I was looking for something special as our 50th twelve-inch release on Buzzin' Fly. I was struggling to come up with something when Martin Stimming sent me a demo and asked my opinion. It was the basis of what was to become 'Bright Star'. I loved the mood and immediately began thinking about a vocal line for it. He said a voice would be great and I ended up writing the words and asking Julia Biel, who had recently sung on 'Guinea Pig', to sing them. Martin finished the music for what we ended up calling the Sunset Mix but was struggling for an alternative darker version. I suggested he played Julia's voice back through a telephone receiver to make it more remote and easier to fit sonically in a fatter mix. The result was the Sunrise Mix, a perfect 5am dancefloor track as far as I'm concerned. Martin must take all the credit for the production on this record; I was just a pair of ears and the lyricist. The artwork is a total triumph. We pressed the record on heavyweight vinyl, and John Gilsenan at iwantdesign produced a glorious deluxe gatefold sleeve with expensive gold-foil blocking, printed lyrics and a pull-out poster.
Electro Deluxe - Play (2010).rar
Twenty years after my previous single - an interim filled with nine albums and countless singles with Tracey Thorn in Everything But The Girl - I made this. And how times had changed. After growing up influenced by folk and jazz, by the late nineties I had become immersed in electronic music and club culture. I had run out of ideas with words and had become fascinated by beat and ritual. As Everything But The Girl was wound down, I started a club night in west London with Jay Hannan called Lazy Dog. We wanted to play deep house records on a Sunday from 4pm to 11pm. At the time this was quite a radical thing to do. We would spend the week scouring the London dance music shops for the hottest releases and play them on the Sunday. Jay worked at Blackmarket which gave him an edge, but one week, short of good tunes and keen to have something to play at the weekend, I went into my home studio and recorded 'Lone Cat' in a few hours. I played it at Lazy Dog on the the Sunday and suddenly realised I had made a hot track. The vocal clips came from two hip-hop sources - 'Politix' by The Lone Catalysts (hence the title), and 'Set it Off' by Organized Noize, which I later had to have re-sung because of copyright issues. I played or programmed the rest. After the early reaction, I made fifty white labels to give to friends. A few weeks later I got a call from New York. Someone had seen a record with 'Watts' stamped on the label in the famous old downtown record shop, Dance Tracks. It was my track. My own white label had be bootlegged. Two thousand copies were in circulation. Paul Farris at Uptown Records in Soho said he had sold out of his order already. I contacted the distributor, struck a deal, and regained control of the track. It ended up becoming the first single on Buzzin' Fly. 2ff7e9595c
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