Smooth (7) ‎– Move

This track is nice, but by no means the best thing Edwin ever did and at this point in time solos of this type would simply lose the dancefloor and they did in the past to a large extent. Though I do want to hear solid arrangements in tracks, regardless of how they are executed, but not solos. The other aspect of this garage/NY house revival is that — like all other recent throwbacks, disco, Cosmic, Italo, early Chicago house — it will be done in a very generic fashion and already is. Much of My Love Is Undeground's output sounds like generic garage from New Jersey in '91. Having heard Tony Humphries on many occasions and having lived thru the house movement on two sides of the Atlantic, the music was never djed in a generic fashion. And though classics were most certainly played, they were played beside up-to-the-minute new stuff and tracks from several genres. Have you ever heard Louie Vega play Basic Channel records or Timmy Regisford dropping Isolee at the Shelter (the shrine of garage after Zanzibar faded out)?

I don't hear that anymore. I hear run-of-the-mill tech-house/minimal sets, which sound like one big long track that lasts for 5 to 9 hours, depending on the length of the party or I hear generic classics, or generic dubstep. I personally love what the British have done, and are doing, with garage. They took the vibe of the classic NY/NJ tracks and bent it into new shapes with more rolling percussion and very heavy bass textures. Sometimes they can be a bit ravey with it, but there are some sublime deep tracks if you do some digging. Hearing those types of tracks up against the cream of the new house/garge and some classics will push the genre forward and create more new hybrids. We lived in an '80s loop in the previous, extremely conservative, era that seemed like one long boring trainspot. The next decade will push garage forward and it is already happening.

Would I play some My Love Is Underground tracks? Yes, I would, but I wouldn't make them the focus of a set as I already have all the records they are riffing on. Embrace the future, not the past. Feature the past, focus on the future. That is the true spirit of garage and house.

I was put onto this record by Jeremy at My Love Is Underground, and simply had to buy it. I managed to swipe the last one being stocked at HTFR, which is arguably the best place for golden oldies like this.

Just listen to Eddie Satin's brilliant key work on this track, the solo is out of this world.