BEST OF DHS (H)

Shmuel Flash - Like Minded: A BEAUTIFUL progressive piece of chillout.

VOA - Hoomba Hoomba: SEMINAL RECORD. The way the piano melody falls either side of the break beat - superb... benchmark record.

Moby - Lacrimae: One of the best modern additions to our lists. Very close to his best - given time it may even be equal to GMOTFOTW. Same power as main lining smack into your eyeball.

Alex Smoke - 6am: Immense production - drawn out background strings which create an almost cinematic tension. Lush.

Midland - Play The Game: Clearly not to everybody's tastes... From my perspective I think he's possibly the most exciting producer out there at the moment. I could go on for hours but suffice to say; not since Leftfield's "Leftfield" do I think anyone has pretty much created their own genre. Midland in the space of two years has basically done this.... his sound has it's roots in the likes of Burial's work but he has his own unique touch on the dubby, two step, jump up, melodic progressive, breakbeat, rave dance scene.... yeah let's just call it 'Midland'.... already got a string of people copying him. 'nuff said. Oh - the track; when the melody kicks in first time I heard it I was sold.... When it kicks in off the breakdown I was losing it. Played it on that mini set for R1 and I loved it then. Solid find KS - fair play.

Hybrid - Finished Symphony. I always try and get some kind of balance of old and new on the best of - this list has been as tough as any.... I really had a tough time putting this in at one stage because I've recently had some real first class 'moments' driving out by the beach listening to Lustral's "Everytime".... Anyway this won; it's association to arguably the best mix cd ever created and the millions of happy memories listening to it with mates, most notably in the small breaks room at Bedrock (Can't remember DJ's name - little fella, no hair, sweat bands - he's well known I've just forgotten him after 5 years) when it got played as the last track of the night.... well it was "Symphony" actually - the only difference to my ears being the lack of the little 'Aaa oooh ooooh" vocal on this "Finished" version.

I'm done for now - much needed pillow time. Apologies for lack of email response lately - bit busy. I shall post up my "Honorable Mentions", the (not so) short list of records from which I had to choose to get these six, soon.

As ever - Keep On Keeping On

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