The whole video is a corker, with several otherwise unavailable tracks. Fire was left off the Prodigy's Electronic Punks video after (a) they thought it was rubbish and (b) the infamous Mixmag incident where they burnt a copy of the magazine at the end of the video having being accused by the publication of killing rave with their track "Charly". The "Exclusive XL-Recordings Megamix" really is that, as far as I'm aware not released on any other release, including audio formats. Classic - buy on sight.

"Spring" In My Step refers to the fact that the main riff comes from a sample of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, namely the "Spring" movement, hence the pun title. The Nigel in "No Nigel mix" refers to Nigel Kennedy who 2 years previously had had a massive classical recording success of the Four Seasons symphony, one of the biggest releases of the early 90s.

Hypnptic St-8 sampled themselves on the track "Self Hypnosis" by Nexus 21, which was their own alter ego and first incarnation. Altern-8 had a habit of sampling other Network tracks - "Re-indulge" on the flip of "Activ-8" was another one, nicking the main piano line from Neil Howard's "Indulge".

Captain of the Ship is in fact Lords of the Dance (single, 1992), but renamed as the main chorus uses the words more. One for those ravers who know the tune but not the name!

The 7" version is a better-produced affair than the 12" version, the editing apparently crisper and the edit getting rid of the more superflous moments. Can't think of any other tune where the readio version is better than the club mix.

The best original "oldskool" compilation released back in the day - 1992 was the year when underground met overground and many of these tracks (Prodigy, Manix etc) were big top 75 hits even though the sound was very un-radio. The track "Jellywobble" is an exclusive track that was never released by the Noise Engineer on any other release (single or album).

Famously every single part of this record was a sample from somewhere else (the sampling kings subtitled their first EP "can you steal it?" as a subheader). The "come with me, tonight's the night, can't you see I wanna be with you" was heavily used around this time by other artists and the Archer/Peat combo were unashamed masters of taking elements of other people's tunes and making them their own.

This track heavily samples the Roobarb and Custard theme from the 1970s kids' TV programme of the same name, but the vocal snippets are not original. Failing to obtain permission to land the original Richard Briers vox (eg "Roobarb's slim pianist claws danced quickly over the keys") they hired Richard Easter from the Radio 1 Steve Wright in the Afternoon gang to re-record them. However if you can track down the original white label version which came out before the FFRReedom version, you will find the same tune but with the unauthorised vocals from Briers still there...

Contains "Hit the High-Tech Groove", a pisstake of the then current sampling boom where tunes were ripped off and passed as that of the sampler. As a result several famous tracks were sampled including "Respectable" by Mel+Kim and "the Jack That House Built" by Jack 'n' Chill.

The bass was so low on this track that many club speakers blew when 1st playing this in 1990 - but then again LFO *does* stand for Low Frequency Oscillator!