Happy new year chaps - I'll crack on...
Lana Del Ray - it's nice
Dolle Jolle - prefer the longer remix to be honest but then that really is an outstanding tune
Martin Dawson - got it and been playing it. Lots. One of several tremendous Tale Of Us remixes last year and was on my list of possibles.
Michael Nyman - lovely. Really lovely.
Horse - I have several remixes of this, two by Sasha, one by Brothers in Rhythm and one ludicrously lengthy one by Sasha AND BiR. Having said that it is entirely possible that this original outshines them all. Gorgeous.
Rolling Stones - hmmm, one of the very few tunes of theirs that I can tolerate.
The Cure - Duffy? What's going on? Wonderful, wonderful song.
Jay-Z & Kanye - I'm trying to like this. Really I am.
Percy Sledge - timeless
Swedish House Mafia - you nailed it with the Adrian reference - this is him to a tee.
Ok.
Looking back on DHS9 it seems that pretty much every single selection I have offered so far has been a dance tune of one flavour or another so I'm going to redress that now. Kind of. I did have a full on rock selection picked out but then a few things came along and changes had to be made - for the better I hope you'll agree - my next few selections are going to shift some tracks that've been on my 'possibles' for ages and are aiming to be as eclectic as my last few have been esoteric.
The Delfonics - from 1968, making it even, but only just, older than me. I would suggest it's ageing better than me though. Strings, brass, drums and voices - simple.
Tom Jones - (coincidentally from '68 again) oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy oh boy. Long story short - over the new year I picked up a 25 CD box set of the entire series of 'Ultimate Breaks & Beats' - a collection of 175 tunes from the mid 60s to early 80s all of which share the quality of having a drum break that's been used/sampled in hip-hop. So I whack all 175 tunes into my media player, hit 'random play', and go about my business. I'm a good few tunes into it, an hour's worth maybe, my head is well into the 'funk-zone' when all of a sudden there's some piano, this voice, that brass section, those words and yes, of course, those drums. Tom Jones has always been a bit of an enigma to me but, for this tune alone, he has taken on the status of a God.
Stevie Wonder - you should both know this song albeit probably Nancy Sinatra's version (as featured in Pulp Fiction) - I've played them both side by side several times and, whilst I'm not a big Stevie Wonder fan, this version edges it for me. Wonderful feel to it - it positively oozes something-or-other. Just looked this up and, believe it or not, whilst this was on an album he put out in '66 it was also the b-side of a single he released in... 1968!
Ozric Tentacles - Ok, all DHS choices are important but I've agonised over this one more than most. It was either this track or another from the same album. Two would've been overkill but they've both been on my possibles list since pretty much Day One. Gone for this one in the end simply because it's the album opener. I don't have much of a gift for describing music so bear with me - this is a kind of psychedelic-ambient-dub-metal-thing. Regulars for years at Glastonbury I managed to get in such a state I missed them when I went and had to take myself off somewhere quiet and have a fairly savage word with myself for so doing. Been playing tracks off this album on and off for maybe twenty years. Real 'journey-in-one-track' stuff.
Iron Maiden - Until a year or so ago I could only name you one Iron Maiden song - and it wasn't this one. Then I saw their 'rockumentary' on BBC4 which covered their attempt to play to worldwide crowds they'd never been able to logistically manage before. To do so, and I'm not even joking, they chartered their own 747 and the singer (Bruce Dickenson - a qualified pilot) flew them from continent to continent. The sheer scale of it was ridiculous. Anyway, the sight of them unleashing this tune in front of around 200k fanatics somewhere in South America was one I shan't forget quickly. Every single person in the crowd screaming along at the top of their lungs. Wouldn't catch me within ten miles of such an event personally but nonetheless an epic spectacle. And this song has stayed with me since. *dons wig and 'bangs head'*
Peace out Rabbits...
S
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