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Prodigy* - Smack My Bitch Up - 18-Oct-07 05:45 PM
The bassline and the intro of "Smack My Bitch Up" is completely inspired from Jazz-artist Randy Weston's track "In Memory Of", first recorded in 1963. The track can be found on "HIGHLIFE, Music from the New African Nations". In my opinion this is yet another example of Howlett's extraordinary capability to blend musical styles and pay a little hommage to great music of the past. The infamous vocal sample "Smack My Bitch Up" was taken from the Utramagnetic MCs' "Give the Drummer Some".

Soulwax - Any Minute Now - 25-Jan-06 03:04 PM
This records is worth it for the sleeve alone. The artwork on this LP is amazing. Soulwax take the experience they gained from DJ'ing with 2 Many DJ's and poured the electro disco vibe straight into this record. Be sure also to check out the Nite Versions remix of this LP.

Various - Forbidden Paradise 7 - Deep Forest - 25-Aug-05 10:52 PM
After Forbidden Paradise 6 went to be a huge underground succes in the Netherlands, the tone was set. More melodious trance lines, less hard hitting beats.

This compilation was the last one in the Forbidden Paradise series to be done by DJ Tiësto, who had by then gained quite some success in the, then still underground, trancescene of the Netherlands. Tiësto quit his job at Basic Beat and focussed on his own Magik compilations series, lifting dutch trance to a completely different level.

Various - Forbidden Paradise 6 - Valley Of Fire - 25-Aug-05 10:52 PM
This is the mix CD that pretty much defined the Dutch trance sound halfway through the nineties.

Compiled by DJ Tiësto for Basic Beat Records in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Tiësto was still selling records at the Basic Beat DJ shop at that time. During this period he started making his famous Magik series for his own Breda based Black Hole Records, which ofcourse kick-started his carreer.

Where the previous Forbidden Paradise CDs were a bit rougher, the feel of this compilation is exactly the same as the Magik series. Melodious warm and fiery sounds, instead of the hardtrance and acidbeats with which the first Forbidden Pradise compilations were filled.

Musique vs. U2 - New Years Eve / New Years Dub - 27-Dec-03 07:47 AM
It's too bad this was never officially released. This is a bootleg from a bad MP3 with a lot of clicks in it. It does make this vinyl a bit of a collectors item, but it's hardly worth playing.

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