Like some dream - Daniel Wang

One tune has been bugging me ever since I got a copy of the excellent FabricLive36, compiled by DFA-honcho James Murphy and Pat Mahoney. (If you haven't got this amazing New York postdiscohousefunk work-out, buy it now! Every track is a killer.)

The tune I was refering to is Daniel Wang's Like a dream (I can't stop dreaming). What a bomb!!! A campy vocal hook combined with samples taken from an obscure disco track, it looks like a recipe for disaster but it turns out to be a small miracle. Somewhere it keeps remembering me of early Moodymann classics like I can't kick this feeling when it hits.

I had the hardest time tracking the song down. The original came out on Wang's Balihu Records in 1993 and is sold for up to €90/£60 on the internet today. Even though I don't mind spending a lot of money on records, I didn't buy it immediately. I thought I would slowly forget about it.

But when Gilles Peterson played it on his Worldwide show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/) on the 8th of May, I really knwe I had to own it. By pure luck I found the Best of Balihu Records compilation (I was a disco malcontent) on amazon.com for a mere $20. I didn't wait any longer, ordered the cd at the beginning of the week and today it was in the mail. What an amazing collection, especially when you consider it was released in '98 which is eons ago in dance music. A true classic!