Club music – it’s the music that makes my heart beat the loudest.

It’s an immense experience actually being there – in a nightclub, and I’ve well and truly served my time.

I am immensely impressed by the scores of DJs who have been in the game since the start and are still just about rocking the scene. Carl Cox is a prize example. He’s now 57, and still playing to a few adoring crowds, and up until 2017 held a yearly residency at Space in Ibiza. Here he is in 2016, in a mighty impressive open-to-close set. (I bet no-one I direct to this video will watch it all the way through, but know that he – of course – played the music all the way through, continuously for 9 hours.)

I’ve also a soft spot for the portrayal of club scenes in movies, where they often manage to capture at least something of the vibe and atmosphere of being there. Here’s a good one from Collateral, scored by Paul Okenfold’s Ready Steady Go.

The inspiration for this week’s track was the infamous ‘disco scene’ from Basic Instinct. Here it is:

The track is Blue by LaTour.

So for the 26th week – half way through this year, I’m dusting off a track that I wrote over 20 years ago. It’s so old that I can’t even open the file anymore – I wrote it on software that no longer exists. But I still have the file, so I’ve dusted it off and remastered it.

For the technically curious, here is the original, which suffered from a few issues, including:

• EQ curve way too smiley – too much bass and treble, with little life in the midrange.

• A very dry breakdown section (I didn’t even have a reverb back then!)