Dave Clarke, 'Red 3.' I think this is from '95.
Yeah, '95. And this was one of the first records I ever bought.
I remember getting it and probably read about it in a music mag or something.
And as a sort of fifteen year old, was like, ok this is supposed to be amazing
so I bought it without listening to it, got it home, and it was amazing
because all the the Red series, each of them are y'know completely seminal.
Actually it's number 2 which is seen as I think that the all-time, all-time classic
and actually, yeah that probably is. But all three of them are great.
I didn't know him at all and found myself a couple years ago in a sort of
Twitter altercation with him. It all culminated with him calling me a dipstick
which I was like, I really, I thought this was like
a massively cool turn of events, being called dipstick by Dave Clarke on Twitter.
I played before him at Awakenings in Eindhoven and
was completely blown off the decks by him in a really unambiguous way
and the whole crowd thought he was much better than I was
which normally I would be y'know pretty pissed off about
but it's Dave Clarke, so I was kind of like, yeah ok, it's Dave Clarke.
This is a Jazzanova 12.
I was playing around that time, predominantly sort of garage stuff
but was trying to sort of spice up my garage DJ set with house and breaks and
really sort of stumbled across the sort of German broken beat thing completely by accident.
The sounds they were getting, on the drums especially, I remember was
really quite cool. It was completely different to the garage stuff that I was playing.
The broken beat stuff was a lot slower so I had to pitch it up massively to mix it in.
So I definitely would have played this on plus eight I reckon, which probably sounds completely ridiculous
and would have been probably massively offensive to the guys who made it.
Yeah, Jazzanova. Good shit.
This is Shackleton from 2006 or 2007 on Skull Disco.
Skull Disco is connected to the early dubstep stuff
and it was y'know just two steps to the left, for sure, of that, y'know, that sound.
'Blood On My Hands' was always probably my favorite I think of the Skull Disco releases.
It's a typical track within kind of really, really sort of deep and...
deep is an obvious, an unbelievably obvious word to use, but it really is.
Just really kind of emotive at the same time. Great. Really good stuff.
This is an undeniably classic garage record. It's by Sunship.
Remixes of 'Friendly Pressure' and
there are two of them and I can't remember which one is the one
but I'm pretty sure there's a 4/4 one and a two-step one, which tended to be how things worked in those days.
From 1998, which arguably was the heyday or the high point of UK garage.
I remember hearing it on a Tuff Jam CD or something
and y'know, just play that again please.
The Smiths, as they were for a lot of people, as they are for a lot of people
were quite seminal for me when I was growing up.
Everything, every little part of The Smiths is really special and really
integral to why they were such an amazing band.
It was the combination, I think, of Morrissey being extremely serious
but also extremely not serious at all
which really gave him this sort of edge.
And the ability to have a sense of humor in the context of serious music is one of the rarest things.
I'm pretty sure this is my favorite Smiths album.
This is one of the best things ever, frankly.
Well thank you for talking with us today.
No worries. Thank you.