By the end of last year Ghoßt Assembly’s debut I Miss Your Love had rocked countless dance floors and topped plenty of charts. Ruf Kutz now give the in-demand single a reissue, with the new 12 also featuring a couple of cracking  remixes. Both decidedly divergent from the classic early New York and Chicago house vibe of the original.

DJ Absolutely Shit – the production alias of Mancunian duo Christian “Red Laser” Wood and Ruud “Metrodome” Whiting – rack up the tempo and chop out some crazy collaged breakbeats. Harder, faster, darker than the OG, the clever collisions and mad tumbling snares emit an incredible energy. Chimes and bleeps now carrying the melody over propulsive bottom-end pulses. The results far removed from the Liz Torres meets Clivillés & Cole emotive, ecstatic,  Solina / ARP-strung eroticism of its source, but still a massive peak time moment.

Brian Not Brain and Piers Harrison partner on the other rework, a take that pays homage to The Idjut Boys, and, by default, also the ground-breaking pre-house, King Tubby’s influenced remixes of Francois K. Theirs is a live dub, beefed-up disco with breakneck bongos and congas. Densely layered, with echo and stereo-panned sound effects. Proper roots reggae twists of reverb and delay. The b-line races, and a strange stringed thing rattles. There are breakdowns, drum rolls, and dynamic dissolves. The groove, never, not even for a second, losing momentum, though. The vocals are distant Buffalo Gal-esque hollers, and someone else shouts, “Boom! Boom! Boom!” Reel-to-reels spool, speed up and spin in reverse. Synth riffs are sharpened and the pounding piano is looped into tinkling ivory cascades.

Ghoßt Assembly’s I Miss Your Love Remixes are available directly from Ruf Cutz.