Ali Moosa Tagged me to do my 10 most influential albums. 01. - Ace of Base The Sign 02. - Fatboy Slim Youve Come a Long Way Baby 03. - Cirrus Back on a Mission 04. - Roni Size & Reprazent In the Mode 05. - Ram Trilogy Molten Beats 06. - Ed Rush & Optical Wormhole 07. - Bad Company - Inside the Machine 08. - Hospital Records - Hospital 100 09. - Citrus Recordings - Juice Blender 10. - The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die These can act as bullet points on my musical journey, to what my current tastes are. House music was my first love, and Ace of Base was the first house/techno album I ever heard. I didnt even like the title track that much, but the I could listen to the entire CD from start to finish and it opened my world to electronica. Fatboy Slim, became a favorite when I was in college, and with Tower Records and HMV being across the street from school, I was able to get into more underground sounds and stumble across Cirrus and a host of ofter artists from Moonshine records at the time. I taught myself to dance by listening to Back of a Mission in my moms kitchen. LOL. Those were good days. Eventually digging through underground music at Tower, I would discover the love of my life, Drum n Bass. Again it was the moonshine DJs mixed CDs like from the likes of Dara, AK1200, and Dieselboy the would open my eyes to the world of DnB. Specifically AK1200 as he is the first DJ I ever listened to, and Fully Automatic (which isnt listed because Im not putting any mixes on this list except one) is the first time I heard a DnB DJ mix set. I was intrigued by this new music and I was fortunate enough to have this curiosity in the midst of the golden years of DnB, so I fell in love with Ram Records, Bad Company (UK), the Virus boys, and they were the back bone of the music which is still the soundtrack to my life. Fast forward to 2006 six and my days at the record story reward with with a gem of a purchase, Hospital 100. The only DJ mix on my list. If you know me, you know I love liquid and soulful sounding DnB. This release celebrated Hospital putting out 100 hundred releases. I wasnt very into liquid at the time, but this made me the fan I am today. Also around this time, Transit was happening at the Mark Ultralounge and Ant Mayhem has his 404 Audio record store. This to me was the heyday of Neurofunk. It was when this sound really embraced harder drums and a more high energy than what we had from the early Virus stuff. It became incendiary, and today its still a sound I really enjoy more than most and the Juice Blender album still stands out to me as a pure description of that sound. Finally on my list is Invaders Must Die. Its the most recent Prodigy album and listening to it reminds me of all the big beat and breaks i listed to in the 90s but with the clean production of today. Its also where my heart is with music. I still listen to and enjoy new and current things, but theres a period from 1997 to 2003 that resonates with me more than anything, so I always embrace the present while treasuring the past. If you read all this shit, then thank you and hope you enjoyed my ramble.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 01:53:54 +0000
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