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- Joined on March 15, 2007
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My addiction with dance music began in 1994 after my parents bought me Dance Hits 94 - 2 for my Birthday that year.
In 1997 I started a part time job whilst studying for my A Levels and this gave me the funds to start building my music collection.
Every Saturday morning, after finishing the morning shift at work, was spent in my local record shops in Newark; R&K, Inner Sleeve (later known as More Than Music) and Blitz.
Whilst at university, I created and ran the Dance Label Discography website, which later became LabelsUK.tk
http://web.archive.org/web/20030122043738/http://www.labelsuk.tk:80/
Although I was a student at the time, I still managed to find money to continue purchasing music from Woolworths, Andy's Records, Virgin and other retailers in Stafford.
Sadly, as the shops closed one by one, the purchasing moved to the Internet through HMV, CDZone, Juno, Action Records, Amazon, Gemm and eBay.
I've used Discogs as a resource for many years to help me build up my collection, but for reasons unbeknown even to me, I only got round to adding my collection in January 2009. Nine months and many long, tiresome nights later, I finally finished adding all 3,700 titles to my account.
The majority of my purchases were bought as new releases between 1997 and the late 2000's until the CD Single, as a format, ceased to exist in the UK.
I continue to add to my collection, however the frequency of purchases is now more sporadic.
I do not trade files; I’m only interested in physical releases.
None of my collection is for sale, although I may consider swapping for one of the releases below:
The Headliners - Who’s My DJ (1, 2, 3)?
[AM:PM]
CDAMPM124
Power Circle - A Little Love A Little Life
[Deep Distraxion/Edel UK]
EDEL 0090905DDX
Kim English - Learn II Love (CD1)
[Hi-Life]
571653-2
Kim English - Learn II Love (CD2)
[Hi-Life]
571651-2
Perpetual Motion - Rompa Stompa
[Radar/WEA]
WEA 301CDDJ
Tanya Louise - Deep In You
[Multiply]
CDMULTY 16
In 1997 I started a part time job whilst studying for my A Levels and this gave me the funds to start building my music collection.
Every Saturday morning, after finishing the morning shift at work, was spent in my local record shops in Newark; R&K, Inner Sleeve (later known as More Than Music) and Blitz.
Whilst at university, I created and ran the Dance Label Discography website, which later became LabelsUK.tk
http://web.archive.org/web/20030122043738/http://www.labelsuk.tk:80/
Although I was a student at the time, I still managed to find money to continue purchasing music from Woolworths, Andy's Records, Virgin and other retailers in Stafford.
Sadly, as the shops closed one by one, the purchasing moved to the Internet through HMV, CDZone, Juno, Action Records, Amazon, Gemm and eBay.
I've used Discogs as a resource for many years to help me build up my collection, but for reasons unbeknown even to me, I only got round to adding my collection in January 2009. Nine months and many long, tiresome nights later, I finally finished adding all 3,700 titles to my account.
The majority of my purchases were bought as new releases between 1997 and the late 2000's until the CD Single, as a format, ceased to exist in the UK.
I continue to add to my collection, however the frequency of purchases is now more sporadic.
I do not trade files; I’m only interested in physical releases.
None of my collection is for sale, although I may consider swapping for one of the releases below:
The Headliners - Who’s My DJ (1, 2, 3)?
[AM:PM]
CDAMPM124
Power Circle - A Little Love A Little Life
[Deep Distraxion/Edel UK]
EDEL 0090905DDX
Kim English - Learn II Love (CD1)
[Hi-Life]
571653-2
Kim English - Learn II Love (CD2)
[Hi-Life]
571651-2
Perpetual Motion - Rompa Stompa
[Radar/WEA]
WEA 301CDDJ
Tanya Louise - Deep In You
[Multiply]
CDMULTY 16
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Does anyone know the original source for the ‘get ready for some fireworks’ sample? It sounds a bit like it’s from a Transformer.
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Does anyone know where they lifted the ‘always rock the house’ sample from?
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The original Public Enemy ‘Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos’ sample has crowd noises in the background so they used the Genesis ‘Live’ crowd noise sample to make it sound seamless.
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Presumably the A side is the original mix, as The Maddladds (The Madd Ladds) were more akin to that style. I’ve seen a picture of Matt Frost’s DAT collection and its title is ‘Where Angels Fear’. This was supposed to be released on Ministry Of Sounds’...
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I remember seeing this and thought they proper ripped of the Stardust artwork.
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Amazingly I found that my copy was in the second flight case I checked. The CDr looks in the same condition as when I bought it. I’ve taken a new picture for the image here.
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Why do you say that? Do you think that the CDr will have deteriorated? Due to storage issues, my collection has been packed away for years, so not had chance to check them.
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Pump Panel were meant to remix ‘Blue Monday’ but turned it down as they were New Order fans, and couldn’t improve it. https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2019/02/blade-303
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Tracks 2 and 3 are remixed by Jules & Skins but uncredited on the inlay.
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This uses the same sample as Pianoheadz ‘It’s Over (Distortion)’.
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I’ve just seen this charted in the UK Top 100 singles at #94. https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19950813/7501/
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This interview with Sister Bliss is interesting, I never knew that Insomnia was created before Salva Mea, although later she mentions that they needed something to be the B-side to Salva Mea. It was signed to Island Records first, however it was just...
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Ah! Just realised that the Faithless remix was probably due to Ben Langmaid’s connection to Rollo & Sister Bliss. Only just connected through this YouTube wormhole as Sister Bliss mentions that Ben is Rollo’s producer-friend. https://youtu.be/CBxYEGLckvQ
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Dropped from being released, at the last minute, as Noel Gallagher decided to pull the plug.
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The vocal sample is taken from Eric B & Rakim ‘You Know I Got Soul’.
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Later released by just Jason Phats and re-vocalled by Ben Ofoedu.
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Story about the title for this is also mentioned here:- https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/cash-crunch-20020531-gdu99u.html
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A couple of Easy-E samples on the A-side, too! Still Talkin’ and 2 Hard Muthas.
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Just missed out the UK Top 75 and entered the chart at #79. https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19970525/7501/
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In the UK, Last Kiss was sent to fan club members as a Christmas freebie the previous year one can excuse the way it only reached Number 42 to rank as their only hit single ever to miss the Top 40. See number 22 here:...
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Later changed to Linbo 1 https://www.discogs.com/label/29481-Linbo-1-Records as show by the URL on release 3 here.
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Related to this label: https://www.discogs.com/label/1190610-LINBO LINBO 3 has the Linbo1.com URL on the label.
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I just checked the official UK Chart page and this didn’t do so well in the charts:-
27.10. 2007 TAKE OFF JACK ROKKA VS BETTY BOO GUSTO #92 It was played a bit on radio so I’m surprised it didn’t perform any better. |
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Originally an instrumental track called ‘The Killer’, this is the story behind the track; https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/11/how-we-made-killer
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It looks like the label name changed to Bubblin’ Blu on later releases; https://www.discogs.com/label/125631-Bubblin-Blu-Records
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Releases on this label are related to Bubblin’ Blu through the Blu2000 shown on some releases here plus The Chemist release is Nik Dresti: https://www.discogs.com/label/258458-BLU2000-Evolution
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moomintroll Hi Paul, what was the deal with Hasha? Was it ever meant to be a separate release from A.S.H.A.? |
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Agreed. Although the Shakra Mix of Power Circle is excellent.
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Hi Gez, I never knew that, thank you for letting me know. Did you make many other bootlegs? By the way your trance stuff was amazing. Heliotropic’s remix of Chicane ‘Lost You Somewhere’ and Tenth Planet ‘Ghosts’ are two of my all time faves.
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The acapella was sampled by Love Decade for ‘Dream On (Is This A Dream)’.
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Also released under a different artist name / title: https://www.discogs.com/South-Coast-Surfin/master/332718
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Also released as under a different artist name / title https://www.discogs.com/The-Beach-Bums-Phat-Vibrations/release/2573407
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[quote=Briankeys] So here's the thing. I made this record and when it was signed it was presented for Radio 1 playlisting December 1999 and we were told 'lets wait til Jan'. A new A&R came in and dropped the track. If I'd signed it 4 weeks prior,...
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Crazy, isn’t it?! They probably would lose less money that way, distribution and if they were on sale or return would mean that they ended up even more in the red. Although not every retailer was on sale or return I would expect. My local independent...
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Mucho Mambo was set for commercial release only for the copyright holders of the Clooney track to refuse permission for the sample to be used commercially. This led to PPL slapping a total moratorium on the track, no radio or TV station could use it...
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Is this the version with the original Rosemary Clooney sample?
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This release was chart ineligible due to the packaging. To quote James Masterton ‘Fragile Thing only made Number 69 last week when the sleeve of one of the CD formats was found to contain "too many folds" and was thus chart ineligible.’...
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You are right, thank you! I get their tracks mixed up sometimes.
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Some versions have a ‘say that again’ sample near the start of the track. This is sampled from Back To The Future.
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James Masterton said that Jeff Patterson (2) worked on this track (vocals?) but there is no mention in the credits. Anyone know if this is true? Source: number 17 here: https://chart-watch.uk/archives/1999/week-ending-july-31st-1999
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Like so many on Deep Distraxion. And when there was a CDS then it was rare, e.g. Power Circle ‘A Little Love A Little Life’ and that had the backing of Edel too.
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The A-side fuses Julio Bashmore ‘Au Seve’ with the Blackstreet track in the title. The B-side is a remix of Finley Quaye.
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This is https://www.discogs.com/artist/6635478-Matt-Frost-4 who has been responsible for numerous dance music aliases.
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The ‘vocalist’ behind ATB’s first two worldwide hits, 9 PM (Till I Come) and Don’t Stop.
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A fine tribute to the famous nineties Liverpool superclub of the same name.
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AM:PM really messed up the artist name for this release. The original white label (HUZZ 1) was credited to C.M. V’s ? which meant Curtis Mayfield Versus ? (which turned out to be Trickster). Why AM:PM thought they needed to call them Trickster...
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Matt Frost confirmed on YT that Imajica was a project for MOS compilation tracks only. Sadly Sol and The Big Blue were never released on vinyl. They are hopefully going to become available digitally at some point in the near future.
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It sounds like they’ve used the same synth patch on the radio edit (https://youtu.be/16fQP3E0Uis). Also used the same zoom fx as in Rockafeller Skank.
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