Name: CLUSTER - JON DASILVA AND JOHN MCCREADY 1994 by JON DASILVA / SKYSKRAPA / BLACK DRAGON SOUND
Duration: 8 min 50 s
Description: this appeared on a strange little compilation album in the mid 90's...soon available in garage bargain bins everywhere, as I remember...but one we had a lot of fun with @ Primetime Studios with Andy Robinson a very patient engineer. Twice filtered and dubbed for, errr...filtery dubby - goodness...

This STILL needs pressing on it's own 12"! The vinyl on the compilation wasn't that loud. This was the best track on it by miles, i first heard it being played by 808 State on their radio show.

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this appeared on a strange little compilation album in the mid 90's...soon available in garage bargain bins everywhere, as I remember...but one we had a lot of fun with @ Primetime Studios with Andy Robinson a very patient engineer. Twice filtered and dubbed for, errr...filtery dubby - goodness...

CLUSTER - JON DASILVA AND JOHN MCCREADY 1994

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INTONATION JANUARY 2025

Jim Coles’s fifth instalment of his best-selling ‘Acid Dub Studies’ series arrives in the form of the third set of original works exploring the infectious sound of the 303 bass-line in a dubwise setting. The album takes in traditional dub mixing approaches in a digital and roots/digi-dub style whilst also making space for more electronic and ambient processes to close the project.

‘Acid Dub Studies III’ arrives after 2 years of touring the material in a live setting at festivals and clubs including CTM at Berghain, Les Nuits Sonores, and Andrew Weatherall's Convenanza festival and is the culmination of some 5 years of experimenting with a style that has been met with critical acclaim, reaching far and wide into many a DJ’s box having been noted by some as a truly ground-breaking approach to working with the 303.

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With a career spanning over four decades, that began in what many consider to be the most important and influential club of its generation, Fac 51 The Haçienda, and continues with his residency for the award winning I Love Acid club night, few of today’s DJs can boast a pedigree like Jon Dasilva. 

Considered to be Haçienda’s most singular resident DJ, Jon Dasilva was fresh to the scene in '87, finding DJ inspiration in the House and Disco DJs of deepest New York and Chicago, amidst a sea of influences, from Bowie to Dub Reggae to Kosmische Musik to Disco. His broad musical tastes and ability to work so many genres into proper dance floor action mark Dasilva out as a next level DJ. 

His greatest legacy from that period, alongside championing the early Chicago and Detroit sound, was his imaginative take on the idea of the DJ set. Not content with simply mixing one track into another, Dasilva wove a cappella and sound effects into a broad selection of House, Acid, Disco, Techno and even Brazilian Batucada, intuitively mixing in key, building a set dynamic that until then was rarely heard on UK shores.

A lesser known side of his influence was Jon’s inspired warm-up sets at the Haçienda. This was Dasilva's first experience of playing in such a major club, and realising the potential to have fun in the first hour or more of the night, he went about mixing up Dub Reggae, Latin, Disco and Post Punk oddities, interspersed with BBC sound effects. Word spread and soon these mixes would become the inspiration for another set of DJs, who later went on to form the backbone of the soon-to-emerge Balearic DJ scene, as well as artists like the The Chemical Brothers, The New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Matthew Herbert, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and many more. 
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Jon still retains a freshness of approach, and this can be heard in his recent DJ mixes. His penchant for the varied shades of acid, techno and house, as well as his keen nose for sniffing out the most interesting modern producers, are evident.
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More recently, Dasilva has forged an ongoing relationship with the London club night, I Love Acid and the club’s promoters, Posthuman, regularly doing back-to-back DJ sets with Posthuman. I Love Acid won the Best Club Event in DJ Magazine’s ‘Best Of British’ 2019.

CLUSTER - JON DASILVA AND JOHN MCCREADY 1994

JON DASILVA / SKYSKRAPA / BLACK DRAGON SOUND

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