chris + james........any questions?

[daygo]

It's all in the interview section of the site lazy boy, but just for you:

What was your first ever release?

The first C+J record was 'Play that rock n roll rhythm' on MFF, a label I'd started for Cherry Red, the famous indie label. I'd signed a couple of records and figured this studio lark must be pretty easy. We found ourselves an engineer and I had a couple of samples I wanted to use - the guitar was from Hipsway 'the honeythief' and the speech was Little Richard. It got reasonable reviews , and I persuaded a couple of friends to do the flip. As we were all living near Delorme street in Fulham they came up with the Delorme name. The record was put out as The Guitar Dance ep and got the odd review. Martin and Jason (later to be one half of Phats + Small) of The Delorme were pretty impressed with what we'd done in the studio and asked me
to join The Delorme after that. We did another release for MFF and then pressed up a white called 'Beatniks' which was our take on Together's 'Hardcore Uproar' really, plus a Jack Kerouac sample I'd found on an old cassette in Camden market.

I knew Billy Nasty pretty well and took the white to him at Zoom and they signed it on the spot. Off the back of that we got offered a remix for Stress of Lost Tribe's 'Gimme a smile' and then Kathy Brown's 'Turn me out', plus some DMC stuff like the now legendary River Ocean mix. Jason had brought along a young engineer called James Wiltshire from Brighton to help out and we hit it off straight away. Nick Gordon Brown had suggested doing a C+J record for Stress as our profile by that point was on the rise - I persuaded James Wiltshire to engineer it and the rest is history. Unfortunately Martin + Jason decided I was being a bit greedy by doing so
much studio work and basically ousted me from The Delorme after the Suzi Carr 'All over me' remix.

Thankfully the C+J studio work then took off and our first record for Stress was 'Club 4 Life'.......unfortunately I never spoke to Martin again and it took Jason and myself 6 years to make up! A real shame, as some of those Delorme records are exceptional.