Simon Grey, born in Melbourne/Australia, first caught my attention in 2003 as co-writer of Where Love Shines, a song from Incognito’s Who Needs Love album. He later impressed as remixer for Mister O’s Anything And Everything (on the Poundboys’ label Look At You) or King Of Tomorrow’s Thru. Two solo releases followed (One and The Prophecy) and Simon’s third release, the Galáctica Suite, will be his first release for Papa Records.
Simon Grey describes his new track The Galáctica Suite as full calorie broken disco served in Original and 4tothefloor flavours. While the song is full calorie and certainly sweet, it isn’t so sweet or fat or cheesy that all your cerebral gyri will stick together over some syrupy disco beats.
In fact, Simon has created a driving funky fusion groove monster with The Galáctica Suite in its original mix. It’s obviously influenced by disco music but with percussion, a fine piano line, brass courtesy of the TinMen Horns, Abby Joyce on vocals (who was also featured on Simon’s Prophecy track) and some vocoder/space effects (hey, it’s called Galactica Suite…so you certainly expect something not from this world) we get more than you have on an average disco record. And if you really need some bumping house beats to dance to, then the 4tothefloor mix is your version of choice.
The Galactica Suite will be released August 8th.
Tracklisting of The Galáctica Suite: 1. Original Mix/ 2. 4Tothefloor Mix/ 3. Original Radio Edit | released 2005 by Papa Records
For more infos visit simongrey.com and paparecords.co.uk.
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