Summer Of Love

The dance media may be calling 2000 ‘the year of hard house’, but for those of us who aren’t obsessed with inventing new fads, this will always be remembered as the year when UK garage and r’n’b broke out from the underground and stamped its Gucci loafers all over the charts, driving its BMW convertible through the clubbing mainstream and pouring its Dom Perignon all over the charts. Twice As Nice is the stylish London club that started it all, and Summer Of Love is its second album, compiled by two of its hottest residents. The Dreem Teem’s DJ Spoony supplies the garage grooves (underground anthems that have in many cases become chart smashes) and Choice FM’s Steve Sutherland reminds you just how good some of the current wave of r’n’b really is. The mixes don’t really represent the club (you’ll not catch these DJs spin twenty tunes in just over an hour) but the music most certainly is