the last couple of days have seen me going through piles of records i no longer want. stuff i bought between the late 90's and early 00's. i used to buy a lot of progressive house and (ssssh, don't tell anyone...trance). i'd always bought (what i considered) great house/techno/hip-hop but with the drugs available at the time prog/trance just seemed to sound great. totally buzzing my nut off to these tracks just seemed to make sense. we'd go out to a club, come back and carry on taking pills whilst playing these tracks in the background. one of the lad's used to throw great parties and him, me and another lad would play the tunes. fucking great times ! it's all in the past now and i know it'll never be like that again. we're either married, got kids, moved away or just don't fancy drugs anymore...
so now i'm left with all these records i don't like. i must have liked them at the time but listening to some of them now, 12, 10, 8, 6 years later some of them are complete and utter garbage. ah well, i suppose it'll leave me more room for some great new records ! by the time i've finished the clearout i reckon i'll be taking about five hundred shit records to the second hand shop. i've talked to the bloke at the shop and explained i don't want any money, i just want rid. he's happy to oblige. best of all my dad's happy after i cleared a load from his house, "that ceiling's going to come through one day" he used to say. mrs smackhead is also happy, the guest room has been my record room for too long (apparently). problem is, as soon as i'm clearing stuff out i'm getting new stuff in. i was down the second hand shop the other day and some fella dumped an ace disco collection, whilst another brought in his old house stuff. what is a record junkie to do ? you guessed it...
on with the show. one of the best things about blogging is that i have to go through stuff i haven't listened to in years in order to find something i'd like you to hear. i also find stuff i no longer like and wonder why i bought it in the first place (see above). today's track is an absolute belter from a time when the americans were releasing killer after killer and made a trip to 3-beat records in liverpool an absolute joy ! in 1993 masters at work released the hardrive e.p. which had a lead track called deep inside. this absolutely slayed club nights up and down the country. a year later the original track (from which it was taken) came out (kenny and louie had obviously taken some of their remix session stuff and released it themselves, something todd terry used to do with his unreleased project series of e.p.'s). just by looking at the credits you know it's a winner. written by louie vega, lem springsteen (mood II swing), india and ms tucker herself. produced by louie vega. backing vocals by byron stingily (ten city), india, kenny bobien, carol sylvan, michael watford...it's like a who's who of u.s. house music.
in the course of doing this post i also find that beautiful people earn 12% more than their counterparts (source: the independent) and are a source of anxiety for their normal looking colleagues/friends (source: bbc). and...brad and angelina are apparently the world's most beautiful couple (source: people magazine). unbelievable stuff. you, my friends, are all beautiful in my eyes because you drop by here. this is for you.
barbara tucker - beautiful people (underground network mix)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/647825184d4da5/
