#25. Super_Collider – Darn (Cold Way O' Lovin') DJ Harvey remixes [Loaded Records 1998]

Price on Discogs: £1.99

Right, it's about time we had some DJ Harvey action in this blog. He's got stacks of good records from the 90's lollying about online for the price of a pint but this one needs your attention. Here we have not one but two remixes on one 12". What a bargain.

While the original isn't a bad track per se it unfortunately gets totally overshadowed by Harvey's 2 remixes here who grunges the whole thing up splendidly. Taking Jamie Lidell's wonderful vocals and relaying them over a heavy break he then pulls out the original elements and puts them through his sonic blender to create a dancefloor bomb. His 'Collision Course mix' (below) is the one you want for ultimate dancefloor carnage but if you really wannt tear down the walls head for Harvey's 'Sudden Impact Dub' to leave no mother fucker standing. This record has been cut so bloomin' loud it absolute slaps through a big rig.

Do yourself a favour and get yourself an early Christmas pressie and watch em run up to the decks bending your ear for it.

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https://www.discogs.com/release/14011-Super_Collider-Darn-Cold-Way-O-Lovin

#24. Kaidi Tatham feat. Izzi Dunn – Betcha' did [Bitasuite 2001]

Price on Discogs: £3.99

Ok time to go on the record. This might be my favourite ever broken beat record of all-time. A quarter of a century on it's lost none of its power and sums up the best of the genre when it was at its most creative. The scene was still in its infancy and the man like Kaidi seemed to be on every record that was coming out of west London. A true musical titan whose other-worldly skills shone the brightest on this Bitasweet release. Syncopated rhythms and shuffling basslines coupled with the soaring vocals from Izzi Dunn and a drum workout that continues to test any dancefloor it's dropped on. How do you even dance to it?! I still have trouble but what a groove. Remixes came from Landslide (killer garage re-rub) and that don of dons IG Culture but the original still shines and will be the best fiver you've spent on a record in ages. Do it.

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#23. Cooly's Hotbox – Make me happy (DJ Spinna remix) [Sole Music 1998]

Price on Discogs: £4.95

Leeeeeave it aaaaaht. It's been almost exactly one year since my last entry. What a slacker. Right, let's get stuck right back into the bargain bin then with this slice of hip hop from (checks calendar) 25 fucking years ago. Gawds sake. Totally passed me by in 1998 and I only got put onto this about a year or so ago from fellow MyHouseYourHouse radio host Alex Traska but this one rubbed me up in all the right places. Where to start? Well DJ Spinna rarely puts a foot wrong does he but sometimes we forget about his killer hip hop/downtempo stuff of which there is TONS out there to check but that sample of Gwen Guthrie's "Seventh heaven" just leaves my head in a complete spin. Dreamy as hell. This one only *just* qualified for my 'under a fiver rule' so don't hang about and get this in yer grid.

Bunged this in my recent Noodle Hotpot Hip Hop special show which you can listen to here.

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