^^ great tune! Cheers.
In the early 90's, some of the first 12" dance music vinyl purchases I ever made were pieces of wax from William Orbit & Dick O'Dell's Guerilla Records.
"Progressive house" was only then a new sub-genre of beats, clubby sounds, dub basslines, trancey influences over deeper, & funkier house 4/4's, & more. Commercial sounding stuff equally made for the floor as it was made for the headphones, from deeper influences & origins. I learned a lot from listening to it all. Particularly DUB influences, which if you think about, was spreading out into other areas of dance all at the same time. If you are a fan of the sounds, the dub inflections of progressive house can be seen as a precursor to what was later to be heard in the emerging tech house sounds that followed in the years after. The earliest progressive house has always been largely a British thing, I checked out quite a bit of it, alongside parallel stateside sounds, ambient releases, and such.
SPOOKY aka. Charlie May & Duncan Forbes - Gargantuan lp, 1993 - Guerilla Records.. blew my mind.
For that time period, I'd say I've listened to this lp more than most electronic lp's during those years. I can still listen to it today, and value what I heard the first time around. THEY SAMPLED THE fuckin PIXIES!! I mean, who was doing that @ the time??
I heard deep house pads & textures, being played with all matters of funk, and with a sense of humour. Dripping water samples, ambience, musicality. DUBBY influences & groove. Its a very clean sounding record. Straight to the point. BOOM! That's what I like about it.
Both Charlie May & Duncan Forbes are still doing their thing, I take the time to listen here and then. Tech house seems to be the logical focus now, and they'd be great sources to delve into on occasion when you have the time.
Charlie May is once producer who goes a bit underrated imo. His discography within dance music continues to charge on, as mon has definitely lead & changed a large scope of dance music you hear coming out of the UK since 1992/93. I wouldn't be here as a music fan without those infectious SPOOKY bits no doubt.
bigs.
Spooky - Gargantuan lp - Guerilla Records 1993
1. Don't Panic
2. Schmoo
3. Aqualung
4. Little Bullet Part One
5. Little Bullet Part Two
6. Land of Oz
7. Something's Got To Give
8. Orange Coloured Liquid
9. Schmoodub
10. Let Go
Spooky Transitions Show Kiss FM London March 20th 2010
https://soundcloud.com/spooky-uk/spooky-...-20th-2010
Transitions show compiled and mixed by Duncan Forbes - Track listing:
INTRO – FOURTET – LOVE CRY (CUT UP N EDIT) - DOMINO
1.ANDREW WEATHERALL – FAIL WE MAY DUB WE MUST – ROTTERS GOLF CLUB
2.CHARLIE MAY – RUNNING ACROSS A BUSY STREET (DUNCAN FORBES REMIX EDIT) – UNRELEASED
3.TIM RICHARDS – SYNTHETIC SOUL (FIORD REMIX) – CURFEW
4.D RAMIREZ – NITR8 (PAUL WOOLFORD REMIX) – SLAVE
5.MIKE MONDAY – YOUR BODY – VERY WRONG INDEED
6.SLAM – COLLECTIING DATA – PARAGRAPH
7.SPOOKY – BASS JUMPER – UNRELEASED
8.CHRISTIAN SMITH – BELUGA (SECRET CINEMA REMIX) – TRONIC
9.SPOOKY – XV – UNRELEASED
10.SPOOKY – LITTLE BULLET REVISITED – RENAISSANCE
11.JIM RIVERS – 7 DAYS (STEVE MAC REMIX) – RENAISSANCE