Have been a huge fan of Rocky & Diesel since stumbling across them aged 18 firing out what was to be a sound that would shape my musical trajectory thereon. Tracks dropped that night were Carl Craigs paperclip people nestling amongst NY gay disco anthem Born this way by Carl Bean and deep house tinged with mood and soul in the main room of Cream Liverpool.  

As a youthful adolescent we’d try get into cream but struggled week on week until a chance encounter one Saturday and opportunity seized when the promoter Darren Hughes popped into JD sports where I had a Saturday job. 

What followed was an exchange of Green Adidas Marathon,  a giving from John and David aka JD sports for services to house music. The favour was returned with a contact number scribbled on some paper and the words just call this when you're coming down to Cream and you and a mate can go on the guestlist.. whenever.

That was August 1994…27 plus years ago.  Its such an honour to have Rocky aka Darren Rock, one half of that duo and a third of the global reaching X-Press II  to close out the show with an hour of signature dance-floor arsenal.

The ReFrame And Guest Rocky (X - Press II)

'Music makes the world a better place' 

The ReFrame: music collector / selector / editor...

Curator of the longstanding ReFrame series delving into deeper, varied musical territories :: leftfield dancefloor sounds :: Deep electronic machine music :: Hazy cinematic sounds, psychedelic soul, folk           
 
Guests joining the ReFrame over the years include Pete Blaker, Faze Action, Sean Johnston (A Love From Outer Space), Chris Coco, Feel Fly, X-Press II, Phil Cooper (Nu Northern Soul), Cottam, Fear of Theydon (Sunday Best), Martin Brew (JWalk). Richard Sen (Padded Cell) Ray Mang (Eskimo), Baz Bradley (Magic Wand/Leng), Beta Hector (Tru Thoughts), Solid State, J-Cub, Beyond Paradise, Tim Love Lee (Tummy Touch), Non Mois Plus, Balearic Social, Flash Atkins, John Paynter (Paisley Dark recs)  UFO Club (Invisible Inc recs)..

'If music be the food of love play on...'

The ReFrame x

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