Utter presents Marshall Jefferson’s previously unreleased meditation opus ‘Yellow Meditation For The Dance Generation’ alongside two remixes from French production maestro Joakim. Marshall Jefferson: Chicago House music pioneer, creator of the anthemic \u2018Move My Body\u2019, an original collaborator of Adonis, Ce Ce Rogers and Roy Davis Jr., production mastermind of countless dancefloor classics such as Phuture\u2019s \u2018Acid Tracks\u2019, Sterling Void\u2019s \u2019It\u2019s All Right\u2019, Hercules\u2019 \u20187 Ways\u2019\u2026 and the soothing voice behind a 36 minute healing meditation guide. Yes, really. But let\u2019s rewind, slightly. In 2017, Marshall was approached and encouraged by Ian \u2018Snowy\u2019 Snowball to write his autobiography and the pair set about putting Marshall\u2019s account of the history of House music together. The book, \u2018Marshall Jefferson: Diary of a DJ\u2019 was published in 2019. Following the book\u2019s release, Ian and Marshall’s collaboration continued and during the pandemic an outlandish idea arose to create a piece of music combining Ian’s interest in meditation (he runs Club Chi specialising in Shibashi Qigong – a form of Tai Chi Qigong – which is a gentle form of movement therapy\/exercise) and Marshall’s willingness to experiment musically to see what might be possible. The result is \u2018Yellow Meditation For The Dance Generation\u2019, where Marshall vocalises Ian\u2019s lyrics in his instantly recognisable voice. The keen-eared out there may also recognise aspects of the music itself as a stripped back, lengthened and far mellower version of Marshall\u2019s 1985 obscurity \u2018Vibe\u2019: \u201cI would take tapes to the Music Box and Ron Hardy would play my music. \u2018Vibe\u2019 was one of those tracks. I recorded \u2018Vibe\u2019 in 1985, but it became one of my tracks that I just forgot about until some guy on Facebook sent me a recording of it that was taken from a club. The only person who I ever gave a recording of \u2018Vibe\u2019 to was Ron Hardy. The other people I know who had copies of the track were Gene Hunt and Emanuel Pippin (DJ Spookie). “The origina…<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Utter presents Marshall Jefferson’s previously unreleased meditation opus ‘Yellow Meditation For The Dance Generation’ alongside two remixes from French production maestro Joakim. Marshall Jefferson: Chicago House music pioneer, creator of the anthemic \u2018Move My Body\u2019, an original collaborator of Adonis, Ce Ce Rogers and Roy Davis Jr., production mastermind of countless dancefloor classics such as Phuture\u2019s \u2018Acid Tracks\u2019, Sterling Void\u2019s \u2019It\u2019s All Right\u2019, Hercules\u2019 \u20187 Ways\u2019\u2026 and the soothing voice behind a 36 minute healing meditation guide. Yes, really. But let\u2019s rewind, slightly. In 2017, Marshall was approached and encouraged by Ian \u2018Snowy\u2019 Snowball to write his autobiography and the pair set about putting Marshall\u2019s account of the history of House music together. The book, \u2018Marshall Jefferson: Diary of a DJ\u2019 was published in 2019. 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