Sunday 20 July 2008

Soul II Soul - Pleasure Dome 1997

Island Records CID 669/572 089-2


It also includes a Dream Team Mix but they spelt it differently (red tape apparently). Of course, the UK Crew will probably be well aware that the UK Garage explosion was in full effect by this time. A year earlier, Booker T remixed SIIS's 1988 Keep On Movin' for the Garage dancefloor, to full effect and here they used tried and tested Booker T again, the current favs Karl 'Tuff Enuff' Brown & Matt 'Jam' Lamont and finally the latest talent, DJ Spoony, Mikee B & Timmi Magic of the Dreem Teem.

This number, written by Beresford 'Jazzie B' Romeo and engineered by Lee Hamblin, features the vocal talents of Ray (Crazy Pictures) Simpson and that alone makes it worth a listen. The Album Version is an excellent example of classic Soul II Soul but the dancefloor didn't want slow shuffle anymore so it went to waste.

Time to put on your disco shoes, if your pacemaker's up to the challenge. Booker T revs up the BPM and turns it into a full vocal soulful house stomper. Superbly done considering the pace versus the vocal delivery, I love it. Next up, Tuff Jam. This is typical of the era. Vocal sample repeating over their UVM beat which worked the floors across the country but there ain't no soul. Dreem Teem turn out a similar effort, nothing wrong here as long as your looking for Garage and not Soul. Lastly, the Booker T Dub which absolutely tore up the 4x4 Garage events everywhere. It still does coz ain't nobody making quality UK Garage anymore. This has a serious groove and still retains a bit of that soul too?


  • Album Mix
  • Radio Edit
  • Booker T Mix
  • Tuff Jam's UVM Mix
  • Dream Team Mix II
  • Booker T Dub
The Download Link is here: Download
Filename: SIIS Pleasure Dome.rar Filesize: 52.48 MB

4 comments:

  1. Wow, i've been looking for this. Finally i find it on here. Thank you so much

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  2. a huge thanks to you, i've been searching for this for about...maybe 10 or 11 years! (especially the "dream team" version). a true masterpiece of house music :)

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  3. re-up please on mega thanks

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  4. hi. Any chance of a re up thanks

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