Five Songs You Must Hear... #9

I thought seeing as I'm about to attend the Gatecrasher Weekender Festival this coming weekend, I'd grace you with some dance tracks from artists featuring at the festival that simply cannot be ignored!

#1: The Prodigy - Voodoo People
The Saturday headliners are literally the kings of the Big-Beat genre worldwide will certainly be one of the main highlights of the weekend for many people. 'Voodoo People' is a track simply dripping with orgasm infused nuclear bombs, that is one of the bands most prominent songs.

#2: Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar

The highlight of this festival for me for sure. The Chemical Brothers in the wake of the 5th consecutive No.1 album have gripped me since a young age of 7 when they first dropped 'Setting Sun' unto the world. However, this is their finest piece; the continuity of this track is epic.


#3: Paul Van Dyk - Crush

At 36 years old his prime may have already passed, but that won't stop the thousands of people flocking to the Gatecrasher Arena to witness his dynamite fingers conjure up musical magic. I've got my whistle, horn and glow sticks packed already and I don't leave until saturday morning!

#4: Paul Oakenfold (Planet Perfecto) - Bullet In The Gun


Possibly one of the biggest techno anthems of the past 20 years, I can't wait to be blitzed out of my skull at around 1AM surrounded by a crowd flying as high as Concorde. If their isn't "a fire in your heart" you simply don't belong at the Gatecrasher Festival



#5: Armand Van Helden - U Don't Know Me


Finishing on a slightly cheesy note, Mr. Van Helden has been spicing up clubs worldwide for years, and although I've not chosen his more known single 'My My My' this track which features vocals from Duane Harden reached No.1 in the UK back in 1999.

Five Songs You Must Hear... #1

This is that mid-week blog that I promised to do for all you music crazed yuppy children of the nu rave jilted generation.
This won't be one of those, oh you have to listen to this song cos if you don't then your not cool sort of things; but it's going to be a weekly list of five songs thatI think deserve that special mention. Some of these songs you may already know very well, however, I'd like to think that some you will have never of heard, and suddenly it jumps upon you like
Without further or do, lets hand you to the first list of five songs.


#1: The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive

Crystal Method are a break-beat/electronic duo from LA. I could go on about their sound and how distinctive it is, but that would take years; so in a nutshell they are The Chemical Brothers, but a more hard-core, grittier American version. Keep Hope Alive's heartstopping beat could bring down an army with one swift stroke. If anyone were to play this song amidst a drunken house party, then expect a riot, followed by a knock on the door by the police.


#2: The Chemical Brothers - Bass Test

You can't possibly involve Crystal Method in a conversation about the break-beat/big-beat movement of the 90s without mentioning the British duo, who with their 5th consequtive No. 1 album last year, are still blowing cranium from the minds of the youths of the world. This track has possibly the loudest and most penetrating bass i've ever heard in my life! If you have a decent system, turn the thing up to the max, and feel your tonsils vibrate.

#3: Reel Big Fish - Sell Out

At about the age of 8 or 9 I always remember this song bangin' out on FIFA 2000; I think at one point I changed the game settings so that only this track was played, over and over again! This song become ultimately popular in 1997, after substantial radio play in the United States towards the end of 2006 when it was released and most of 2007. Quality Song

#4: Keane - Hamburg Song

A much slower paced track the last three, but making up in sheer musical beauty, amazing with lyrics and vocals from Tom Chaplin. This is definately the best, if not one best song they've ever written. It's the sort of song that should acompany a beautiful sun set, with the curtains of your spanish villa blowing in the wind. Timeless, and epic.



#5: The Jam - The Eton Rifles

An Absolute barnstorming song from the Woking three-some. Richard Archer drew on the influences of this song and 'A Town Called Malice' to write the brilliant Hard-Fi anthem Suburban Knights. So what can I say, about this song... I guess you just have to be a London lad to understand it's true value, or otherwise, good luck to you.


Really give those songs at lease one listen, they are all great!
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Sorry I haven't posted a band blog this week, but i'm still working on the review of the NME gig at the moment, it's been almost a week but there was so much to write about, and I wanted to condense it down into something really worth reading. I've also got some really exciting news in the next blog so keep checking back here! Cheers!
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