DHS-LP 03 (S)

Short and sweet - nothing to say about either of your previous selections 'cos neither of you made one!

So mine for the next six months is;

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman [1994]

Until yesterday I had no intention of picking this at all.  In fact it's not, nor ever has been, on my list of DHS-LP possible albums.  But for reasons I'll explain elsewhere I listened to it again yesterday - twice - and it was like unexpectedly bumping into an old mate and having a great evening out.  Twenty years old this year and I'm genuinely 100% certain that this is my absolute favourite dance music album ever.  (The first Prodigy album would come close, as would Peter Benisch, one of the Orbital albums and, of course, Leftism - but I don't think any of them are as good.  I know I don't like any of them more than I like Dubnobass...)

It spawned a handful of epic singles.  It led to some immense reworkings and remarkable follow ups.  It inspired who knows what amount of creativity and it has soundtracked a disproportionate chunk of my last 20 years.  It's not the most obscure choice I'll ever make and I fully expect you both to be very well acquainted with most, if not all, of it.  But I just couldn't run the risk that someone else might get in there and choose it before me - it's too personal and taken up too much of my last 20 years to allow that to happen - so I kind of panicked and had to get in there and nail it down for myself right now.

Job done.

S