Heโs DJed for a Stella McCartney birthday party, got drunk with Robbie Williams, and lived in New York. As half of Brothers In Rhythm, he produced for Kylie Minogue & the Pet Shop Boys, remixed U2, Michael Jackson and Dido. He was the defining first editor of Mixmag and a resident DJ at Shelleyโs, the legendary acid house club that launched the career of Sasha. He was there at the beginning of the British dance music revolution and heโs still one of its leading proponents today, his contagious enthusiasm unabated despite this glittering career.
Today Dave Seaman is more energized than ever - because he recognizes that British dance music, having gone back to its underground roots after a period of upheaval, is entering a renaissance. Outside of the mainstream, away from the UKโs transient pop-culture fashions, cool new scenes are forming in cities all over the UK. โWeโre entering a new phase. Dance music in the UK needed to implode - the great acid house detox,โ Seaman says. โWe shed all the dead wood and hangers on. I feel like Iโm starting again almost. Itโs very exciting.โ
Consequently Dave has spent the last year in a creative whirlwind. Heโs about to release the second volume of his Audio Therapy mix series, with Luke Chable, for Renaissance. His Group Therapy production alias with studio legend Chad Jackson has produced barnstorming remixes for the Scissor Sisters, Tears For Fears and Starsailor. Group Therapy arenโt just about remixes, either. Their singles โMy Own Worst Enemyโ and upcoming release โSomething To Believe Inโ pitch singer Natalie Leonardโs hypnotizing vocals over sleekly funky melodies and pumping club beats. Group Therapyโs high-octane fusion of vocals and strong-arm licks with pumping dance beats neatly updates Brothers In Rhythmโs club-anthem sound. โWe've been working with a lot of vocals - and that live rocky sound. Lots of guitars, but quite bleepy as well,โ says Dave. โThe idea is to make it accessible to More than just the underground. If you can give things mass appeal, but with more depth when you look beneath the surface, then thereโs more substance.โ
Born and bred in Leeds, Dave famously won his first career break in a competition. He was a member of the groundbreaking DJ organization DMC when he won a trip to the New Music Seminar โ then the worldโs leading music conference, held in New York. DMC bosses were unsuccessfully queuing at the door for Nellโs - at the time NYCโs hottest club โ when the cheeky Leeds teenager, whoโd befriended a bouncer, popped out to lead them past a throng of irate clubbers, industry big-wigs, and hot-shots into the venue. They were impressed enough to offer him a job as editor of their in-house magazine, Mixmag. Daveโs early work helped establish the magazine as the worldโs leading dance music title - a role it still occupies today. And he used the magazine as a springboard to his DJing career. So when Mixmag photographer Gary McLarnen opened a club in Stoke-On-Trent called Shelleyโs, Dave found himself warming up for Sasha. Shelleyโs quickly became legendary in early 90s clubland โ and Daveโs DJing career was up and running.
Seaman is unique among leading DJs for his versatility: his ability to work within different genres without compromising his distinct musical identity. He is world-renowned as an underground dance DJ, yet as half of Brothers In Rhythm with production genius Steve Anderson he worked with some of the biggest names in mainstream pop. In the early 90s Brothers In Rhythm created classic club anthems like โSuch A Good Feelingโ and โPeace And Harmonyโ โ not to mention an unforgettable remix of Sabrina Johnstonโs โPeace In The Valleyโ - that soldered euphoric soul vocals to blistering house beats. These were tracks that helped define a golden age for British dance music, and which quickly brought Brothers In Rhythm to the attention of the Pet Shop Boys. โSuch A Good Feelingโ was Chris Loweโs favourite record of 1990: Brothers In Rhythm suddenly found themselves chucked in at the deep end, producing โGo Westโ, โWas It Worth Itโ and โDJ Cultureโ with the Pet Shop Boys at some of Londonโs plushest studios.
Brothers In Rhythm worked on Kylie Minogueโs โImpossible Princessโ and โKylie Minogueโ albums, writing tracks like โDid It Againโ and the beguiling, atmospheric โConfide In Meโ. โProbably the song weโve made Iโm most proud of,โ Dave says now. They were in the middle of the fan frenzy that surrounded Take That!, one of the 90s biggest pop bands, producing the โNobody Elseโ album and tracks like โNever Forgetโ and โSureโ while fans tried to scale studio walls and Dave enjoyed wild nights out with one of the bandโs most charismatic members: Robbie Williams.
In the early 90s, so-called โprogressive houseโ emerged: the UKโs first distinctively British, house music style. At DMC, Dave and his former Mixmag Deputy Editor Nick Gordon Brown started Stress Records, releasing early productions from Sasha, Andy Cato from Groove Armada, and John Digweed. Brothers In Rhythm embraced the new genreโs fusing of American grooves, British dub and European techno sensibilities, producing progressive house classics like โThe Mighty Mingโ as Brothers Love Dubs and โNasty Rhythmโ as Creative Thieves. They went on to remix David Bowie, Placebo, U2 , Alanis Morrisette, New Order, Blur and Sting. Itโs fair to say that no other British dance production team has made such an impact on mainstream pop and rock acts.
In 1998 Dave moved to New Yorkโs East Village for a while. Back in the UK in 1999 he started Audio Therapy with a gang of like-minded music lovers โ and the company has since become home to an A-list team of DJs and producers. Daveโs links with Melbourneโs vibrant club scene has brought in key talent like the innovative DJs and producers Phil K and Luke Chable and hotly-rated live electronic act Infusion, alongside leading UK names like Lexicon Avenue, Jonathan Lisle and Pete Gooding. The company has also worked with international DJs like James Holden, Timo Maas and Anthony Pappa as well as groups like Slacker, Evolution and The Light.
Audio Therapy is also a leading independent label โ home to Daveโs Group Therapy project, as well as a roster of diverse talent that covers all bases from progressive through to breakbeat and the funkier styles of French house. Itโs an imprint thatโs kick-started the recording careers of Infusion, Habersham, Ernest Saint Laurent and Stel. With a set up like this behind him, itโs no surprise that Dave is now tailoring back his international DJ commitments to focus more attention on his recording career.
But he remains a star DJ with an enviable, international reputation, and his disarming Northern humour means this never goes to his head. On his website, he presents a cheeky snapshot of himself with a more famous namesake: former England goalkeeper Dave Seaman. Itโs typical of an approach to music and business that have kept DJ Dave Seamanโs feet on the ground and his audienceโs hands in the air.
โItโs about having fun, but understanding that the music has got depth as an art form. Finding that balance. I try to put that ethos into the records that we make and into the DJing that I do,โ he says, โtrying to give dance music an identity beyond the underground.โ This instinctive understanding of what clubbing is really about means Dave Seaman is perfectly placed to enjoy dance musicโs creative revival. โAcid house is dead,โ he enthuses, โlong live acid house. Here we go again!
From biography at http://www.djdaveseaman.com
Pale Horses
Dave Seaman Lyrics
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Couldn't live without you when I tried to roam
Put me by the window, let me see outside
Looking at the places where all my family died
The lyrics of Dave Seaman's song Pale Horses is a poignant expression of homesickness and regret. The singer is pleading to be sent back home after realizing that leaving his home was a mistake. He admits to trying to roam but couldn't live without his loved ones. The line "Couldn't live without you when I tried to roam" carries a depth of emotion as it highlights the painful realization that he needs his loved ones to survive.
The singer's longing for home is amplified as he wants to be placed by the window of the train to see outside, to see the familiar landscapes that he identifies with. But the sight that greets him is not a happy one - he sees places where his family has died. This is a reminder of the past and adds yet another layer of sadness to the song. Overall, the lyrics of Pale Horses are a journey of self-discovery and coming to terms with one's roots.
Line by Line Meaning
Put me on the train, send me back to my home
I am asking to be sent back home via train
Couldn't live without you when I tried to roam
I couldn't survive being away from you when I attempted to leave
Put me by the window, let me see outside
Place me near the window so that I may view the outside
Looking at the places where all my family died
I am gazing at the locations where my relatives perished
Lyrics ยฉ BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Richard Melville Hall
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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