Charlie May ….. Again
Interview with Sasha & Darren Emerson on the making of Scorchio
….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.
…doesn’t Loopstick have one of those? strong claim to a credit on the EP IMO.
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 
IndustryStandard you all had much higher T
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.
elrobertos Rocky and Diesel have just released a new X-Press 2 album and still gig. We booked Diesel years ago… Top bloke.
Dan They were great DJs when I heard them back then. But I’ll never forgive “Lazy”. Conflicted.
elrobertos How dare you slate a Pete Tong essential new tune… He also recommended this one about the same time
I remember hearing some mixes from djs around then with some West Coast tech house, prog stuff and then they would whack in Lazy. Why… Just why… I never heard it on the dancefloor so maybe something magical happened then and it turned into a dancefloor destroyer. I doubt it.
Rhouses would have been there ‘rocking it’ to that.
zackster No wonder I had about 6% body fat in those days.
Have to say sasha played a blinder in derry in August, went a lot deeper than I thought he would. The old guys still doing it and out lasting the young ones, seems to be a revival going on at the minute.
Diggers MBB was doop. The bald one played it too. His MBB was Alex party - read my lips.
He also destroyed his 94 essential mix with Diddy - Give Me Love .
