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1991, Ministry of Sound, Larry Levan is at the helm delivering a flurry of house tracks that would have been very interesting rarities at the time, suddenly the crispy high hats of Rare Earth’s “Happy Song” start to emerge under the track’s full bodied kick, it could only have sounded great, the crowd might have cheered out of familiarity for the Mancusian Loft classic, this goes on for a while to give the dancers some quality time with the perfection of this beat’s simplicity, and then, out of nowhere, Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams” sinister bass line rips through the frequency spectrum and you have no idea what just happened. There’s no such thing as Shazam, email wasn’t even invented and you’re only left with the feeling that you can die a happy human being after experiencing a moment like that. 3 decades go by with very little mention of the track, but now we know where Larry Levan got that tape reel from - one and only, Victor Rosado, who would have spent hours on end with a razor and tape. Bridging a decade of dance floor culture from 70s to 80s in one mesmerising mash up DJ tool, “Happy Dreams” (A-side) is arguably a perfect marriage between an underground dance floor anthem from a 1975 release by a Detroit Psychedelic Soul group and a UK charting pop hit from the early 1983. On the B-side, another left field DJ tool, something that can be thrown in at any moment of a DJ set with a re-edit of Grace Jone’s “Slave to the Rhythm” featuring a high caliber orchestral intro that turns into drum/percussion bliss in the low hundred BPM. From history to your hands - can’t go wrong.