{"id":775,"date":"2009-02-28T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2009-03-04T20:26:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T03:26:45","slug":"global-rock-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"Global &#8211; Rock Steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s possibly the best 92 oldschool track made in the US&#8230; one of those super simple and straight-ahead tunes that gets stuck in your head the first time you listen to it. It comes from one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/Metropolis+(3)\">Metropolis Remix service records<\/a>, a series of promo-only releases that mainly contain domestic edits and remixes of many classic UK hardcore and techno tunes.  The producers responsible here, Robert Vaughan and Josh Kay, used to work at a store called Oak Lawn Records. According to at least one person I talked to, these guys were supposed to have a release on Moving Shadow, but it fell through for some reason or another.  Gotta love the little diced break segue at 1:21! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Various-Metropolis-0011\/release\/800376\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/metropolis_11.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Global - Rock Steady.mp3\">Global &#8211; Rock Steady<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-775-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/Global%20-%20Rock%20Steady.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/Global%20-%20Rock%20Steady.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/Global%20-%20Rock%20Steady.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s possibly the best 92 oldschool track made in the US&#8230; one of those super simple and straight-ahead tunes that gets stuck in your head the first time you listen to it. It comes from one of the Metropolis Remix service records, a series of promo-only releases that mainly contain domestic edits and remixes of&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=775\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Global &#8211; Rock Steady<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,80,129],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-4","tag-us","tag-anthem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}