Foremost Poets-Tell me more about these dudes, although if you didn't like my Groove Armada thread I guess this one is also doomed to failure.

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Pressin' On-Big sinister b-movie string intro, making it THE GREATEST SET OPENER EVER!!!!!!!! One of those big deep evil intros that you hear in a club that's kind of scary and exciting at the same time, really throws down the gauntlet, "think I can't whip you all into a frenzy in the next 30 minutes?". Also it's the kind of ambitious set opener that some top DJ would spin after the support DJ had gone off as if to say "enough of this pussy footing around".

Moonraker-Well it's just a fucking bastard tough house track with some lunatic saying "this is only a test" over it. Nice.

Now can someone tell me if that track that goes "and the motherfuckin' saga continues" is a Foremost Poets track? Anyone? Help me. Speaking of Help Me, it's a poor single but there's a great Deep Dish remix on it, oh yes. I think Foremost Poets are on good old Junior by the way, this is not very important but it is if you've been thinking that C-Mos record on Junior was hot along with Minimal Funk's Definition of House.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 25 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah it's right there at the 2 minute mark where the beat comes in that I can just imagine an entire crowd of people doing crazy shit, this feels like a perfect "let the journey begin" DJ trick. It's odd because that "and the motherfuckin saga continues" record is a really middle of the set thumper, I mean are these guys trying to mix just their own records or something. This should all go on my blog where 10 people might actually appreciate it a week, but anyhow.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 25 November 2002 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of Help Me, it's a poor single but there's a great Deep Dish remix on it, oh yes

Actually, I liked the album version (which is the "orginal mix" on the 12", right?) better than the Deep Dish mix.

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 25 November 2002 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose you already found this?

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 25 November 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

foremost poets is one man, johnny dangerous. "moonraker" is ace. started off with "reasons to be dismal" on the classic and defunkt record label nu groove but if you'd clicked on siegbran's link you'd already know this. a genu-wine dance maverick. incidentally, the new single "open season" looks sure to soundtrack your festive period.

this is more like it, btw, ronan.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Hold on my mp3 which is called Pressin' On has a sample through it going "reasons to be dismal". Is this an ERRONEOUS title?

Do any of you know anything about that "motherfuckin saga continues" record?

I must check out the new single, I probably will know it but need to hear to confirm.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

you know those tracks that you hate but they keep turning up in otherwise good sets,just to wreck your head?
moonraker is one of those...i have an otherwise impeccable adam beyer mix which has it at the start,and it does seem to crop up every so often...there's something about the vocal that just irritates me so much,"the ying,the yang,the positive,the negate,blahblah..."its such meaningless shite...
i was at a party recently where a fight nearly started because some guy who couldn't really mix got up and started his set with moonraker,the floor cleared more or less instantly,and after his set he insisted on taking his mixer,in a display of "it's my ball and i'm taking it home" petulance...probably none of this was anything to do with his choice of opening track,shoddy mixing and muck tunes in general was no doubt the reason,but i chose to see it as my hatred of that track being in some way vindicated...
fairly pointless and unhelpful post there,but i couldn't leave a thread to do with moonraker pass me by without comment...

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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