Clever Tunes

**Swipez** · 21st January 2012

Been meaning to do a thread like this for ages; post up an oldskool tune that you think is clever/influential in a certain way and explain why!

Undergraduates, The - Space / Into Da Future (Vinyl) at Discogs - for me, the bassline on this makes it sound mellow and slow, yet it's a good amen tearer at 165bpm. Typical Invisible Man tinkling intro but man, them pads ain't half dark mum!

Deep Blue - The Helicopter Tune (Vinyl) at Discogs - not everyones' cup of tea (maybe because it got rinsed too much?) but I remember exactly where and when I heard this for the first time. The construction and new type of drum sample, Blowfly/Sesame Street, changed for me the way tunes were approached, and although it's acknowledged that darkness split the scene, this tune - simplistic in it's nature - heralded a new era for Jungle.
I rarely play it now, but who didn't nod their head when they heard it for the first time on a decent system?

And for my final one, remember hearing my mate playing this on his decks BITD: DJPC - Inssomniak (CD) at Discogs there was 5 of us, all pretty stoned and he stopped the record and spun the vocal bit "Inssomniak! I'm asleep" backwards on the deck and it said exactly the same thing

I remember repeatedly asking him to do it again, kept rubbing my eyes and looking for a sneaky button on his mixer. Goddamn if I didn't have a whitey there & then!