Deep Joy are three Londoners Johnno Casson, Charles Rabicano and Stuart Dace. Long term friends they share an eclectic taste in music with wideranging influences and musical styles. Writers and musicians first and foremost the band have contributed their talents to many other projects in their time. Stuart has added his saxophone to Primal Scream’s Mercury Prize winning album ‘Screamadelica’ amoung many others and now records under the guise of Lodekka , Charles has recorded with Jeb Loy Nichols in the UK and USA, and played bass on Roger Sanchez mixes, and Johnno has written for artists as well as pulling tunes together under the guise of Snippet.
They decided to record their first track together as Deep Joy around the time they were avid goers of Shoom, Danny Rampling's seminal acid house club. They recorded a demo which to their surprise was soon being played by Danny on his Kiss FM radio show. This demo soon went on to be their first single, 'Fall'. Produced by the legendary Andrew Weatherall. A dancefloor filler from London to New York, 'Fall' gave the press and public their first taste of Deep Joy. The band toured the UK and returned to record their second single 'Something Inside'. An 8 minute epic mixed by On-u sound's Adrian Sherwood, it became the theme tune to his mighty Saturday night radio show on Japan's national J-Wave station. It was also championed by DJ Gilles Peterson. All this attention led to an invitation from James Lavelle to record for his Mo' Wax label.
The Lavelle produced 'Take' / 'Make Some Sense Of This' is cited by many as one of the forerunners of the musical style widely known as Trip Hop. This single was licenced to a major label in Germany. This company flew the band over to appear on various national TV shows. An understanding was forged and the band signed and recorded their debut album 'The Booster'. An album full of character, cheek and with more lift than a wonderbra.
Due to the all too usual, convoluted contractual reasons that debut album was only ever released in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan where it won many friends.
Crank up your gramaphone, wet your whistle and open your sideboard to Deep Joy once more…
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