Seelenluft - Manila (Ewan Pearson Remix)

I've been coming up with a list of albums for Pitchfork's 'best albums of the 00s' feature running this fall, and its got me going back to all these old blog entries (now secure from wider circulation) from when I was 20 & 21, trying to recall all the music that was moving me at the beginning of the decade.

Mostly, though, I've just been rediscovering tracks; good post-popist anti-rockist that I am, the strongest memories I have tend to be more about individual songs I heard: the first time "Still Tippin" was pumping from a car in my neighborhood, dancing to "Move Your Body" or Jacques LuCont's remix of Gwen's "What You Waiting For," etc. The Ewan Pearson remix of Seelenluft's "Manila," was a part of a group of tracks that I played at most of the parties we threw at the house I was living in my junior year of college. "Hey Ya" had just hit, & I was basically trying to appeal to as wide a crowd of interesting people as I could, so we'd keep the trendy kids with Joy Division's "Digital" & keep the hip-hop heads with "What Happened to that Boy" & keep everybody with Liquid Liquid's "Optimo" & Earth Wind & Fire's "Let's Groove." Heady times -- something I'll probably write about a bit more in depth towards the end of the year.