They quickly degenerated into a garden-variety house music act, but back in 1997 Gus Gus were awesome, part of the Cool Icelandia phenomenon spearheaded by Bj÷··rk. Watching this live performance of Believe in some late night show of the German music channel Viva convinced me to buy their album the very next day.

So that I don’t leave you without a good demo example, here’s TPOLM’s seminal 1998 demo, TE2RB.

Hoping some warmer music cures my flu once and for all, and still under the influence of The Wackness: Guru — Feel The Music (from the album Jazzmatazz vol.II). It’s incredible how good hip-hop used to be before the bling era.