There were definitely better-crafted, more genre-bending records to emerge during the wave of Speed Garage/UK Garage in the late 1990s. However, 'Gunman' by 187 Lockdown has an enduring straightforwardness to it that I love.
One might even go as far as to say it's a gloriously 'dumb' record with its repeated "selec-tah" and gunshot samples and the obligatory chant of "re-wind!".
And, no, it's not as soulful as 'Anytime' by Nu-Birth or 'Gabrielle' by Roy Davis Jr. or as innovative as MJ Cole's 'Sincere' but it has a charm of its own.
Download 187 Lockdown 'Gunman' (Speed Garage, UK Garage, mp3) (Divshare)
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