According to Rob, Micheal Gray did actually admit to liking
their unofficial remix. Junior continues and explains on what
Rob said before about Steve Lawler being a fan. "We were
in Ibiza on the night he played it and it went off."
"Funny thing was we were playing on a boat party while
Steve was at Mambo playing our remix," adds Rob. "James
who runs the label with us, phoned us from England as Pete
Tong was playing us on Steve's set live on Radio 1."
Steve's appreciation of their music goes a little bit further
than merely playing it. Apparently he emailed them personally
to say that their debut remix on the Trophy Twins 'Anarchism'
has been one of his biggest and favourite tracks.
House music seems more singles cultured; it's about creating
the tune, providing the influence to dance. Would either of
the guys agree that the house music industry is therefore
more about singles than albums?
"A lot of artistes in the sort of 'dance'. I'll use the
word 'dance', are manufactured," begins Rob. "So
from that point of view a lot of people do come along and
they are one hit wonders. They'll have a big single but I
think the difference between that and what we're doing seems
a lot more, almost specialist, a lot more underground. So
that you take your time rather than come in and have a big
smash number one. The scene that we're in is more like the
other way round. You start small and you gradually build up.
You build up your repertoire, remixes, discography and eventually
your stuff's good enough and the right people hear it and
the right people play it and then that's when you start to
make more of a name for yourself. There's a fine line between
selling out and doing something really creative. You get a
remix of an old 80s tracks and it worked really well then
suddenly everyone is jumping on the 80s remix bandwagon. Before
you know it there's 20 tracks that are out in the charts.
That's why it's difficult in what we do. You've got to be
careful not to be too cheesy and careful to be not too underground."
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