This was released on vinyl 2001 on the label Yellhouse Records who operated from Malmö. It got two nice remixes that also got nice DJ-support. This is the first time these tracks are available on digital format.
After the success with the last single, Espionage released this follow up single on the same record label as the last one. A funky TB-303 did the lead. This song became a club-hit in UK.
Later that same year, Scooter released their new single “Ramp! (The Logical Song)” and to huge surprise, I found my own melody in their production. Do you think that this was a copy of my melody?
A release that Judge Jules played on Radio 1 in UK and Fatboy Slim played a lot. The faithful listener of my productions may recognize the same pattern on my Roland TB-303, previously used in a release with Savastano. You’ll find it in the slightly harder mix called “Trippy Funk Mix”
My contact from England wanted to have a follow-up single to the successful single “Shake It Ip”. The vocal phrase from “Mo Funk” was used again and became “Funk X-Press”.
During the year 2000, I was approached to update the theme music for the show Trafikmagasinet on Swedish National Television. It became the first out of many themes for National Television.
Sky Box was a project made together with Giles Goodman, who also ran the record label Rosenberg Entertainment where this song was released. There is a version we made together, but here is the “Pierre J’s Cut Up Remix” that I did. The fat bass is made on a Roland Juno-106, hardly known for that. This remix was supported by Plump DJs, who also brought it to their mixed compilation “Plump DJs – Urban Underground – The Breakbeat Elite”
In the autumn of 1999, my single “Night Flight – Shake It Up” was released and now a license request from an English record label came. They signed it and wanted to release it when I asked if they wanted a mix as “English-inspired real club music”. Yes, of course. At this time, Olav Basoski was very hot and made house music in 130-133 BPM, that went to crossover to a wide range of DJs. And some stuff even ended up being played by techno DJs or trance DJs. I would now try to do the same, create a sound that would apply to many and the Pierre J’s “Funked Up” Remix was born.
The song was released in England and I can proudly say that the last Carl Cox played last millennium was “Night Flight-Shake It Up”! My song in my new remix, which then goes into a countdown. The place is Sydney in Australia and the mix is also broadcast as “Essential Mix” on BBC Radio 1. Even Judge Jules and Pete Tong play it in their shows and for the first time it seems to me that my stuff does not necessarily have to stop being Swedish local achievements, because I can actually do stuff that even the world-wide DJ stars can and want to play. Record-release number 165 ready!
This single was one out of many when released, but came to mean so much later on. Tommy and I did the usual music with a boiling dance floor in mind, and so we did again. The rest of the story is including Carl Cox, and can be read right here.
After 5 years of work for all possible record companies and over 150 released productions, songs, remixes and mixes, this disc came to sum it up. Here’s the most you need to know about what I’ve been involved in during these years. Of course not everything but a lot. Many of the songs had topped the Swedish Dance Chart and I am delighted to look back on these years of such an intense and fun jobs. Radio commercial for the record
Tommy and I created this song quite flatlessly, but I thought it was pretty good, so it ended up on the upcoming collection “Pierre J – 5 Years In The Mix”, in addition to joining a promo-CD “Big Bang” in an edited version. This is the first time you can hear the song in its entirety and as a bonus, the edited version is included.
I also played as a DJ on boat-event Big Bang, in good company.