Track-By-Track: BSU #02
Maurice Fulton is one of the all-time great producers and also one of the DJs who had the most impact on me during my first year in London, due in particular to one memorable party at Hearn St car park, where I saw both him and Prosumer play for the first time. I remember Fulton playing 'Haven't You Heard' alongside the percussion barrages I already recognised via his band Mu, all the while looking like someone had thrown up on his shoes (someone may well have, given the kind of party it was).
This opening track to what I think is his debut album – with all the aliases it's hard to keep track – revolves around soft and splashy breakbeats, an extended and audacious guitar solo played at an indoor swimming pool and, amazingly, a sample (uncredited) from 'Waking The Witch'. You couldn't make it up. That is, not unless you're Maurice Fulton.
Boof - Feeling The Colour Blue (Spectrum, 2000)
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Note: this is an entry in the Track-By-Track series for my mix for Butter Side Up.
Track-By-Track is a series that looks back at records you will have heard in my mixes, one by one in the order they were played. Who made them, and when? How did I come across them? And what do they make me feel?