Looking swiftly backwards then...
Tropics - it's ok - heard better 'chug' recently but glad to have heard this for sure
Clare Maguire - not heard of this Doris before - sounds like she's got a decent voice although, if I'm to be honest, I much prefer the Danny Byrd remix on the same package. Although Chase & Status were immense (IMMENSE) if you saw any of them at Glastonbury - best 'rave' sound since '91.
Dual Shaman - love this record although I don't think this version does justice to the og which I played a lot last year
Booka Shade - simply superb
Holger Behn - growing on me necrotically
FPI Project - Everybody - I have no idea what I've been doing for the last 25 years or however long it is but I genuinely don't recognise this tune. Absurd as that sounds. Must (MUST) have heard it somewhere...
Moby - Victoria Lucas - like the build throughout - will be listening lots more
Rich In Paradise - simply superb
The Violent Bear It Away - some of his stuff is almost getting to the stage where I'd fancy my chances on a 'blind-hearing' (?!) of guessing who it was by - this being a very good example - classic Moby stamped all over it
Lacrimae - possibly my pick of the three - tremendous bit of music
And now moving swiftly on...
Crazy In Love - one of us HAD to pick this and I'm more than happy to be the one - breakthrough solo record of THE finest looking woman in popular music plus one of THE finest r'n'pop tunes of all time. Shame Spot doesn't do videos...
Rage Hard - (The Guide to the 12" Mix) - had this on vinyl 'back then' - the first seven minutes are as camp as all hell but underpinning all the nonsense is a classic FGTH 'groove' that just pounds on and on and on. Play it LOUD - the production is superb. Some lush strings, random synth nonsense, all types of guitar riffs, percussion, even Roland Rat f.f.s before eventually hitting 'The Climax'. And, as if that wasn't enough, the 'narrator' sounds a bit like Jan Leeming and that takes me back to feeling like a very hormonal young man...
6am - I'm new to this guy 'Alex Smoke' but evidently he's been around a while - picked an album of his at random on Spot recently and picked this track randomly from it as a starting point. Pretty much a shit-the-bed moment - only bad thing about it being it's been out for six years or so before I got round to it. Breakbeat techno from the very front of the top drawer.
Finished Symphony - this is so well known to both of you that I've toyed for ages about doing what I'm about to do here but nonetheless... Here's Hybrid's absolute classic moment. Classic in more ways than one because here is...
Gorecki's Symphony No.3 "Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs" - bear with me here chaps - this is comfortably more than twice the length of the next longest entry on DHS but I wouldn't do it if I didn't think it justified itself. This is the piece that provided Hybrid's inspiration. Yes it's long. Yes it's quiet in places. And dark. And moody. B.u.t. j.u.s.t. l.i.s.t.e.n. t.o. i.t. Quite, quite beautiful.
There you go then - I'm done with DHS8 - I'll see you both in 'The Best Of...'
Love one.
S
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