
Sunship first appeared in 1991 with the breakbeat track 'Sunship' on the Acid Jazz label. Since then, there have been many twists and turns on the path over the last 15 years.
At the start, there were remixes and productions for artists such as Naughty by Nature (Hip Hop Hooray), and Jungle Brothers (40 below) and James Taylor (Hope and Pray). A long stint with the Dorado label followed, under the Filter banner, with a mobo award winning debut album titled 'Sunship'. Towards the latter end of the nineties, Sunship had fully embraced the UK garage sound, beginning a prolific spell of remixes and productions. Sunship tunes such as 'Try me out' and 'Cheque-One-Two' became club smashes, with Sunship remixes of Jelhisa's 'Friendly Pressure', and E17's 'Each time' tearing up clubs and radio.
Come the Millennium it was all systems go, with a Sunship remix of Sweet Female Attitude's 'Flowers' becoming the main mix and hitting the chart at number 2, with a Sunship remix on the Craig David number 1 'Fill Me In' all happening in the same week, it set the pace for a Sunship production of Misteeq's 'All I Want' to hit with a second number two for Sunship productions, and a Sunship remix of Craig David's '7 Days' receiving the ultimate accolade of pure battering on the pirates and in the clubs. Remixes for varied artists such as Christina Aguilera, Texas, and Morcheeba followed, and a Sunship album featuring the likes of the awesome Stonebridge outfit Suncycle was delivered to Go-beat, which unfortunately never materialised with an official release due to Go-beat's demise.
The next Sunship release featured the incredible Warrior Queen, whose vocal on 'Almighty Father' is in inimitable force to be reckoned with ! Wicked soulful vocalist Cazza was next with the bumpin tune 'Some Kinda Fool', and forthcoming releases include Warrior Queen's serious follow up single 'Quits', and some original 2 step and bassline action from the inspirational vocalist Charlise, with '4u4me'.
Sunship has made a big start to 2007,in the form of two massive remixes, firstly the 'So Complicated' Sunship Remix for Midnight Circus, followed up by the 'Unappreciated' Sunship Remix for the American group Cherish, both tracks receiving heavy duty airplay. With many new tracks in the pipeline The Sunship is rolling once again !!!!!!!!
From being the brainchild of producer Ceri Evans, the Sunship crew has grown over the last sixteen years, and now features essential crew members DJ Chunky bringing on board the DJ skills, along with James 'The Doctor' Dowbekin with his engineering skills and all round Mac Omnipotence !
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