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Impact (The Earth Is Burning)
Orbital
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A song from the 1990s that you like or means something to you.

This one is difficult. So many songs to choose from, and it would be easy for anyone growing up in the UK around then to pick something obvious by, say, Oasis. And there would be nothing wrong with that—except the whole 1990s now seems compressed into a snapshot with one of their songs playing, overlooking everything else going on that made those years brilliant. Instead, I'm picking this song by Orbital. I first heard it at a club called Oscillate in Birmingham, and it conjures up a different memory of the decade for me. Victorian halls draped with parachute silk, the tang of strawberry incense, nights starting with gentle ambient sounds morphing imperceptibly into something else—and suddenly everyone was up on their feet, dancing together with merry abandon through a riot of sound and colour. Good times. How I miss those days and ache to go back there.

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