Ratty

Track Listing: Sunrise - Radio Edit (3.40) Sunrise - Club Mix (7.30) Sunrise - Instrumental (5.39) Sunrise - Dub Mix (6.10)

Released 2000 on Kontor Records. This is one huge track - head for the Club Mix which is a killer hard edged trancer with raw acid riffs and one heart melting breakdown, featuring sublime female vocals singing "Here I Am". The Instrumental Mix drops the vocal completly, whilst the Dub Mix keeps the mid track breakdown vocal and then drops the vocal from the latter part of the track. All mixes, however, are of the same theme and don't vary at all in style. An essential single. Now licensed to Neo Records (3/01) in the UK where it has also been released as a 12" featuring tracks 2-4.

Additional information on the vocals of 'Here I Am': The vocals are from a track titled "Song to the Siren" on the album "It'll End in Tears" by This Mortal Coil (This Mortal Coil was a series of compilation albums by artists at the UK label 4AD). "Song to the Siren" was penned by Robin Guthrie and Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins and has since been covered numerous times, so it may not be Frasers lyrics that feature in this Ratty track.

At the time of release of their first single there was some question as to who Ratty actually were. A current theory is that the trio who featured in the Sunrise video masked by Rats heads are actually the German based group Scooter, since the B-Side of Scooter's "She's The Sun" single featured the Ratty's Inferno remix of "Sunrise". As to why Ratty wish to remain anonymous is another unanswered question.

Track Listing: Sunrise - Radio Edit (2.45) Sunrise - Club Mix (7.30) Sunrise - Instrumental (5.39)

Released 2000 on Neo Records. Along the edge of the CD is the following text: "Anything like the sound of a rat makes my heart go pit-a-pat! - Robert Bacon (1912-1889)". Thanks to Brian Harris for this information.

Track Listing: Living on Video - Original Mix Living on Video - Jay Frog Mix Living on Video - Ratty Mix

Released 8/01 on Kontor Records. Written by Pascal Languirand. Tracks 1 & 3 produced by Dave "Bass" Parker, Silvo, Ed Harris & Finn Reder. Track 2 remixed by Jay Frog. Their second release and the trio unmask themselves and give themselves names, but not those of Scooter. Whatever and whoever, the music is the important thing here. This new single is not quite in the same league as 'Sunrise', but the better of the three is the Ratty Mix which is a lively uplifting trancer featuring the same analogue riff as used in 'Sunrise'.