Catalogue Number: GU001
Release Date: January 1997
Buy it from: Beatport
I decided to start Glasgow Underground at the end of 1996. By then, I’d had a couple of years releasing the music I made with Andy Carrick on the Muzique Tropique label. I’d made up all these psuedonyms (4AM, West Coast Connection, Mystic Soul, American Intrigue, Urban Revolution & Communication X) so that it looked like we were a “proper” label with a number of artists. I’m not sure why I did it since I put our names down as the writers & producers each time. But there you go.
We were only selling about 2000 12″s about 3 or 4 times a year so I was making money writing for various music magazines (Generator, Muzik, Mixmag Update). During that time, I met a load of producers who 1) made music I loved and 2) couldn’t find labels to take it. Add that to the music that was being made by DJs & club-heads in Glasgow at the time and I had all the material I needed to start a new label. A proper one this time. With more than just me and my friend from University making house music.
At the same time I met Kenny Inglis (who has since gone on to record as Spylab & Cinephile). “Just a Mood” was one of the first things we made together in his studio in Bishopton, on the west coast of Scotland. At the time, I loved making mood records. Mostly for DJs to start the evening with, or for those 6 o’clock in the morning moments when people have been dancing all night and need something a little more kicked-back.
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“Shona’s Song” was another of the tracks Kenny and I made that year. It is named after an old girlfriend of mine – it was her kind of bassline. The track owes a lot to the French producer Shazz, his 1994 EP “A View of Manhattan” seemed to never leave my DJ box.
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What the papers said:
“Sleazy, after-hours house. Prepare to dive.” Muzik Magazine
“Two gorgeous, deep-as-the-ocean-blue cuts.” Update