Released on 08/05/2000
Label: ffrr

This is one that few people are going to manage to escape this summer, so might as well get used to it now. Van Helden, a man with a supernatural knack for creating deeply infectious and ever-so-slightly annoying dance hits, has done it again.

This time, he could be taking the piss. Effectively, this tune is simply made up of a retro electro beat and a very roughly cut up sample of Gary Numan's 'Cars'. Van Helden grabs Numan and drags him backwards and forwards across the beats and the nation's clubbers simultaneously thrust their hands into their pockets. There's a near poetic simplicity to it all really.

    by James Poletti