Actually I like both "Disco's Revenge" and Todd Terry's "Jumpin." Club classics to be sure, but late-night sound-system-on-the-beach classics as well. I have 'em and play 'em. I'm not a huge TT fan but that's one of my favorites of his.
Actually TT had both "Jumpin'" (on the Unreleased Projects #4 that also has the terrific "Rock That Groove" with Doug Lazy) and "Keep on Jumpin" with Martha Wash and Jocelyn Brown, which is more club-anthem-y but still cool. But how could you not like that? Martha is tops! Jumpin' has the phattest drums EVER. (And I say "phat" about once a decade, y'all, so you know where that is coming from!) As for "Disco's Revenge," I remember exactly where and when I first heard it -- Doc Martin timed it perfectly in a set at the old King St Garage in San Francisco 1995 at about 2:30 am -- the room just exploded. One of those amazing moments that never seems to happen any more. Curiously, it was the same place (King St) several years later where I heard the worst set by far of any I've seen from Derrick May (who is usually good and sometimes brilliant). This must have been 1998 or so, Stacey had set up the groove very nicely, the crowd was on it, but Derrick was in this just-play-crap-hardhouse mood. Everyone's entitled to a bad night once in a while. I would have to say, after watching some DJs over ten years or longer, that there is definitely a fatigue factor when someone is doing it for a living. The dilemma of making as much of what is often very fleeting book-a-bility is that it degrades the freshness of a DJ's approach to sets very quickly when they are playing out almost every night. Then again, the crowds have deteriorated a lot more than the DJs in the last decade, in my opinion . . . Single worst record ever heard at a rave, imho: Firestarter. I mean, there's not any competition even close. I'll leave out the names of the numerous guilty who succumbed to the manufactured popularity of Prodigy. Prodigy, hah! Purely Pathetic is more like it. fred
