The absolute bang of the early 90s off this:
You’ve got to love Kate Bush for letting a pair of maddouravits like Utah Saints sample her classic Cloudbusting, but they went and made it a classic of their own.
It’s a well known fact that everyone was off their boxes on dance drugs at least 60% of the time between 1988-1994 (even your Ma) and it’s a safe bet that tracks from Utah Saints, a duo from the north of England, were being heavily rotated on most of those nightclub turntables. Their anarchic, sample-heavy house music was en vogue and resulted in hits such as the aforementioned Something Good, What Can you Do For Me? and Believe in Me.
Well the pair haven’t retired, much to my surprise. I’d have thought they’d be in some kind of long-term convalescent home, chilling out in the multi-sensory room for 5 hours a day. In fact Wikipedia tells me they’ve recorded several unreleased albums, been remixing other artists, touring and most notably, running a club night Sugarbeatclub in venues across the UK and Ireland. Guest DJs at these nights have included 2ManyDJs, Justice, A-Trak and Annie Mac.
So with the success of Sugarbeat behind them, it was the “obvious next step” to launch their own label and start releasing music from the DJs and producers they’d been working with in the clubs. The first release is for the artist Santero, is called Drop the Bomb and blends hip-hop with some fairly dirty beats.
To hear what the fellas are doing themselves, check out this live 1 hour session recorded just a few months back.
