by Utah Saints, 1992.
At about the 1:30 point in the Utah Saints’ “Something Good”, after some brilliant tension-building tempo changes, the increasing pulse of the music gives way to the glorious climax of the processed Kate Bush vocal sample that dominates the track. It’s one of those moments that sends chills through you and makes you bounce around in unconscious ecstasy (or, as was more likely at the time, on Ecstasy).
“The first true stadium house band,” proclaimed Bill Drummond, whose KLF operated in a similar musical vein. Utah Saints does indeed mix house with a big, fat stadium rock sound that presaged and no doubt informed the later Big Beat movement of The Chemical Brothers, et al.
Frankly, this is a record I picked up on the cheap specifically for the singles “Something Good” and “I Want You”, and while this isn’t as cheekily brilliant as The KLF or The Orb, as an example of early ’90s dance music you can do worse.
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