For this tune hem and terrible shock take apart an 80’s soul lp, add some sci-fi synths, lazy drums and a sprinkling of analogue fx. after many painstaking hours of recording the duo take a well earned coffee break, then return to the studio just in time to see the back of the light-footed blunted robots man shortstuff as he runs off chuckling ‘your vocals are mine now!’ revenge plans are made, vehicles are fuelled up in preparation – but these activities are cut short by the arrival of an email from the culprit – it seems that he took the files back to his hq for what he describes as a ‘refix’ – with the engines still running, hem and shox check out the file and find it to be a work of genius – what they hear is an accelerated kaleidoscopic fusion of on-beat claps and snares in a peak-time northern soul style, super heavy subbass hits and hectic syncopated keyboard chops. the easy tempo and flow of the original have been transformed into a dancefloor classic, no doubt about it. hem and shox call off the troops and head back to the studio – calls are made, contracts drawn up and everything gets sent off to transition for the magical transfer to vinyl…… for the flipside the duo select 2 fresh beats from the archives featuring all the trademark hem elements - flexible riddims, slinky edits, fat synths, warm bass tones, hip-house references….. the refix of ‘on a mission’ featured on onemans’ much-loved rinse 11 mix cd. the 12” has already been reviewed in publications such as idj and mixmag - they described it as ‘psychedelic new jack swing’, and its currently being played by the likes of - subswara crew nyc (soul motive), brackles (rinsefm), mark pritchard (warp), martin kemp (blunted robots), toddla t (ninja tune), shortstuff (ramp), spamchop (wigflex), oneman (rinsefm), geiom (berkane sol)