I will not deny it. This is some of my favorite music. I remember when some of this first came out and I just think it's some of the best music to dance to. Totally reminds me of New York. To some it may be overplayed, but oh well.
Trivia: Clivillés & Cole are C+C Music Factory, and are both Americans. It's a Fine Day was a cover of the song by the same name, a beautiful mellow folky number, by Jane and Barton released on Cherry Red records. Cameron Saunders, who was part of one hit wonder New Atlantic is now part of the quite good The Young Punx, who do mashup style stuff (sample it here) and will be playing at Glastonbury.
But face it, Side 2 is much cooler than Side 1. My favorite on this whole cassette is the No Fortuna. But the Orbital - Chime track is also very good. It appears there is almost no information about the No Fortuna - Traumatic Stress band or Miss Fortuna, but it looks like this track featured almost only in this compilation. The sample used in the track is "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana which first came to life musically from Carl Orff in the mid-30's and has been HEAVILY used in various pop culture as you can see here, including 6 different rave-era songs (such as the more famous Apotheosis track in my blog here), the movie Excalibur, the band Ministry, the evil puppy on the Conan O'Brien show, Ozzy Ozbourne, as warm up for numerous sport events, including the Norwegian football team Lillestrøm, and in the opening of the movie Jackass. A special treat goes to anyone who sends me the new Trans-Siberian Orchestra version of the song.
A1 Clivillés & Cole A Deeper Love (Radio Version)
A2 Love Decade I Feel You (Naked Club Mix)
A3 Digital Orgasm Startouchers (Edit)
A4 Opus III It's A Fine Day (Edit)
A5 Shawn Christopher Don't Lose The Magic (7" Morales Mix)
Mixed By - David Morales
A6 New Atlantic I Know (Love Decade Remix 7" Edit)
Remix - Love Decade
A7 The Pasadenas I'm Doing Fine Now
A8 Sounds Of Blackness Optimistic
A9 Ultra Naté Rejoicing (Turn Up The Radio Mix)
Producer - Basement Boys, The
A10 Kym Sims Too Blind To See It (Hurley's 'No Rap' House Mix)
Mixed By - Steve "Silk" Hurley
B1 Altern 8 Evapor 8 (Inciner 8 Mix)
B2 Toxic Two Rave Generator (Radio Edit)
B3 Zero B Lock Up (Edit)
B4 R.A.F. We Got To Live Together (Club Mix 7" Edit)
B5 Traumatic Stress No Fortuna
Featuring - Miss Fortuna
B6 Orbital Chime (Ray Keith Mutation)
Remix - Ray Keith
B7 Isotonik Different Strokes (Edit)
B8 Sunscreem Pressure
B9 Mr. Fingers Closer
Mixed By - Frankie Foncett
B10 Alison Limerick Make It On My Own (7" Flying Rule Book Edit)
Remix - Steve Anderson
Plus, Matthew Wowow sent me this lovely remix of It's a fine Day.
