Chapter Two
Living a Dream
18 records, in the order the book names them
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001
Pump Up The Volume
M/A/R/R/S
Enabled by the arrival of cheap samplers like the Casio SK1, and usually recorded for next to nothing, these DJ records stormed the pop charts, starting with M/A/R/R/S’s Number One smash ‘Pump Up The Volume’ in late 1987 and continuing into early 1988 with Bomb The Bass’s Number Two hit ‘Beat Dis’ and S’Express’s Number One hit ‘Theme from S’Express’.
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Beat Dis
Bomb The Bass
Enabled by the arrival of cheap samplers like the Casio SK1, and usually recorded for next to nothing, these DJ records stormed the pop charts, starting with M/A/R/R/S’s Number One smash ‘Pump Up The Volume’ in late 1987 and continuing into early 1988 with Bomb The Bass’s Number Two hit ‘Beat Dis’ and S’Express’s Number One hit ‘Theme from S’Express’.
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Theme from S
Raze
Enabled by the arrival of cheap samplers like the Casio SK1, and usually recorded for next to nothing, these DJ records stormed the pop charts, starting with M/A/R/R/S’s Number One smash ‘Pump Up The Volume’ in late 1987 and continuing into early 1988 with Bomb The Bass’s Number Two hit ‘Beat Dis’ and S’Express’s Number One hit ‘Theme from S’Express’.
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Theme
Unique 3
S’Express was Mark Moore, and ‘Theme’ was a kind of reward from Rhythm King Records for the DJs unofficial A & R work for the label, which brought them successful club acts like Renegade Soundwave, The Beatmasters and The Cookie Crew.
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Acid Man
Jolly Roger
The other early homegrown acid smash – ‘Acid Man’ by Jolly Roger (DJ Eddie Richards in disguise) – was a bit better, featuring genuine 303 squelch-a-rama and a prim matronly voice that commands, ‘Stop that infernal racket, I mean NOW!’ Better still, Humanoid’s ‘Stakker Humanoid’ – Number Seventeen in December 1988 – was a terrific surge of acieed-meets-techno, as lithe and deadly as a bionic cheetah.
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Stakker Humanoid
Humanoid
The other early homegrown acid smash – ‘Acid Man’ by Jolly Roger (DJ Eddie Richards in disguise) – was a bit better, featuring genuine 303 squelch-a-rama and a prim matronly voice that commands, ‘Stop that infernal racket, I mean NOW!’ Better still, Humanoid’s ‘Stakker Humanoid’ – Number Seventeen in December 1988 – was a terrific surge of acieed-meets-techno, as lithe and deadly as a bionic cheetah.
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Oochy Koochy
Baby Ford
Baby Ford – buddy of Mark Moore and a then rising British house producer with near-hits like ‘Oochy Koochy’ – made this parallel in his album track ‘Poem For Wigan’.
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Big Fun
Inner City
The single from the compilation – Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City track ‘Big Fun’ – was a huge hit; the follow-up, the glassy shimmer-funk of ‘Good Life’, was even bigger.
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Good Life
Inner City
The single from the compilation – Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City track ‘Big Fun’ – was a huge hit; the follow-up, the glassy shimmer-funk of ‘Good Life’, was even bigger.
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Strings of Life
Derrick May
While Saunderson and singer Paris Grey were being treated like stars, Juan Atkins’s Model 500 tracks and Derrick May’s ‘Strings of Life’ and ‘Nude Photo’ ruled the underground.
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Nude Photo
Derrick May
While Saunderson and singer Paris Grey were being treated like stars, Juan Atkins’s Model 500 tracks and Derrick May’s ‘Strings of Life’ and ‘Nude Photo’ ruled the underground.
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Energy Dawn
Flowmasters
After making his UK debut at 6 a.m. in front of 25,000 people at an Energy mega-rave, he wrote the track ‘Energy Dawn’ as a tribute, telling iD: ‘England is fantasy land.’ For the rest of the summer, he became a regular on the British rave circuit, spending two weeks in New York then two weeks in the UK. ‘It happened so big and so fast that nobody knew what it was right away, everything was peace, love and unity,’ he says now.
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Let The Music Use You
Nightwriters
Musically, there was still some crossover between the Balearic scene and the rave circuit: tracks like Nightwriters’s ‘Let The Music Use You’, Lil Louis’s orgasmotronic epic ‘French Kiss’, Ce Ce Rogers’s ‘Someday’ and 10 City’s ‘Devotion’ were anthems on both sides of the divide.
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Someday
Ce Ce Rogers
Musically, there was still some crossover between the Balearic scene and the rave circuit: tracks like Nightwriters’s ‘Let The Music Use You’, Lil Louis’s orgasmotronic epic ‘French Kiss’, Ce Ce Rogers’s ‘Someday’ and 10 City’s ‘Devotion’ were anthems on both sides of the divide.
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Devotion
Sueno Latino
Musically, there was still some crossover between the Balearic scene and the rave circuit: tracks like Nightwriters’s ‘Let The Music Use You’, Lil Louis’s orgasmotronic epic ‘French Kiss’, Ce Ce Rogers’s ‘Someday’ and 10 City’s ‘Devotion’ were anthems on both sides of the divide.
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French Kiss
Lil Louis & The World
Musically, there was still some crossover between the Balearic scene and the rave circuit: tracks like Nightwriters’s ‘Let The Music Use You’, Lil Louis’s orgasmotronic epic ‘French Kiss’, Ce Ce Rogers’s ‘Someday’ and 10 City’s ‘Devotion’ were anthems on both sides of the divide.
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Numero Uno
Starlight
Starlight’s ‘Numero Uno’ and Black Box’s ‘Ride On Time’ were the big chart hits.
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Ride On Time
Black Box
Starlight’s ‘Numero Uno’ and Black Box’s ‘Ride On Time’ were the big chart hits.
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