limegl0wstix:

Vinylgroover & Trixxy - Can You Feel It
Prime Recordings, 1999 [PME001]

Trixxy - Sunrise
Blatant Beats, 1999 [BB-10] 

It’s like they made a song and Trixxy said, “You know what would be really cool?  If we put Tubular Bells in there.”  
And then Vinylgroover was like, “No dude, that’s totally gay.”  
And Trixxy was like, “I bet if I put Tubular Bells, it’s gonna become a massif rave anthem and popular as all shit.  It’s going to be the song that signifies the end of the decade and welcomes happy hardcore to the new millennium.”  
And then Vinylgroover was like, “Psh, whatever.  Go make your own track then.” 
Then Trixxy was all, “Fine then, I will.  Same echoing vocals, same strings, same chords, same synth.  I’ll even put the little chiming bell thingies. Just, y’know, Tubular Bells.” 

And then Trixxy did, and then all of his prophecies came true.

Trixxy - Mentasmission

Brisk & Trixxy - See The Light

Brisk & Trixxy - Euro Love

I accepted it when Eyeopener turned out to be a eurodance cover. Somehow it hit me harder when Euro Love was. “Euro Love”. Yeah I dunno.

(It’s a cover of Wonderland’s Fantasy Of Love.)

I guess I lose all right to bitch about Flip & Fill and all them now.

Brisk & Trixxy - Eyeopener

For a while there, every single set and every single mix had either this tune or Euro Love or both.

The lyrics come from one-hit eurodancer Koko’s Open Your Eyes, and the other samples are from Redman and Method Man’s How High.

Sound Assassins - Like A Prayer

Sound Assassins was Vinylgroover and Trixxy. This is another song I first knew in happycore form. What can I say, my parents didn’t listen to contemporary pop in the ‘80s.

Trixxy - Hold On

Trixxy - Sunrize

Why yes, that is Tubular Bells sampled there. Did you know Richard Branson’s entire Virgin empire can be traced back to the profits from Tubular Bells? He named one of the Virgin planes Tubular Belle in honor, which is one of the many reasons Richard Branson is awesome.

Bang! - Sailaway (Trixxy remix)

In honor of Sucker Punch:

Brisk & Trixxy - Goodbye Summertime

Back after Salon ran out of money to pay names like Paglia but before they reinvented themselves for the Bush years as the netmagazine of left-of-NPR-we-know-because-we-listen-to-NPR types, one of their few running beefs was with WWASPS, a collective of brutal, offshore or otherwise loosely regulated “reform” camps for teens.

For a while it was one of my dreams to debut the rogue military with which I’ll ultimately conquer the world by liberating one of these camps, to the tune of this song. And isn’t that the height of goddamn adolescent messiah fantasies?

It’s still one of my dreams.