Re: Smokin Jo - Turnmills - 1992
Smokin Jo always had that funky sound but with a pretty hard beat, think she was one of the DJs who got the guys to really appreciate the more musical/vocal stuff, girls always liked it.
It had been just hardcore up until then with Sasha about the only one that I listened too that played more upbeat stuff, and maybe Fabio Paras, others played it, but often too soft, never that harder edge. It was rave or garage, then the house sound came and it was OK to listen to the 'soft shite'. Haha
I was still listening to Jumpin Jack Frost, Ellis Dee, Slipmatt etc. but we had started to listen to more and more 'house' by the time this came out.
I really want to try and get some Treble D tapes, David James as he was when producing, as those were as good as anything we ever heard, but unless you were in the East Anglia or London scene probably not heard of him. But his tune selection and mixing was spot on, and he was playing these sort of sounds before anyone else I really knew.