Sugardaddy 'Love Honey' [Greg Wilson Edit]

Greg Wilson - Credit To The Edit Vol.2 (Tirk - 2009)
Sugardaddy are Tom Findlay (from Groove Armada) and Tim Hutton. I originally met Tom and his GA partner, Andy Cato, at one of David Mancuso’s London Loft Parties back in 2005, before the release of Credit To The Edit. He was working on the Sugardaddy project at the time and told me of his plans to issue their first single on Tirk. This turned out to be ‘Love Honey’, which came in three distinctive flavours (Electro, Funk and Acid), all highly playable for me, making it difficult to fix on my favourite. The track connects back to Man Friday’s ‘Love Honey, Love Heartache’, a 1986 Larry Levan mix, which took its influence from the Funk Masters / TW Funkmasters and ‘Love Money’ from 1980 (original) / 1981 (Champagne version), a seminal UK recording that was big on the Jazz-Funk scene in the early 80’s before making waves in the underground dance clubs of New York and Chicago (to round things off, ‘Love Money’ was inspired by the 1979 Reggae hit ‘Money In My Pocket’ by Dennis Brown).
Then, when Puma asked Tirk to contribute a track for their 5×12 vinyl boxed set, which was distributed as a limited edition at the Miami Music Conference in 2006, Sav asked me if I’d be up for editing ‘Love Honey’. This presented the perfect opportunity for me to combine two of the mixes, the Electro and the Acid, providing myself with a version that would become a major track for me in the clubs and was, more recently, included in my Essential Mix. As a consequence, I ended up putting together my own versions of a handful of other Sugardaddy tracks from their vastly underrated album ‘It’s Good To Get High With The Wife’, including ‘State Of Play’, ‘Hypnotise’ and ‘Hate Love Passion’, which all made it onto vinyl. This would lead on to my contribution to Groove Armada’s ‘Soundboy Rock’ album. I’d also mash the Funk version of ‘Love Honey’ with ‘Whatever Happened To The Soul?’ a spoken word release from Detroit’s DJ Bone, which I’d been introduced to when I visited Gerald (A Guy Called) in Berlin, but this remains unreleased to date (although it’s popped up on a couple of my live mixes). The edit here differs the Puma one, which remains exclusive, not to mention expensive - I recently saw the boxed-set selling online for over $100!
Written and Produced by Sugardaddy
Published by Copyright Control
Tirk Records 2005
Licensed courtesy of Tirk
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Top tune reminded me of going to raves too many years ago.