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Pachelbel's Canon - (is it pronounced Packelbel or Pashelbel - I've never known?!) help yourself to another point for picking something on one of our lists, i.e. mine! A classic bit of classical music which I've long loved and listened to. And take another bonus point for the long overdue inclusion of any piece of classical music.
Love Sensation - no surprise here but that gets two huge thumbs up from me - this original simply reeks class but I'm more than happy to admit to also liking (and playing out) the Freemason's Remix - there's also a rather lovely ambient 'Angel Love' mix too.
These Waves - great tune - two more thumbs up - probably the record more than any of the others that proved that Disc 1 of NE1 was greater than the sum of its (albeit considerable) parts. This track has classic status, and rightly so, but it was standing on the shoulders of (and sandwiched beautifully between) Cascade and Raincry.
Sugarhigh - of this selection this was the one I didn't immediately know - I certainly don't recall ever having heard it at Bedrock and, after several listens, I'm still not sure I'd ever heard it before anywhere! On the one hand I'm not surprised 'cos I really wasn't BIG into this kind of sound 13 years ago but, you know what, this is a TUNE. Would definitely play it and will be procuring with a view to doing just that.
Last Rhythm - for anybody to suggest that this isn't a 'true classic' is to suggest there is no such thing as a 'true classic' house record - clearly there are and equally clearly this is one of them. Fitting enough, for me anyway, that this appears on this list courtesy of a Hacienda Classics compilation 'cos that's exactly where I was when I first heard this (albeit it that the VERY first time I heard it it was the 'Original Battle Vocal Mix' - which astonishingly is also on Spotify - then, later that same night, this version was played). I left Manchester that weekend with a (VERY) precious TDK that a fella up there mixed for me - umpteen classic tunes (a few of which were, Drug Fits The Face, Papua New Guinea, Appolonia, Rabbit City, Hoomba Hoomba and, of course, Last Rhythm) - battered it but still have it to this day. This tune is another that has been subject to untold remixes - pretty much heard all of them, bought loads of them but it's no surprise that the best one of the lot is the one that sticks most closely to this mix - the Martijn ten Velden remix - more of a sympathetic update than a fully overhauled remix and I played it out several times in Clapham and it was guaranteed a big, positive, response. Definitely one of those bedrock tunes (no capital 'B' - original definition of the word) on which so much that has come after has been based and a more than worthy selection for our 1000th tune.
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The Natura Sonoris selection
Dosem - great little mood-setter/mix-starter - sort of thing Sasha might well have used early on for his GU San Francisco mix if it'd had been around
Kitkalitto - nice enough
Hal Incandeza - again, nice enough
Henry Saiz - not sure if your reference to the 'tune which has been taken from somewhere which I just can't place' was slightly tongue in cheek or not but, on the basis that it was genuine, it's 'Good Vibrations' by The Beach Boys - pick of this bunch
Underworld - hadn't heard this 'edit' before and having done so now I'd rather you'd have had us 'make do' with the full length original but nonetheless it's a more than worthy inclusion. It was your selection of this that tangentially sparked me off and resulted in my submission of
'Dubnobasswithmyheadman' as my DHS-LP selection earlier this week. I must have realised before, but if not certainly did so again this week, that this shares (most of its) title with a very different track from that album - and then I was listening to the album AGAIN, and now it's on DHS-LP.
And now S;
For this selection, and in order to save some time for those of us who 'listen to the other's selections more than once to really get a feel for them', *wink* I have ditched my previously selected next batch, put my possible selections list into ascending time order and picked five of the shortest. So, on the plus side, not much time needed to work through them but, on the other hand, it does mean some more Northern Soul. Still, as the old saying goes, every silver lining has a cloud eh...
Judy Street - simple - classic.
Mama Cass - rather lovely hangover from my time with Samantha - one of her favourite records and on my possibles list for almost three years
John Edwards - I have no recollection of when or how I first heard this but, oh my, am I glad I did
Gary Numan - this sounds so energetic, vibrant and immense now that I cannot imagine how on earth it sounded to people when it was released in 1979. Numan got 'synth-pop' into the charts pretty much before anybody else and is a massively under appreciated influence on the last 35 years. And he's still going...
When In Rome - bought for me on 12" by my then girlfriend this was very much a 'guilty pleasure' back in '88 when it was supposed to be all about hip-hop, funk and early house stuff - but I (quietly) loved this then and still do now - only in the last couple of years have I come to understand it's one of many widely loved euro/italo-pop style anthems from the time.
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