Airheadz - Stanley (Here I Am) mp3 download

Darksinger

To me this release sums up a time in dance music before everyone had a decent internet connection and bootleg mixes of the latest pop hit were rife, so clubbers that weren't vinyl collecting dance music buffs would be itching to buy them as singles, albeit in the most bastardised form possible. This was the one that took the worst butchering in order to get a proper release and it's true to say the Airheadz mix is astoundingly bad - you almost wish they hadn't bothered. The remixes *almost* save it - the Wippenberg and Warp Brothers mixes were fantastic at the time and are still some of my favourites of theirs, but the ridiculous vocal makes them virtually unplayable now. Out of all the remixes only the Lost Witness remix remains playable, however if you can get a copy of the original bootleg it remains a great forgotten gem to play out now.

Pipet

I can't help but consider myself lucky to have a copy of this version. The sample from Dido's Thank You featured only on this release contribute to a much more melancholy atmosphere as opposed to the vocals on the more common Stanley (Here I Am). The bassline on this record is also much more prevalent than on the later editions. Overall a very well put together track and given the success the track had commercially, you have to wonder why Airheadz never put out another song.

Legend 33

It was nice at the time because it had a cheeky sample on it, but ultimately its quite a crappy trance tune with basically no melody worth remembering. The rerelease with different vocals / lyrics is astoundingly terrible.