The mix was done in autumnal London, and 3AM was released to critical acclaim in 2003.Richard returned to Bogota to form a live band that would be based in Colombia and between old hands like Janio Coronado and Teto Ocampo, and a then new talent Erika Muñoz, a special magic emerged with this incarnation of Sidestepper, which vowed audiences in Colombia, Mexico and the US for the few years.After touring extensively with the band, Ivan and Richard wanted to make a record written specifically for each member. The two recorded the core of the album in Bogota in 2002, some eventually unused sessions in Jamaica, with Cuban singer Ronald Infante in Havana, and MC’s Rubi Dan and Juxsi D in London. Meanwhile, writing work had begun on 3am (In Beats We Trust), as Richard travelled between London and NY where Ivan was living. Their shows became legendary, they guaranteed a great party that starts on stage and resulted in a collective and euphoric experience, genuinely contagious. Again Ivan co-wrote and produced and ‘More Grip‘ was released in 2000, a homage to a salsa night out in Bogotá.Sidestepper began to play live for the first time, playing gigs in the UK and across Europe, at Glastonbury and Roskilde amongst many others, and Richard continued to DJ in the UK and US. Two years later, the band signed with Chris Blackwell’s Palm Pictures. The two began to write together, producing the future club classic and sidestepper’s first vocal tune - Logozo in 1997.
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The result was the first album, 1997’s Southern Star featuring the Latin drum and bass tune ‘Maine’.The project soon developed into a production and writing duo with colombian songwriter Ivan Benavides, and has since become a full live band. Sidestepper began as a solo studio project in 1996 for main man Richard Blair, who had first gone to Colombia in 1993 to work with renowned folk singer Totó La Momposina - the two had met at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios where Richard worked as an engineer. His old-school influence is a physical presence in his music and none more so than on his 2019 Remasters, a four-track EP of old-school tracks that've been given the new-school treatment. Review: A-Sides is a relative legend of the scene, having been around for literal decades and done pretty much everything that you can do in D&B. 3am (In Beats We Trust) deepens and develops Sidestepper's convergence of styles and techniques, creating an ultra-sophisticated mixture of acoustic firepower, Latin swing with abstract techno.
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