Groove Within The Groove (reissue) – Rawax GM 05

The fifth release on Gerald Mitchell’s own Rawax Motor City Edition series, re-pressing a saucy French house-adjacent techno 12″ from 1999 on 430 West. The original is known for its B-side engineering: ‘You Got To Stay’ and ‘It’s Possible’ were pressed as parallel grooves using NSC-X2 Groove Technology, which effectively layers and interleaves two different audio signals onto the same band of vinyl, leaving which track you heard down to sheer chance. Pretty damn cool! Sadly the decision was controversial enough among DJs that the Rawax reissue here lists all three tracks separately, suggesting the parallel groove format hasn’t been reproduced, but the songs remain utterly funky.