![]() ![]() “Herve’s remix of Under The Sun was everywhere in 2008 and just always makes me bristle when I hear it. ![]() What artists and records do you look back from that time and still love? I was really excited by it all at the time and still continue to be, that scenes moved on and seems to be going back to garage and deep house which is cool, but all that really remains are the nice people I met and worked with and the music they continue to make. I started getting bookings and the first time playing in Brighton, friends were like ‘Ste’s playing house?’ as up until that point I was all about hip hop, funk and soul. So when commissioning mixes for the first album we got Herve, Detboi and Jack Beats who all delivered amazing mixes that did well in the clubs internationally. It just seemed refreshing and a bit irreverent, picking and choosing from the past to create something new, lots of samples too. Before that, dance music seemed a bit po-faced, blokes in clubs stroking their goatees and banging on about Marshall Jefferson (yawn). I’ve always dipped in and out of dance music but I guess I only really got turned in around 2005 when I caught wind of the whole Dubsided/Switch/Sinden thing. There’s too many rules, like you’re a dick if you use the wrong kind of kick drum? Music is way to much of a precious commodity to be restricted by style, leave all that to the kids cos vanity comes easy when your young and if it becomes about anything other than the party, I’m out. It’s cool that it creates a furtive ground for artists to develop, but as soon as a scene crystallizes, it’s over. “I don’t really consider myself part of any scene as such, I find them stifling. A Middlesbrough lad who got into hip hop, breakdancing – maybe a bit of graffiti? How did you get into this scene? But let’s pour a cup of tea and roll back the years to when you first caught the dance music bug. Great remix of ‘Together Again’ which we will come to later. Bringing the feel good factor back to dance music ![]()
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