6. Uberzone - The Botz (Elektro)
I think I first heard this track about eight months ago at a rave. In the chill-out room, which was incidentally none-too-chilled-out (read: I was dancing like a maniac and everyone was staring at me strangely). Stumbling upon it again after picking up Uberzone's Space Kadet EP for 95c was a rare pleasure. Listening to it again, I discover that it's not quite as good as I remembered it to be; but on the dancefloor, in my excited and loved-up state, it was the best thing I'd ever heard, so that hardly dimishes the track's worth. What is it, then? Not much really, just a slowly spiralling 303 acid line, some bleating synths and some hard-as-nails electro beatbox beats. Still, that's a pretty potent mixture, simultaneously referencing jungle, big beat, psychedelic trance and bounce hip hop in one glorious confusion of sound.
Why am I writing about it? Perhaps just as a testimony to the enduring anonymity of dance music. I was never expecting to ever find this mystery track, to hear it in any context except that of an ecstacy-filtered dance party, but even if I hadn't bought Space Kadet, "The Botz" would have held a special place in my heart, for offering me those fleeting minutes of pure transcendence...