The 2step hits poll

No. I'm basically totally ignorant about dance music from before I got into dance music.

I must correct this. The Gabriel remix is a pretty good indicator of the sound of much of the mix.

fuck i really need to listen to tim's mixes

Dreem Teem In Session #2 (posted upthread) was nearly my choice for J0rdan S listening club, ruled out on the technicality of being late 1997.

i have third dimension (disc 2) on my comp

fwiw I have bumping this like hella since I heard it on the local r&b station's old school hour a while back. Don't remember hearing it at the time tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvrFmUfAyjU

Coochy Coo the X-Men Remixes 12"
a review by gareth metford of
release format Coochy Coo the X-Men Remixes 12" by En-Core (CD Album)

text
For pop music, the gothic has proved both an enduring source of imagery and, more importantly, a repository of moods unattainable without reference to that sense, articulated so cogently by H.P. Lovecraft, that "human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos at large". In dance music, it was largely the advent of electronics which enabled producers to begin to access the gothic stance: from Jamie Principle's shell-shocked 'Baby Wants to Ride', which posits both love and God as fictive elements in "a fascist dream", to Dom & Roland's scouringly bleak future-world schematics, its materialist, anti-soul aesthetic has been a frequent visitor to clubland ever since. X-men's 2-step remixes of 'Coochy Coo', originally a rather mundane four-to-the-floor stomper which would not sound out of place on daytime Radio 1, reside squarely in this tradition. Both their 'Club Mix' and their 'Dancefloor Dub' revolve around a slithery, sub-centric bassline pinioned by an ominous arpeggiated synth refrain, seemingly lifted directly from one of John Carpenter's DIY horror soundtracks. However, it is the vocals which really trip one up: drenched in breathy atmospherics, they slip and slide, flicker and blur with an expressiveness one does not really expect from UK garage, sounding at times more akin to Swans' Jarboe or Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard than the usual mellifluous R&B divas. In speaking so powerfully of an individual human subject, they recall Marx's assertion that human emancipation begins with a rejection of religion's doctrine of ineffable spirit - with the understanding that, to quote Lovecraft again, "matter, it appears, really is exactly what 'spirit' was always supposed to be."

Posted by gareth metford at 00:00, 29 May 2000

Ladies and gentlemen, gareth metford.

oh idk, it rather caught me up in a nostalgic tide. all that millenial crit swag washed away by lolz and imo's like tears in the rain. who was gareth metford irl then, and who would he be in print now? a titchy, a jimi, a dog latin perhaps. but back then was he not so much more than himself! look upon him, wings spread and soaring over the cultural wasteland, a mutant superbeing irradiated by books n shit. to the air gareth! take to the air once more!

http://sonomu.net/text/~678/

oh alright, never mind.

that x-men remix he's on about is banging tho alie

http://hulkshare.com/n0avklciujw8

since it's not on the tubes

told me to download this http://www.allmusic.com/album/ayia-napa-the-album-r494321/review

& sent me links to various songs in this poll

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:20 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man this mix is so good!

Yeah it's one of my favourite mixes ever.

A five woman choir did an accapella version of Flowers at my brother's wedding the other week. Goosebumps.

That sounds incredible and what a great, original idea!

http://www.allmusic.com/album/ayia-napa-the-album-r494321/review

glass houses and all that but is this review even in english, i'm struggling here

I think he was sent a flyer for "Ayia Napa: the Tour".

what i really really want are unmixed versions of all the 2-step hits - i have many mixes with them already. both 2-step and grime could really use some decent curation.

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, 31 January 2011 13:45 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why has this not happened yet to 2-step?

gareth metford still otm

it looks like gareth metford has an album out!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Urban-Lanscapes/dp/B00KFNB8DA

http://www.discogs.com/Degrading-The-Image-Involuntary-Response-Degrading-The-Image-Involuntary-Response/release/3004872

this guy

No votes for Bound 4 da reload wtf

Man, Dreem Teem In Session #2... why has it taken me 17 years to get a copy of this and listen to it? Incredible.