I was browsing the wonderful Discogs.com looking for some old house records, when I suddenly realised I didn’t actually own a copy of Class A’s disco house classic “Street Life”. I couldn’t let this go unresolved, so I quickly added a copy to my basket, and breathed a sigh of relief. This is where things start to get interesting – you see the record was only 99p, but postage was £3.50. Not wanting to pay more in postage than my record was worth I went on a wee browse of the sellers catalogue to see if there was anything else worth picking up. There wasn’t – but he had listed a whole bunch of records at 50p, and who can resist a lucky-dip?
I ended up buying a few more at random (in the legitimate use of the word). I bought in total 5 records. Two of which turned out to be run-of-the-mill trance, not really my scene. Another white label was some kind of Paul Van Dyk / Jamiroquai mash-up. Since I’m a fan of neither, this was a bit of a waste. The last of the bunch was Wildchild – The Unreleased Project EP. Now, everyone know’s the wonderful ‘Renegade Master’ classic, but I’d never actually heard anything else by Wildchild.
I put it on the platter, dusted it off, and dropped the needle. The A-side was shit. Two uninspired, amateur house shit. Bleh. Instinctively couting up just how much money I had wasted on this endeavour, I flipped it over. The b-side is a single track called Bad Boy (Renegade Master Mix) Featuring – Jamalski. Sounded heavy gay to me.
To my surprise, hidden in this unknown little EP, lives a twelve minute monster, a house classic. Utter brilliant, plodding old school house. For the full twelve minutes it grooves and flexes, never dropping for a break, or a breath. The cut up vocal hook throws me into a world of 90’s nostalgia; you just don’t get records this fun any more. I love records, I love independent music, and this little release reminds me why; one man, in his bed room, creating a masterpiece.