The 2step hits poll

Can everyone stop getting shurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttttt?

Someone has done something really similar to this, maybe Pure Garage - Rewind back to the old school?

I think I went for Crazy love then, going for Sweet FA now.

I'm voting For Sweet Like Chocolate, as there's something wonderfully unjaded about it, and it never fails to put a big stupid grin on my face. Big shout out to Movin Too Fast as well, for being perfectly crafted ear candy.

Did you know that Doolally and Shanks & Bigfoot were one and the same? I didn't till just now.

Went for DJ Pied Piper, UK hip-hop REPRESENT.

p.s. where are wideboys? :'(

Knew I missed something, sorry.

Some-a call them, Ein-stein, they're a lyrical Don.

no B15 Project is a shame

FLOWERS FLOWERS FLOWERS FLOWERS

Writing in B-15 Project - "Girls Like Us". There are really some glaring omissions here.

No B15 no cred. Voted for a little bit of luck though.

no "it ain't enough"?!?!?!?! that would have got my vote. as it is, i'll have to think about this one for a minute.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i went with "Crazy Love", i started my first ever 2-step mix off with that joint. i'm not sure that it is actually better than other songs on there, but it holds a special place in my heart.

Yeah, "Flowers".

I went "Flowers", because it's the second most recent single (after "Digital Love") which I ever think might be the greatest ever.

I will be the only one that votes for "Sincere."

With Craig David all over your...

neighbourhood - zed bias

yeah, no "girls like us"...? It's "Flowers" then.

I will be the only one that votes for "Sincere."

-- Mr. Snrub

er...no you won't. it's the only one i can recall to be honest. except for Sweet Like Chocolate and i really can't bring myself to go there.

^^^ Gothtards Parade

I'm another one who would have voted B15 Project, and it's a pity that Wookie's "Battle" got missed. (Also, where's Lonyo "Summer Of Love" and Tru Faith & Dub Conspiracy "Freak Like Me"?)

Anyhow, I'm voting for the super-smooth old-school "Sincere".

I still don't really 'get' 2-step but Moving Too Fast is an astonishing record, better than anything else here by a mile.

"Sweet Like Chocolate" because it's one of the great number ones and also the record Madonna should have made in 1999.

I also missed out the Mis-Teeq laydeez. Maybe someone with a better memory than me should redo this poll.

Neighbourhood and Battle weren't really chart 'hits' were they?

Oxide & Neutrino's "Up Middle Finger" was a hit tho, would've liked the chance to think about voting for that before voting for "Flowers" anyway. "Movin' Too Fast" was probably my number 2.

I totally get 2 Step but hate 'Moving Too Fast', oddly.

Neighbourhood and Battle weren't really chart 'hits' were they?

#25 and #10 respectively

Yeah Mis-Teeqs are missing, as are "Out Of Your Mind" and "Bodygroove" and "Gotta Get Thru This", and I'd say "Fill Me In" belongs here too.

I've voted for "Flowers" but it's a very near thing obv.

like:
Re-Rewind - Artful Dodger
Woman Trouble - Artful Dodger
Please Don't Turn Me On - Artful Dodger
Sincere - MJ Cole
Straight From the Heart - Doolally
Bound For Da Reload - Oxide & Neutrino (but hated at the time becuz thought it was cheap and dated!)
Sweet Like Chocolate - Shanks & Bigfoot
I'll Bring You Flowers - Sweet Female Attitude

no like:
Movin Too Fast - Artful Dodger
Think About Me - Artful Dodger (don't remember this tho)
TwentyFourSeven - Artful Dodger (ditto - was it the one with Mel All Saints?)
Crazy Love - MJ Cole
A Little Bit of Luck - Luck & Neat
Master Blaster - Luck & Neat
No Good 4 Me - Oxide & Neutrino
Do You Really Like It - DJ Pied Piper

I tended to like what degree of male soul (as opposed to the MC-led stuff) element there was to 2 Step, as if a wilful contrary reaction to the perceived 'girliness' otherwise abundant.

Surprised about Battle (re chart positions), recall it as yer typical underground smash that didn't actually cross over to the charts. I could always look these things up before posting, but hey ho

it doesn't seem like it was as big (at least chartwise) as it was tho yes

Yeah I didn't like "Bound For Da Reload" much at the time either - I don't think it sounds much like an MC record, although the version without the "Casualty" sample does more (and is superior - or at least is the version that got me into the tune).

Loved "Oh No" and "No Good 4 Me" immediately though.

I'm probably the only person here who likes "Master Blaster".

i like 'Devil's Nightmare'. gothstep deserved a better chance.

Heh, Sweet Female Attitude are doing a live PA of 'Flowers' in my wonderful home town this Thursday. Sunship are playing as well!

Back To '00!

Are you going to go? You should go.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

You should go, Mencap. I should imagine it would be tremendously melancholic, in its way, after all this time.

In practically any other circumstances I'd have voted for "Sweet Like Chocolate". "A Little Bit of Luck" is also wonderful, but what chance did it stand in this company?

master blaster is great btw

i need to track down mj cole - sincere, the album. it was great start to finish iirc - a nice blend of smooth and complicated/fidgity.

my favorite 2-step track of all time is "something in your eyes"

and "girls like us" and "destiny"

but now that i look at this, it looks like maybe this poll is just for 2-step that got on the UK pop charts?

Ha ha Deej I thought I was the only person who loved Masterblaster!

if i can deal with a thong song cover i can deal with a stevie one!

rockist joek obv but why do people hate masterblaster??

Hey guys this isn't some random "tim champions his favourite lost causes" ish, this genuinely is one of the finest pieces of music ever made, but after over a decade of searching I've only just found it as a standalone.

The Dreem Teem - In Session Vol 2 (1997)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4jo167

1. Kwesi - Lovely (Dreem Teem Bounce Mix) 3:44
2. Dreem Teem - The Theme (Dreem Teem Main Dub) 3:26
3. Ordinary People - Keep Your Love Away 2:41
4. Anthill Mob - I Know You Know 3:10
5. Damage - Love Lady (Da Funkstarz Epic Camouflage Dub) 5:09
6. Dem 2 - Destiny (Sleepless) 3:38
7. 4 Deep Connextion - Twisted Future 3:12
8. Groove In Motion - Electric Runnings 2:53
9 .Somore - I Refuse (RIP Mix) 3:00
10. Chris Mack - Set It Off 3:29
11. Maria Nayler - Naked And Sacred (R.I.P Wah Wah Dub) 4:21
12. Jay Williams - Testify (Tuff Jam '2 In 1' Dub) 2:12
13. Booom! - Hold Your Head Up High (Julian Jonah's Bad Boy Mix) 4:35
14. New Horizons - It's My House (Bashment Mix) 4:20
15. Double 99 - Ripgroove (Original Mix) 3:25
16. Amira - My Desire (Dreem Teem Mix) 2:47
17. Scott Garcia feat. MC Styles - A London Thing 4:22
18. MVP - Pray (Dreem Teem Remix) 4:36
19. Underground Solution feat. Cover Girl - Tears 3:53
20. Dreem Teem - The Theme (Deep Dreams Dub) 1:11

My very first 2-step compilation, picked it up in about mid-1999 and fair to say it changed my life. Actually from 1997 and right on the cusp of speed garage into 2-step and pretty fucking seminal IMO - from the delicious bumpiness of tracks 1, 2, 6 and 10 to the booming massiveness of 13 to the overloaded ridiculousness of 14 to the can't fuck with anthemism of 15 to the yet-another-best-track-in-history gorgeousness of 16 (that 4 track run is basically the finest run of music ever perhaps).

do u really like it is it is it wicked

One tune I really wish I still had:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEOMgPXfdcs

ALSO THIS. The Artful Dodger sound circa 1999 was pretty much perfect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7KKDwp3Lzg

http://www.mediafire.com/?8umlzixz1n4si8d .flac

Woah.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=mediafire+site:www.dahousehead.org

;)

(zvook r u signed up there btw? i couldn't see where myself)

no, u can read em by using google cache. i loled at the guy saying, i didn't upload the other one because it's naff.

Monsieur F, with these 2step mixes you are really spoiling us.

Can't believe this tune is from 1997, still sounds like the future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHfaohV8DHY

Some more underrated early 2-step classics:

Anthill Mob - Don't Leave Me
http://www.sendspace.com/file/z22xmk

N-Tyce - Telefunkin' (First Steps Remix)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/g9ip8x

Ramsey & Fen - Always (Vocal Bump Mix)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/o829ie

Chris Mack - Tear It Up
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mkqkk3

Anthill Mob - Listen
http://www.sendspace.com/file/u3yotk

Alpha Omega - Rhythm Takes Control (Steve Gurley Remix)
http://www.mediafire.com/?n2ibh3bwjsi

Steve Gurley - Walk On By
http://www.mediafire.com/?imnty5lzn2t

Tim this is a fucking goldmine. You the man.

Time between me reading about the "Telefunkin" remix and me actually hearing it: 11.5 years.

Pretty sure I bought that Tingles for the Gurley mix, but passed over that Artful remix - but it sounds pretty good on my laptop.

oh man my fav jam finally made it to youtube ... i spent way too much getting a vinyl copy of the 1st sound of the pirates (all the tracks on it were unmixed) so I could get this... it didnt exist on mp3 as far as I could tell!! the only way you could get it was the clipped 3 minute mixed version from the pirates CD, which missed out on the awesome instrumental part in the 2nd half of the song. I like this so much more than the rdj original. so amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO5_VW1Lv3o

(the dope-ass instrumental part cut from the sound of the pirates mix starts at like 3:20 or just after)

What's the song? I can't see the youtube clip at work.

oh sorry -- roy davis jr - 'gabriel' large joints remix

vocals by chicago's own peven everett iirc

This is amazing fiyah.

http://www.4shared.com/audio/Y30jHjds/Roy_Davis_Jr_-_Gabriel__Large_.html?

Yeah love this one.

big ups rtc and deej

Rev have you not heard The Sound of the Pirates?

No. I'm basically totally ignorant about dance music from before I got into dance music.

I must correct this. The Gabriel remix is a pretty good indicator of the sound of much of the mix.

fuck i really need to listen to tim's mixes

Dreem Teem In Session #2 (posted upthread) was nearly my choice for J0rdan S listening club, ruled out on the technicality of being late 1997.

i have third dimension (disc 2) on my comp

fwiw I have bumping this like hella since I heard it on the local r&b station's old school hour a while back. Don't remember hearing it at the time tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvrFmUfAyjU

Coochy Coo the X-Men Remixes 12"
a review by gareth metford of
release format Coochy Coo the X-Men Remixes 12" by En-Core (CD Album)

text
For pop music, the gothic has proved both an enduring source of imagery and, more importantly, a repository of moods unattainable without reference to that sense, articulated so cogently by H.P. Lovecraft, that "human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos at large". In dance music, it was largely the advent of electronics which enabled producers to begin to access the gothic stance: from Jamie Principle's shell-shocked 'Baby Wants to Ride', which posits both love and God as fictive elements in "a fascist dream", to Dom & Roland's scouringly bleak future-world schematics, its materialist, anti-soul aesthetic has been a frequent visitor to clubland ever since. X-men's 2-step remixes of 'Coochy Coo', originally a rather mundane four-to-the-floor stomper which would not sound out of place on daytime Radio 1, reside squarely in this tradition. Both their 'Club Mix' and their 'Dancefloor Dub' revolve around a slithery, sub-centric bassline pinioned by an ominous arpeggiated synth refrain, seemingly lifted directly from one of John Carpenter's DIY horror soundtracks. However, it is the vocals which really trip one up: drenched in breathy atmospherics, they slip and slide, flicker and blur with an expressiveness one does not really expect from UK garage, sounding at times more akin to Swans' Jarboe or Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard than the usual mellifluous R&B divas. In speaking so powerfully of an individual human subject, they recall Marx's assertion that human emancipation begins with a rejection of religion's doctrine of ineffable spirit - with the understanding that, to quote Lovecraft again, "matter, it appears, really is exactly what 'spirit' was always supposed to be."

Posted by gareth metford at 00:00, 29 May 2000

Ladies and gentlemen, gareth metford.

oh idk, it rather caught me up in a nostalgic tide. all that millenial crit swag washed away by lolz and imo's like tears in the rain. who was gareth metford irl then, and who would he be in print now? a titchy, a jimi, a dog latin perhaps. but back then was he not so much more than himself! look upon him, wings spread and soaring over the cultural wasteland, a mutant superbeing irradiated by books n shit. to the air gareth! take to the air once more!

http://sonomu.net/text/~678/

oh alright, never mind.

that x-men remix he's on about is banging tho alie

http://hulkshare.com/n0avklciujw8

since it's not on the tubes

told me to download this http://www.allmusic.com/album/ayia-napa-the-album-r494321/review

& sent me links to various songs in this poll

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:20 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man this mix is so good!

Yeah it's one of my favourite mixes ever.

A five woman choir did an accapella version of Flowers at my brother's wedding the other week. Goosebumps.

That sounds incredible and what a great, original idea!

http://www.allmusic.com/album/ayia-napa-the-album-r494321/review

glass houses and all that but is this review even in english, i'm struggling here

I think he was sent a flyer for "Ayia Napa: the Tour".

what i really really want are unmixed versions of all the 2-step hits - i have many mixes with them already. both 2-step and grime could really use some decent curation.

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, 31 January 2011 13:45 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why has this not happened yet to 2-step?

gareth metford still otm

it looks like gareth metford has an album out!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Urban-Lanscapes/dp/B00KFNB8DA

http://www.discogs.com/Degrading-The-Image-Involuntary-Response-Degrading-The-Image-Involuntary-Response/release/3004872

this guy

No votes for Bound 4 da reload wtf

Man, Dreem Teem In Session #2... why has it taken me 17 years to get a copy of this and listen to it? Incredible.