When I was a teenager, I was a rabid rock 'n' roll fan who pretty much hated any other type of music. I eventually got over this phase and this stupidity, but from the age of about 15 to 17, I only cared about rock and thought everything else was… well… shit. (Even classical music, on which I'd been raised.)
Ironically, Toronto rock station 102.1 The Edge changed my mind about this. I started listening to Martin Streek's late night sets at the Phoenix on Saturday and Sunday nights, and one day when I tuned in I discovered they were playing this track.
Faithless' "Insomnia" is an incredible mixture of trance and trip-hop, and when I heard it my feelings about dance music completely changed. There's no way you can listen to it without the ending melody getting stuck in your head, and Maxi Jazz' rhymes manage to give it the kind of cred so many crappy dance tracks lack.
This tune was basically responsible for turning me on to trip-hop like Massive Attack and Portishead, along with other techno/trance artists like Daft Punk, Tiesto and Cassius.
[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1hzXKcQrg0]
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