Download Fozbee & Cooz - Free Your Mind EP

Style Breakbeat, Hardcore, Techno, Bleep
Released 1991/1992 (Reissue 02/03/2020)
Quality MP3 320 kbps x Lossless
Imprint Vinyl Fanatiks
Cat# VFS015

A1. Fozbee & Cooz - Free Your Mind
A2. Fozbee & Cooz - Chamber Of Dreams (Remix)
B1. Fozbee & Cooz - Free Your Mind (1992 Remix)
B2. Fozbee & Cooz - Life

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Mark Fozbee learnt to play the organ at 12 years of age and his brother Andy aka Cooz got into music via DJing; he loved listening to the pirate radio stations beaming out of London in the mid 80’s, stations like Solar, Horizon and LBR.
In the early 90’s Andy started to DJ on some local pirates, Medina, Jive and Playback, the latter transmitting out of Watford. “That’s where I met Chalke Lom, as he had a show before me. Chalke was best mates with Bukem, so through Chalke I got to know Bukem back then, as he was also Watford based. I think I first met Bukem at Soul Sense record shop in Luton. By this time Mark had built his studio and we released a few records, under the name Dik Fozbee and we had also done the ‘Chamber of Dreams’ EP and the ‘Psychology’ EP. Bukem was a huge fan of the ‘Free Your Mind’ tune and was always playing it, so we had a mutual appreciation of each other. One day he came over to our house, well our parents’ house, where Mark had the studio and we started to make a tune together. When we tried to organise another session, one of the conditions of Bukem returning was that he had to smoke weed in the studio. Well, it was our Mum and Dad’s house, so that wasn’t going to happen, which meant we never did get to finish that tune with Bukem as he never came back again!”
The next part of that tune’s story involves the record shop Soul Sense again. One day there were two guys in the shop trying to flog their Roland 909. Their names were Paul and Mark - they worked under the name of Dimension, and had already released an EP called ‘Flatline’ with the help of Gary. Mark bought their 909 off them for £300 and a friendship formed. By this time, 1991, Mark & Andy had three tracks ready to go; ‘Free Your Mind’, ‘Chamber Of Dreams (Remix)’ and ‘Life’. Paul and Mark also had three tracks ready to go themselves; ‘Phenomena’, ‘4 Thousand Years’ and ‘The Machine Dream’. They decided to work together and release an EP featuring all six tracks as a way of saving money, something neither of the groups had much of at that time. The project was titled ‘The Psychology EP’ and it came out on Another Planet Records, which was the label name that was used for Dimensions ‘Flatline’ EP that came out earlier that year. So the label became a joint venture for them both, with Mark (Dimension) designing the label and the EP’s logos.
All the tracks were mastered at the Fozbee & Cooz studio, with Mark Fozbee also engineering ‘Phenomena’ and ‘4 Thousand Years’ for Dimension, which took him a couple of days to do. Mark continues the story - “Paul found some rank old pressing plant in Park Royal to do the record at and when the records came back, they all skipped. We had pressed 1000 of them, so our idea of saving money had backfired on us. We phoned up to complain but the pressing plant brushed us off and wouldn’t do anything about it. This is when our dad stepped in and went down there and kicked off at the plant. He made them repress the EP and stayed there until they had pressed 1000 more records, which he then got them to check to make sure this lot didn’t skip. He also forced them to destroy all the faulty copies in a skip. When he was satisfied, our Dad came back with the new records”.

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