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VA – Soma Records 20 Years Soma Classics [SOMADA951]

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Compiling a Classics CD that covers 20 years of releases (310 singles and 90+ albums) is not an easy task. There are the obvious tracks that had to be included in such a compilation, like Slam’s Positive Education, Silicone Soul’s Right On, Right On and Funk D’Void’s Diabla. There are others like Daft Punk’s remix of Scott Grooves and Slam’s first ever track on Soma Records, Eterna, which quite literally took the dance music world by storm. Eterna was ultimately the track that started Soma Quality Recordings. This was in 1991; the year after remixing the Edinburgh band Botany 5 on Virgin Records, and the year before collaborating with The Orb on the Close Encounters track (taken from their debut album, U.F. Orb). These are quite simply the foundations of both Slam and Soma.

Then there are tracks like Sharkimaxx’s (aka Felix Da Housecat) Clashback and Percy X’s X-Traks, which still fuel dancefloors around the world in exactly the same manner as when they were first released (both, some 16 years ago). Joris Voorn’s Mix of Samuel L Session is (quite rightly) one of the biggest tracks on Soma Records in the last 10 years, so it would have been foolish not to include on our classics compilation. We also had to include the flip of that. The tracks that were never about selling by the million; they were about a time, a place and a state of mind. The Black Dog’s Cost II (originally on the GPR imprint in ‘93, but signed to Soma in the late ‘00s) was the sound of a time, just like the Desert Storm release, which was first heard in a railway tunnel in Glasgow at one of their many Desert Storm Sound System parties of the early ‘90s.

Artist: VA
Title: Soma Records 20 Years: Soma Classics
Genre: House / Techno
Label: Soma
Catnr: SOMADA951
Source: WEB
Quality: 320kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Date: 18-09-2011

1. Daft Punk – Drive Unreleased 1994 7:20
2. Scott Grooves – Mothership Reconnection (Feat. Parliament & Funkadelic) (Daft Punk Remix) 5:54
3. Silicone Soul – Right On, Right On 7:56
4. Slam – Azure (Part 1) 9:04
5. Funk D’Void – Diabla (Heavenly Mix) 8:36
6. Slam – Positive Education 8:34
7. The Black Dog – Cost II 6:31
8. Samuel L. Session – Can You Relate (Joris Voorn Flooding The Market with Remixes) 5:38
9. Sharkimaxx – Clashback (Demented Aphrohead Mix) 12:40
10.Percy X – X-Trak 1 6:52
11.Desert Storm – Desert Storm 6:52
12.Slam – Eterna 6:13

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