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`WHEN THE MUSIC TAKES YOU HIGH' (BOOTLEG MIXES) YO YO HONEY (EMOTIVE) `THE DANCE' RYTHIM IS RYTHIM (TRANSMAT) "This track was originally done "This came out in 1987 and is one of my by DJ Pierre: he remixed Yo Yo earliest memories of the Hacienda. Originally Honey but it was never it was the B-side of 'Nude Photo', the record released.I got it on import. I'm that Friday night at The Hacienda was named a lifelong fan of DJ Pierre and after. It's got so many virtues. It's got 909 everything he's ever done. He's drums, one bass sound, one chord sound responsible for acid house and it works over nine minutes of music. It's music, I think. This record has an absolute anthem for the northern acid a really simple b -line and house explosion. Very few people at the time almost awkward -sounding bought it.It still play it from time to time in drum programming. It reminds the right clubs - the Tunnel, Shindig, places me of early days at Cream." a little less mainstream."

`WHO DARES TO BELIEVE IN ME?' `BREAK 4 LOVE' RAZE THE BELIEVERS (STRICTLY RHYTHM) (GROOVE STREET RECORDS) "This record inspired DJ Pierre's "This came out in '88 and, again, this current club smash 'The Don'. This reminds me of being at The Hacienda. record sounds a lot like what Pierre's Raze sounds like he means what he's done, a sax solo so lyrical it's almost singing about, it's a very sexually like a vocal and a long piano riff from charged record. The drums are based beginning to end. It's jam-packed full around a really strong tom riff. of feeling and emotion. Although the It's made for dancing to. You don't drums are more mechanical, it's got a get records like this any more - human feel through the whole thing." producers are so tied up with remixing they don't write songs." PAUL K-KLASS'S STEAMIN' 10

1 'FLASHBACK' Olivier Gosseries (Kingpin) `SHAKER SONG' PLAYTIME TOONS (PLAYTIME TOONS) 'CAN YOU FEEL IT' FINGERS INC (TRAX) 2 'PARADISE' EP Bob Sinclair (Yellow) 3 'MUSIC FEELS GOOD WITH YOU' "I think this was mixed by Trevor Fung around 1990. I became "Probably the house record that started it Spacedust (bootleg) aware of it in '91. A massive end -of -the -night record with Mike all for me. I remember hearing it on the 4 'NOTHING TO OFFER' Robbie Rivera (Subliminal) Pickering at The Hacienda. The piano chord sounds like radio,I think it was John Peel on Radio 5 'GHETTO HOUSE GROOVE' Armand Van something beautiful is about to happen, a proper pins -and - One. He played house before most people Heiden & The Horse (Club Pro Motion) needles record. Weird drums, almost indescribable, yet it works." knew what it was. I went into a shop and 6 'NEEDING YOU' The Face (Azuli) 7 'MIRAGE' Le Knight Club (Crydamore) bought about 20 records because Ididn't

8 'HIGH ON HOPE' Holding On (Ultra) 'MOVE YOUR BODY' MARSHALL JEFFERSON (TRAX) know what things were called. Eventually, I 9 'HIGH' EP Prophets Of Sound (Sunflower) "The definitive house record. It's a simple piano riff managed to find it about six months later. 'SPECIAL LOVE' Jestofunk feat. Jocelyn Brown 10 and vocals that urge you to dance. It's a record that It was the biggest pre -acid house track. (Club Tools) stinks ofThe Hacienda. It'severythingthat agood Later it came out with vocals and it's been club track should be, simple and effective." sampled by everyone over the years." `FUTURE' MR MONDAY (ELEVATION INC) 'THERE WILL COME A DAY' THE ABSOLUTE (TRIBAL AMERICA) `THE BOOK' SALT CITY RECORDINGS "I first heard this record played at "The vocal mix of this track is fantastic -a great song and arrangement. For (PAPER RECORDINGS) 8am in Ku in Ibiza in 1990. Again, me it's Mark Picchiotti's mix. I've noticed over the many years I've played this "This is more recent and it fits in neatly with I'd never heard anything like it. It's record, that people start to dance differently, even most of the rigid, white, out- the others I've chosen. Intricate, interesting a full record, there's lots of ideas. of-town kids start dancing. They're not just swaying. It's the best groove. His drum programming and simplicity all round. It's strong and powerful to the end. mind must have been overactive. I listen and listen and think, 'you clever It's the house sound of the late Nineties." It doesn't relent.I sometimes play fucker!' We've been working with him - we've collaborated on making a track it at the end of the night." which we'll be putting out soon. I'm now on my third copy of this record." [COMPILED BY SARAH DAVIS. TEL: 0181-948 2320]

CV BORN: Chester. March 11. 1967. LIFE BEFORE DJING: "I worked for BT and was let go because I never went to work on thedays after I DJed at the Hacienda." FIRST DJ GIG: "It was by accident. I never intended forming a band or being a DJ. I'd had decks for years and done littlegigs and, one weekend. John Kelly at Cream was ill. Jim King from Cream said Russ and I could go on and he'd bill us as K -Klass. We did five dates inLondon and everyone loved us and asked us back." MOST v] MEMORABLE GIG: Best- "The first time I heard Rhythm Is A Mystery at the Hacienda in 1991. We'd remixed it and then we heard itgo down so well. Mike Pickering was playing it.It stopped us in our tracks.- Worst- "Being dumped at a bus stop in a small town in Denmark at 5am with no money, freezingto death in sweaty T-shirts. The driver was supposed to take us to the airport." FAVOURITE CLUBS: Cream: "It rivals anything I've ever seen in any club in thepast 10 years": Shindig: "They let us play what we want and the crowd love it": Pushca. London; The Tunnel, Glasgow. NEXT THREE GIGS: Glam, The Vaults. Edinburgh (August1): Déjà Vu. The Room. Hull (7): Legends, London; Café de Paris. London (9). DJ TRADEMARK: "I play the records I'd like to hear myself while I'm dancing.All of us in the band are still clubbing - it's not work, it's tun." LIFE OUTSIDE DJING: Artist: single Burnie' (Parlophone) out now; second single and album. K2. out September:current Des'ree single 'Life': producing (with Andy) Candi Staten's next album: running the Kingpin label: seeing girlfriend and friends; following Chester City football club.