4. Toddla T‘Watch Me Dance (Andrew Weatherall Remix)’
Now the next significant moment in the story I guess is the Croatian festival, Electric Elephant. This is the first time we played for them in Petrčane and that’s when we went from being a club that was a kind of London cult thing to being something that a lot of people sat up and took notice of. We went from a Thursday night basement club to an international festival act because there were people from all over the UK there and from further afield in Europe and beyond like Japan too. And without blowing my own trumpet we fucking knocked it out of the park and everybody freaked.
This track itself is from 2011, which was about a year in for us. Andrew’s remix of Toddla T’s ‘Watch Me Dance’. You can hear the MS-20 synth here. It’s so Andrew. I think he’d started working with Tim [aka Timothy J. Fairplay] at this point and basically pretty much all they used kit-wise was the 808 drum machine, Juno-106 or Juno-60 and Korg MS-20 and a Roland Space Echo. Tim had every synthesiser known to humanity in those studios on Scrutton Street but Andrew by this point had come to the conclusion that all of those things were a distraction. He just wanted to use the 808, the Juno, the Korg MS-20 and the Space Echo in general. From that period of time pretty much all of the remixes they did just used that handful of machines and if you listen back it really makes a cohesive body of work and that’s a lesser known example, but also very evocative one, of what became that kind of ‘chug’. I don’t want to use that word as I think it’s become a bit of a cliché. But I think it’s a really good example of that time.
