I'm sure there's a few on here who are gearing up for that fortnight in Ibiza.
We therefore have an exclusive in our Store. The Carl Cox 'Godfather of House' T-Shirt is available now in 3 colours.
Jay tells us here how he got involved in the whole scene and how he was once on the same bill as the legend himself.
"In
1988 a friend of mine told me about this new thing that was kicking
off called Acid music. He said he had heard of this club in
Liverpool that was playing it on a Thursday night, so we went. Inside it
was mind blowing, no Shazza's doing the side step around their handbags and no
Ted's waiting to glass you for so much as a side ways glance for spilling their
pint. This place was fucking booming! heads just letting themselves go,
throwing mad shapes everywhere in the flicker of a strobe light.
The
next day we felt so aloof as we knew this was the beginning of
something big. While most others were still asking for the last dance in
the Ritzy, this was what we would be immersed in, and for three years I
was. This time took me from Dumbarton to Bournemouth and everywhere in-between
as I tried to carve my name as an underground house DJ. Back then there were no
superstar DJ's, just lads who turned up with a flight case of 12 inches and a
set of headphones if they were flash. It never went any further than that for
me, as once the establishment done their thing, it just wasn't the same in
sanitized night clubs as it had been in seedy disused warehouses.
I once
played on the same bill as Carl Cox, and although he has gone on to be a big
name, he was there in the beginning and has stood the test of time. Even to
this day when you watch the big guy play, you can see he still loves the
music and what it's doing to him and not just wanting to be a big time Charlie
who gets all the cars and girls.
For
this reason Carl Cox is my Godfather of house.
Below
is a link to a live mix re mastered from cassette from when I was playing back
in 1989. I hope it brings back some fantastic memories for you as it does for
me. Memories are all we take with us and the one thing they cannot take away
from us."
Jay.
