Today’s disc is the 1993 12 inch single Slumberland by Solitaire Gee. Yesterday’s discs were from 1995 so I’m mixing the timeline up again, apologies. Today’s disc is just a lovely, big piece of house music with the sample “it’s groovy baby, it’s groovy baby” (it’s my birthday and you’ve got to try and feel groovy on your birthday, haven’t you, especially when it’s this end of the 50s?). The record label Warp that today’s disc is on, you might recall, has already been mentioned this month (back on Day 16). I don’t remember where I first heard Slumberland but I know it was one of those tracks that stands out in a set and it was pretty popular. It was the Rhythm Invention mix that got the play (Rhythm Invention being Nick Simpson and Richard Brown, both used many names for production and have busy entries on Discogs). The mix in question sounds like this:
Solitaire Gee (John Gilpin and Raz Shamshad) were from Huddersfield (not far from Leeds where we lived at the time) and we did get to know John a bit when we were DJing, even worked with him a little. Raz ran the record shop Fourth Wave in Huddersfield (much friendlier than the average dance record shop in the 1990s) and the pair made music together and separately.
John Gilpin’s solo stuff was released under the name Lex Loofah and we played his track The Feelin’ (AA side with Jacked) a lot in our house DJ sets in the mid/late 1990s. You can see this one looks well used:
We rarely heard other DJs playing The Feelin’ so it really felt like one of our tracks (if we had a sound, this was it). Listening to it again this week put me right back in a DJ booth, wondering what the hell to play next (we didn’t plan sets as such, some DJs did, some didn’t – maybe it would have been a more relaxing experience if we had). We really liked John and his music – he was just a chilled guy who loved making tunes. This record was released on the label Phat Records and it sounds like this:
Quick one today – back tomorrow with some Latin house.
For the first intro post to this series go here.
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Just listening to it made me feel tired and serotonin deprived
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