Comments on: Gonna be alright, on Cloud 9

By: baz

baz — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:50:28 +0000

Oh yes, a classic. My earliest D&B (jungle) memory is of Carnival 1994, a road packed with people, and M-Beat ft. Nazlyn “Sweet Love” coming on. I was thinking, “What is this vocal? I thought this was meant to be a jump-up” and then the bass kicked in and I was in love.

By: tim

tim — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:15:32 +0000

makes me wish to have been raised in London. I remember buying Eazy Duz It and that Silver Bullet album on a school trip + my teacher telling me to stay away from Brixton… I spent some time there today and it was great. One hand in my pocket and one hand on my side…

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:40:22 +0000

Nice reading! Yeah, those times were pretty special. I’d probably be a few years older than you, and used to listen to the newly legalised Kiss for house, hip-hop and techno, but by the middle/late 92 I had flicked around the dial and discovered Rush, Kool and Don.

Tunes like Cloud 9 realy made the same impact on me too – I kinda got a bit tired of the hardcore sound in early-mid 92 after a while as some of the tunes just got noisier and noisier yet they didn’t go anywhere, but later that year, there seemed to be a re-birth of really well thought-out tunes – stuff from Foul Play, Jonny Jungle, Rufige Kru.

Some people might be dismissive these days of the raw and basic quality of these sort of tunes, but they still rate amongst my favourite ever releases – music’s all about evoking memories – recalling lazing around on a hot Summer’s afternoon in Victoria Park in 93 – having a kickabout and 92.3 blasting from my mates ghetto!

“Just close your eyes, and dream with me, you’ll hear the sound of music”