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Coastal Commission
Rhodes Through Space / Straight No Chaser (2025 Reissue / orange vinyl)
Pacific Coast House - Cat No: PCH001R
- updated:2025-10-27
2000年前後のUS西海岸、ロスアンジェルスのアンダーグラウンド・ハウスシーンのレーベル〈Pacific Coast House Recordings〉からのCoastal Commissionの1999年のEPがリイシュー。
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Growing up on the slag heaps of County Durham Northumbria, young Sam Robson dreamed of one day finding a better way & somewhere to live with nicer bloody weather! An avid record collector from an early age he looked to music for the answer…
Born in Bradford in the late 60's and growing up in the North-East in the 70's, alternative music fast became his obsession from punk, to new wave, two tone, rock and new romantic he collected it all. Electro and Hip Hop hit his local boombox in the form of "Crucial Electro" on StreetSounds Records and he was soon hungry for anything new & electronic coming out of the U.S.
His call was answered one day at school his mate Gareth (a fellow music enthusiast) lent him a 12" record from Chicago that opened up his mind & changed his course. The piano and gospel tinged record was none other than Marshall Jefferson's "House Music Anthem" that told him "to move your body" and that "house music was gonna set you free…' The rest is History. forward 10 years later to 1996 and Big Sam is now DJing a weekly House night in Santa Barbara alongside LA stalwart DJ Doc Martin. He lives just south of Santa Barbara two blocks from the Pacific Ocean in the sunny beach town of Carpinteria, (about an hour north of Los Angeles).
The warehouse is kitted out with a full studio set up of Roland Corp's latest & greatest but he also has the City Planning Commission breathing down his neck and threatening the boot as his residence unbeknownst to him had been built without any city permits! He is told that his only hope for keeping his building safe from demolition is THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION who protect everything 3 miles in on the entire California coast.
With the Coastal Commission on his mind & while managing L.A Dance Mecca music store "Beatnonstop Records" he meets fellow Brit, musician & house-head Chris Penny aka CPen. They quickly bond at The Cat & the Fiddle over a pint & early 90's rave and Jungle toons. Sam invites Chris up to his studio in Carpinteria for a weekend getaway from LosAngeles and a studio seshion. That night they stuff Chris's Rhodes piano in the boot of Sam's tiny Beemer and shoot up the coast on Highway 101 Carpinteria bound with their mate Lil Johnny "Toaster Oven."
After burning the midnight oil (with fellow studio boffin & PCH engineer "Evil Eye" Nate), when daylight broke "Rhodes through Space" was born. A mastering session was quickly booked and the white labels arrived a week later where they were quickly stuffed into a suitcase and it was off to South Beach/Miami to promote the track at for WMC aka Winter Music Conference. In quiet desperation and not knowing what to name the collective "COASTAL COMMISSION' featuring CPen was agreed upon and scribbled onto the White Labels. As fortune would have it, Sam would run into Philly House stalwart King Britt outside his hotel who was a regular customer at the store back in L.A. King would be one of the first peeps to receive a copy of the record. That night King invited Sam to the club where he broke the track at the Basement Jaxx Conference party party to a packed house alongside legends Daft Punk, Armand Van Helden & DJ Sneak.
25 years later the Coastal Commission are back, remastered and Cpen has since received two Grammys with Honey Dijon for their work on Beyonce's House album. "Rhodes Through Space" is a musical tribute to the club/rave/warehouse party that is still relatable to this very day.
Born in Bradford in the late 60's and growing up in the North-East in the 70's, alternative music fast became his obsession from punk, to new wave, two tone, rock and new romantic he collected it all. Electro and Hip Hop hit his local boombox in the form of "Crucial Electro" on StreetSounds Records and he was soon hungry for anything new & electronic coming out of the U.S.
His call was answered one day at school his mate Gareth (a fellow music enthusiast) lent him a 12" record from Chicago that opened up his mind & changed his course. The piano and gospel tinged record was none other than Marshall Jefferson's "House Music Anthem" that told him "to move your body" and that "house music was gonna set you free…' The rest is History. forward 10 years later to 1996 and Big Sam is now DJing a weekly House night in Santa Barbara alongside LA stalwart DJ Doc Martin. He lives just south of Santa Barbara two blocks from the Pacific Ocean in the sunny beach town of Carpinteria, (about an hour north of Los Angeles).
The warehouse is kitted out with a full studio set up of Roland Corp's latest & greatest but he also has the City Planning Commission breathing down his neck and threatening the boot as his residence unbeknownst to him had been built without any city permits! He is told that his only hope for keeping his building safe from demolition is THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION who protect everything 3 miles in on the entire California coast.
With the Coastal Commission on his mind & while managing L.A Dance Mecca music store "Beatnonstop Records" he meets fellow Brit, musician & house-head Chris Penny aka CPen. They quickly bond at The Cat & the Fiddle over a pint & early 90's rave and Jungle toons. Sam invites Chris up to his studio in Carpinteria for a weekend getaway from LosAngeles and a studio seshion. That night they stuff Chris's Rhodes piano in the boot of Sam's tiny Beemer and shoot up the coast on Highway 101 Carpinteria bound with their mate Lil Johnny "Toaster Oven."
After burning the midnight oil (with fellow studio boffin & PCH engineer "Evil Eye" Nate), when daylight broke "Rhodes through Space" was born. A mastering session was quickly booked and the white labels arrived a week later where they were quickly stuffed into a suitcase and it was off to South Beach/Miami to promote the track at for WMC aka Winter Music Conference. In quiet desperation and not knowing what to name the collective "COASTAL COMMISSION' featuring CPen was agreed upon and scribbled onto the White Labels. As fortune would have it, Sam would run into Philly House stalwart King Britt outside his hotel who was a regular customer at the store back in L.A. King would be one of the first peeps to receive a copy of the record. That night King invited Sam to the club where he broke the track at the Basement Jaxx Conference party party to a packed house alongside legends Daft Punk, Armand Van Helden & DJ Sneak.
25 years later the Coastal Commission are back, remastered and Cpen has since received two Grammys with Honey Dijon for their work on Beyonce's House album. "Rhodes Through Space" is a musical tribute to the club/rave/warehouse party that is still relatable to this very day.
US西海岸、DJ Doc Martinと共にウェアハウスパーティーをしていたDJ SamことSam RobsonのCoastal Commission名義での12インチ。(サイトウ)
『ダラム州ノーサンブリアの鉱滓堆積地で育った少年サム・ロブソンは、いつかより良い生き方と、もっとまともな天気が続く場所を見つけたいと夢見ていた。幼い頃から熱心なレコード収集家だった彼は、その答えを音楽に求めた…
60年代後半にブラッドフォードで生まれ、70年代に北東部で育った彼は、パンクからニューウェーブ、ツートーン、ロック、ニューロマンティックに至るまで、オルタナティブミュージックに急速に夢中になった。ストリートサウンズ・レコードの『クルーシャル・エレクトロ』でエレクトロとヒップホップが地元のラジカセに流れ込み、彼はすぐにアメリカから出てくる新しい電子音楽に飢えるようになった。
ある日、学校で彼の願いは叶いました。仲間の音楽愛好家であるガレスが、シカゴの12インチレコードを貸してくれたのです。そのレコードは彼の心を開き、人生を変えました。ピアノとゴスペルが色濃く反映されたそのレコードは、マーシャル・ジェファーソンの「ハウスミュージックのアンセム」に他ならず、「体を動かそう」と「ハウスミュージックがあなたを自由にする」と彼に語りかけたのです。そのあとはご存じの通り。10年後の1996年、ビッグ・サムはロサンゼルスの重鎮DJ、ドク・マーティンとともに、サンタバーバラで毎週開催されるハウスナイトのDJを務めている。彼はサンタバーバラの南、太平洋から2ブロックの、日当たりの良いビーチタウン、カーピンテリア（ロサンゼルスから北へ約1時間）に住んでいる。
倉庫には、ローランド社の最新かつ最高のスタジオ設備が完備されていたが、彼は、都市計画委員会から厳しい監視を受け、立ち退きを迫られていた。なぜなら、彼の住居は、彼も知らないうちに、都市の許可なく建設されていたからだ。彼の建物を取り壊しから守る唯一の望みは、カリフォルニア州沿岸の 3 マイル以内のすべてを保護するカリフォルニア沿岸委員会だと彼は聞いた。
沿岸委員会のことを考えながら、ロサンゼルスのダンス・メッカである音楽店「ビートノンストップ・レコード」を経営する中で、彼は同じイギリス人でありミュージシャンでハウス・ヘッドのクリス・ペニー（通称CPen）と出会う。二人は「キャット・アンド・ザ・フィドル」でビールを片手に、90年代初頭のレイヴやジャングル・チューンを語り合い、すぐに意気投合した。サムはクリスをロサンゼルスからの週末の逃避行とスタジオセッションのために、カーピンテリアにある自分のスタジオに招待する。その夜、彼らはクリスのローズピアノをサムの小さなBMWのトランクに詰め込み、相棒リル・ジョニー「トースターオーブン」と共に101号線を北上しカーピンテリアへ向かった。
スタジオの天才技師でPCHエンジニアの「イービル・アイ」ネイトと共に徹夜作業を続けた結果、夜明けと共に「ローズ・スルー・スペース」が誕生した。マスタリングセッションは即座に予約され、1週間後に届いたホワイトレーベルはスーツケースに詰め込まれ、WMC（ウィンター・ミュージック・カンファレンス）でトラックをプロモートするためサウスビーチ／マイアミへ向け出発した。静かな焦燥の中、グループ名を決めかねていたが「COASTAL COMMISSION」にCPenを加える案が合意され、ホワイトレーベルに走り書きされた。運命の巡り合わせで、サムはホテル外でLA時代の常連客だったフィリー・ハウスの重鎮キング・ブリットと遭遇。キングはこのレコードを最初に手にした一人となった。その夜キングはサムをクラブに招待し、伝説的アーティストであるダフト・パンク、アーマンド・ヴァン・ヘルデン、DJスニークらと共に満員の会場で「Basement Jaxx Conference」パーティーにてこのトラックを初披露した。
それから25年、コースト・コミッションがリマスター版で復活。Cpenはその後、ビヨンセのハウス・アルバム制作でハニー・ディジョンと共に2度のグラミー賞を受賞した。「Rhodes Through Space」はクラブ／レイヴ／倉庫パーティーへの音楽的オマージュであり、今日に至るまで共感できる作品だ。(自動翻訳)』