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Pete Tong & Darren Emerson: über Junior Boys Own
In Kürze: To coincide with the Junior Boys Own 20th Anniversary Album we’ve got 2 exclusive interviews with Pete Tong AND Darren Emerson, talking about how JBO have shaped their lives. These interviews give you.
Vollständig: To coincide with the Junior Boys Own 20th Anniversary Album we’ve got 2 exclusive interviews with Pete Tong AND Darren Emerson, talking about how JBO have shaped their lives.
These interviews give you a feel for what it was like to be a DJ back in the Acid House days, check out some of the extracts below.
Pete Tong
- You came across a story in the Junior Boys Own Fanzine we’ve given you about how the phrase ‘It’s all gone Pete Tong’ came from, care to share it with us?
“From my knowledge that phrase came from the JBO Fanzine and for me it summed up my whole relationship with the Raid guys and the Boys Own guys, which was they were always taking the piss out of me! They kind of liked me but they couldn’t allow their radical side to go. They had to pull my leg because I was part of the establishment I guess. They just existed to be bitchy ha! That’s just the way they were- schnidy and bitchy, but they loved their music and that’s what made it a fascinating crew to hang around with. It kind of went with the territory, the fact that I was working at Capital radio for a start, and because I was an old soul boy meant I wasn’t going to be allowed to get by without some sort of wind-up. And that’s where it started.”
- Are there any tracks from the JBO catalogue which especially stand out for you?
“For me, at the beginning, it doesn’t get much better than the first Underworld tune, I’ll always see the Boys Own logo with that record. One Dove was very special to us. I still think it was one of the greatest albums which never really worked. Also the stuff that Steve did after we were no longer involved such as The Chemical Brothers, the Black Science Orchestra, and when Pete Heller was becoming a formidable force.”
Darren Emerson
- When and how did you start playing at the parties for JBO?
“Well there’s one in particular that stands out, usually the ones which were really good you can’t really remember much about!, but the one that sticks out is the one where Andrew asked me fill in for because he couldn’t make it and he requested me to play for him. I was honoured because I looked up to Andrew and thought it was a fantastic thing to be asked to do, at a young age as well. I remember Norman Cook was there and it was the first house party he’d been to, and he always says now in interviews that I was the first person to get him into house music.”
- We think that ‘Born Slippy’ is the biggest dance record ever made. Do you agree or can you think of a dance record that was bigger?
“I was actually in Miami with Liam Howlett from the Prodigy, and he popped up one time when we we’re talking and said ‘I was reading the NME and there was the top 100 dance records ever made, and you we’re number 1 and we were number 2!’ We laughed about it, but the Prodigy are definitely up there, they’ve got the big tunes such as ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ & ‘Firestarter’ haven’t they? But I’ve heard ‘Born Slippy’ so many times. It’s hard for me to say. It seems that a lot of people still like it and I still play it when I’m DJ-ing at a big arena party or in a big room venue. I do mash-up’s of it just to make it sound better for me because I’ve heard the original so many times. But it still goes off and people everywhere know it and still demand that I play it.”.
Dieser Nachricht wurde am 24.10.2009 durch sven
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