In the 1990s, one producer excelled all others in seizing upon a spanking brand new sound concept that many others have since tried tirelessly to emulate. His name is not Sean Combs, "Mutt" Lange, John McEntire, Steve Albini, or even the RZA. You could argue that the honor of defining a decade should go to Prince Paul, but that skit thing just pisses me off now. Sure, it worked on Three Feet High and Rising but give it a rest, people! My huge shout of hearty praise for shaping the musical landscape of this decade goes to Andrew Weatherall. It was Weatherall's remix of the lame, floppy-fringed Primal Scream dirge "I'm Losing More Than I've Ever Had" that broke dance culture out from the warehouses and into the great wide cultural open. Weatherall's remix of that track was so radically different from the source material that the band retitled the track "Loaded" and the indie-led dance boom burst forth on a generation raised on Sherbet Dib-Dabs, a clipped ear for being insolent, and the highest quality tabs of ecstasy. In the fallout from "Loaded," record labels signed up any DJ for mixing duties who knew one fader from another. Some have fallen by the wayside-- who here remembers Dean Thatcher?-- others went onto other forms of greatness. But the fusion of indie rock and dance has never waned. The Manic Street Preachers still cadge mixes from the Chemical Brothers, as do the Charlatans UK. And the recent success of Super Furry Animals is directly attributable to Weatherall's