Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or underneath a massive blancmange painted to look like a rock, you will have heard PinkPantheress’s hit single Illegal. which is currently meandering in the middle reaches of the UK singles chart.
It’s a chirpy garage pop number that has had its opening lines snipped for numerous TikTok lip sync videos, including an especially excruciatingly routine by former Labour leader Ed Miliband. Honestly, you politicians need to stay away from good things.
What brings the track to my attention is its sampling of Underworld’s Dark & Long (Dark Train), nearly 30 years after the track rose to fame on the original Trainspotting soundtrack. Underworld’s plump synth blaps are all over the Pantheress tune, and it works really, really well.
I’m going to embed the video for the single here, and you had better darn well listen to it. I’m also going to include Nia Archives' hyper junglist remix because Nia Archives is the bees knees and/or wasps elbows and it'll blast the cobwebs from your cup-a-soup.
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