perfect motion - roach motel & fire island

DJ Noël - Classic House Archive

I had a week off recently and whilst digging around for tunes online I rediscovered a chunk of early remixes by Terry Farley and Pete Heller of Junior Boys Own fame. In the early 90s I was a big fan of their work under the Fire Island and Roach Motel monicas. This session pulls together some of my favourite FI/RM looped bassline grooves and brass stabs.
We open in 1992 with Sunsreem’s classic Perfect Motion, slide through dubs of Juliet Roberts and Monie Love (two records I foggily recall mixing back-to-back continuously one morning after Flesh at the Hacienda), In Your Bones reminds me of dancing downstairs at Paradise Factory with Selina, and as one of the finest house tunes ever produced, Movin’ On has to be one of my Desert Island Discs.
Transatlantic was a tune Ted used to play at post-Strangeways chill outs, and we close with a blissful Balearic take on New Order’s Regret - not a great dance floor moment, but a regular on the car stereo driving to work in my Key103 days.
All this seems pretty fitting as Junior Boys Own hosted their own event in London last night (according to the Guardian Guide, their first in 16 years) and much of the catalogue is now reissued through Defected, although I’ve tried to steer around some of those more obvious classics.
Most of the tunes are from ’92 - ’95 but as I only mixed this today, you’ll also find it on my Latest Mixes podcast. Apologies if you get duplicates. Enjoy!
Perfect Motion: Roach Motel / Fire Island - mixed 3 Oct, chaptered 4 Oct.
1 Sunscreem - Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix)
2 Deep Zone - It's Gonna Be Alright (Farley & Heller's Fire Island Vocal)
3 Monie Love - Never Give Up (Junior Dub)
4 Juliet Roberts - Caught In The Middle (Roach Motel Dub)
5 Fire Island - In Your Bones
6 Roach Motel - Movin’ On (Correct House Mix)
7 Monie Love - The Power (Roach Motel Mix)
8 Fire Island - Fire Island
9 Ultra Naté - How Long (Fire Island mix)
10 Roach Motel - Transatlantic (Uptown Mix)
11 Roach Motel - Happy Bizznezz
12 Fire Island - There But for the Grace of God (Roach Motel Dub)
13 Danny Tenaglia - Music Is The Answer (Dancin' And Prancin') (Fire Island's 'La Musica Es La Respuesta')
14 New Order - Regret (Fire Island Mix)
142 MB | AAC | 320 kbps