Walters Room

Walters Room

Black Science Orchestra [Junior Boy...

2 November, 2008 | 5.12PM

• Written by: housemeister
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: black science orchestra, junior boys own

As one of the most influential independent dance labels of the ‘90s, Junior Boys Own was home to some of the hottest chart topping talent like The Black Science Orchestra.

The Black Science Orchestra was comprised of Ashely Beedle (X-Press 2), Rob Mello and John Howard.

The BSO was a group who married 70’s sounds with rare groove and deep house.

Inspired by the remixes and hits from Walter Gibbons - the legendary disco DJ and producer on Salsoul Records - ‘Walter’s Room’ is an LP that pays homage to Gibbons and in its digital form offers many other tracks that did not appear on the original eleven-cut LP from 1996.

One of the key house tracks on the LP is a rework of the Tramps ‘Where Were You?’ a huge disco hit in the 1970s.

This was the first big Black Science Orchestra hit later remixed by one of my personal favourites Ted Patterson. 

Other classics in the LP are ‘New Jersey Dee’ championed by Frankie Knuckles and MAW, the disco house groove ‘Philadelphia’, the vocal bliss of Trey Washington on ‘A New Day’, the sax rich sound of ‘Downtime Science’, and a Black Science remix of MAW’s ‘To Be In Love’.

This is a vast digital LP that visits the early roots of ‘70s-infused house and deep British house with previously unreleased mixes.

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