Taking Sides: Remarc's TNT vs. Sticky's Triplets

Also, I'm really starting to get into this style of garage. Mixed into a set, it drives the energy up a few levels and then cuts loose before it begins to get even slightly redundant. These tracks also have a sort of wild abstraction, with the rhythm folding in on itself and reinventing itself for a good three minutes at a time... so the dancefloor frenzy feels almost as much from the complexity as the hardness of the beat, like I'm trying to catch up to where I'm not sure if its going.

Of the three, "Triplets", but it's a very near thing. I don't dislike any of these tracks, but I don't yearn to hear them spun when I'm out either. They're probably the most enjoyable examples of mono- flavour garage I can think of; the catch is that "mono-flavour" is something of a put-down from me.

To be honest I prefer something like DJ Zinc's 138 Trek (Zed Bias Mix) or Wookie's instrumental of "Back Up Back Up Back Up" - less bouncy, admittedly, but more succulent, which I guess is what counts for me.

P.S. Sticky *so* works best with vocalists. His remix of Pay As U Go Kartel's "Champagne Dance" is fantastic, like "Triplets" but captivating rather than interesting.

P.P.S. Sterling it's dark more than bouncy, but search Ras Kwame's remix of Jon Cutler's "It's Yours". Going out on a limb I might say that the Ras Kwame/London Dodgers axis are perhaps the most musically interesting "street" producers at the moment - I mean, how much of an all-round mindfuck is "Down Down Bizzniz"?

got my self together - dnd. well, what do you mean by instrumental?

really dont like triplets.

i like the sounds of da future mix of 'wheres your head at'.

When it comes to SotF tracks, it's all about the original self-titled white label which is hard as all fuck to find right now. Much like their rmx. of "Where's Your Head At", but with a super-hip-shaking bassline and brilliant not-quite-dark bleeps and vocal samples. Supposedly it got picked up by a major label, but there's been no sign of it since last fall.