When it comes to DNA, most people think "Toms Diner" and to a lesser extent "Can You Handle It". Both great tunes, but for me it's all about "La Serenissima" which I've picked as my record of the year.
In a year where a lot of dance music either got harder or more mellow, this record seems to capture both directions perfectly, one of those records you can dance to in the club and chill out to at home.
Like the other two DNA singles, this wasn't original material. The original was by Rondò Veneziano, an Italian chamber orchestra. That version was used as the theme music to a BBC TV show called Hospital Watch.
Normally I would say only a nitwit would pick a dance version of a TV theme for a record of the year, but fortunately I only recently found out that's what this is. Perhaps if you hear a tune as a record before you hear it as a TV theme tune you see it in a different light.
So what about DNA themselves? Well there were two members, Nick Batt who has continued behind the scenes in the music business working with Goldfrapp amongst others. The other member, Neal Slateford, went on to become founder of sex toy company Lovehoney.
In the mid 90s I thought DNA had gone on to produce happy hardcore but that DNA turned out to be a different person.
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