One of the few highlights of my teenage life was Fridays.Apart from the fact it meant school was over for a week I always looked forward to chilling for the evening with a book or doing some writing or sketching whilst listening to Pete Tong's Essential Selection on Radio 1.Sometimes I would just lie back and immerse myself in the soundscapes and find myself somewhere else other than my bedroom.Whilst I enjoyed the majority of the show I always hated the little stabs that were inserted in the songs (and famously inserted into one remix of 'Can I Kick It' by A Tribe Called Quest). I also wasn't a fan of the man himself. He always seemed a bit up himself, but maybe with his career he'd earned the right.Every now and then on his show there would be a song or sequence of songs that was just memorable in itself and you just wanted that moment to repeat itself in subsequent shows.One of those moments was when amongst a lot of the bland, trudging techno, clubmix anthems came one, awkward, gangly, grating tune that stood out like a sore thumb.Except it was the kind of sore thumb you get from trying to prize open a box of Ferrero Rocher not from a greased-up hammer crunching your distal phalange (work that out!). The type you don't mind getting because it leads to something wonderful.That moment was Cowgirl by underworld.The superlong intro and apparently disjointed sequence of words that lost their meaning through endless repetition and morphed into a melody of its own took its sweet time time to grow and as the tempo and beat picked up where most songs were about to climax you felt yourself carried along with it. Lifted up above the eurobeat, hardcore and synthstring madness that dance music was descending into you felt hopeful that there was still somewhere for this electronic, twiddly strand of music to go other than up its own backside. When the end finally came you were left dumped on the floor of reality listening to utter drivel that came next and wanting the last five minutes of your life to replay again.Dance music had a new standard to live up to.The flip side of the single was just as awesome and the following weeks saw Pete Tong flip between playing Cowgirl and the equally awesome and seemingly twice as long Rez.Credit where credit's due I think he even played its full length once or twice. Not something that happened that often back then. A bit of an honour for the track really.Doesn't quite top the hype afforded to The Orb's 'Blue Room' single when it was released (snoreathon mix I think it was) but then it was nearly unheard of for songs to last that long and still be popular.Cowgirl and Rez still rate in my all-time top ten as they have stood the test of time and I can still listen to them with the same excitement as I used to. They still sound way ahead of their time and few have managed to match the abstract, eclectic yet funky and danceable mashup that underworld pioneered.Cowgirl