Amps Nothing wrong with 006 disk one, it’s more than decent, perfectly mixed flows well… but, with 006 disk two you’re hearing something genuinely unique… John at the height of his powers, playing his toughest as fuck stuff, not for the faint hearted, flowing like each track was written for the next, and in a vintage year before the internet ruined everything… the stuff on disk two is proto vortex, proto muscular, fluxing in some ethereal doorway between the panel beaters from Prague and the dayglow kids of Sheffield. It makes my balls tighten.
Plus, it genuinely represents what the he sounded like at that time, I’m not sure all GU defo did that? Saw a lot of John around 98, and it was with the disk two stuff that he was fucking clobbering dancefloors. If you’d seen him play a set of that stuff, you’d still be cunting on about it now, as I am. Tops off? you’d fuckin skin yourself and swing from Ed’s neck.
If you like the stuff from the late 90s, or if the Sasha set from The Bomb does anything for you, I’d urge you to give it more than a couple of listens, it’s fuckin sublime and on par with anything from those years. Hard, driving, epic, ethereal, boom boom woosh!
Fucking hell Amps is relentless about GU006, it’s alright mate we get it.
It was our warm-up CD for about six months before hitting GK around 1999*, it took an absolute battering. For that reason, it has absolute classic status for me.
*Along with this collection of bangers
https://www.discogs.com/release/261092-Carl-Cox-Non-Stop-2000
Now, it’s so full on I can’t listen to it.
