Dave Jay is a one-time session musician who has spent much of the last two decades working for independent record labels such as Suburban Base, Freskanova and Acid Jazz alongside US majors such as Atlantic imprint Big Beat, whilst remixing acts as diverse as East 17 & The Freestylers. In 2001 he signed to Madonna's Maverick Records in the US as a member of Soul Hooligan, through which the band released the album Music Like Dirt and contributed to TV and movie soundtracks such as Austin Powers: Goldmember & Six Feet Under.