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Plan B - not a fan of that spoken word at all I'm afraid, I like the beats, the piano and Plans flow is pretty good to be fair but that spoken word spoils it quite a bit for me I'm afraid.
Propellerheads - there's a name I didn't think I'd be typing in 2013! Totally forgotten about them to be honest! It's a good fun track - who doesn't love the Bond music?
Air - yeah this alongside the first Daft Punk LP (shortly followed by Cassius' first album) was the re-birth of French pop via a very retro-kitsch-chic heavily Glam-Disco influenced sound and I loved and still love pretty much all of it. Ace.
Desire - first heard this whilst watching Drive and love it very very much. HOWEVER, the version on the soundtrack has no spoken nonsense in the middle and that's the version I prefer. Breathy spoken stuff sounds overly tacky in my opinion. Great tune though and it's already in one of my lists on the strength of the music.
Grandmaster - it's just an absolute monster this tune. Cracking track to finish on mate - nice one.
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Frankie V - This, for me, is one of the best records you've added since DHS inception. That is bold but it is such a bona fide classic record and one that I have loved since my mate played it to me at uni (he's a real northern soul fanatic)...the vocals are just immense - why can't/don't people make tunes like this anymore?! I own up completely to having bought the Pilooski remixes of both this and Beggin' when they came out (5/6/7 years ago?) - in truth he's done nothing special to them at all other than add chunkier beats which just transfers better for the car/full volume party listening.
Donna S - THIS version of MacArthur is really exceptionally catching...lyrically it is, of course, as mad as a bottle of chips, BUT Summer's vocals are just f-ing immense...and the Heaven knows section is pure gold; I love it.
Marti C - wow, very playable (Chuggy Disco), very much my kind of pace/production. Lush.
Pete L - hehehe; recently revisiting NE1 Disc 2 wasn't all bad then?! Smashing record, proper thumper with some brilliant bass.
Booka SA rmx - do like this very much, it's mega smooth with lush production BUT I've always plumped for the Booka In Space Mix myself.
Right - slightly daunting task but it's all good fun in the end... I've been dealing with this next five for around three months now. I have tried, although it might seem odd when looking at a couple of the tracks, to find some records which I think are either the background/building blocks to the music which bought us together, coupled with one or two more which are just pure celebrations of the same. I hope you enjoy... in all cases I wanted them to be uplifting and in my opinion any one of them is worthy of #1000 but that role could only go to but one tune....
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This may seem odd but we don't have our beloved records without the structure of classical music. This, for me, is the most beautiful example of a Canon and a lot of the best (melodic) stuff we listen to revolves around a Canon in 2 (if not 3, sometimes more). I don't associate this with weddings fortunately, I just remember being 6, at primary school, and it was played on the way in to assembly one morning....how amazing it sounded and how I felt. As I've gotten older I think I've really appreciated, compositionally, its excellence. If you want to talk about 'progressive music' - the layering and progression in this is second to none.
997
Big jump now to one of THE most influential dance records of its era... we all know the numerous and most famous samples, of course, but this is actually a monster track all of its own and that is why I believe it is referenced so much in dance/pop even to this day (last sample was earlier this year or back end of 2012 if memory serves)... even in some modern r'n'b records I've heard phrasing/a direct vocal lift from this tune used. I'd have no compunction in playing this to an audience no matter how camp it might be (fortunately for the population of the world and their ears I do not play records to them)
998
Is there much that needs to be said?! We're in early-ish progressive mode now... truth be told it could have been either this or YAP from the eponymous LP but I knew this from a young age and it has a special place in my heart.... four other tunes from NE1 made it onto the shortlist (NE2.1 has been done to death by us it seems!) but I think this is an especially uplifting record and is a worthy addition.
999
Main room Bedrock mayhem. Proper 3am penultimate tune of the night material. Just relentless. I don't care if it might be termed 'euphoric' it was destruction on the dancefloor and caused me several minutes of meltdown on more than one occasion (that motorcycle bassline breakdown/growl followed by the kick back and melody - buzzin'). The good old days of three raves on the bounce, 72 hours of blurred brilliance.
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I deliberated for a LONG time over this. I really wanted to get this right for all three of us - a tune which comes from the early years/'old skool' era of our music which is, in my humble, still relevant and playable now. Big melody, uplifting, superb production (considering it was 1990!) - unquestionably catchy with endless amounts of energy - I could listen to this more than once of a night out in a club, no problems. A true classic.
So many tunes that could have been used but in some instances the proper or original version was not available and so I have chosen the above. Again; I hope you've enjoyed a few.
Well done lads - some monumental music has been added to these 'ere lists - long may it continue and as ever.....keep on keeping on,
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