ruff! ruff! ruff ruff!

 

my favorite bit out of a ridiculous number of contender constituents  - the dog barking "ruff! ruff!". 

like it's applauding the track. this canine can recognize a ruff tune 

then again, there's that reverby piano refrain, the way it drifts into a haze deeper into the track 

this is a propah remix - it retains everything that's good, enhances and clarifies and brightens - like a redreaming of the track

love the way the bassline sidles and bulges 

and the "dancing we dancing we losing control"

but what's the sampled rapper saying? 

slammered

                                       

the misty reverb piano 

the genius of the dog sample going "RUFF RUFF"

it's nutt-E, it's ethereal, it's (yes) ruff, and as it says on the tin, it's SLAMMING

proof of God's existence

the not as good but interestingly suspended-feeling remix from Man Like Gavin

another remix I've no recollection of at all - "The Slammer (DJ Rush & Fitzy Remix)" (who dem?)

like taking a marker pen to the Mona Lisa, innit 

                                      

do not recollect the B-side

neither of them

their other claims to fame 

solid biznizz

big up Terry Holt, Bernard Simon