix of “Big Sky City”, Doc Scott’s legendary drum & bass remix of “Interstate”, and Marshall Jefferson’s remix of “Sirenes”.
The other 6 remixes are by System 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy and are all exclusive to this album release, as is the Jacob’s Optical Stairway remix.
The System 7 remixes include two tracks originally from the first System 7 album released by 10 Records / Virgin in 1991. These are the Derrick May collaboration track “Altitude”, presented here with the Easy Life Mix and System 7’s first ever track “Sunburst”, a collaboration with the Orb’s Alex Paterson, as the Atahualpa Mix.
Also featured is the Elastic Mix of “7:7 Expansion” the collaboration with Youth that was the lead track and single from the 777 album.
System Express was re-released in November 2000 on System 7’s own A-Wave label.
Tracklist
Credits
Track 1 written by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, remixed by Richie Hawtin
Track 2 written by Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy and Lewis Keogh, remixed by System 7
Track 3 written by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, remixed by Carl Cox
Track 4 written by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, remixed by System 7
Tracks 5 & 7 written by Steve Hillage and Derrick May, remixed by System 7
Track 6 written by Steve Hillage, Martin Glover and Tony Thorpe, remixed by System 7
Track 8 written by Steve Hillage and Derrick May, remixed by Jacob's Optical Stairway
Track 9 written by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, remixed by Doc Scott
Track 10 written by Steve Hillage and Laurent Garnier, remixed by Marshall Jefferson
Track 11 written by Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy and Alex Paterson, remixed by System 7
System 7 remixes and album compilation made at Rollover Studios, London, summer 1996
Engineered by Adam Wren and Adrian Stockwell
Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange, London
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SYSTEM 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy have had a strong influence on the birth of psychedelic dance music and it’s journey up to the present, forging a unique and bang up-to-date identity on the genre map, in a space where techno, progressive and trance meet - and with the added element of Steve's highly specialised techno guitar.