The 2step hits poll

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!

Pure Silk: The Third Dimension - Mixed by Timmi Magic of The Dreem Teem (Disc 1):

http://www.sendspace.com/file/5b0t1p

Disc 2 is the absolute killer but they're both awes, this is from about the end of 1999 or beginning of 2000 I think. I'll get to disc 2 shortly.

Tracklist:

1. Gabrielle - Sunshine (Wookie Main Mix)
2. Chris Mack - Baby Gonna Rock Dis (Original Mix)
3. B-15 Project - Girls Like Us
4. Daryl B & Mark Yardley - Streetlife (Original 12" Mix)
5. The Wideboys - Don't Waste My Time (4 Beat Mix)
6. DJ Skribble - Everybody Come On (Stanton Warriors Remix)
7. DJ Double G - Get Loose
8. N'n'G - Right Before My Eyes (The Remix)
9. Artful Dodger - What Ya Gonna Do
10. 702 - You Don't Know (Marvel & Eli Remix)
11. N'n'G - I Keep
12. Lenny Fontana - Spirit Of The Sun (Bump & Flex Remix)
13. Brasstooth - Celebrate Life (Zed Bias Vocal Mix)
14. Dem 2 - Baby (You're So Sexy) (Dub)
15. United Grooves Collective - Glad You Came To Me (Steve Gurley VIP Mix)
16. New Horizons - Find The Path (Sweet Release Mix)
17. Suiceyed (Groove Chronicles) - Give Some To Me (Masterplan)
18. Michael Moog - That Sound

BTW mods you can assume anything I post here is, like, massively out of print.

The New Horizons track on the above comp would be one of my top ten tunes ever.

Pure Silk: The Third Dimension - Mixed by Timmi Magic of The Dreem Teem (Disc 2):

Tracklist:

1. Dionne Rakeem - Sweeter Than Wine
2. London's Unique 3 - Feel It
3. Zed Bias - Neighbourhood
4. Richie Boy & DJ Klasse - Madness On The Street
5. Basement Jaxx - Jump 'n' Shout (Dem 2 Mix)
6. Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy (Stanton Warriors Vocal Mix)
7. Zed Bias - Let Me Know
8. M Dubs & J.P. - For Real
9. Valerie M - Tingles 2000 (Zed Bias Remix)
10. Dreem Teem vs. Neneh Cherry - Buddy X '99 (Original Dreem Teem Dub Mix)
11. The Brand New Heavies - Apparently Nothing (Artful Dodger Mix)
12. Amar - Sometimes It Snows In April (Dreem House Dub Mix)
13. Wookie - Down On Me
14. DJ Lewi - Hold Me Tight
15. Groove Control - Beautiful (Dreem House Dub Mix)
16. Richie Dan - Call It Fate
17. DJ Luck & MC Neat - A Little Bit Of Luck
18. Rosie Gaines - I Want You

Tracks 1, 4, 6, 10 and 12 are all O_O brilliant.

Oops, the link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/fc0qnu

Tim, you have another eager downloader here... Thanks!

Thanks Tim, these are great!

I was 15/16 when 2-step was getting into the charts. I was in that kinda-indie-by-default demographic at the time but remember just thinking 'fuck this shit' as someone tried to make me listen to Travis or whatever instead of Sweet like chocolate. Heavily nostalgia-fuelled, obv, but this is such a musical golden period for me.

(PS HELLO, I'm new)

Jumped straight on to disc 2, enjoying it immensely.

P.S. Hi oppet!

Sweet like Chocolate and Re-Rewind were some of my first musical memories. My sister gave me a few really good mix cassettes. 2-step was a solitary experience for me, my schoolmates were all into Bonkers CDs

do the orig results strike anyone else as total ilcontrarianism? idk

it has the correct winner

trbh i had to google it to remind myself

I'm surprised Bound 4 Da Reload didn't get any points. That was great fun.

thnx 4 these tim

awesome awesome awesome thanks tim!!!!

feelin this 'street life' cover

Jordan et al, you should also download every tune I linked on this thread here.

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.