The Turk – The Lover / Who Rocks You

Side B also has samples from Egyptian Lover - "Girls" as well as Tubular Bells

The track on the b side is the one that made this white label one of the most sought after records of it's time with it's beginning...
"You mean to tell me Mr Horne that I'm going to have to have sex with two astronaughts I've never even met before"? Then it jumps into the meat and potatoes of it immediately. This was recorded in a bedroom then transferred to wax, so you need a good copy as, even the best copies sound hissy at the start of the above mentioned track, which the lyrics from the begining on the youtube sample to the right ------> are missing right at the start so that copy probably jumps. Top tunage from a mental period in history ;-).

A simple idea.Rip The Prodigy's"Your Love" piano riff and put a funky backbeat to it,add the"tonight its party time its party time tonight"(used in Todd Terrys "Weekend" tune)accapella to it and you get a delicious early Hardcore/House crossover which drops like a bomb in any set.Brilliant.

Side B uses a simpler rip of The Exorcist theme (a simpler version of The Brothers Grimm "Exodus") and add sexy vocals about sexual relations with two spacemen.

Very dj friendly, simple yet effective Ten out of Ten.

To me,a non-producer,both sides of this record sound very simple,'the lover' for instance - its just that tubular bells sample,that hip-hop vocal sample,and a wicked bouyant,fluid, bassline. But the urgency of that bass with the superb use of samples makes this one hell of a track. This is one record that i keep on coming back to again and again,'who rocks who' isn't quite so kick ass,but its the smaller parts that make this tune,when the record stops 2/3s towards the end and a sound erupts as what can only be described as one of those boards that Rolf Harris(!) used to flip back and forth, but this sound,non-musical,out of nowhere,its amazing - it picks up in rhythm,then stops and the track resumes with a kick,this must have gone down like a bomb at raves.One in the eye for those artbiters of good taste who condemn hardcore for being sample theiving music-by-numbers ,So the Turk - whoever you were! big-up ya'self,one of the most 'hardcore' hardcore tunes I've heard,