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  • Interview with Sasha & Darren Emerson on the making of Scorchio

Looking back the Emerson Dub has aged quite well.

    Dan
    Just played it. Still not a fan to be honest.

    • Dan replied to this.

      I seem to recall, Sasha had fuck all to do with this.

      ….this old chestnut (again! 😆), talent seeks out the best people to work with, no idea why this ‘he was just a passenger’ thing endlessly gets trotted-out in relation to Sasha, there are very few creative ventures where this doesn’t happen to some degree.

      Sasha gets the people together in the studio, drives the project forward, exercises the quality control, then puts his name on it…

      The legendary Xpander riff existed as a forgotten file on Charlie May’s hard drive and would never have been heard by anybody until Sasha saw the potential in it… pretty sure CM has said as much himself.

      Do you know why it’s called Xpander? I only found out today.

        Dan …Sasha is particularly passionate about the fate of the Chinese bear population!?

        (I’ve no fucking idea)

        • Dan replied to this.

          Unbroken1 …lol!

          The EP was named after the Oberheim Xpander synthesizer, prominently used in the track.

          …doesn’t Loopstick have one of those? strong claim to a credit on the EP IMO.

          • Dan replied to this.

            It’s alright, but preferred the Sander Kleinenberg remix.

              it’s so fast . May have to dig it out and see what it sounds like -8

              Got on the 1200s last night and busted out Moroccan Blonde on Plastic Fantastic , which had to get played at -8. What was going on back then to make 134bpm the norm 🤔

                Dan Well said.

                Funny to hear ol’ baldy speaking so fondly of the Gardening Club (where I cut my raving teeth week in, week out through the early 90s). I’ll never forget him coming on to close at 4am - following a rip snorting couple of sets by the kings of the underground (!), Brandon Block and Jezza Healy - and completely clearing the dancefloor with a self-indulgent 15 minute, beatlesss epic house intro. We all fucked off through that dark, dank passage to the Rock Garden to dance to Rocky and Diesel (the fuck happened to them btw?!).

                Halcyon days. If you’d told me then I’d still be doing this on the cusp of 50 I’d have been horrified by my future self. And rightly so.

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