Back in '95 I had a 2 hour car journey to make, wanted to get something different to pass the time. So I bought a double cassette mix tape, Paul Oakenfold, playing at Back to Basics in Leeds and I was blown away by the new style of house music playing. I needed to know more however it was nigh on impossible knowing what tracks were on this mix tape. I knew some...and it led to the purchase of a Perfecto mixtape, and the first track was a revelation, so was the third. Who was this BT?

I then started dj-ing semi pro, cheating on CD (it was 1995!) and I looked high and low for all remixes by BT and having read a review, decided to buy IMA. I wouldn't be able to mix off it, no matter, I soon wouldn't be able to stop playing it. Ever since I was little, I was fascinated with 12'' mixes of 80's tracks, Duran Duran, New Order, I loved the sense of having something different and that your favourite track should never end. This new style of epic house was right up my street and Sasha's Voyage of IMA spawned the interest in creating epic, and I mean epic dj mixes, be they recorded live using decks or sequenced on a laptop.

So here we are 15 years later, though this journey started in earnest early 2009. I had the beginnings of the mix saved somewhere, all IMA material and then had the idea of stitching together more complex BT material using drum loops off one of his EastWestsample CD's. Once the mix was around 5 hours old I went to share it on the web, but thought better of it. Contacted Lynne/Peach (hi!) who put me in contact with Brian, and I still remember our first conversation over Skype as I sat in my garden shed (where I write this / recorded V_O_BT). Hours. days, months later, even after one instance of releasing it prematurely...here we are Xmas 2010 with a 8 hour opus dedicated to the great man himself _BT

Peace out to the 9 9
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Mix v7.0 Early 2011