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

DJ/Producer/Co-Creator/Human/Multi-Dimensional Being/All That Is/I AM

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Andy Bgpz started DJing in Manchester in 1990, including residencies at: "Happiness", warming up for Sasha at the inaugural night (no pressure there, then); a much-loved token monthly "dance night" at Salford Uni that grew from 40 to 600 within months with the help of the likes of Hacienda FM, Luv Dup, and Rob Bright; and at the first incarnation of Manumission playing chilled wonky stuff alongside a certain Mr Scruff in a pleasantly surreal dive in Manchester's Gay Village.

As part of the Raya, Triology and SoxaN crews, he spent a decade and a half or so putting on audio-visual rave-ups at the likes of the ICA, Big Chill and the Rhythm Factory (and some frankly questionable afterparties). 

Other activities include writing the clubs and dance music section for The Big Issue North West in the mid-90s (in spite of sub-editors that couldn't tell the difference between punk and funk - which made for some interesting listings some weeks), and random stuff for other nice people since then. Radio stuff's included In The City FM and Sunset 102 (Manchester), and several Big Chill FMs (from the Enchanted Garden to Eastnor). 

Now resident in Canada, he continues to enthuse about music, randomly trainspot and talk shite on air via the magic of the interwebz on  www.purple-radio.co.uk (and plays nice tunes, too). He's still been known to DJ/VJ out for ale and pork scratchings.

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