Ian Pooley - lovely - can say no better than have acquired it with a view to playing it
Voorn - see Pooley
Mano Le Tough - been some great remixes of Mano stuff this year and this is up there on top of the pile
Ten Walls - as you noted, it's not Requiem but it ain't bad - both were acquired for a while back for future airings
Roland M Dill - gone are the days when I can listen to stuff like this outside the context of a mix - the previous four stand up for me as individual tracks - this needs a mix into and out of to make it work. But yeah, it's very big. Got the EP.
Plan B - not sure that the Coronation Street of Cooper Clarke's delivery works well with the Eastenders of Plan B's and, not having seen it, the film samples mean nothing to me. Plan B is interesting - in all honesty and with bias to one side, he could do with some of Dan Kent's beats - the one underneath this sounds a bit tame compared to Dan's. Piano's lovely though.
Propellerheads - this lot were the music press darlings of the mid/late 90s - best thing they ever released though was the 'Reason' production software. Always had them filed under 'Trying to be Fluke'. They did something with Shirley Bassey too didn't they? Another Bond theme? Not for me anyway.
Air - D, the fact you admit to needing to Shazam this is one of the main reasons I started the (still yet to take off) DHS-LP - the Moon Safari album from which this comes would comfortably be in my all time top 20 and possibly inside the top 10 - the sound of what you'd get if you forced Moby and M83 to make an album together.
Desire - not heard it before - reminds me of something though...
Grandmaster Flash - it is high time this track appeared but I'm not sure about this 'rerecorded/remastered' version - drums sound wrong and sounds like he had a yoghurt pot on a string for a mic. Classic bassline though, which leads me nicley into...
Frankie Valli - The bassline alone ranks it above most other music ever recorded - add into that a great sentiment, a big tune, some killer melodies and a ranking as one of the ALL time great 'Northern Soul' records and this record too is long overdue on DHS
Donna Summer - a good while back now I put a track on here by the actor Richard Harris and, I think it's fair to say, neither of you entirely appreciated it... In fact I was ridiculed! And I said it didn't end there and it hasn't. Not only did Donna Summer, contemporaneously just about the biggest recording artist on the planet, think the song was worthy of a disco version (it was) she did a fuller, much rarer, version - the 'Suite' - which included not only her cover of the Harris classic but two other of her own tracks (One Of A Kind & Heaven Knows) woven in and out of the mix to provide an almost 18 minute flat out, bona-fide, glitterball classic. And, guess what, 'it' doesn't end here either...
Martie Caine - MARTIE CAINE!!! Can you Adam 'n Eve it? Marti Caine on DHS! As featured in Bill Brewster's recent, immense, Late Night Tales commercial mix, this is filth. Bassline. Again. Lovely arrangement, some fabulous strings - a middle section with no bassline that sounds almost 1920s'ish and then, whoomp, bassline back again. And a great vocal throughout. Tune.
Pete Lazonby - already got his Sacred Cycles on DHS - always felt this was a much bigger and better tune - cream from near the top of the Prog bottle - big for Digweed around the time of Northern Exposure and BY FAR the best Junior Vasquez remix I've ever heard.
Booka Shade - I absolutely love this tune - one of the best 'deep-tech' tunes of recent years - as close to perfect as any remix has a right to get
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