‘Hardware in 1992 was very basic. We had to pitch-bend Kate’s vocal it to keep it in time, which is why it goes “oo-oo-aye”’
‘We threw the kitchen sink at Something Good’ … Utah Saints, AKA Tim Garbutt and Jez Willis, in 1993.‘We threw the kitchen sink at Something Good’ … Utah Saints, AKA Tim Garbutt and Jez Willis, in 1993.Last modified on Mon 1 Aug 2022 18.34 BSTJez and I met in Harrogate in a club called The Mix. I DJ’d house on Friday, and he played funk and disco on the Saturday. One night, Jez brought a rough copy ofAs with all Utah Saints tracks, the tune forwas written before we decided on any samples.
The song was made on limited equipment – old Akai samplers and Atari computers – and saved on to floppy disks. It took more than two weeks of fine tuning to make it all work.coverage by the BBC: you don’t forget moments like that. When we performed it on Top of the Pops, health and safety powered down my mixer during the recording – they were set up for a lead guitarist, not a lead DJ, and I had to work fast to make our performance look natural.
After the first album we spent a lot of time touring, and doing remixes for lots of different acts, from Blondie and the Osmonds to Hawkwind. We were about to start recording another LP, but then got a call to do theThat’s why the gap between our first and second albums was a long one. Not as long as the gap before our next one, though. We’re working on tracks now.when he was 17. He’s still that good now.
As a DJ, you constantly think about which tracks work together, and that helped when choosing samples. Thevocal came straight off the CD. Hardware in 1992 was very basic, and getting all the elements to sync was tricky. We had to pitch-bend the first part of Kate’s vocal to keep it in time, which is why it goes “oo-oo-aye”.
We threw the kitchen sink at Something Good. There was so much happening, and Guy Hatton, the ace studio engineer mixing it, managed to keep everything together.was our A&R man at the time, and we were lucky to have such a legend in our corner.
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