Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

(Not sure if its worth a new thread but could not find anywhere else to post this)

Do you think ‘Born Slippy’ is the biggest dance record ever made?

I think most people would agree that it is. What’s great about it is that it’s such an unconventional bloody record! It doesn’t follow any rules in terms of any commercial form. The bit that everyone remembers, ‘The Larger chant’, is actually a very small part of the record, and the fact that it effectively goes into like a 10 minute drum solo. It’s a totally bonkers record, but it’s genius.

Without trying to sound too conceited, I do have some bragging rights over that record, when it was on the Trainspotting soundtrack. There were two really weird tracks on the trainspotting compilation, ‘Born Slippy’ and the Bedrock record with Digweed. These were two really inspired calls by Danny Boyle, who is so knowledgeable about music and so open minded.

I kept going back to the soundtrack and played ‘Born Slippy’ every week for like six months and I used to berate Steve Hall because he wasn’t having it and he kept saying that it wasn’t going to be a single, it couldn’t be a single because it really didn’t repeat itself and it didn’t have the right form that he wanted in a single. Karl (Karl Hyde from Underworld) wasn’t into it, neither was Darren (Darren Emerson from Underworld).

So I just kept playing it on Radio 1 every week for about 6 months and eventually they gave in. We then released it and it became their biggest hit. It was a big hit for the film as well, late into the film’s life.

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Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

i agree about the drum solo, because they never play it live...aww.

anyways, i think 'blue monday' was a more influential hit...

(maybe even 'relax' by frankie goes to hollywood).

but too each their own..

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Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

Blue Monday would have been my thought, too... especially as it's the best selling 12" ever, an honour that should coincide with a giant dance record...

But Born Slippy.nuxx would be up there...

Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

yea....

Born Slippy is absolutely in the top five / top ten biggest 'dance' records
even when you consider stuff like "Blue Monday" or "I Feel Love"

but the biggest? I dunno...

Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

Perhaps a distinction can be made. Blue Monday is dance music but it's also a pop song. NUXX is a dance record in the more recent sense of the word.

No?

Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

"blue monday" is new order ripping of gaz nevada "ic love affair".
"born slippy" is a one off original.
;)

Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

I don't know why, but I have that "oooooh, hhooohhhhooooo" from Rick Ashtley's Never Gonna Give You Up song stuck in my head right now.

Shannon's "Let the Music Play" tops all mentioned above BTW.

Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

good shout !

Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

i would hardly call it 'pop'..

more like new wave, alternative, or electro..

in america, it NEVER Got played on 'pop' radio (too long),
but in '88, when blue monday '88 was released, yeah,
you would hear once in awhile..

what do you mean by 'recent' sense of the word 'dance'?..

dance music has always existed..

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Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

primarily electronic with repetitive beats. thats dance music. or one definition. of course, pop music can have those properties but then its just poppy dance music :)