Pete Tong on Born Slippy

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(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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