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Mt.Eden – Big fan of this in the car turned up loud,
worthy addition.
Clint Mansell – Not seen the film, it comes highly
recommended but with a health warning:- Don’t watch with even the slightest or
remote feeling of depression... Anyway, the music: beautiful arrangement, quite
powerful yet melancholic, great stuff.
Felix Da Housecat – I’ve never been able to get into this
record, I’m afraid... the best thing I’ve heard with it was someone ripping the
vocal and dropping it over a very deep acid number. Just can’t get into the original.
Dream Academy – Never heard this before; love it; great
addition. Good old Dario G nicking that
vocal chant J
Rose Royce – Classic tune, timeless vocals.
S:
Richard Harris - not sure why anyone would leave a cake out in the rain to be honest, what a waste. I’m a bit suspicious of these lyrics.
Viola Wills & Moment Of Truth – nice to have a classy bit of D.I.S.C.O on here. I think in a way there is no more joyous form of music and I don’t care how camp that comment sounds or how camp the music sounds, for that matter.
Richard Harris - not sure why anyone would leave a cake out in the rain to be honest, what a waste. I’m a bit suspicious of these lyrics.
Viola Wills & Moment Of Truth – nice to have a classy bit of D.I.S.C.O on here. I think in a way there is no more joyous form of music and I don’t care how camp that comment sounds or how camp the music sounds, for that matter.
Jamie Lloyd – can’t get into this as a stand-alone track
sadly..I find it just a bit too boring - could definitely see it working in a
mix very well though.
Motorcity Soul (Jerome Sydenham Remix) – smashing tune,
have played it a lot, it’s repetitive but in contrast to previous tune from a
very early stage it gets its “anticipation” hooks into you and builds on that
and keeps pushing. Very hypnotic,
addictive groove – one I can keep going back to and has been added to my Masterlist.
Right – I’m sure this will be considered very cheesy (but
I hope not a kop out just because we all have them), but even if so...frankly,
my dears, I don’t give a damn.
The next five tracks are a musical homage/‘Thank you’ to
a good mate who’s introduced me to a sh!t-tonne of music which has played a
MASSIVE part of my life across recent years, and no more fitting time to do it
than as my last selection of our collaborative 10th List. This was by no means an easy process AT ALL. It wasn’t until I seriously started looking at
what had and hadn’t been included in the lists thus far... then I kept adding
stuff and thought about trying to add tunes that represent the last four/five
years (one from each year type scenario) but in the end I’ve just settled with
those that have totally poisoned my brain (in a very, very good, infectious
way); that are now just part of my being; the ones which won’t leave me alone -
that I hum without realising I’m humming; that I jump around to whilst having a
crafty snout outside at midnight to – In short; the tracks I know I can always
rely on.
So without further ado/waffling... S; Thanks for the
music.....
The Timewriter (Stryke remix) – in reality this could
have been any of the modern DMTH stuff we’ve grown to love across the last 6
years or so, but nothing gives me the same tingle as the stretched moody
melodic synth section like this – it’s warmer than a hot bath on a summers day
and god only knows how it would make you feel if you were on one. 3:34mins.... big waves....vocal.... bass....I’m
melting.
Booka – Sweet Lies (PB mix). Good grief.
I distinctly remember sitting on a long, slow train home from Victoria,
half cut, wolfing down chicken with one hand and wrestling with a hard drive which
had just been newly furnished with 8gb of new tunes linked to my laptop in the
other, then playing this over and over, pissing people off cos my headphones
were far too loud.... couldn’t have given less of a fuck about anybody around
me in my entire life – totally engrossed... 3:36 things start to get
tense....build to that emotive vocal.... just stunning. I think this was probably the most cleverly programmed
track that came out that year. The beat/s
and the ability to interpret/hear that tricky melody in two different ways
falling on/off-each side of the beat....then the melody stretch, quickly tightened
back up only to stretch back out and fade.... beautifully trippy. Would love to hear this played out on a
decent system.
Vince Watson – Funk D’Void rmx – the ‘3-in-1 record’, as
I call it ...no better example of a modern tech house track taking you on a
journey than this in my opinion. I stand by my comment a few years ago that those
strings could somehow be manipulated into making a record all of their own.... Don’t
even get me started on the bassline... the crisp production and the melodies...A
true masterclass with dancefloor killing capabilities.
Davis – Opus.
Something in this incredibly simple yet stunning melody pattern just
takes me away from wherever I am and transports me – I’m not even sure where I
go but I don’t exist on earth for 9 minutes, I know that much. 5:40mins “please just never let the following
sounds end”. It is a rarity in that I
would love to hear it banged out mid-set and get lost in it (Can’t imagine how
good that would feel), yet I also play it quietly before going to sleep because
the melody is just too lush to miss out on before drifting off. Splendidly hypnotic, uplifting magnificence.
Butch – ZB rmx. UNRELENTING
PEAK TIME AURAL HEROIN : KILL ME NOW PLEASE.
*Most honourable mentions MUST go to – DeadMau5 - Faxing Berlin,
a proper modern classic (Arguru was shortlisted also); Masseyeff – Mugen (the
sort of record I would love to use if I played out...an early eve, deep and twisted
groove but one which has a kind of signal “right; here we go then”); Thalstroem
– Springtide (could SO easily have been in, perhaps I’ve been mean to it cos it’s
relatively new, but hey, it made the cut); Pedro Cali – Misty (Rdrgz Jnr mix),
absolutely LUSH*
K.O.K.O
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