https://hoojchoons.bandcamp.com/album/cafe-del-mar-not-4-sale

Happily, we're retiring them with grace and dignity, as both Denham Audio and Steven Weston manage to bring new energy to the track, from very different angles, aimed at very different dancefloors.

To mark this final goodbye : a little trip back to the beginning ( taken from the soon - live bandcamp page - other hoary tales of old may be involved).

" We'd first heard Cafe' Del Mar via it's Eye Q release in 1993. Along with Vernon's Wonderland, Cosmic Baby, Visions of Shiva, Jam + Spoon, Fax Records etc, this was the kind of early German trance we were listening to after clubs at the time, not really dancing to, in them.

Much of it was too fast for the post Balearic / original progressive clubs, too melodic / pretty for Trade, and we never really found our spot at Club UK ( South of the River) , which was LDN's natural home for this stuff at the time.

But things moved on. By the end of 95', we'd burned ourselves out of Trade, and after more than a decade, our frontline clubbing days were starting to taper off. At the same time, the banging, harder ( + hardbaggy : ( ) stuff was starting to wear v thin for us. Licensing Cafe' Del Mar to the label made sense, and seemed to happen quickly.

We then spent approx 18 months getting it remixed. Can’t recall everyone who tried and failed, repeatedly, but can remember the basic problem : the scale of the build up and main chord progressions were such, no one could get it to ' kick back in' with any impact; the mixes just seemed to drift around, subsumed by the melodies.

And then one Friday in early 97', we'd come back home from something at the Gallery / Turnmills ( we hadn't stopped going out completely, it was just the 48 hr : Trade > Full Circle > FF type weekends of doom that we'd curtailed...ish ) with a cassette of the Three in One remix of CDM.

For whatever reason, Sharam Jey, who'd released 'Reflect' on Westbam's Low Spirit label the year before ( as Three in One - we shared office space with Westbam's UK based management ) had been there, and was keen to give us the remix he'd done (at our request).

Sat at home in Kentish Town, early morning light outside, sleep nowhere on the agenda, with Sharam's remix playing for the first time, on a decent system.....one of those moments you don't forget in a hurry...first listen, and we kinda knew....

Further listens were had that early morning. It was a good time.