Hello viewers. On
the 29th of March, 1994 I produced one of my first proper songs
and inadvertantly sowed the seeds for a haphazard career in pop. Using
a mail-order sampler plugged into my Atari ST and a copy
of 'The
World
Of
Frank
Chacksfield'
I'd bought for my sister as a joke, I came up with 'Cuban
Boy'.
Evidence
can be seen here, should it be required.
Slightly obscured on
the picture is the earlier work 'Skinhead Cowgirls' which eventually
made
it onto the Cuban Boys big budget album some five years later.
The
curiously
titled 'Panic On A Clear Morning
(Chimes Of Prague mix)', incidentally, was an ill advised attempt
to merge rave culture with
Jean Michel
Jarre. Interestingly enough, the name "the Cuban Boys" wasn't invented
until the 1st of August that year, when the song got its first of many
overhauls.
Anyway, four years passed and in a revitalised form 'Cuban Boy 98
- Cuban Boys Go Boom' became a John Peel smash on Radio One FM.
A year later it became a single on
ORG,
and
more
recently
it
has had
success as the theme music to the popular BBC sitcom 'Still Game'.
It didn't
join it's cassette counterpart on the Cuban Boys album due to
endless Sampling Issues and General Lethargy.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of this absurd, bouncy and yet
somehow culturally void important tune, it has been given
the revamp treatment. Boys and girls, I give you...
