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Tuesday 17 April 2007

Moby - Go (Trentemoller Mix)

The Master has done it again!

But this time he paid homage to an entire culture in the process.

Trentemoller put his moves on Moby's classic hit from the early 90's "Go" transforming it into an exciting avant garde electro house track. The track strikes you as outlandish, at least for the few seconds, but the familiar violins slowly swarm the sound image and your left panting with excitement, your mind projecting a slideshow outlining the history of the "Acid House" movement that the original "Go" embodied.

You can almost see the DJs at the Hacienda in Manchester, and in the ghettos of Chicago, pulling together for the first time sentences of music and loop-di-looping em; Paul Oakenfold pop his first pill and scratch an LP, turning Ibiza into a clubbing hotspot in 1987; the illegal raves all over England, especially around the M25, and the legislative panic that followed; and of course, the taming of house with the birth of the Ministry of Sound in London.

All this goes through your head just the violins build up and the chorus yell "Go!"

Suddenly the track is thrown into thick groove. The chunky sound from Chicago is mixed with the electro beat from Manchester and they're both taken to a new level with Trentemoller's ingenius syncopation and beat maping.

How many tracks make you go on and on like this?