Original Record of the Year: Nitro Deluxe - Let's Get Brutal
When it comes to 1988 there are 2 different angles for me to approach it from.
First of all my earliest memories of the charts begins in 1987 but 1988 would have been the first full year I remember. It was the year I got my first Now album and the year I got my first Smash Hits magazine. I therefore have many nostalgic memories of that year.
Then you have the routes of the rave music that defined my youth. It was the year acid house took off in the UK and an important part of rave history. Not all were records I was into or even knew at the time but there is the retrospective nostalgia of my youth.
I picked a record that very much fitted the rave criteria and helped by the fact it wasn't an obvious record.
New Record of the Year: Jack n Chill - That Jack That House Built
The 2 angles don't have to be mutually exclusive. There are records that are both ones I enjoyed as a kid and that are part of rave history.
My new pick is one of the first British acid house records to make the Top 40 but was also a record that featured on Now 11 which was my first now. That fact perhaps made it seem more obvious that my initial pick, but importantly it's the record I'm enjoying more at this moment in time.
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