Logic released their track on the lengendary Strictly Rhythm in 1994.

There are probably quite a few bootlegs of the same song, I for one have a white label from a few years earlier that combine the two.

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Listen to toe original “I miss You”
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Jon Cutler’s label Distant Music

I think its from an Australian producer by the name of Ken Walker. The track contains a bass sample from Kenni Burke’s Hang Tight

Michael McDonald is one of those characters who doesn’t look like he sings, connections with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers this Soulful Baritone has won 5 Grammys.

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So glad we finally managed to get Hold On onto an episode. It’s such a strong tune and was easily in our songs of 2011 (not that we make lists or anything).

The emotionally charged I Remember The Future is another beauty out of Ben Watt’s Buzin’ Fly label. Here’s what they have to say about Alain Ho.

“Anyone with a memory for the heyday of French house in the mid-nineties cannot fail to recognise the name of Alain Ho aka DJ Yellow. Together with Bob Sinclar, they created an explosive mixture of deep Afro-influenced club music that took the underground scene by storm on their co-owned Yellow Productions label. It helped launch the careers of Dimitri From Paris, Salome de Bahia, Africanism (Martin Solveig) and of course Sinclar himself.  It was a founding stone of the French house sound.

Since going their separate ways, Alain Ho has moved seamlessly through the underground setting up his own Poussez label that forged a new path through bristling deep techno – an approach that foreshadowed the successes in the genre in subsequent years for artists such as Ame. Lately his new vehicle, Composite Records, has provided a platform for his own Mindz Kontrol project and artists such as King Britt, Varoslav and Daniel Kyo. He has also recorded recently for Ovum and Freerange.”

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TRACKLISTING

01. Bring it back to Love – The Project feat Gerideau
02. It Seems to Hang On (Graeme Park’s Hacienda Club Mix) – KWS
03. Without Me – Tevo Howard feat. Tracy Thorn
04. Can’t Play Around (M.A.W. Dub) – Kathy Brown
05. Super Macho Disco – Wild Geese
06. Dangerous Frequencies-The Coffee Kids
07. Palm Leaves (Detron Remix) – Gerd
08. For So Long – Mr. Fingers
09. Hold On (Matthias Meyer Edit) – SBTRKT feat. Sampha
10. The Awakening – Julius Papp
11. Herbal Cake (The Revenge Rubdown) – Space Ranger
12. Echo Drop (Dub) – Taiko
13. I Remember The Future – Alain Ho
14. Uncoloured – Circulation
15. (Cherry Lips) Der Erdbeermund (instrumental magic) – Culture Beat
16. Let the Music Play – Shannon
17. I’m Your Pusher – Ice T
18. Got to Have Your Love – Mantronix
19. Stranger (Shep Pettibone 12-Inch Remix) – Leroy Burgess
20. I Need You Now – Sinnamon
21. Love Sensation (Shep Pettibone Remix) – Loleatta Holloway

The UK followed suit and 2012 will see the fifth celebration of the UK’s unique independent sector. This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with musicians to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, meet & greets with artists, DJs, in store quizzes and many other events.

While at school there were two record shops in my town, Our Price and Andy’s Records. Woolworths actually had a go at selling a few bits of vinyl too (of which I did pick up a few bargains – Juliet Roberts’  Free Love & Caught in the Middle spring to mind). However, I distinctly remember a feeling of regret battling with the excitement of buying some new music, particuarly from Andy’s Records. As I left the shop walking past rows and rows of records, perhaps genres that were alien to me, 100s if not 1000s of songs that maybe would never pass my ears. My sadness was for the potential that my most favorite record might never in fact find me.

Technology has reduced that risk greatly, we can share our tastes our joys, we can sample songs from our armchairs, Spotify will tell me what my sister is listening to in Mallorca, 1000 miles away. I love this distribution of music but for me, it does feel different to a vendor sussing you out in their store to spot you a hidden gem, or the leap into the unknown as you pick up a mysterious 12″ just because it has an interesting cover. When we quicken the ability to discover, do we listen less? The time it takes to put a record on, the ritual; leafing through my collection, un-sleeving a record, a smell of memories, reading its cover, gently cleaning, the contact of diamond and vinyl crackling through the stereo.  We revel in the occasion and makes these possessions sacred. I have some great digital tracks but I wonder if I treasure them less as I can’t recall so well how or where I found them, nor is there a surge of nostalgia if I pick a track out of the 50,000 on my hard drive as opposed to unearthing something from my wall of records.

Sure digital djing has brought new aspects to playing music, to create, remix and push sets in directions not possible before. As a DJ, I for one welcome these progressions. But never to forget the ceremony and awesomeness that analogue, in all its glory brings. One thing digital will always come in a shoddy second.

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