A lot of my friends will attest to my awful memory. At times I make Guy Pearce ala ‘Momento’ look like a wise old elephant. Be this as it may, I’ll never forget the time I strapped on those big chunky headphones at the “staff recommendations” listening post at HMV on Oxford Street, and listened to the opening beats of a CD from a little known San Francisco-based deep house label called ‘Naked Music‘. This started a 5-year love affair with the Naked Music sound, which eventually petered out after getting watered down by a lot of other labels trying to muscle in on their sound.
IMHO “Beautiful Tomorrow” by Blue Six (aka Jay Denes) was probably the best full-length album to come out of from the label, and offered a slightly different deep house sound, than that offered by label-mates Miguel Migs, Dave Warrin, and Gabriel Rene. It’s unashamedly melancholic in places, (probably why I love it), and peaks with “Music and Wine” which seemed to feature on all the generic deep house compilation CDs from 2002-2005.
