F.S.O.L are influenced by reggae, hip hop, breakbeats, big chords. 4AD artists are the vocalists, who have always been my favourites. As you can see, very few vocal tracks in dance music excite me. Deep house has nice choruses, nice sounds. Put it on and it works every time.
People dance to it.
Our job as DJs is to make people dance not go up our own arses. This an Italian house record, a dub mix. It came out in 1992 and if you hear it you might not know who it's by but everyone recognises it. I still play it at least once a fortnight. It's got a killer riff that sticks in peoples' head.