One of the notable things about dance music by the year 2000 was the sheer quantity of sub genres there were within it. We had many different variants of house music e.g. deep house, funky house etc. Garage was going the same way too, the most notable sub-genre of UK garage around this time was 2-step.
My favourite record for this month brings another sub-genre of garage to the table, break step. It's "138 Trek" by DJ Zinc who at the time was best known for being a drum & bass DJ. I do notice how this differs from your average 2-step record but I cannot think of another record that fits under the break step genre so I guess you can say this record is so good it has it's own genre.
The other UK garage record this month was "Please Don't Turn Me On" by Artful Dodger. This ones also a little different being a bit more mellow and more for listening to at home than in the club. A decent record nonetheless.
Narrowly missing out on best record is Laurent Garnier with the double a-side "Greed/The Man With The Red Face". It's very much a record for the underground that made it's way into the Top 40.
We have a hard house record from 666 with "Devil" and a French house record from Alan Braxe & Fred Falke with "Intro" which both get full marks. One that I still like despite hearing too many more times is one of the best known French house records "One More Time" by Daft Punk.
De La Soul had their final Top 40 hit with "All Good" which I like, but there is a UK garage version of it that I find better. Wu-Tang Clan had their only Top 40 hit in their own right with "Gravel Pit" which was very much one I was enjoying at the time.
Little known indie band JJ72 are one I've got into retrospectively and they had a new entry this month with "October Swimmer". That's all the decent indie music for this month though.
Onto the worst record and that goes to Martine McCutcheon with "I'm Over You". It was a reminder that her music career was still going just about and it got played a lot at the time. I've not heard it since and didn't bother listening today because I can still hear it perfectly in my head and still think it's crap.
Here's a list of the records with the best on top, worst at the bottom and the good ones in green, OK ones in amber and rubbish ones in red (and in no particular order):
Here's a look at the chart:
We're yet to reach the heights of 2001 but it's the best November.
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