What a time to pull a rewind on a dance album from the UK golden era. This K-Klass classic, featuring tracks that dominated pop charts and helped define the template for acts that followed, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
Full of catchy hooks, deep beats, soaring vocals, and arrangements ahead of the curve, this one holds a special place in the hearts of misty-eyed ravers, and clubbers their kids’ age, getting hooked on house music history.
The duo of Paul Roberts and Russ Morgan fly the flag for K-Klass today. But, the act started life with extra players: Andy Williams and Carl Thomas having helped kickstart the music making at the very beginning.
In classic fashion they all bonded over a love of clubbing, and started tinkering with bits of kit after late nights bopping.
Bitten by the bug, Paul began assembling his own hardware setup, putting his British Telecom redundancy money to good use in the process.
“I used the payout to buy myself a Roland TR-505 keyboard that wasn’t even MIDI,” he says. “My dad virtually kicked me out the house after that! He only apologised, later, when we had a record in the charts [laughs].”
That record was the bonafide smash hit Rhythm Is A Mystery. An obvious highpoint on this debut album, and a jam that continues to make “Greatest Dance Singles Of All-Time” lists today.
Surprisingly, for the era, the vocals weren’t a sample. Careerspanning K-Klass singer (and
