I’ve already posted a few Red Planet tracks, and I guess they’ll all eventually have their moment. Meanwhile it’s the turn of ‘Firekeeper’, a track the syncopation of which is “off the charts”, as the yoot would say. It’s quite a feat to keep a standard beat going throughout the track but, due to the funktastic flange work, which sounds like the Gap Band on crack, make it sound broken and complete simultaneously. The Detroit strings are there, unapologetically brash and clashing at all the right points. However, none of this would be possible without the high level of energy and momentum that propels this tune into the stratosphere, literally. It feels like another age when this came out. Right at the end of 1996. I was still living in Paris, ready to embark on life’s next chapter later in the year by moving over to London. Later in 1997 I’d go to see UR with my now much – missed mate Pete Pulford in Vauxhall. The original gig was die to be on Charing Cross Rd, but when we turned up at the venue we were redirected to a huge space underneath some railway arches. That was a great night and I’m sure this got played. A few years later I remember going to se Rolando, (who played at the vauxhall gig), play Voodoo in Liverpool, and I clearly remember him tear the roof off with this. Great tracks mark time.
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