04-07-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com

How we made Theme from S-Express

‘We launched UK house with just £500 – and a few cans of hairspray’I was one of the first DJs in the UK to play house music, and I had this idea for a record made of a load of samples. At the time, the dance label Rhythm King had opened across the road from where I was living in London, so I was always hanging out there. They paired me up with Pascal Gabriel [co-writer of Bomb the Bass’s sample-heavy Beat Dis] and I played him all these bits off various records. We
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