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Artist
Canteen
12+ albums
electronicaelectronic90sapple rabbitsjay fisher
about
Canteen were formed by jay Fisher and Paul Castle officially in 1996 and disbanded (Maybe?) in 2002. Their first collaboration was in 1994/5 on ‘Shark Dance’ originally an instrumental track taken from Paul’s ‘Journey Of The Carcharodon’ album, which Paul needed a vocal for to release as a single. The vocal Jay wrote for the track wasn’t Paul’s first choice as he had several vocalists up for the job. Paul was looking for something in the ‘you take me higher’ dance music vain and Jay gave him a tape with a vocal that was in a ‘I don’t want to go out it hurts my eyes’ style. Paul thought Jay might be worth a go at least, so the vocals were recorded at Eastcote studio in January 1995, a day before Jay left for Canada to record his second album for Mauve Records. It wasn’t until the end of 1995 that Paul and Jay met up again and began working during the studio downtime at Crosstrax studio (Kings Cross) on some ideas. It was during this period that Paul brought in Dug Wolfsohn (who became a permanent member of Canteen in 1999 but was curiously left out of the Breathless deal in 2002?) to mix the work, Out of these 1995/96/97 sessions came the bulk of the tracks that would later make up the ‘Satsuma’ album. Canteen only appeared live three times. With the back-up of a Rhythm section made up of Toby Baron (Drums) and Jon Bankes (Bass) they played WKD, The Barfly and Rubber Ron’s at Bagley’s in 1998 before scurrying back into the studio and not emerging to play live again. 1999
