finetune artist: Sabres of Paradise

Andrew Weatherall's favoured UK dance music emporium, whose releases included "Smokebelch", arguably the techno anthem of the early 90s. In addition to Weatherall, famed for his groundbreaking work on Primal Scream's 1991 indie/dance classic Screamadelica, the company centred around Nina Walsh, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns. Walsh was a regular at Weatherall's "Shoom' evenings during the heady days of 1988's acid house scene. She in turn worked for the Boy's Own Records stable. Before joining the Sabres she also worked with Youth's WAU/Butterfly recordings. The duo set up their own label under the Sabres name, and released work from artists including, SYT, Blue, Secret Knowledge, Musical Science, Waxworth Industries, Jack O" Swords and the Corridor. The label operation eventually became known as Sabrettes. Typically, despite the otherworldly grandeur of their music, their studio was located above a Tandoori restaurant in West Hounslow. There was also a club (based in a brick-dust cellar under London Bridge), titled Sabresonic, as was their debut album. This seamless collection of post-Orb, dreamscape dance, with a vaguely industrial edge, increased the avalanche of plaudits that usually accompany Weatherall's best work. Together with assistants Burns and Kooner, Weatherall turned the Sabres Of Paradise into one of the UK's premier remix teams, working with everyone of note on the UK dance scene. The team also contributed one track, "Sabres Theme", to the movie Shopping, and released another quirky album for Warp Records before splitting up to work on solo projects, the most prominent of which has been Weatherall's Two Lone Swordsmen.

Listen to Sabres of Paradise at Finetune.

'Tow Truck' (Chemical Brothers Remix)