Let’s take it back to ‘88. What a tune

Hello Chicago I’m getting ready for the aciiiiiiiiiiiid, awesome tune🔊🔥❤️

In the summer of 1988, so legendary folklore recalls, a new kind of music appeared in abandoned warehouses, industrial units and fields across the UK. A phenomenon that would come to be known as Acid House. With direct influences from the USA especially that of Detroit and Chicago, as well as later Germany and Ibiza, it marked the dawn of the infamous and very British ‘Rave’ movement. The Second Summer of Love, as the summers of '88-'89 became known, and with the help of a little newly synthesized compound MDMA redefined nightlife for generations to come in UK clubs such as Shoom and Spectrum.

One of the finest and most respected House music producer / DJs the UK has ever produced, Steve Mac was inspired by this, compelling him to release his new Acid and Classic House inspired album in collaboration with many of the scenes original and seminal greats entitled ‘Bless This Acid House'.

This is a collection of brand new, authentic and original sounding House tracks that transport you back to a time when House music was strictly underground and burgeoning. Featuring collaborations with some of Electronic music’s most influential names including Marshall Jefferson, Irvine Welsh, E Raze, the late Sleezy D and Robert Owens. 

To date there have been two single releases from the album, the first is ‘Jack Said What’ containing a sample — a nod to the foundational house pillar of the mid-1980s — ‘Jack Said What’. The track also inspired the name of his Brighton based record label. It is an authentic and well produced raw house cut and an acid-tinged dancefloor slayer, filled with 303 and fizzy electro basslines which dominate throughout the track.

Followed by One Day’ a deep cut that has all the hallmarks of a classic — think Frankie Knuckles ‘Tears’, or ‘I’ll Be Your Friend’, with its deep and memorable male vocal. Delivering the aesthetics of a Chicago house record recorded 30-something years ago, but with some modern production techniques. The vocal comes courtesy of Robert Owens, probably the greatest house music male vocalist of them all and a man whose golden voice has set the standard on many classics. 

Steve Mac himself has impeccable credentials, a UK house music heavy hitter he has been a pillar of the international house community from the start. He is a DJ, Producer and Record Label Boss of 'Jack Said What' Records in partnership with the infamous Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. With over 25 years experience, he is respected and revered for his analogue production style. Mac has released tracks for many labels including Nervous, MoS, Cr2, Tool Room, Saved, Underwater and Ovum. His remix credentials just as strong  having worked with Jamiroquai, Simply Red and Michael Jackson’s releases over the years. More recently he has been releasing under the name These Machines — a tribute to the amount of vintage analogue hardware he has in his studio in order to produce and expertly mix down his tracks.

Bless This Acid House

Spirit (feat Marshall Jefferson)

Steve Mac - Spirit (feat Marshall Jefferson)

There’s no stopping Serge Santiago, this lad is on fire with his productions at the moment. Since leaving behind Waze & Odyssey to concentrate on his solo project, Serge has released a string of singles on Jack Said What and then — on November 11th last year — his debut solo album, ’11:11’. 

He’s now working on a second artist album, due late 2023, but before that he drops ‘Transition’, a classic sounding house cut that could easily have come from the Azuli or Strictly stables. With a near-familiar diva vocal sample, expansive synth chords and a cinematic interlude in the breakdown, ‘Transition’ is built for the friendliest, fun-filled dancefloors. You can almost see the Glitterbox confetti cannons exploding and fabulous drag queens twirling when it kicks back in after the drop. 

Acclaimed Brighton-based producer NOLAN, who frequently releases on labels such as Renaissance and John Digweed’s Bedrock, turns in a remix for more progressive floors. Elongating the cinematic breakdown so that it’s essentially half of the whole tune, he sculpts it into a transition track that provides as much respite on the dancefloor as it does da funk. 

Serge has rebooted his Stompa Phunk parties in Brighton over the past couple of years, and they’ve been a resounding success. There have been a few Jack Said What parties in association with Stompa Phunk — sometimes daytime raves in pubs, other times late-night dance parties in clubs — and these will continue sporadically into the future. Sometimes together, sometimes separately, but always sexy and on-point.

Transition

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Kick-ass electronic dance music label founded by the visionary trio of Irvine Welsh, Steve Mac & Carl Loben. We're passionate about nurturing talent and pushing boundaries, with a strong focus on quality, and are injecting the original raw spirit back into dance music. 
Many of the tracks are produced, written or mixed using original hardware boxes and mastered to analogue tape, giving a nod to the roots of electronic music production - but always, of course, using the latest technology to bring the sound into the future.

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