Unique 3 Interview

Unique 3 Interview

4 June, 2007 | 5.09AM

• Section: Music News
• Written by: Terry Church

Unique 3 has re-released the old skool bleep and bass anthem ‘The Theme’ and it is out today on Fat! Records, Beatportal caught up with bloke who originally made it 17 years ago to find out more about how the monumentous rave track came about.

1. How do you feel when listening back to ‘The Theme’?

“I feel like I’m awaiting DNA paternity results for a child whose pilled-up mother I don’t remember meeting in a rave 20 years ago!”

2. When you made it, did you ever imagine the impact it would have on dance music?

“No, I never imagined that it would have the impact that it has. I mean, I know instantly it was different and it really worked for me in a way that music at that time didn’t, but I didn’t think it would affect people outside of our circle of friends or outside of the local weekly club night we DJed at.

“I remember going into the recording studio to record it, Dance music back then wasn’t a term that anyone was familiar with, and the only recording studios around were either rock and guitar studios or reggae studios.

“So we found ourselves in the local community rock studio.

“They had some ‘get the kids off the streets’ community thing going on, so it was cheap and affordable.

“I remember the fat arse pony-tailed engineer laughing at the level of bass we were trying to achieve and him turning to me to ask “Are you serious? This isn’t music.”

3. The track was recently voted No.1 anthem by the Hacienda’s resident DJs. How does that feel? [The Hacienda is a famous club in Manchester and is a major part of Britain’s clubbing history].

“Yeah, I know, how mad! It was very pleasing to hear that it’d been voted No. 1 track of the 90s.

“For it to be even remembered amongst the volume of heavyweight music that was played and broken in that club of clubs by its legendary DJs is something else.”

4. After making dance music for over 21 years, why are you still excited by it?

“I have tried to jump off it more than once, to grow up do the things that a 30-something-year-old should be doing, but the music dug its claws right into me a very long time ago and it just won’t let me go.

“The reward is, every once in a while, a track comes along and kicks me all over the place and I spend the whole day playing it, over and over again until I can play it no more.

“When this feeling stops, when the music stops moving me. I will stop.”

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