Chapter Five

Fight for Your Right to Party

3 records, in the order the book names them

• 001

  Rush In The House

  Xenophobia

  The insolent, uncouth voice on ‘Doet’ belong to MC Scallywag, whose mischievous rewrite of The Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me’ (‘Ectsasy, it’s really got me now . . . got me so I don’t know what I’m doing’) is the hook in Xenophobia’s ‘Rush In The House’, another of that summer’s ’ardkore anthems.

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• 002

  Anti

  Autechre

  There were protest records, too: an EP called ‘Repetitive Beats’ by Retribution (a gaggle of dancefloor luminaries including members of The Drum Club, System 7 and Fun-Da-Mental), and Autechre’s ‘Anti’ EP, whose lead track ‘Flutter’ was programmed to have deliberately fitful rhythms, in order to bypass the CJB’s clause about ‘the emission of a succession of repetitive beats’.

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• 003

  Accident in Paradise

  Sven Vath

  At the same time, the Goa ‘vibe’ was filtering back to Europe (literally, when DJ – producer Sven Vath used a portable DAT-recorder to sample jungle atmospheres for his Accident in Paradise album) as a specific post-rave sound.

  Eye Q/Warners
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