#1990s-music

#1990s-music

Sports fans everywhere know Gary Glitter's bumbling guitar riff from "Rock and Roll Part 2," culminating in a "Hey Go [insert team name] Go." And when 2 Unlimited asks, "y'all ready for this?" in their hip-hop/jazzercise classic "Get Ready for This," sports stadiums erupt in affirmation. Maybe you heard those tracks for the first time sitting courtside, at a Belgian techno party, or via an electrifying mashup of five-second snippets during TV commercials, which did numbers in an era of actual album sales.

It was a lonely time, but a lovely summer and I decided to do something uplifting and joyous. I wanted to make a piece of music that gave me the buzz those songs did.

"People were selling a lot of drugs, and they didn’t know what to do with their money... so they’d go buy a car for $300, $400..."