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Barrie Jay

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Fleetwood - twinned with Royston Vasey
Unfortunately no.

Dreamhouse had a contract to produce two records and I did the second tune with a mate of mine called Dave (without John and Daz) to get out of the contract but it was never released. The deal was the master rights would refer to our ownership after 6 months but the company said they had `lost` the master tape (bollox!).

I have an acetate of the tune, which is the only known copy, and did play it out a few times but it is way passed its best quality - think something got spilled on it and I have no idea how to clean an acetate without damaging it.

I know a company that specialises in rescuing audio and was considering leftting them having a go at it. This is the same guy who mastered two tracks for the Dance Magic releases from vinyl as the master tapes were lost. He is good but expensive and I would defy anybody to say they can notice the difference audiowise - if they can spot which tracks they were.

Anyway.

FREEFLOW, in my opinion, was let down by a poor studio engineer but we had no say in it as the record company paid for it but it has its moments. The title came from a bong made from a baby bottle that had `Freeflow` down the side. Not many tunes named after a bong!!! It is on one Zone tape I know of and also the DVD.

The second release was entitled FLUNK and was far more funky. Whereas the first tune was completely sample free and all our own work for the second tune we decided to see how many big names we could sample and get away with. I recall some we used were: Tangerine Dream, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin and Earth Wind and Fire.