At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. The download here is a placeholder to appear on the podcast feed. For the full 3-hour version either see below for the Mixcloud player, or come to patreon.com/centuriesofsound for the podcast version and a host of other bonus materials for just $5 per month. You can also support me by buying one of the audio services I offer – https://centuriesofsound.com/services/ Mixcloud player with full mix – or listen on the Mixcloud website. Do you remember them times? Do you remember these days? Where you could bubble in a rave Find me in a club like Downing pure silk like Yeah, this is when garage was alright! There weren’t no fighting and ting there weren’t no gun tings It was a gyal ting, a raving ting! Bubbling ting Ok, let’s go back – Durrty Goodz, Switching Songs Pt 2 My first memory of the year 2000 is walking back from Lennons’ nightclub in Southampton, and sitting by myself in a freezing cold room, while in the room above my friend had sex with a girl he’d met in the club. As the sun rose, still unable to sleep, I watched the celebrations on a black & white TV, the world outside feeling more like a funeral than a celebration. I was halfway through a degree I didn’t want to do, living a lifestyle which was often fun but not really sustainable. Who I actually was and what I wanted from life was still a complete mystery. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In 1999 I had been immersed in new music, in 2001 I would pick it up again, but this was the year we all just listened to Canterbury Scene and Krautrock. If you think this paragraph is a mess then you don’t know the half of it. Among the things I missed out on; in the USA Timbaland was leading a revolution in perfectly produced R&B, and harder-edged alternative rockers were making jagged, angry music. In Europe, house, techno and electroclash producers were putting out work which still feels like an unsurpassed peak a quarter of a century later. And in the UK we were at the peak of UK garage, a genre whose imperial phase had been kicked off at the same club I went to – The Artful Dodger’s garage night was on Tuesdays, the indie night was on Thursdays. None of this really sunk in at the time. The one salient point here is this: I did not really experience this year myself, I have had to piece it together from available evidence. The news events of this year are either a mystery to me or things I heard about only later. The new music here was all discovered later, with the exception of Emiliana Torrini’s “Unemployed In Summertime” – which I heard while being unemployed in the summertime, aged 21, and found memorable for this reason, and V/VM, who were memorable for other reasons. For the first time I have included some clips of home videos in the mix, but the narrative has once again made itself, if there even is a narrative. It is, it turns out, a pretty good year. Tracklist (New Year Montage – various clips) 0:01:15 Azzido Da Bass – Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix) (Clip from In The Year 2000) (Clip from The Simpsons) (Clip from Amores Perros) (Clip from home videos – Ed) 0:04:47 Sunship – Cheque One-Two (Original Mix) (Clip from Sexy Beast) 0:08:46 Primal Scream – Swastika Eyes (Jagz Kooner mix) 0:11:13 Life Without Buildings – Let’s Get Out 0:15:01 Emiliana Torrini – Unemployed In Summertime (LP mix) (Clip from Memento) 0:17:58 Ghostface Killah feat. The RZA – Nutmeg 0:19:59 Chris Morris & Michael Alexander St John – Club News 0:22:46 Jonas Mekas – As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 0:22:54 Boards Of Canada – Kid For Today 0:25:56 Roni Size & Reprazent – System Check (Clip from Big Brother UK) 0:28:33 The Hives – Die, All Right! 0:31:10 Destiny’s Child – Jumpin, Jumpin (Clip from home videos – Rowley & Jamie) 0:33:35 Jamie Lidell – La Scappin Rood (Clip from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) 0:34:36 Aaliyah – Try Again (Clip from Meet The Parents) 0:37:39 Mala Rodríguez – Tengo Un Trato (Clip from Final Destination) (Clip from Billy Elliot) (Clip from Yi Yi) 0:39:14 Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Storm (Clip from BBC Review of The Year) 0:44:38 Anaal Nathrakh – The Supreme Necrotic Audnance 0:45:46 Radiohead – Idioteque (Clip from Jackass) 0:49:16 DJ Zinc – 138 Trek 0:52:43 Fragma – Toca’s Miracle (Clip from The Beach) (Clip from home videos – Ed & Rowley) 0:54:17 Phoenix – Too Young 0:57:18 Two Lone Swordsmen – Brootle (Clip from BBC Review of The Year) (Clip from home videos – Adam & Olly) 0:59:09 Fiona Apple – Paper Bag (Clip from Sexy Beast) 1:02:35 PJ Harvey – Good Fortune 1:05:46 Elliott Smith – Can’t Make a Sound 1:08:50 Belle and Sebastian – Judy Is A Dickslap (Clip from The Simpsons) (Clip from interview with Broadcast) 1:11:38 Mos Def – UMI Says 1:16:27 Susumu Yokota – Genshi (Clip from Dancer In The Dark) 1:20:56 Brave Captain – Tell Her You Want Her (Clip from Requiem For A Dream) 1:24:06 Shiina Ringo – Tsumitobachi (Clip from Black Books) 1:29:34 Papa Reu – Shine (feat. TC, C-Note & Lil’ O) (Screwed & Chopped) 1:31:59 Faye Wong – Chanel (Clip from Yi Yi) 1:34:37 The Flaming Stars – Some Things You Don’t Forget 1:35:38 Green Velvet – Flash (Danny Tenaglia’s Prepare To Dub) (Clip from Freaks & Geeks) 1:38:03 Fatboy Slim – Sunset (Bird Of Prey) (Clip from Harvey Birdman) 1:42:05 Playgroup – Make It Happen (Soulwax Remix) 1:43:41 Super Furry Animals – Ymaelodi A’r Ymylon (Clip from home videos – Biggsy) 1:45:47 Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away (Clip of Hubert Selby Jr Interviewed by Ellen Burstyn) 1:47:29 Laurent Garnier – The Man With The Red Face (Clip from Best in Show) 1:51:01 Sweet Female Attitude – Flowers 1:53:50 Monsta Boy – Sorry (I Didn’t Know) 1:56:36 MJ Cole – Sincere 2:01:35 Freescha – Lift (Clip from Best in Show) (Clip from home videos – Dan) 2:05:27 At The Drive-In – One Armed Scissor (Clip from Da Ali G Show) 2:09:10 Queens of the Stone Age – Feel Good Hit Of The Summer (Clip from Sexy Beast) 2:11:42 Dandy Warhols – Horse Pills (Clip from home videos – Ed & Tim) 2:14:33 The New Pornographers – Letter From an Occupant 2:18:13 All Saints – Black Coffee (Clip from The Beach) (Clip from High Fidelity) 2:23:09 Johnny Cash – The Mercy Seat (Clip from Final Destination) 2:27:44 V/Vm – Two Can Play That Gammon 2:29:07 Electric Wizard – Vinum Sabbathi 2:31:54 Bantam Rooster – You’re the Sun 2:33:09 Add N To (X) – Brothel Charge 2:36:00 Oxide & Neutrino – Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty) (Clip of John Peel) 2:38:25 Ballboy – I Hate Scotland (Clip from Vince Russo shoot on Hulk Hogan) 2:42:17 Sigur Rós – Dánarfregnir og jarðarfarir 2:46:11 Daft Punk – One More Time 2:51:19 Spiller – Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) 2:54:55 Photek – Infinity (Clip from Erin Brokovich) (Clip of Hubert Selby Jr Interviewed by Ellen Burstyn) 2:58:36 Clearlake – Winterlight