“It sounds a lot more glamorous than it actually was. We were invited up there by Chez Damier who was basically living at the studio in 1995. So me and Diz drove up to Detroit with the back of my van filled with studio gear. When we arrived, Chez was nowhere to be found (surprise surprise) although we ended up running into him at a show that night. That show was actually one of the last times Ken Collier, a Detroit pioneer, DJ’d. When we got back to the studio the next day, the water had been turned off and there was no equipment set up. We spent three days waiting to get the basic amp and board set up and then only had about 20 hours to finish a track which was “Patterins” on Balance. While we were recording it we could feel all the ghosts of sessions past in the room so we called it the “Ghosts In Detroit Wake Up Dub”. All in all it was a great experience, although I remember Chez initially not liking the track. He still put it out and it is one of my favorite tracks we have ever done.” I love Iz & Dis. Still one of house music’s best double acts, although I recently heard that Diz was ill, which is a pity. I hope he’s recovered. Iz, aka Joshua, has one of the most recognisable styles in what used to be my favourite brand of house music. Something that, while it was indelibly from Chicago, went out on a limb somewhat and embraced dub a lot quicker than most. Anyway, this is a lovely piece of horizontal windy city business which is definitely Balearic.
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