99th Floor Elevators 'Hooked'

‘Hooked’ initially came out on the tiny Triumph label run out of the offices of dance distributor Deltra. Deltra went bust, taking with it the last boxes of ‘Hooked’ vinyl. Fortunately some copies had found their way to Belgium where they were picked up and bought back to the UK by the bustling Trax Records in London’s Soho. Frequented by a veritable who’s who of Euro DJ’s and Radio jocks, Tony De Vit, Graham Gold and Pete Wardman were just three of the better known DJs who picked up on the track in a big way with radio play on Kiss FM and massive support in particular at Tony’s residency at the legendary Trade

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Vinyl Record Stores

We’re compiling what we hope will be the definitive guide to vinyl record stores online worldwide and in particular the focus (naturally) will concentrate on dance vinyl stockists. We’ll also be putting together a list of dance music download stores.

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The Track With 9 Lives

2009. ‘Hooked’ has been picked up for the remix/re-issue treatment again, this time by Suesse Records in the UK for possible release early in the new year. Expect a bit of a ‘genre switch’ with Suesse known for cutting edge prog/tech-house and electro.

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Dumping MySpace For Bandcamp

We’ve long had a profile on MySpace but the site has long been in a downward spiral for us, overtaken with spam and ads and well, junk. Also, out of the 3500+ ‘fans’ we’d built up, we didn’t have one of those users email addresses. MySpace did. We’ve actually kept the page holder to keep hold of the name, but that’s all.

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Torrent Distribution

I uploaded a bunch of some of the earlier versions of the 99th Floor Elevators, ‘Hooked’ for free download via MiniNova distribution. Its all packaged as a Torrent and you’ll get five remixes and the original promotional video of ‘Hooked’ that was broadcast on MTV way back when. You can see the video on YouTube (see Elevators blog post here). The audio files are all 192kbps MP3?s and I’ve done a rundown of each mix below.

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