The which-mix problem… how will dance music compile it’s history?

ie. its very difficult to get hold of jonny l's hurt you so or eq's total xstacy. even on reissue. but these were not obscure records, they were played out at huge raves all through 92, were on every tape, massive anthems. but, reynoldsians aside, have been written out of history.

see also sonz of a loop da loop era, who went top 40. countless very popular records, but removed from history

In ten years time - Simon can write Energy Flash part 2.

I suspect that we’ll get the history told via Oakenfold and Rampling (which won’t be bad but very particular in its vision).

I suppose the sort of questions that interest me are whether the picture is getting over-simplified - has Fun Fun, Taffy & the whole Italian disco house 1987 phenomenon been remembered and if so do historians know which were the key mixes at the time (and does that matter)?

I do wonder how on earth I would approach the period if I was sixteen. Would it just be too complicated to bother with? Who would I trust? I feel that way about Northern soul – I simply don’t know where to begin with it, so I never have really, beyond the odd compilation. Dub has always been similarly complex and though I have at times got quite heavily submerged, I do feel at the mercy of the compilers (as does Reynolds if his best of 2000 is to be believed).