The summer of 1998 was a great time for dance music. That becomes apparent from the amount of floorfillers that have recently been featured in our daily 'Rewind' selections from 20 years ago. Released in August 1998, this banging disco house track went to number 63 in the UK singles chart. I'm not sure why he named himself after a Greek fast food dish, but Souvlaki was the alias of producer Mark Summers, who first had a hit in 1991 with the rave classic 'Summer's Magic', which reached number 17 in the UK charts.
As well as releasing lots of music under many different pseudonyms, Summers set up the world's first sample replay company. The Scorccio label's release of the Souvlaki track 'Inferno' in 1996 originally featured a sample of Dan Hartman's Relight My Fire', until Summers was told that he would either have to pay out a big sum of cash or re-record the sample. Summers decided on the latter option, the first time he had ever undertaken such a challenge. He got it sounding so close to the original that PolyGram/Wonderboy didn't believe it was a rerecording. Summers established Scorccio as the world's first ever sample replay service, and in 1996 took his venture into the next stage by working for a large number of major and independent music labels, DJs, producers and recording artists. Ministry of Sound, Defected, Positiva, Universal, Virgin, Sony-BMG (amongst others) all became regular clients of Scorccio.
As well as releasing lots of music under many different pseudonyms, Summers set up the world's first sample replay company. The Scorccio label's release of the Souvlaki track 'Inferno' in 1996 originally featured a sample of Dan Hartman's Relight My Fire', until Summers was told that he would either have to pay out a big sum of cash or re-record the sample. Summers decided on the latter option, the first time he had ever undertaken such a challenge. He got it sounding so close to the original that PolyGram/Wonderboy didn't believe it was a rerecording. Summers established Scorccio as the world's first ever sample replay service, and in 1996 took his venture into the next stage by working for a large number of major and independent music labels, DJs, producers and recording artists. Ministry of Sound, Defected, Positiva, Universal, Virgin, Sony-BMG (amongst others) all became regular clients of Scorccio.
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