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The general consensus has been that "The Secret Life of Us" CD is the strongest album yet from Joey Negro's Sunburst Band. Recently managing to top the Solar Sweet Rhythms chart, Starpoint Soul Chart, Amazon Dance chart, now we start to see some of the cuts in extended remixed form.

The brassy disco funk jam "Take It To The Top" gets an extended beefed up treatment from Joey Negro. As always with Sunburst tunes the instrumentation is top notch, while Noelle Scaggs vocals ride beautifully over the top.

For those who like things a bit more electronic Andreas Saag delivers a brilliant remix that retains the jazziness of the original but underpinned by a crazy syncopated bassline.

Dimitri From Paris - Always top notch production 
Lovebirds - Saag remix is huge!! 
Deetron - Andreas never let's us down, great remix!! 
CJ Mackintosh - Joey Mix for me...lovely! 
Danny Krivit - Great remix 
Ralf GUM - Nice remix and good original. Will play for sure 
Glenn Underground - This is major, especially the Joey Negro Extended Mix 
Richard Earnshaw - Just love getting this vibe in the inbox!! Lovely stuff! 
Leftside Wobble - Love the original and Andreas Saag's remix brings just enough twisted electronic funk 
Jazz FM - 2 top notch remixes, Andreas has a slight advantage from these ears, lovin the broken jazzy disco vibes 
Graeme Park - Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! 
DJ Jeroenski - Wicked stuff indeed...! 
David Scally - A summer smash... Loving the Joey Ext funk!!! Andreas has more four to the floor appeal. Two cracking mixes 
Jask - This is very nice. both mixes:) 
Shur-i-kan - Great Saag mix! 
Rocky - Lovely. Saag mix is the one 
Soulmagic - Both the Extended and the Andreas Saag remix works for us 
Hernan Cattaneo - Excellent stuff 
Roog - Great stuff! 
Casio Social Club - Yet more wonderfullness from the Z camp 
Bill Brewster - JN mix very jazz funk, nice early 80s Rhodes work, like it 
Martin Ikin - Both mixes are great, love the vibe on the saag remix 
Sean McCabe - Sublime remix by Andreas Saag! Both tracks are smokin hott!!! 
Alex Niggemann - Nice music, as always. Big thx. 
Fred Everything - I'm a big fan of Andreas Saag and I love everything in his remix 
Matt Bandy - Niceness.... 
Gregor Salto - Joey is boss! I wish people were more open to that sounds nowadays 
Kiko Navarro - Very nice musical arrangements on Andreas Saag remix plus a super funky extended from the man

Take It To The Top (Andreas Saag And Joey Negro Remixes)

DJing since 1988, member of Cologne Connection
House-Junky, Groove-Addict & Rhythm-Freak

A pure lover of house music. Big fan of deep house, dub techno, soulful... Extremely allergic to bad music :)  

Lengthy artist careers in the music business are few and far between, but in the ever-changing world of dance music they are scarcer than a signed Moroder twelve. Joey Negro/Dave Lee’s debut release may have been part of the first wave of UK house back in 1988, but more than 20 years later he is still on top of his game. 

“I’d been in a few bands in the 80s,” he says, “but when house came along one of the things that appealed to me was that you suddenly didn’t need a group of musicians to make a record. However, having produced loads of keyboard based tracks it’s always nice to go back to the band sound for a change….especially now I’m completely in charge!”

The Sunburst Band is a collective born out of Mr Lee’s passion for boogie, funk, disco and jazz. “It’s not like I’m the guy who harps on that it was so much better back in ’78,’” says Dave with a smile, “but at the same time I’m a bit of a polar resistor who goes against the flow. When my mates were buying The Clash and Cocteau Twins, I was into D Train and Funkadelic. Similarly now as so many dance acts are making electro I’ve gone the other way with this project. I’ve missed the performance thing, the intensity of a band playing together. Rock and indie have never moved away from the guitar and drums sound, whereas dance (be it R&B or house) tends to be mainly programmed. And it’s not that I have a problem with that, I just wanted to do something that I don’t hear too often nowadays. Some people might call it retro, but I’m just a guy writing songs and performing them with his band.”

Forming in 1998, the release of debut album ‘Here Comes The Sunburst Band’ won critical acclaim with both old school heads as well as nu breed disco and house fans. Tracks like ‘Garden of Love’ and ‘Delicious’ became scene classics, championed by DJs from Pete Tong to 4 Hero to Dmitri from Paris. The follow-up ‘Until The End of Time’ featured cuts like ‘Far Beyond’ which all the top US hip hop guys still spin, and soul anthem ‘Everyday – a favourite with Annie Mac, Trevor Nelson and even Heston Blumenthal, who included it as one of his ‘Desert Island Discs’ on Radio 4.

Says Dave: “The last album ‘Moving with the Shakers’ took over me for a while, and I spent 18 months working on it, going back to the songs, honing the production and lyrics, scrapping tracks and starting new ones to make sure there were no fillers. As you can imagine, it’s pretty intense making an album when you’re the main songwriter, producer, label and a&r man. On this third album, I also wanted to say something in the songs and avoid the banal lyrics that plague so much dance music.”

Collaborators on ‘Moving With The Shakers’ include Harlem soul legend Leroy Burgess, Diane Charlemagne, who sang on Goldie’s ‘Inner City Life’, and Chaka Khan’s sister Taka Boom. Fulltime front man Pete Simpson is also known for lending his vocal talents to the Unabombers’ alias, The Elektrons.

The Sunburst Band are currently touring the world while Dave Lee is currently working on the fourth Sunburst Band studio album.


A Millennial stuck in a mid life crisis since high school it feels like. And it’s only getting worse.. but hey making tunes helps ! Hopefully listening to tunes helps anyone else in a the same boat, so hopefully these tunes improve your spirits! Making them helped improve mine!!

 Most all of the songs that still carry my old SynthDog cover I made in Korg Gadget pretty much solely on my phone, everything else was done in a more real and professional DAW…. Though Korg Gadget slaps for a mobile DAW.