Flashback Friday Music Share for 08/19/2016

Was rolling around in my head this morning…

Title: Theme from S-Express
Artist: S’Express
Label: Rhythm King Records

Genre(s): House, Acid, Disco
Year released: 1988

Probably now noted as one of the seminal tracks of the infamous UK “Summer of Love”, I remember it more being embraced here in Chicago by DJs and music enthusiasts more into new wave and industrial sounds. I guess it wasn’t “street” enough for the house-heads.

This concoction of samples is the brainchild of producers Mark Moore and Pascal Gabriel, who mainly wanted to set out to create some acid house for the UK scene. I remember in interviews how Moore first was aghast of his creation, thinking “oh no, I made a disco record!”, but apparently it blew up anyway. In my book, it has samples, but it doesn’t sound “disco” to my ears…not while we have so much “deep” and “jackin” house going full on in the 70s sound.