Slam DJs in the City

Orde Meikle and Stuart McMillan met almost fifteen years ago. At that time, the elusive Dave Clarke also joined the project. The trio began their journey with punk and reggae parties at The Clash club, and later moved to the Sub Club, where Slam started promoting acid-house, a wave that engulfed Scotland in the late 80s. In 1989, at the peak of the acid house craze, Slam organized the first night street rave in Scotland. We caused chaos in the streets. Club gurus from Hacienda, 808 State, performed live for thousands of spectators at the party. The police had to close the streets - McMillan recalls. The frenzy exceeded all expectations, and the local, including influential, newspapers talked about it for a long time. The commotion forced Slam, along with Clarke, to flee to Ibiza the very next day after the event. Currently, projects like Funk D'Void, Silicone Soul, H-Foundation, and Slam themselves release their releases on the Soma label. It was Soma that in the early 90s began promoting the then-unknown project Daft Punk, and here's what came out of it. In turn, the Soma label started its business with the release of Slam's "Eterna" album in August 1991 (Soma 1). Ten years later, the Soma catalog already included over a hundred releases, and in June 2001, Slam's second album "Alien Radio" was released. Almost every track from this album (for example, "Positive Education") became a classic, including remixes by Death in Vegas, Daft Punk, and Underworld. When recording the album, Slam took a risk by combining elements of music from Detroit and Chicago in their tracks, as well as, of course, incorporating the best from the British school.