Peace Signs (Flash It)

Pure Gurley gorgeousness in this Rogue Unit mix

Such emotional subtlety to almost anything Steve Gurley touches

The other versions - nice 'n' slinky Ray Keith (+ Nookie) work-over

in two parts

and then the Shades of Rhythm version, the "Hard"

 

Halfway through  there's the pleasant surprise - what the Nuumologist lives for - of the Rufige Cru "Menace" diva  sample appearing. Here it's much closer to its original speed of the Urban Soul source track, rather than the ooh-oohing whipped-soulcream of "Menace", that gaseous bliss-overdose

Still pretty woozy bliss in the original but as the whisked-up tempo drops down, the Urban Soul diva is revealed to be a dude

Back to Shades of Rhythm - where oh where is the "Peace Sign (Classic Piano Mix)"?

Ah seems it was reissued by Kniteforce

At least you can hear the original demo version

Shades of Rhythm do have one other track that really does it for me, really sends me

It's the gaseous diva bliss-groan that is the Moment for me, as sublimely zoomed in on in this reversioning by Pseudo-3 

feeling Gurley / the Gurley feeling

 A playlist compendium of Steve Gurley's work as Rogue Unit and as a remixer - the jungle / d&B (pretty complete selection there - please point out ommissions) and then onto the speed garage / 2step era (less complete -  he was in demand, churning the stuff out). Then in a chronology double-back, at the end there's a bit of 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse and just a smidge of Foul Play ("Finest Illusion" -  I remember Brad and John saying they had almost nothing to do with that track: they went off to deejay somewhere and when they came back, Steve had made the whole thing)

The Rogue Unit remixes like "Luv Dub", "Spread Luv", "Good To U", and especially "Peace Sign" and the naughty Princess "Say I'm Your Number 1" rebootleg are so so gorgeous.... as with other nuum auteurs, there's an identifiable signature here, particular  fixtures / fixations... I don't have the technicals to pinpoint, but there's certain chord changes and harmonies he's drawn to...  Even though working with vocal samples, he consistently gives them this thinned-out, stretched timbre, so that the diva sounds weak for love, ghostly and gaseous, wavering on the edge of expiry....