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The late Simon “DK” Smith was the beating musical heart of the DiY illegal party collective from Nottingham in the English Midlands. DiY were anarchists in both theory and practice, and deeply rooted in music as folk culture: for all that they were about unbridled hedonism, they took their American house music very seriously indeed. The three original tracks by DK with studio partner Damian Stanley and one remix by fellow Nottingham deep housers Sine on this EP perfectly capture the sense of breathless adventure in DiY’s music: 909 drums are full of funk, while dreamy chords, sweetly melancholy vocal samples and gently gurgling acid create a sense of a dream world inviting you in.
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