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Good Looking Records

Peshay – The Piano Tune / The Vocal Tune

1994

The next review provides us with yet another classic example of peak jungle juices, splattered over the gorging mouth of rabid insistence. We turn our attention to a guy we’ve reviewed on 2000AD, Brain Records, Basement Records and Creative Source, along with some very impressive remixes. He is of course, Paul Pesch, AKA Peshay. 

   Peshay had been taken ill sometime before this was released but the specifics have been somewhat vague. I’m not sure where that period fell in regard to working in studios on 19.5 and this tune today may have been. Paul also had a significant hand in creating one of the most famous piano riffs in the scene, with. a certain Hyper on Experience / Flytonix legend, Danny Dermierre. Not only was this release a notch in the explosive power of Good Looking, it stamped Peshay’s return in a colossal way. While the label states this as a Promo, it was in fact the main release. The promo of this was a white label and catalogue number read GLR 11 which flips the whole “0” deal from the last release. 

   I remember hearing Fabio play ‘The Piano Tune’ in room 2 at the Farnborough Rec in 1994, having parted with my crew of nutcases and gone off wandering the sections of the event. When this tune dropped, from the beginning intro, as Fabio was obviously wanting this one to take maximum effect, I just remember hearing those intro chords and shit began stirring like nothing felt before. Was this sound for real? 

Once the piano kicked in, it wasn’t just the clarity of those keys, it was the way they hit the notes with the pads that sucked me into a state of transfixed paralysis. The slightly off rhythmic key notes that made you understand how this tune worked, and what sort of pattern you had until the seat of suspense sits you on the cliff edge with that pause, then…wham!!!  Beats, beats mother fucking beats.. The amount of continual fusion and stored power and heat in the breaks here drops C4 explosives into the room and there’s no time to run. The thing is, that’s not even the main drop. After the first small breakdown there comes the real assault with crashing amens, killer frequency bass. This is the true meat of the tune that I’ll never tire of closing my eyes too as the teeth shake, bones rattle and mind escapes. Absolute fucking dogs bollox of music. 

   Peshay returned with something that, for me, is his best piece of music, hands down. The label was pushing a territory that was now drilling up dancefloors while coasting through the cosmos. Imagine the vast and chilling depths of space suddenly being attacked by waves of destructive meteor showers. This tune provides the backdrop to the leveled scales of the music. 

  ‘The Piano Tune’ will always be one of those tunes that spits out the pips of the old and ingests all the pure vengeance of untainted jungle fodder. Mankind experiences the ultimate in jungle warfare. 

  The track was also recorded in Danny Demierre’s, EZ Rollers co-member, Alex Banks’ studio called, ‘The Shed At The Bottom Of The Garden’. And it was just that. No room in that garden shed for wheelbarrows and ant powder. There’s a list of their equipment on Discogs which I’m sure you can hunt down.

    Side AA was a tune I didn’t play as much as I do now, back when I bought it. To say it’s matured and shown it’s wise and debonair flair is an understatement. Peshay used similar vocals by India on ‘Love & Happiness’, from River Ocean, on his track ‘Represent’ on Metalheadz (engineered by Dave Charlesworth, with Hyper On Experience engineering Psychosis on the other side), which was also out in 1994. As the volcanic eruption of Side A slides down the mountain, it’s the more genteel and molasses flow of ‘The Vocal Tune’ which compliments this 12” to perfection. “I’ll sing it to you…I wanna let, wanna let the world know.” You can understand why these vocals connected so well with tracks like this. We tread on the fallen leaves and leave the skin of our footprints on the autumnal mosaic on the ground. The sparks of light blink through the trees and we retract the hood from our head to escape our thoughts and open the fresh, sharp air to saturate the well being. Peshay drops an epic piece of music here and how fucking incredible is the breakdown half way with the live bass guitar faint in the background and the natural slotting of all the beats, pads and continuing vocals. It’s a story of humankind, of freedom and of how lucky we are to have music so desired by the select like us.

It’s now a flag we unfurl for the new ears and minds to reason and forget, to make clear that this history will forever burn brighter than any sun.