Manchester Evening News - The Diary

Wednesday, 20th April, 2005

Mix has Scott to be a hit

FLAMENCO guitar and banging techno beats are not the most obvious of musical partners, but I hear it could make a winning combination for a summer hit.

Stockport-based guitarist Tim Scott has collaborated with club and Radio One DJ Judge Jules in creating the techno-flamenco track “Puesta del sol.”

The track is already going down a treat in dance clubs and is expected to get major airplay on Judge Jules' radio one show in the coming months.

It will be included on the DJ's album scheduled for release in the summer. Tim got involved with the track after a hectic past 18 months in which he released his own debut album Bald On The Inside and undertook a nationwide promotional tour of music and book shops.

Tim recorded a range of flamenco-style riffs at Judge Jules's London studio, which the DJ then sampled and added the techno beats. “It has been quite an interesting process, trying to shoehorn one musical style into another,” he muses.

“The way it is being pitched is as two worlds collide, and it is certainly dragging the guitar kicking and screaming into 2005.”

Dianne Bourne