Add N To (X) ‘Metal Fingers In My Body’

byJoe Banks
January 28, 2021

Barry Smith tells the story of Add N To (X) and their 1999 robot sex anthem ‘Metal Fingers In My Body’

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Richard Barratt ‘Testone’

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Sweet Exorcist’s Richard Barratt – aka DJ Parrot/Crooked Man – recalls the making of 1990’s essential bleep techno cut, ‘Testone’, with Richard H Kirk

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Soho’s Timothy London reflects on their 1990 hit, ‘Hippychick’, which fuses the central riff from The Smiths’ ‘How Soon Is Now?’ to a Soul II Soul beat

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Alex Turnbull talks us through the making of ‘Coup’, the funkin’ great 1984 cut from 23 Skidoo

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Joe Banks

Richard Barratt ‘Testone’

Jim Jupp ‘Farmer’s Angle’

Timothy London ‘Hippychick’

23 Skidoo ‘Coup’

Alan Rankine ‘Party Fears Two’

Bill Nelson ‘When The Birds Return’

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Add N To (X) ‘Metal Fingers In My Body’

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