For this tune Hem and Terrible Shock take apart an 80’s soul LP, add some sci-fi synths, lazy drums and a sprinkling of analogue FX. After many painstaking hours of recording the duo take a well earned coffee break, then return to the studio just in time to see the back of the light-footed Blunted Robots man Shortstuff as he runs off chuckling ‘your vocals are mine now!’ Revenge plans are made, vehicles are fuelled up in preparation – but these activities are cut short by the arrival of an email from the culprit – it seems that he took the files back to his HQ for what he describes as a ‘refix’ – with the engines still running, Hem and Shox check out the file and find it to be a work of genius – what they hear is an accelerated kaleidoscopic fusion of on-beat claps and snares in a peak-time northern soul style, super heavy subbass hits and hectic syncopated keyboard chops. The easy tempo and flow of the original have been transformed into a dancefloor classic, no doubt about it. Hem and Shox call off the troops and head back to the studio – calls are made, contracts drawn up and everything gets sent off to Transition for the magical transfer to vinyl…… For the flipside the duo select 2 fresh beats from the archives featuring all the trademark Hem elements - flexible riddims, slinky edits, fat synths, warm bass tones, hip-house references….. The refix of ‘On a Mission’ featured on Onemans’ much-loved Rinse 11 mix CD. The 12” has already been reviewed in publications such as IDJ and Mixmag - they described it as ‘psychedelic new jack swing’, and its currently being played by the likes of - Subswara crew NYC (Soul Motive), Brackles (RinseFM), Mark Pritchard (Warp), Martin Kemp (Blunted Robots), Toddla T (Ninja Tune), Shortstuff (Ramp), Spamchop (Wigflex), Oneman (RinseFM), Geiom (Berkane Sol)