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“I PLAYEDthat record out in Twice As Nice on a Sunday,” recalls DJ Noodles, aka Groove Chronicles, real name Steven Jude, recalling the moment he test-drove ‘Stone Cold’ for the first time in a club. “When I put it on, the whole club stood there and stared at me. I was the only one rocking in the DJ box, no one else was, and when the bassline actually dropped, that’s when the whole crowd went a bit loopy for it. I did the same thing in Cookies and Cream.


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“It’s not surprising heads weren’t ready. In 2007 when two-step garage tune ‘Stone Cold’ dropped on an unsuspecting public, there was very little out there like it. Two-


step, a UK-centric mutation of the skippy American garage that had a cult following in England, was relatively new.


It deviated from the typical 4/4 drum kick pattern of house music towards a more broken, syncopated flavour, so created a different kind of sound, a new way of dancing, and a whole host of fresh signature components that made it stand out from its brasher Stateside cousin. Still, the melodies and feel of two-step necessarily borrowed from house: most of it was soulful, bright, ebullient. In that climate, ‘Stone Cold’ was a future shock.


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