Hot & Wet In Cheadle Hulme

 

A Certain Ratio - Waterline [FAC 52 UK 1981 24-Bit FLAC]

Another old ACR classic which should need little introduction around here. I've used penguinflight's near mint original copy for this rip and it just pops out of the speakers at you, especially Jez Kerr's plucked basslines and the percussion is perfectly dispersed across the channels. A few tiny specs of dust proved just a little challenging on the dubbed up Funaezekea.

It is amazing to consider that this track was self-produced by five young early-twenty-somethings from Hulme and Wythenshawe, rather than the previous drunken, coked up old Manchester studio master.

A1 Waterline
B1 Funaezekea