Joe Theobald, aka DJ Captain Wormhole, Looks at all things vinyl 

WEAK Become Heroes. The same piano loops over and over and over...

Bit late to the plate with this one as Original Pirate Material turned 15 a few weeks ago now, but that was Nevermind (Q1, Yr2). Don’t know many people of my vintage that wouldn’t discuss The Streets’ debut album in anything other than reverent tones. Skinner’s first mission to support the cause (videos, televisons...64’s playstations..) never left us for long. Deep seeded urban decay.

Has it come to this? Yes. A tribute piece to content and deliverence, The Streets, lock down your aerial. This isn’t a sales pitch, just more media hype, about bangers not anthems, a cult classic.

The record re-set the frequency, combining geeza defined lyrical content and delivery with beats and samples derived from the sounds of UK clubs (D’n’B snares, jungle bass, Garage grooves and airy Trance synth), quite possibly the grandest come down record ever created.

Weak Become Heroes is worthy of a full column in it’s own right, a wavy nostalgic hymn to the gods of ecstacy and clubbing, Seth Troxler closed a Printworks set with it recently and the crowd went predictably gooey, like partying in the centre of a Cadbury’s Creme Egg.

It must be a hell of a weight to bear for an artist, to produce a masterpiece so early on in their career. OPM still sounds current and continues to garner fans, kids who were miniature 15 years ago. A true cult classic.