Judge Jules Dismisses Hi Gate Split Stories
Author: Jonty Skrufff
Saturday, November 27, 2004
"Paul and I live round the corner from one another, speak frequently, and have every intention of making some more stuff together," he added. "We've simply been concentrating on our own solo projects for the bulk of this year."
Paul's new record "Paul Masterton presents Subway: "What U got, What U Do' is a dirty house-disco track that's radically different from the melodic trance he's currently best known for, so much so that Fatboy Slim recently signed the track to his own label Southern Fried. Jules confirmed he's also continuing to experiment with his partially completed upcoming artist album, which includes Jules performing his own vocals for the first time.
"One of my two vocal tracks 'Keep me running' has consistently generated the best atmosphere of all my recent solo tunes when I've played it," he revealed, "which has filled me with (probably mis-placed confidence) about my singing abilities."
On more usual ground, he's also just mixed a triple CD trance compilation for Euphoria dubbed the Very Best Of Tried & Tested, mixed for the first time entirely on CD.
"As with every previous mix compilation I've recorded, it was done live, and doing it on CD didn't make any difference, nor would it would when playing in a club," said Jules.
"In the past year I've noticed a huge surge in the number of DJs solely playing CDs, or at least a vast majority of CDs. Also, any stick (abuse- slang Ed) I took at first for sticking my neck out and deciding to play 100% CDs seems to have dried up, which speaks volumes about the acceptance of CDs and digital media in general as the way forward," he said.
Jules also dispelled another oft-repeated rumour going around saying he considers tracks beneath 130 bpm to be only appropriate for old people.
"I've never said that, although in house and dance music I find sub-130bpm records more conducive to listening than to dancing," he said.
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