The 2step hits poll

on the plus side, no one here really plays this stuff so its like i have my own lane to drive in

deej just turned me on to this stuff <3

Jordan! You have wasted your life.

i know :-(

What has Deej given you? I might be spurred on to acts of generosity.

omg j0rdan, what tim said. whatever deej has given you, you need more

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

i don't know why i didn't vote in this poll or post itt but this song was grossly robbed

Think About Me - Artful Dodger 0

this stuff hits that late 90s chord that melts me into a nostalgic puddle tbqh

like "sweet like chocolate" reminds me of aqua

in ways

i think j0rdan really needs mis-teeq's first album and todd edwards remixes in his life asap

also!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DT9rdVsYZE

and!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhKypM3H0iY

(that one's v.early wiley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYNs2t11yxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daMKhBj0xbE

J0rdan, my 2-step compilations, let me show you them.

if you're putting any together send em over my way too please! the decade has not been kind to the preservation of my favourite 2-step and grime mp3s, and no one seems to have bothered putting them on itunes or anything ;_;

certainly.

This is a case of music I really really didn't like at the time, but now I have quite a fondness for.

Speed Garage blew up about the time I started uni, as a shy, dorky schmindie/IDM virgin from the suburbs, yet to understand the appeal of club culture and dance music in general. Essex Uni wasn't much different to Stevenage in its qualitative range of nightspots, and the first person to play me garage music was this TOTAL DICK in our student halls who dobbed on us for smoking weed. Sooner or later Craig David and the Artful Dodger were being played all over the shop, but I found garage a bit too too slow and silky for me, finding trance a bit easier to jump around to on student nights.

I associated the music with the twattiest of student types - the most horrible proley consumer-fetishist, Breezer-drinking, proudly apolitical tossers.

Maybe it was a problem with me, or the surroundings I was in, but I I still find 1999-2000 a really difficult era of music to love - Nu Metal's Tom Green fratboy extreme sportz mindset, Moby's defanged coffeetable electronica, Ibiza's tits'n'booze brashness, "indie" turning into AOR bilge like Travis or the blandly retrospective Hives, Macy Gray... It was generally horrific, so no wonder I spent the most part of those years making my own music and listening to the Warp back catalgoue.

Then I left uni and remember really liking 21 Seconds (maybe the last big 2-step hit?). I've since had time to distance myself and mature and become more open to other things. Gonna go back and listen to all these, and get nostalgic about those first awkward moments on the Colchester dancefloor.

Tim, I'd be interested in yr comps too!

Pure Silk: The Third Dimension - Mixed by Timmi Magic of The Dreem Teem (Disc 1):

http://www.sendspace.com/file/5b0t1p

Disc 2 is the absolute killer but they're both awes, this is from about the end of 1999 or beginning of 2000 I think. I'll get to disc 2 shortly.

Tracklist:

1. Gabrielle - Sunshine (Wookie Main Mix)
2. Chris Mack - Baby Gonna Rock Dis (Original Mix)
3. B-15 Project - Girls Like Us
4. Daryl B & Mark Yardley - Streetlife (Original 12" Mix)
5. The Wideboys - Don't Waste My Time (4 Beat Mix)
6. DJ Skribble - Everybody Come On (Stanton Warriors Remix)
7. DJ Double G - Get Loose
8. N'n'G - Right Before My Eyes (The Remix)
9. Artful Dodger - What Ya Gonna Do
10. 702 - You Don't Know (Marvel & Eli Remix)
11. N'n'G - I Keep
12. Lenny Fontana - Spirit Of The Sun (Bump & Flex Remix)
13. Brasstooth - Celebrate Life (Zed Bias Vocal Mix)
14. Dem 2 - Baby (You're So Sexy) (Dub)
15. United Grooves Collective - Glad You Came To Me (Steve Gurley VIP Mix)
16. New Horizons - Find The Path (Sweet Release Mix)
17. Suiceyed (Groove Chronicles) - Give Some To Me (Masterplan)
18. Michael Moog - That Sound

BTW mods you can assume anything I post here is, like, massively out of print.

The New Horizons track on the above comp would be one of my top ten tunes ever.

Pure Silk: The Third Dimension - Mixed by Timmi Magic of The Dreem Teem (Disc 2):

Tracklist:

1. Dionne Rakeem - Sweeter Than Wine
2. London's Unique 3 - Feel It
3. Zed Bias - Neighbourhood
4. Richie Boy & DJ Klasse - Madness On The Street
5. Basement Jaxx - Jump 'n' Shout (Dem 2 Mix)
6. Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy (Stanton Warriors Vocal Mix)
7. Zed Bias - Let Me Know
8. M Dubs & J.P. - For Real
9. Valerie M - Tingles 2000 (Zed Bias Remix)
10. Dreem Teem vs. Neneh Cherry - Buddy X '99 (Original Dreem Teem Dub Mix)
11. The Brand New Heavies - Apparently Nothing (Artful Dodger Mix)
12. Amar - Sometimes It Snows In April (Dreem House Dub Mix)
13. Wookie - Down On Me
14. DJ Lewi - Hold Me Tight
15. Groove Control - Beautiful (Dreem House Dub Mix)
16. Richie Dan - Call It Fate
17. DJ Luck & MC Neat - A Little Bit Of Luck
18. Rosie Gaines - I Want You

Tracks 1, 4, 6, 10 and 12 are all O_O brilliant.

Oops, the link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/fc0qnu

Tim, you have another eager downloader here... Thanks!

Thanks Tim, these are great!

I was 15/16 when 2-step was getting into the charts. I was in that kinda-indie-by-default demographic at the time but remember just thinking 'fuck this shit' as someone tried to make me listen to Travis or whatever instead of Sweet like chocolate. Heavily nostalgia-fuelled, obv, but this is such a musical golden period for me.

(PS HELLO, I'm new)

Jumped straight on to disc 2, enjoying it immensely.

P.S. Hi oppet!

Sweet like Chocolate and Re-Rewind were some of my first musical memories. My sister gave me a few really good mix cassettes. 2-step was a solitary experience for me, my schoolmates were all into Bonkers CDs

do the orig results strike anyone else as total ilcontrarianism? idk

it has the correct winner

trbh i had to google it to remind myself

I'm surprised Bound 4 Da Reload didn't get any points. That was great fun.

thnx 4 these tim

awesome awesome awesome thanks tim!!!!

feelin this 'street life' cover

Jordan et al, you should also download every tune I linked on this thread here.

Flowers is pretty much the best record ever isn't it?

At the moment I have a real curiosity about those really dewy but still chewy sentimentalist end-of-night 2-step classix - a curiosity as in I'm trying to get to the bottom of how they actually work (on me) - have always loved them obv. Check:

Selena vs X-Men - Give It Up
Zoom & DBX - Comin' Again
Richie Dan & K Warren - Call It Fate (Underground Mix)

Will post youtube links later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBS_G-wUxtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn4czQHwfmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRYUmpE7mXA

I love these three tracks so much, really end-of-night tunes, there's this feel of bittersweet camaraderie to them, like, we're sad that the night's ending but it's been an amazing ride.

Sort of the equivalent of Jam & Lewis and similar sentimentalist R&B tunes from the beginning of the 00s (which I've also been listening to heaps of late) - Janet's "All 4 U", Mya's "Free", Chante Moore's "Straight Up", which I think are similar dancefloor uniters with the same kind of dynamic.

Various Artists: Masterstepz - Ayia Napa: The Album 2001 - Disc One

http://www.sendspace.com/file/usjmu4

1. DJ Pied Piper & The Masters Of Ceremonies - Do You Really Like It? (Original Mix) 5:09
2. Shut Up And Dance - No Doubt (Original Mix) 2:31
3. Sticky Feat. Lady Dynamite - Booo! (Original Mix) 2:39
4. Sticky - Triplets (Original Mix) 1:50
5. Genius Cru - Course Bruv (Original Mix) 3:41
6. Architechs - Show Me The Money (Salsa Money Mix) 3:41
7. Masterstepz - Sorry (You Lied To Me) (Main Mix) 3:07
8. Colours Feat. Stephen Emmanuel - Hold On (SE22 Mix) 3:34
9. JJ Louis & Jade Lion - Ruff, Tuff & Ready (Original Mix) 3:09
10. Cleptomaniacs Feat Bryan Chambers -All I Do (Bump & Flex Dance Floor Dub) 2:35
11. K2 Family - Bouncing Flow (Original Mix) 3:29
12. Mystery Men - Shake It (Remix) 2:59
13. United Grooves Collective - Madness (J Sylvester Mix) 2:45
14. Maxee - When I Look Into Your Eyes (MJ Cole Vocal) 4:02
15. Monsta Boy Featuring Denzie - Baby Can't You See...? (Stickz & Stoned Mix) 3:00
16. London Dodgers Feat. Vincent J. Alvis & Demolition Man - Down Down Bizzniz (Original Mix) 4:18
17. Maxwell D - Serious (Street Vocal Edit) 3:31
18. Plutonic - Addicted (X-Men Dub) 2:34
19. Wideboys Feat. Robbie Craig & Shola Ama - Your Mine (I'm Yours) (Vocal Mix) 3:58
20. Dubaholics - Closer To You (Vocal Mix) 3:17
21. David Anthony - Friday Night (Sunship Mix) 3:02
22. DJ Trend vs TNT - 2 Degrees (Original Mix) 4:01

An excellent, perhaps unbeatable documents of uk garage circa 2001. Again, disc two (forthcoming) is prob my favourite but this has some all time classics for me - Bump & Flex's dub of "All I Do", K2 Family's "Bouncing Flow", Dubaholics' "Closer To You" and above all London Dodgers' astonishing "Down Down Biznizz"...

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.

Disc 2:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bwut0l

1. Blackout - Mr DJ (The Ginal Mix) 3:59
2. Dane Bowers - Shut Up... And Forget About It (El B Mix) 2:48
3. Craig David - Rendezvous (Sunship vs Chunky Mix) 3:58
4. Nesha - What's It Gona Be (Sticky Y2K Mix) 3:16
5. TJ Cases Feat. Kat Blu - One By One (Original Mix) 3:30
6. Angel 21 Feat. Rose Windross & MC Kie - Flow (Original Mix) 3:51
7. DJ Treble T - Iron Hand (Natty Remix) 3:50
8. So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds (Original Version) 4:05
9. Santos - 3-2-1 Fire (Dubaholics Break Da Rules Remix) 3:09
10. MC L.E.V. & T"Azar - DJ's Delight (Original Mix) 3:18
11. The Underdog Project - Summer Jam (Original Mix) 3:45
12. Godwin - Only You (Matt Jam Lamont And DJ Face Vocal) 3:22
13. Ramsey & Fen Feat. Richard Anthony & Maxwell D - Favorite Part Of Me (Ramsey & Fen's 12'' Vocal Mix) 4:11
14. The B15 Project, Feat. Shola Ama & Miss Dynamite - Feel So Good (Original Mix) 3:16
15. Remarc - TNT (Original Mix) 2:16
16. Richie Dan Produced By K-Warren - Temptation (12'' Vocal Mix) 3:43
17. TNT Feat. Terri Walker - Easy Lovin' (TNT Remix) 2:34
18. Mr Shabz Feat. So Solid Crew - Another One (Original Version) 3:43
19. DJ Pied Piper & The Masters Of Ceremonies - Do You Really Like It? (Full Length Sovereign Mix Vocal) 3:57
20. United Grooves Collective Feat. God's Gift - Mic Tribute (United Grooves Collective Remix) 3:41
21. Bump & Flex - Promises (Original Mix) 3:35
22. United Grooves Collective - What's This (Original Mix) 3:47

"One By One" in particular is astonishing.

Here you go Lex, stumbled across a full copy of this pretty rare Bump & Flex Bassbin Killa Dub of Rosie Gaines "I Want You", which I've always loved - demonstrates yet again that Bump & Flex is the great unheralded beat master that Zed Bias/El-B et. al. fans ignore at their peril.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/k0q73g

:)

Classic tearjerker this one:

Ed Case - Something In Your Eyes (K-Warren Mix)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vaqq88

New Horizons - Find The Path (Sweet Release Mix)

aka GREATEST PIECE OF MUSIC EVER

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8vzb9q

Hey guys this isn't some random "tim champions his favourite lost causes" ish, this genuinely is one of the finest pieces of music ever made, but after over a decade of searching I've only just found it as a standalone.

The Dreem Teem - In Session Vol 2 (1997)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4jo167

1. Kwesi - Lovely (Dreem Teem Bounce Mix) 3:44
2. Dreem Teem - The Theme (Dreem Teem Main Dub) 3:26
3. Ordinary People - Keep Your Love Away 2:41
4. Anthill Mob - I Know You Know 3:10
5. Damage - Love Lady (Da Funkstarz Epic Camouflage Dub) 5:09
6. Dem 2 - Destiny (Sleepless) 3:38
7. 4 Deep Connextion - Twisted Future 3:12
8. Groove In Motion - Electric Runnings 2:53
9 .Somore - I Refuse (RIP Mix) 3:00
10. Chris Mack - Set It Off 3:29
11. Maria Nayler - Naked And Sacred (R.I.P Wah Wah Dub) 4:21
12. Jay Williams - Testify (Tuff Jam '2 In 1' Dub) 2:12
13. Booom! - Hold Your Head Up High (Julian Jonah's Bad Boy Mix) 4:35
14. New Horizons - It's My House (Bashment Mix) 4:20
15. Double 99 - Ripgroove (Original Mix) 3:25
16. Amira - My Desire (Dreem Teem Mix) 2:47
17. Scott Garcia feat. MC Styles - A London Thing 4:22
18. MVP - Pray (Dreem Teem Remix) 4:36
19. Underground Solution feat. Cover Girl - Tears 3:53
20. Dreem Teem - The Theme (Deep Dreams Dub) 1:11

My very first 2-step compilation, picked it up in about mid-1999 and fair to say it changed my life. Actually from 1997 and right on the cusp of speed garage into 2-step and pretty fucking seminal IMO - from the delicious bumpiness of tracks 1, 2, 6 and 10 to the booming massiveness of 13 to the overloaded ridiculousness of 14 to the can't fuck with anthemism of 15 to the yet-another-best-track-in-history gorgeousness of 16 (that 4 track run is basically the finest run of music ever perhaps).

do u really like it is it is it wicked