Method Air, last tune after lights up, some girl had stomped on two beer cans to make improvised tap shoes and proceeded to dance some mental moves to this…
Body & Soul, first time I’d heard this, one of the most electric moments and the best dancers I’ve witnessed. Still gives me massive goosebumps… one of my all time favourites.
This track will always remind me of the Happy Mondays/808 State, The Rave Is On gig at the GMEX in Manchester in the spring of 1990, the Jam MCs were DJing, warming the crowd up before 808 came on, they played this early on & it sounded absolutely huge in that massive space.
I was 14 yo & had only been to school discos where some mobile DJ played Top 40 & we got pissed on Thunderbird, tried to cop off & never, ever danced, so to see thousands of people dancing to a hardcore rap track I’d only ever heard played on the local rap shows, with an incredible atmosphere blew my tiny mind.
That Fred P record was played by the man himself at a day party on the boat in 2012. Antal, Jus Ed and Theo Parrish were on the bill that night, but Fred hands down stole the show.
I first heard that out at Sky Club in Radford 30/04/1999, not quite as exotic but it was a good night.
Had bought it couple of days before.
TBH I thought it was a fairly formulaic UR track, amazed when it took after a year or so later. I bought E Dancer - Banjo same day and much prefer that.
Strangers was the first song in my first set in my first gig, it will forever remind me of a since deceased club here in SĂŁo Paulo called Trackers which was just the best place ever, even though the soundsystem was shit and everyone dancing made the needle skip like popcorn on a pan.
