![]() It’s very good! Yet it’s not the be-all and end-all of creative, thrilling mixes from the early 21st century which tore at the straitjacket of genre. If you were being a killjoy, you could argue that the sheer volume of British DJs, tastemakers, industry types and journalists who posted up at Trash in the early ’00s - as well as impressionable future writers who read the glowing praise and never attempted to strong-arm the canon in a different direction (hello) - led to a slight overinflation of AHORS ’ influence. David and Stephen, meanwhile, chuckle that they’ve still never managed to bring up the snub with Carl.) (After AHORS caused a splash, Phoenix, Daft Punk and others reached out and apologised for whichever stooge they could blame about declining permission. Although ADULT.’s momentum sagged after 2002/3, during the ten-day sprint of making AHORS, the Detroit duo’s inclusion was of such importance that the Dewaeles restitched “Hand To Phone” to approximate Carl Craig’s remix, just so they could bypass his flat ‘no’ when it came to licensing. ![]() Skee-Lo, whose cultural footprint has been more or less relegated to hip-hop throwback brunches, surprisingly receives the most airtime “I Wish” is punched in and out on three separate occasions. While there isn’t a single flub, per se, if you’re going by the completely arbitrary barometer of ‘would anyone born after 1997 recognise this artist?’, some inclusions did oxidise pretty quickly. ![]() To no-one’s surprise, the hour-long set still rocks. Given its bulletproof designation as a Historically Important Mix, it’s a fun exercise to try and reassess AHORS neutrally. The record’s upload has been stalled by a few samples that are trickier to clear in the age of DSPs than they were in the blog era, but the confetti parade is marching ahead anyway. AHORS was meant to be up on streaming services by now, hence the glut of recent 20th anniversary retrospectives, as well as a postponed London party with Erol Alkan, Miss Kittin and more (what would have been my first time watching the brothers in SW9 since Soulwaxmas 2009, fact fans).
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