It's Friday . . . Let's Dance

My postings have been rather pish this week down to spending all of my bloody annual leave painting both boys rooms. The only thing worse than emulsioning in my book has to be glossing and living in an old house with deep skirtings and enough fecking wood around the windows to build a shed it takes forever. This combined with me not being the most patient of people has got me rather vexed.

So I don't care that I have posted this track before, it's good enough to warrant another post. It is brilliant in fact, despite basically being made up of samples from another track and a breakbeat. To be honest with you it is probably on account of the samples that I love the track as nothing else the duo ever did hit the mark, for me anyway.

Have a good weekend people 

Liquid - Sweet Harmony with added crackles and pop

Twenty years ago, bloody hell tempus fugit as my Latin teacher was in the habit of saying.

It's Friday . . Let's Dance

Today's track is for those of you who remember XL as the edgier off shoot of City Beat Records releasing rave tracks by the likes of SL2 and The Prodigy and not the home of soul lite Brit school alumni and American Indie Rock.

At the time I was not really into the Rave scene, preferring, throbbing epic tracks with huge baselines which frequently lasted over ten minutes over the in yer face 100mph, sped up vocal sample stuff with the rudimentary keyboard riffs, but now and again one of these tracks would agree with me and every so often I would go nuts for a track.  The tune posted falls into the latter category.

I don't know how many times I have played this 12" over the years but it has to be in high treble figures which will become apparent when you hear the crackles on the rip. But I have never tired of this tune and it always produces a huge grin on my coupon as soon as those breakbeats start and when the dum dum dum dum dum da dum drops 36 seconds in I'm in heaven and pretty much stay there for the duration and once it's over I usually have to play it again.

I'm not sure if it's because of the use of the riff and vocal sample purloined from Ce Ce Rogers Someday that makes me love the track as much as I do. I remember the first time I heard it, I tried my damnedest to hate it, thinking that it was totally out of order lifting bits from that Marshall Jefferson produced classic but could do nothing but dance and grin like a demented Cheshire Cat and knew that I had to have it.

For me the breakbeats, that unmistakable piano riff and the vocal sample encapsulate the madness and the sheer joy of the dance scene during 1992 in 4:22 seconds better than any other record of that year.

Have a good weekend people.

Liquid - Sweet Harmony

It's Friday . . . Let's Dance

This Friday, let's go back to a time when things were a lot simpler, well in the case of electronic dance music anyway. In 1987, there was House and that was it, no dubstep, hardcore, and the thousand and one sub genres there seems to be these days.

This track is one of the finest examples of early house. it was a collaboration between Ce Ce Rogers and Marshall Jefferson who was posted here a couple of Friday's ago. It has one of the most soulful vocals and a piano line that would later be sampled to great effect by British hardcore act Liquid. This record shows the natural progression from soul to disco and then on to House.

Back in the day as soon as the track was dropped the floor would fill with grinning faces only some of whom would have been "on one". As I said simpler times.

If your feeling flush you can grab a copy here

Ce Ce Rogers - Someday

and the song that borrowed from it

Liquid - Sweet Harmony