Jesus Loves You – Generations Of Love

Oakenfold mixes are lovely acid house memories of a time long gone. Just sublime and timeless.

Some mixes exemplify one type of 89-90 deep trance style house in these couple of years which saw deep get deeper as a therapeutic accompaniment to techno and acid. This couple of years also saw ambient emerge and become important. The art of trance was everywhere and growing. This top UK house track in good mixes was purer somehow than much of the attention grabbing R&B gospel house of Chicago and the street edged New York garage style house. It was a clear part of the evolving UK sound and scene. (Love.)

Alas the term trance disintegrated by mid 91 into white electro pop, so minimal it sounded like a weird attitude or trinket like thing. It also reminded me of the adolescence of 80s mod music. It was silly fast euro-beat with a white girl doing an a capella in the middle. For me, only the term trance applied there. I often felt sorry for these fans, listening to stuffed up, stuffing up stuff, rather than affirming, let it go, positive, find yourself, connect, deep, real trance music for the oneness of body, mind and soul, modelled after millenia of tribes and decades of gospel connected R&B.

Happily Generations of Love in 1990 held out the notion of a future of proper house trance. Even though we weren't to know that 90 was the peak or the end of the peak of old school house, the years of ecstasy and deep trance and a whole movement, connecting around a feeling and a positive ethos.

'It was' time, for those who (sad to say 'it is' time was around 30 years ago now), here goes: 'It was' the people, you know - far from just something about a couple of chemicals. The people who knew and made and were taken by and were in the music and mind and soul sets, all through moving your body longer than probably anyone had done in our culture.

Still, a couple of years or so of 'come down' were left in it, and certainly still a lot of amazing times yet.

After "After the Love (10 Glorious Years)' I was very satisfied that JLY kept up the depth, while these were JLY's only two tracks worth attention, in my opinion.

Mixes of notable depth are: The Players Union mix, also playing from the a capella, just before halfway, of the 12 and a half minute Extended mix which begins with with 'girl toasting' (I guess George's label signee MC Kinky) and guitar. The opening was promising but too busy to be that deep for me, so I skipped to start with the 'Feel it" A cappela usually and some DJs also doing so. Land of Oz is still a good remix, but seemed to work only once in a longer period unless placed expertly in a set. That did happen enough times in my experience of course, with so many genuine genius DJ artists.

The Future Dub was excellent club and rave house for the time. It always will be but I had no idea how connected to a time this music would be. There was a short version with harmonica had a really promising bass which I didn't find in any longer mix. I don't think this was the actual 7". I don't really hearing the 7" on radio because I'd stopped listening to pop channels that year. It got in the way of a consciousness of the best deep house.

I caught a 12" with Seventies, Jazz and Ambient mixes on it in early 90. Made for working out how to get serious and deep in preparation for club or rave times. That straightforward, 4 in a bar, meditation enhancing record of deep production soul also kept me sane enough times. I didn't have the 80s mix, but I think it's a bit of a mash up of others, mostly the Ambient mix with its deepest trance bass miracle. If you can't find the Ambient mix, then 80s should be heard. But the ambient was a legend in itself in 1990 and shouldn't be ignored.

I know there were one or two other good or great mixes which I don't .

I was never a Culture Club or George fan by any means, nor was his style as a DJ for me. I wouldn't bother with the mixes made in mind of another kind of scene also. While I will always appreciate the releases he was a part of adding to this great, eclectic musical, cultural, scene and time.

I absolutely love this track, sums up my summer of 1990 perfectly, between hardcore madness, lazy relaxed summer days listening to amazing music. This track nearly always makes me desperately yearn for those days again to the point of bringing a tear to my eye. George thank you.

Totally Outed Remix - a classic !!!