now that's why they call it...

 you can complete the sentence I'm sure.... 

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat 2step-tribute relick remake redream of one of the grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreatest of ardkore tracks ever 

Ever!

Vocal ghosted from 

Ah, never noticed before, or perhaps forgot - but there's a snippet of the Urban Soul  vocal once again - garbled and ultrawoogly - in "Jim Skreech", the track that immediately follows "Menace" on the Darkrider EP. 

At 0.56

Making it all even more nuum numm nuumy, there's a lovely bleep-tinkle-echo-echo swipe from Sweet Exorcist's awesome "Clonk's Coming" in "Menace"

Oh never knew this - sweet tremolo'd-2-fuck vocal rip from "Menace" appears in this tune "Sensi Addict" by The Candyman - at 2.26 

Nice tune

Back to "Jim Skreech", always wondered if there was an inspiration taken from this Big Youth track 

Must be surely (Goldie had a Rastafari-phase in his past) 

In the Rufige Cru tune "Jim Skreech", there's an ultra-jittered vocal lick - "fee-eee-eee-eel it" -  sourced in the postdisco song "Life Is Something Special" by the Peech Boys, an era of music where dubby FX enters the mix and especially the remix, the flipside versions on 12 inches

But I wonder if Goldie + kru got the "fee-eee-eeel it" second-hand, via late-bleep classic "Feel It" by Coco Steel & Lovebomb? 

Well, I never heard this mix... 

It's dubbier, yet tepid compared to the fevered original. Worthy of Guerrilla Records or Hard Hands.

There's a Justin Robertson remix that's even duller yet presumptuously calls itself "Dub Excursion".

This "5 am" mix by Kid Batchelor is a bit better but still too muted

Oh god, somehow I've strayed far far from all that was glorious and world-historical in 92-93!

It's funny how almost the exact same sources and constituents - dub, house, disco + postdisco- could produce such drastically different results at more or less the exact same time. 

"Dub", in the early '90s-  as a track title parenthetical / remix title or just vague invoked ancestry -  could be the promise of "Babylon shall fall" tectonic wreckage or milquetoast numbing nothingness 

But let's end on a high

Back to the era of D.E.A. and its "Menace" remake "Sacrifice"

Goldie knew what the score was, where the spirit had gone (saw him once, at one of the UKG clubs, gladhanding Spoony from Dreem Teem up in the deejay booth) 

But I wish these guys - M.J. Cole, Groove Chronicles, Grant Nelson aka Bump n' Flex - had been remixing this earlier Goldie + kru tune with the exact same title

That would have been a true "now that's why they call it..." moment...