Finding the Rhythm

Last week, I blogged about the song We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off, which has been recently released by both Miami Starfish and Chocolate Party.

One of the commenters of the entry was Billy Mead, and I thought I’d follow-up the post with some revisions.

First, I was pleased to hear that Mead and Simon Langford were still collaborating:

For the record, Simon and I are still *brothers* in almost every sense of the word, and he did a mix of ‘our’ version as the Soul Seekerz.

Great to hear, and I’d missed the Soul Seekerz remix when I was listening to these dualing releases before. As a big fan of Soul Seekerz, I did of course like it, and I’m reconsidering my selection of which version of Clothes Off to play.

As for replacing the MySpace presence of Avalon Superstar with Miami Starfish? Well, that’s simple enough too:

I’m getting lazy in my old age and since I am producing music less than part-time i just couldn’t be bothered to build a new MS page, promote it and find new ‘friends’.

Admittedly, that is a great big “PITA” and understandable. And easy enough to change back when Avalon Superstar have another release.

As for how the track came about:

I really did this as a laugh for my wife who has always loved the original track. I gave it to a few DJs, and got good reactions… so had a few mixes done and are just now getting promos out. I had no idea there was even another version out and really like what they have done. But yeah, you pick one or the other.. not both.

Interesting background, and funny how projects end-up coming together sometimes.

Thanks to Billy Mead for setting the record straight.