Mr Scruff playing Hot 8 Brass Band’s version of Sexual Healing (twice that night), before it was released, so no-one had heard it but we could all join in a wee bit first time, belting it out second time, has to be up there.
Its a tune I used to play all the time (to the mockery of my friends, who, if there, get disappointed if I don’t)
I played it at my wedding, it’s on the deck in a cracking photo of me and my wife, pished trying to select the next tune. Such a big tune in my family, that my folks even got themselves 45th wedding anniversary tickets to go see them.
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Chiwoniso - Gomo. Nigerian DJ playing African Cuts in Kings X Warehouse during the year Michael Jackson Died. TRACK POPPPED OUT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQBxQAv2Kck
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are you serious? about this? when i hit the play button…i thought it was a You Tube ad. Sorry I just don’t get it…
Welp, the dancefloor got it.
Fabric 1999 Reinforced Records 10th Birthday Party
One room of dnb with Randall, Goldie, Doc Scott, Grooverider
One room of Detroit legends - Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Octave One, Theo Parrish, Dj Rolando
Plus Phil Asher, Domu and what went on to become the broken beat scene in the third room.
Dj Rolando went from UR the Final Frontier to Kraftwerk Numbers then dropped bang into the intro of Jupiter Jazz and the whole place erupted. He had two copies and was extending and doubling the intro. It was one of those moments you never forget.
Equally unforgettable was later on that night Theo Parrish comes on after hours of hard techno on the main floor at Fabric , and opens with Donny Hathaway This Christmas and killed the floor dead. Respect to that man!
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Glasgow - The Arches, sometime around 2000. Can’t remember the name of the DJ or the night itself but think it was some sort of moody techno affair. The music stops, all the lights are off and there’s a delay before next track comes on. This comes on and I can remember everyone looking around at each other as if to say ‘am I hearing this right, is this actually playing?’ but by about 20 seconds in the whole place is cheering, getting into it. It was a big cavernous room and the whole place just went off, in the way it sometimes does in Glasgow - definitely a risk from the DJ, one of these ‘it’s crazy but it just might work moment’ - in my mind a real ballsy decision and paid off in heaps - still love that track now and have it on vinyl myself
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