man like Woebot w/a promises-to-be stunning ambient jungle mix over at FACT
the real ish too, straight up '94-'96 when Omni Trio & latter Foul Play rubbed shoulders w/Bukem remixing Jodeci (!) rubbed shoulders w/Roni Size & Krust & the Bristol cru. as well as all manner of random stalwarts & chancers like PFM, JMJ & Richie, Intense & Essence of Aura, among others. Early Good Looking/Looking Good, latter Moving Shadow (before it got shite, at least), etc. Legend Records - Q Project, Gwange & Spinback - from LEG 008 on. 4 Hero deserve a lion's share of the credit altho they were already off on their own impeccable journey by that point. They were always 5 or 10 steps ahead of the game anyway, all that "music for people standing around in the rain" that they & Goldie were making back in 1993. That bit in Journey From the Light where the bottom drops out & comes back as a this kind of immutable transcendance, that ray of sunlight breaking through the bleakness, is one of the 2 or 3 pieces of music that can make me tear up.
Other belated heroes = Peshay (before he went Mo Wax overboard), everything Skanna (before he, erm, became a prog house/trance type), & the one & only true king, DJ Crystl. Another before - still - his time dude. As well Photek's more mellow side, especially as Aquarius.
Stunning lushness meets those raw, exploding, frenetic '95 amens. U know the score.
Best music ever made, hands f**kin' down.
Part II after I actually listen to Woebot's mix, which incidentally doesn't have most the names I mentioned - a good thing, of course, nor would I expect anything less.
Monday, June 29, 2009
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Best music ever made - yes!
PFM used to DJ at this tiny club in town with a metal dancefloor on Fridays when I was in 6th form, to like 10 people. He would reliably play One and Only every week.
I genuinely could not understand why that didn't get to number 1.
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