Shimon & Andy C* – Body Rock

First heard this played by Andy C at Accelerated Culture as his last tune. No one danced at all in the Sanctuary to it so my then girlfriend bought me the record for a joke. Fond memories of this but not a tune for me.

...can't stand Ram Records, but I liked this track because it was so original and different to anything else...at the time people were saying they have invented a new genre

Sounds like the perfect music to play at a clown party.

Seeing all the discussion here, I realize "Ram Records" was actually a good name for the label. Releases were often innovative, exploring new things. sometimes hard to swallow, but the ram always charges on, like it or not.

Still remember first time I heard this, when Goldie dropped it at the end of a wild set/party at Vooruit, lights on already, so fresh, the remaining crowd exploded, the rewind, the build-up of the intro, the exuberant joy of the ravers. Good days.

Love all the d&b purists crying their eyes out at this track 22 years later. This track is brilliant, it pushed the boundaries of what Drum and Bass really was and that’s why it’s so good. It’s really catchy, but different. No other tune like it, or atleast at the time.

dopest cover art for one of the worst records ever made in history of drum and bass.

Quite frankly I fail to see how 'Body Rock' is even defined as Drum n Bass or Jungle. Maybe by some technicality? There's no breaks, if anything it sounds more like a Footwork track. Anyways, as a 19-year-old who could have never heard Drum & Bass in its heyday (the 90s), I'm very happy that I found my favorite genre of music through years of refining my tastes in Electronic music and venturing through the Youtube algorithm to find the classics, rather than finding what's popular and latching onto it, and defending it to the death when people tell me that it doesn't exactly represent the 10 years of musical evolution behind it. Body Rock is to Drum n Bass is exactly what Skrillex is to Dubstep, something that barely even resembles the genre that it's for some reason lumped in with.

Man, old dnb heads REALLY hated having fun, huh? That's what it seems like, going off these old comments. Some crowd.

Thank god there's more drum and bass like this today, thank god that popular producers in the scene wanted to create fun, accessible tunes that didn't have to follow the strict guidelines of what makes "proper" dnb, and thank god the heyday of these miserable, sore losers below me is long, long gone. It's tracks like Body Rock (along equally-hated "clownstep" gems by Pendulum, et al) that led to drum and bass' breakthrough for younger generations, allowing 24-year-old me (and many others in my generation) to find this amazing genre, long after these tracks were debuted.

Here's to more drum and bass producers continuing to innovate and inspire younger folks, challenge audiences, and making a laughingstock out of stuck-up, washed-out elitists in a scene that simply isn't built for their pretension.

Can we stop with the whole it's good/it's bad thing.
It's absolutely terrible.