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Essential Mix - Terry Farley and Pete Heller 1993.11.27

Terry Farley is a Londoner whose formative years were spent as a fervent Chelsea supporter. By the 80's, the London club scene had gripped him and his day job as a gas fitter granted him his first tentative steps into Djing at black soul soul clubs playing electro and go-go. 

Before long he was warming up with rare grooves for Paul Oakenfold at the Raid parties and started the now notorious Boy's Own fanzine with Andy Weatherall.

Remixes came first. Terry remixed 'Wrote For Luck' with Paul Oakenfold and then went onto mix the Happy Monday's and Primal Scream in the height of balaerica. This led onto Terry's first productions with Andy Weatherall, Hugo Nicholson and Pete Heller under the name Bocca Juniors, the result of which was 'Raise' 'Substance'. From here Terry teamed up with Pete Heller and has gone onto remix many of the worlds leading artists and singers, everyone from U2 to New Order, to Simply Red. 

They have also gone onto produce other artists such as Kylie Minogue, The Farm and M People. Additional production work includes Kylie Minogue, U2, Jamiroquai, Michael Watford and Michael Jackson. Recent remixes for NRK Sound Division and Low Pressings and releases on Junior such as 'Sun too high in the sky' and 'Rainbow seeker'. 

His own productions include his hits with the Farley & Heller project ­ 'Ultra Flava' and 'Shout To The Top' plus recent collaborations with hit artist Rui Da Silva and many club hits as 'The Path', 'Fire Island' and 'Roach Motel' as well as mix CD's for Pacha nightclub. 'Late Night Sessions' (Ministry), 'Journeys By DJ' and most recently for his own 'Faith' Compilation.

From childhood marching bands to disc jockey and dance music producer: Pete Heller knows a good drum when he hears one. Boom-boom. Out go the lights. 

Born in Brighton, Pete Heller was a music nut right from the get-go. The Clash, Psychedelic Furs, Jam and Madness as a kid and then discovering nascent hip hop at a Clash gig in London. “I was sitting at the back before the Clash and this band came on,” remembers Pete. “I’d never heard of this music before. It was very rhythm-based. It was Fab Five Freddy doing a hip hop show. I thought, ‘I’ve got to get into this’. Found out about Groove Records, went up there and the first import I bought was Davey DMX ‘One For The Treble’. It smelt different.”

Things were different in the 1980s before house arrived and shocked our system to its core. Dance music was a minority interest, like clay pigeon shooting or wine tasting. There were few magazines documenting it, and no-one wanted to be a DJ. It was like dreaming of being a gas fitter. But when Heller discovered clubs (thanks to an older sister), he was smitten. “There was no DJ culture then. They were just blokes who played records. But I found them intensely glamorous. That whole music and club scene was very other, then.”

In the mid 90s, the pair had an unlikely crossover hit when a rejected remix, Ultra Flava, suddenly became the hottest track in Ibiza and went top twenty n the UK. Then, in 1998, Heller produced his biggest hit yet, with Pete Heller’s Big Love. “Terry went to see Chelsea in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final in Stockholm so I went in the studio on my own. I knocked it out really quickly. In a day. Actually 12 hours. After I’d done it, I thought it was going to be a demo so I edited it down to ten minutes and that became the final release.” It reached number 12 in the UK pop charts in May 1999.

Since then, he’s continued to produce more club monsters: Sputnik, Stylus Trouble, remixes of Cevin Fisher, Inner City… and endless list. And now - in the wake of JBO’s recent cessation - sees the launch of Phela Records. His own baby, though not literally. More music, big plans (well medium ones, but big eventually), a nice website, direct interface between man and machine and man (and woman). More stylus trouble, in fact.

Tracklist: 

1. Tension - A Place Called Heaven
2. ??? "keep it up baby" female
3. South Street Player - Who Keeps Changing Your Mind
4. Smooth Touch - House of Love
5. Roach Motel - Work To Doo
6. ??? "i cant control myself" female
7. ??? hammond (possibly part of above)
8. Georgie Porgie - All Because Of Me
9. Colourblind - Nothing Better
10. Hardrive - Deep Inside
11. ??? "take me higher, take me higher" male
12. ??? african male chanting
13. ??? "they make you feel good" male
14. Ralph Falcon or X-Press 2 - That Sound
15. Gunky Green Dogs - Reach For Me
16. ??? "im beautiful" female
17. Degrees of Motion - Shine On (Heller & Farleys junior style dub)
18. ??? DOP "oh yeah" male
19. ??? inst
20. The Daou - Give Myself To You
21. Caucasian Boy - Northern Lights
22. 54 Days - Paper Moon (accapella)
23. Jaydee - Plastic Dreams
24. ??? "wind to the music, you got to get down" female / disco
25. ??? original vocal track of - DSK - What Would We Do
26. Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
27. Outrage - Theme From Outrage
28. Fire Island - There But For The Grace Of God

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