"Keeping My Mind" is record number one on my wants list. I agree, it's strange Blaze have become popular now that they're not quite as on it as they were. Still, they come out with some quality cuts, and I think "Natural Blaze" was their best album. I don't have much to add to the recommendations, of early stuff my favourite's "Sometimes Love" by Jerry Edwards on Easy St. I don't know why this wasn't on either of those "Pure Blaze" compilations?! "If You Should Need A Friend" and "Reaching" stand out from then, too. They really got going in the period up to '94, I'd say, with the stuff on Sumo, Polar etc. Mid Nineties stuff like Debbie Pender, with those organ basslines, helped define that UK garage sound (for better or for worse), and "Moonwalk" is perhaps my favourite Blaze record ever. It'll be tracks like these they'll be remembered for, I imagine, rather than the likes of "Star Suite". I think innovative house probably largely lies elsewhere these days. That's not to say I don't make a point of checking everything with their name on it though :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Bucknell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:30 AM Subject: Re: (313) blaze not an album, but a e.p. black rascals 'keeping my mind' on sumo. one of the great deep house tracks. i've always thought it weird that blaze has become popular in the last few years when their production in the last five years or so seems but a mere shadow of their early work. but i guess that's just my personal taste. james
