Ooh gosh this sounded so so phuturistic when I first heard it -- all the dainty little keyboard quivers and squiggly blurts, the flickered vocal delays and twitchy hyper-syncopations.
"Respects to All Passion FM Crew" - respects plural! Each and every one gets their own personal nuff respect...
Then - now calling themselves the Stamp Crew, rather than Richie Boy & DJ Klasse feat. Fai - came this revamp with the wonderful recurring shout-out to the "Lon-don Mas-sive"
That I remember and bought at the time.
But I don't remember this version with the bubblin-criss MC doing his best Creed impersonation
Ah the "London massive" bit is actually on the original 4/4 bounce version - flipside to the 2step "Madness" - but it's not made as much of as it is on the subsequent declension
That wriggly oil-slick legato B-line is very DJ Narrows / Niche / Northern Bassline
The missus has just handed me Ed Gillett's Party Lines as a late Xmas present. Any thoughts?
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ReplyDeleteTalking about old favorites, any chance we´ll see the old classic fave´s list (from last year in this case)?
ReplyDeleteSR> It names checks you & Matthew Collins as inspirations early on.
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