Moton Records Inc - Skyrager Edits
The mighty Moton Records Inc are back with a killer trio of edits from Skyrager
Words by Mark Limb • Nov 10, 2026
In an era where unnecessary re-edits are ten a penny, Moton is one of the few labels still doing it properly, remaining consistently on point throughout its 30 year history.
Run by Dave Jarvis and Darren House aka Diesel, the UK imprint has carved out a carefully crafted niche of disco, soul and house re-edits, recruiting some of the best producers in the scene to lovingly rework tracks from across the genres, old to new, well known to the completely obscure.
Previous edits have come from Diesel and Jarvis themselves alongside main players such as Harvey, The Mighty Zaf and Red Greg. The latest release sees Psychemagik's Skyrager stepping up to the desk to rework 3 killer cuts of dubbed out AOR / disco, proto house and balearica.
The A side opens with title track 2000 Years. Twelve minutes of carefully sliced disco (not disco) magic. Built around a driving, funk tinged bassline and massive live drums, the track slowly teases out with the sort of AOR guitar riffs and strings that the Idjuts do so well. It builds and drops, builds and drops again, before finally giving way to a key change and snippet of the main vocal, before dropping back to the main loop for an extended outro.
It’s exactly the sort of masterful rework that Harvey did so well with his early edits on NOID and BC and is already shaping up to be a future classic in the making!
Obsession keeps the tempo up on the B side. It's a beefed up workout that's part proto house and part PWL style synth pop that could easily have been the B side to Mandy Smith's classic - I Just Can't Wait. A Mexican sounding trumpet plays alongside a killer DX bassline, brass stabs and synths, which give the track a real 80s Euro vibe, but it's when the female vocal kicks in that it really hits. It's heavy enough to really work in a club, but with that 80s pop edge that I can imagine getting hammered at some of the more Balearic nights back in the day.
The EP closes with Rejoice, a more downtempo affair built around a deep spoken word vocal, layered psychedelic synths, choral samples and a massive squarewave bassline. A heavy rolling 909 gives the track a feel that's somewhere between a Morales Red Zone dub and a hypnotic Balearic chugger that is sure to destroy slower and more eclectic dancefloors.
It’s always a treat to add a new Moton 12 to the stack and this latest release is up there with the best of them.
Moton Records Inc - Skyrager edits is available now from all good record shops.
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