Friday, 7 April 2023

How could we ever forget? (How great this is!)

Blue Amazon were pretty amazing and everything that touched was just supreme.

This is right up their with some of their best.

Strap yourselves in it's an epic 15 minute journey, but one that keeps you fully engrossed throughout.

Layers and layers of superb progressive house at it's very finest and building and building until that heavenly peak with those delightful piano chords and the helicopter/chopper blades sound effects.

Pure class as always from the Amazonians!

Blue Amazon - Never Forget 

(Original Mix)

Bathe in the Balearic bliss!

A huge Balearic fave of mine from 1991.

Just so chilled and with those heavenly chimes, it just puts you in another place.

This has featured on many Balearic albums and rightly so, as it epitomises that Cafe Del Mar scene.

I've also included a more recent Charles Shillings remix, which is pretty good and very similar just a little bit faster and punchier, but still containing the great aura of the original.

Enjoy!

Audio Deluxe - 60 Seconds 

(George James Original Instrumental)


Audio Deluxe - 60 Seconds 

(Charles Schillings Balearic Mix)

Ooh aah!

When I hear this track I instantly think of the Chris & James Essential Mix session which they did live on Radio 1 back in 1994.

It is still to this day the best DJ mix set I have ever heard and still sounds brilliant almost 30 years later.

It was posted on the PCC blog many moons ago, so make sure you check it out if you've not heard it.

By hook or by crook most of the tracks from that mix set have managed to make their way onto the PCC blog, just because they were all pretty amazing.

This is probably a lesser know one, but fabulous all the same.

It's a great track by the notorious Annabella Lwin, possibly most famous for posing naked on a Bow Wow Wow album cover as a 14 year old back in 1982. (It certainly wouldn't happen nowadays folks!).

The track is ballsy and contains lots of sex chants, underpinned by a really hypnotic groove.

It's a really great and unique track, typical of the Chris & James ear for obscure gems.

Get on it, you'll not regret it!

Annabella Lwin - Car Sex 

(Range Rover mix)

Don't you want some more?

More quality from Fast Eddie who created some absolute bangers and was one of the true mainstays at the start of the house era.

Everything he touched was pure class and this is no different.

Clever use of samples and very familar vocal snippets.

Still sounds great 35 years on!

Fast Eddie - Let's Go (Don't U Want Some More)

Give it up!

Really amazed I've not posted this before, as it's a real hands in the air fave from back int'day.

This one is in that classic 1991 Italian piano house vein.

It was one of those tracks that was on every club/rave dancefloor in 1991.

A top track, which does sound a bit dated now and has lost a touch of it's fizz.

However, still one which brings a smile to one's face and some great memories of a fantastic era in clubland!

Get on it!

Expo Bass Sample's - I Need Somebody 

(Extended Mix)

Give me a reason to love you!

I wasn't quite sure what to make of this when I first came across it, as the Portishead version is so iconic and such as classic.

However, as with pretty much everything they touch Heaven 7th have done a great job and kept true to the original whilst adding a bit of extra fizz and their customary dance/crossover vibe.

Maybe not one for the purists, but I can guarantee that this would rock dancefloors if dropped at the right time.

Enjoy folks, I'm sure you'll like it!

Eleze - Glory Box 

(7th Heaven Club Mix)

Feel so good, so in love!

Well Happy Easter to you all.

Here's the second Alysha Warren track posted on the PCC blog.

It's not quite as infectious as the classic "I Pray", but is a pretty decent track all the same.

It takes a while to warm up, but hits the right notes when the piano kicks in.

Alysha has seriously gorgeous vocals, almost velvety!

A fine remix from Danny D from 1994.

Enjoy folks!

P.S. A little known fact for you pop pickers - Alysha is the younger sister of Mica Paris!

Alysha Warren - I'm So In Love 

(Danny D's Main mix)