Superloop (Keith Binner)

Interview 1 October 2003

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Alright Mike,
heres some Superloop vital statistics....
anything else you need to know - give us a shout.

Superloop is a reaction to the commercial formula
found in the clinical pop music of the moment, our
attempt to return to the mesmerising naive quality of
the 60s and 70s. An unapologetic doff of the cap to the
artist of that time that turned us on.

Superloop are influenced by the disco/soul scene of
the 70s through to the early acid house days, with
psychedelic production ideas coming from the beatles
era. And everything else!

Matt and Keith went to school together and years after
both ended up living in Leeds. They came together
whilst Keith was DJing and Matt was providing the
Visuals  at Leeds longest running 70s funk and soul
night The Mile High Club.

Matt was putting on nights outdoors and in unusual one
off locations like churches around Leeds with various
party outfits in the area. Keith was DJing at least 3
times a week playing funk, soul, disco and hip hop,
as well as makin 12s for the techno scene!

,,,A bit about the Dope Smugglaz - Dope Smugglaz
happened when Keith and fellow Mile High DJ: Tim
Sheridan decided to make some pop tunes, top 15 in the
charts, top of the pops, tours, lotsa press followed
for a couple of years. After the commercial success of
the Dope Smugglaz Keith was looking to make different
music.

Matt had been knocking together tunes under the name
of b.u.g and the 2 of them got together at Keiths
studio to see what would happen.

They blinked back into the brightness of the outside
world ten months later with a collection of tracks
that included influences and ideas from artists they
had collectively enjoyed from the last 30 years.

Matt heard Sarah singing to a mesmerised crowd of
sunday dinnertime casualties in a bar in Leeds, got
talking to her about Superloop and took her number
with a view to her recording vocals for Superloop.

Paul Diamond was someone who had been familiar to both
Keith and Matt from the open mike sessions in Leeds
and came over for some studio time.

The quality of Sarahs voice, on more than one
occasion, much to her denial, has been compared from a
young Michael Jackson to Morcheeeba. This sound was to
become an integral ingredient to the recipe Superloop
were after.

Baby be mine, the most soulful offering from the
selection was an immediate candidate for release as a
single. Tonys production gave it a warm timeless feel
and as soon as it got out there (on a promo pressing
of 300) we got immediate confirmation from the modern
soul scene. Yes the tune got hammered up and down the
country, also specialist shops sold out of their
allocated stock. This reaction promted us to do more
soul trax (hurray), which we're working on at the mo.

Superloop are Keith and Matt as a songwriting
production team and Tony wright who doubles as
engineer and multimusician playing bass, strings,
percussion.

Sarah, vocalist, lyrisist and bundle of fun!
Paul diamond, the bush doctor.

We're putting together a band to play out live also.

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