The 2step hits poll

I'm another one who would have voted B15 Project, and it's a pity that Wookie's "Battle" got missed. (Also, where's Lonyo "Summer Of Love" and Tru Faith & Dub Conspiracy "Freak Like Me"?)

Anyhow, I'm voting for the super-smooth old-school "Sincere".

I still don't really 'get' 2-step but Moving Too Fast is an astonishing record, better than anything else here by a mile.

"Sweet Like Chocolate" because it's one of the great number ones and also the record Madonna should have made in 1999.

I also missed out the Mis-Teeq laydeez. Maybe someone with a better memory than me should redo this poll.

Neighbourhood and Battle weren't really chart 'hits' were they?

Oxide & Neutrino's "Up Middle Finger" was a hit tho, would've liked the chance to think about voting for that before voting for "Flowers" anyway. "Movin' Too Fast" was probably my number 2.

I totally get 2 Step but hate 'Moving Too Fast', oddly.

Neighbourhood and Battle weren't really chart 'hits' were they?

#25 and #10 respectively

Yeah Mis-Teeqs are missing, as are "Out Of Your Mind" and "Bodygroove" and "Gotta Get Thru This", and I'd say "Fill Me In" belongs here too.

I've voted for "Flowers" but it's a very near thing obv.

like:
Re-Rewind - Artful Dodger
Woman Trouble - Artful Dodger
Please Don't Turn Me On - Artful Dodger
Sincere - MJ Cole
Straight From the Heart - Doolally
Bound For Da Reload - Oxide & Neutrino (but hated at the time becuz thought it was cheap and dated!)
Sweet Like Chocolate - Shanks & Bigfoot
I'll Bring You Flowers - Sweet Female Attitude

no like:
Movin Too Fast - Artful Dodger
Think About Me - Artful Dodger (don't remember this tho)
TwentyFourSeven - Artful Dodger (ditto - was it the one with Mel All Saints?)
Crazy Love - MJ Cole
A Little Bit of Luck - Luck & Neat
Master Blaster - Luck & Neat
No Good 4 Me - Oxide & Neutrino
Do You Really Like It - DJ Pied Piper

I tended to like what degree of male soul (as opposed to the MC-led stuff) element there was to 2 Step, as if a wilful contrary reaction to the perceived 'girliness' otherwise abundant.

Surprised about Battle (re chart positions), recall it as yer typical underground smash that didn't actually cross over to the charts. I could always look these things up before posting, but hey ho

it doesn't seem like it was as big (at least chartwise) as it was tho yes

Yeah I didn't like "Bound For Da Reload" much at the time either - I don't think it sounds much like an MC record, although the version without the "Casualty" sample does more (and is superior - or at least is the version that got me into the tune).

Loved "Oh No" and "No Good 4 Me" immediately though.

I'm probably the only person here who likes "Master Blaster".

i like 'Devil's Nightmare'. gothstep deserved a better chance.

Heh, Sweet Female Attitude are doing a live PA of 'Flowers' in my wonderful home town this Thursday. Sunship are playing as well!

Back To '00!

Are you going to go? You should go.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

You should go, Mencap. I should imagine it would be tremendously melancholic, in its way, after all this time.

In practically any other circumstances I'd have voted for "Sweet Like Chocolate". "A Little Bit of Luck" is also wonderful, but what chance did it stand in this company?

master blaster is great btw

i need to track down mj cole - sincere, the album. it was great start to finish iirc - a nice blend of smooth and complicated/fidgity.

my favorite 2-step track of all time is "something in your eyes"

and "girls like us" and "destiny"

but now that i look at this, it looks like maybe this poll is just for 2-step that got on the UK pop charts?

Ha ha Deej I thought I was the only person who loved Masterblaster!

if i can deal with a thong song cover i can deal with a stevie one!

rockist joek obv but why do people hate masterblaster??

There was a Thong Song cover? Or do you just mean the Artful Dodger remix?

Re your request for more suggestions of good 2-step hitz for R&B sets - these are guaranteed to slay R&B clubs:

The Underdog Project - Summer Jam
Kristine Blond - Loveshy (Club Asylum Remix) (one of the most ecstatic tracks ever)
Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine (Architechs Remix)
Tru Faith & Dub Conspiracy - Freak Like Me
Restless Natives - I Wanna Know (Y-Tribe Remix)
702 - You Don't Know (Marvel & Ely Remix)
Richie Dan - Call It Fate (Underground Mix)
Amar - Sometimes It Snows In April (Dreemhouse Dub)
Dinamyte - Dancehall Queen (esp. if you love "Girls Like Us")
Craid David - Fill Me In (Artful Dodger Bootleg Remix)
Mis-Teeq - Why (Matt Jam Lamont & DJ Face Remix)
De La Soul - All Good (MJ Cole Remix)

More suggestions:

Mis-Teeq - "One Night Stand (Sunship Remix)" and "B With Me (Bump & Flex Remix)"
United Groove Collective - Glad You Came To Me (S. Gurley Remix)
Phaze One - Nicole's Groove
K-Warren - Coming Home
Richie Dan - Temptation
Selena vs X-Men - Give It Up (X-Men Vocal Mix)
Damage ft. MC Romeo - Still Be Lovin' You (Marvel & Eli Remix)
Kwesi - Lovely (Dreem Teem Bounce Mix)
Monsta Boy - Sorry (Ed Case 2001 Refix)
Another Level - Bomb Diggy (Bump & Flex Vocal Mix)
Masterstepz - Sorry (You Lied To Me)
Dubaholics - Closer To You
Yardcure Cru ft. Lady Saw & Wayne Wonder - Life That We Livin'
Pink - There You Go (Sovereign Remix)
Truesteppers ft. Dane Bowers - Buggin'
David Anthony - Friday Night (Sunship Remix)
Ray Hurley - Ride The Storm (Y2K Remix)
Kelis - Get Along With You (Bump & Flex Remix)
TJ Cases - Dedicated To Love (Vocal Dub)
Romina Johnson - Into You
X-ite - Let Me Luv You (Ed Case Remix)
Shanks & Bigfoot - Sing-A-Long (Wideboys Remix)

ha yeah i meant the remix - thnx for the recommends man

i am going to be doing a 2-step hits mix for a friend of mine's blog shortly, i will post it up here. i kind of can't wait to hear it myself, i miss some of these jams so much.

the terrible value of the $ has really made this a poor time to decide to get into a genre popular exclusively in europe :-/

on the plus side, no one here really plays this stuff so its like i have my own lane to drive in

deej just turned me on to this stuff <3

Jordan! You have wasted your life.

i know :-(

What has Deej given you? I might be spurred on to acts of generosity.

omg j0rdan, what tim said. whatever deej has given you, you need more

told me to download this http://www.allmusic.com/album/ayia-napa-the-album-r494321/review

& sent me links to various songs in this poll

i don't know why i didn't vote in this poll or post itt but this song was grossly robbed

Think About Me - Artful Dodger 0

this stuff hits that late 90s chord that melts me into a nostalgic puddle tbqh

like "sweet like chocolate" reminds me of aqua

in ways

i think j0rdan really needs mis-teeq's first album and todd edwards remixes in his life asap

also!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DT9rdVsYZE

and!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhKypM3H0iY

(that one's v.early wiley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYNs2t11yxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daMKhBj0xbE

J0rdan, my 2-step compilations, let me show you them.

if you're putting any together send em over my way too please! the decade has not been kind to the preservation of my favourite 2-step and grime mp3s, and no one seems to have bothered putting them on itunes or anything ;_;

certainly.

This is a case of music I really really didn't like at the time, but now I have quite a fondness for.

Speed Garage blew up about the time I started uni, as a shy, dorky schmindie/IDM virgin from the suburbs, yet to understand the appeal of club culture and dance music in general. Essex Uni wasn't much different to Stevenage in its qualitative range of nightspots, and the first person to play me garage music was this TOTAL DICK in our student halls who dobbed on us for smoking weed. Sooner or later Craig David and the Artful Dodger were being played all over the shop, but I found garage a bit too too slow and silky for me, finding trance a bit easier to jump around to on student nights.

I associated the music with the twattiest of student types - the most horrible proley consumer-fetishist, Breezer-drinking, proudly apolitical tossers.

Maybe it was a problem with me, or the surroundings I was in, but I I still find 1999-2000 a really difficult era of music to love - Nu Metal's Tom Green fratboy extreme sportz mindset, Moby's defanged coffeetable electronica, Ibiza's tits'n'booze brashness, "indie" turning into AOR bilge like Travis or the blandly retrospective Hives, Macy Gray... It was generally horrific, so no wonder I spent the most part of those years making my own music and listening to the Warp back catalgoue.

Then I left uni and remember really liking 21 Seconds (maybe the last big 2-step hit?). I've since had time to distance myself and mature and become more open to other things. Gonna go back and listen to all these, and get nostalgic about those first awkward moments on the Colchester dancefloor.

Tim, I'd be interested in yr comps too!

http://www.4shared.com/audio/Y30jHjds/Roy_Davis_Jr_-_Gabriel__Large_.html?

Yeah love this one.

big ups rtc and deej

Rev have you not heard The Sound of the Pirates?

No. I'm basically totally ignorant about dance music from before I got into dance music.

I must correct this. The Gabriel remix is a pretty good indicator of the sound of much of the mix.

fuck i really need to listen to tim's mixes

Dreem Teem In Session #2 (posted upthread) was nearly my choice for J0rdan S listening club, ruled out on the technicality of being late 1997.

i have third dimension (disc 2) on my comp

fwiw I have bumping this like hella since I heard it on the local r&b station's old school hour a while back. Don't remember hearing it at the time tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvrFmUfAyjU

Coochy Coo the X-Men Remixes 12"
a review by gareth metford of
release format Coochy Coo the X-Men Remixes 12" by En-Core (CD Album)

text
For pop music, the gothic has proved both an enduring source of imagery and, more importantly, a repository of moods unattainable without reference to that sense, articulated so cogently by H.P. Lovecraft, that "human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos at large". In dance music, it was largely the advent of electronics which enabled producers to begin to access the gothic stance: from Jamie Principle's shell-shocked 'Baby Wants to Ride', which posits both love and God as fictive elements in "a fascist dream", to Dom & Roland's scouringly bleak future-world schematics, its materialist, anti-soul aesthetic has been a frequent visitor to clubland ever since. X-men's 2-step remixes of 'Coochy Coo', originally a rather mundane four-to-the-floor stomper which would not sound out of place on daytime Radio 1, reside squarely in this tradition. Both their 'Club Mix' and their 'Dancefloor Dub' revolve around a slithery, sub-centric bassline pinioned by an ominous arpeggiated synth refrain, seemingly lifted directly from one of John Carpenter's DIY horror soundtracks. However, it is the vocals which really trip one up: drenched in breathy atmospherics, they slip and slide, flicker and blur with an expressiveness one does not really expect from UK garage, sounding at times more akin to Swans' Jarboe or Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard than the usual mellifluous R&B divas. In speaking so powerfully of an individual human subject, they recall Marx's assertion that human emancipation begins with a rejection of religion's doctrine of ineffable spirit - with the understanding that, to quote Lovecraft again, "matter, it appears, really is exactly what 'spirit' was always supposed to be."

Posted by gareth metford at 00:00, 29 May 2000

Ladies and gentlemen, gareth metford.

oh idk, it rather caught me up in a nostalgic tide. all that millenial crit swag washed away by lolz and imo's like tears in the rain. who was gareth metford irl then, and who would he be in print now? a titchy, a jimi, a dog latin perhaps. but back then was he not so much more than himself! look upon him, wings spread and soaring over the cultural wasteland, a mutant superbeing irradiated by books n shit. to the air gareth! take to the air once more!

http://sonomu.net/text/~678/

oh alright, never mind.

that x-men remix he's on about is banging tho alie

http://hulkshare.com/n0avklciujw8

since it's not on the tubes

told me to download this http://www.allmusic.com/album/ayia-napa-the-album-r494321/review

& sent me links to various songs in this poll

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:20 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man this mix is so good!

Yeah it's one of my favourite mixes ever.

A five woman choir did an accapella version of Flowers at my brother's wedding the other week. Goosebumps.

That sounds incredible and what a great, original idea!

http://www.allmusic.com/album/ayia-napa-the-album-r494321/review

glass houses and all that but is this review even in english, i'm struggling here

I think he was sent a flyer for "Ayia Napa: the Tour".

what i really really want are unmixed versions of all the 2-step hits - i have many mixes with them already. both 2-step and grime could really use some decent curation.

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Monday, 31 January 2011 13:45 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why has this not happened yet to 2-step?

gareth metford still otm

it looks like gareth metford has an album out!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Urban-Lanscapes/dp/B00KFNB8DA

http://www.discogs.com/Degrading-The-Image-Involuntary-Response-Degrading-The-Image-Involuntary-Response/release/3004872

this guy

No votes for Bound 4 da reload wtf

Man, Dreem Teem In Session #2... why has it taken me 17 years to get a copy of this and listen to it? Incredible.