I’m headed out of town for the weekend, so here’s mine:
Title: Loo’s Control Artist: Smart E’s Label: Suburban Base Records
Genre(s): Rave, Hardcore, Techno Year Released: 1992
I actually heard this tune yesterday when I checked out a video showing the Smart E’s and The Prodigy back in 1992. I had only known of the Smart E’s from their bigger hit, Sesame’s Treet. Loo’s Control totally hit me like a freight train and I’m happy I could find it on Beatport. It just took me back to when I started DJing, and those past good times.
Okay, here we go. First something that totally blew my mind when I heard it on the radio. It might be overwhelming at first and sound like nothing but random noise, but it’s a brillantly piece of sampling, that takes what artists like Bomb Da Bass and Coldcut themself did in the 80s and elevates it to something that is still fresh after almost 20 years.
Next up we got a song, that was one of the big hits of the 90s, both in the clubs and the mainstream charts. You could say that it only does what other artists did before in a more innovative way, but there is a reason why this song is still popular. (And it’s a nice companion piece to the Smart-e’s song above.)
Artist: N-Trance Title: Set You Free Year:1994 Label: All Around The World
And now something, that I can imagine would still rock today’s EDM festivals. (And I mean that as a compliment!) RMB was a Techno/Trance duo from Germany, that always went the extra mile for their sound and this b-side of one of their biggest hits (“Spring”) is a great, constantly evolving example, that must be listened to from the beginning to the end.
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