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David Morley
Sep 04, 2008
This was yet another hell raiser with the Prodigy providing a killer remix, although it was not the first effort from them that got huge dance floor success. Their very first release in Feb 1991 contained the all time classic "Android" which was curiously a B side track, and massively popular everywhere it was played, and has since been reissued and illegally repressed at least twice due to high demand.
Then in August 1991 Charly was released, which had another B side belter of a track in "Your Love". There was of course other popular releases from them around this time(Everybody In The Place), but by the time this remix of "Take Me" came around and blew everyone away, they had pulled off a trifecta of ground-breaking classics which defined their style and formed the basis for their runaway success in years to come. | ||||
Morley, together with Outlander's Marcos Salon, was also behind the fourth release (known as TZ4) in R&S' Test Zone series (and co wrote 2 of the TZ7 tracks with Maarten Van Der Vleuten with whom he also wrote the classic and highly sought after black label "Mantrax - Sonic Circus"), an important signpost in R&S' early development. In 1994, Morley released his first two EPs under his own name -- "Evolution" (the first release on R&S sublabel Apollo) and "Shuttle" (on R&S-proper) -- both exploratory ambient/electro classics that sit neatly next to the works of such artists as Biosphere, Aphex Twin, and Higher Intelligence Agency as early examples of ambient/intelligence techno. More recently, Morley has released increasingly dark and textural works, both solo and in combination with former Inky Blacknuss collaborator/current Mo'Wax signee Andrea Parker. In addition to the pair's Infonet EP Angular Art (1995), Morley and Parker recorded the Too Good to Be Strange EP (Apollo, 1995) under the name Two Sandwiches Short of a Lunchbox (later used in the Tom Cruise film "Vanilla Sky"), as well as contributed tracks to R&S ambient sublabel Apollo's second label comp The Divine Compilation.
Morley's debut full-length, Tilted, appeared on Apollo in 1998. He also co-wrote Andreas Parker's classic debut "Kiss My ARP" on Mo Wax and has recently released a variety of songs on Miss Parker's "Touchin' Bass" label and on Sub Rosa's sub label "Quatermass".