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To be more precise, it’s actually a song I wrote with my Monkey Bars partner in crime, Gabriel D Vine as well as Alex Lang, and was the reason we were offered a deal with Subliminal Records in 2001.

This past Monday (November 17, 2008), the tune was used in the TV show “Samantha Who?” for almost 3 minutes in a scene set in the bar frequented by the show’s central characters!

As for our tune called Shuggie Love- it was a song that we came up with as an intentionally-offbeat quasi-pop ditty chock-full of cartoonish sound effects, the most cliched-of-cliched house music samples, and inside jokes far too complex and twisted to even begin to get into in this post. The lyrics were written by our friend, the great poet, Alex Lang who used the name “Shuggie Love” as an alter ego for some of his more adventurous work and this tune was basically Shuggie’s theme song.

Despite the unusual nature of the tune, Subliminal head honcho Erick Morillo (the man behind the ubiquitous I Like to Move It back in the 90’s) took such a liking to it that he not only signed the single, but also had us produce an entire albumfor him. On top of that, Erick was kind enough to fly us out to Subliminal’s recording studio in New Jersey to have it professionally recorded and mixed.

Upon the release of Shuggie Lovein 2004, besides hitting the #1 spot on the UK’s Music Week chart, it appeared on numerous radio shows and dance music compilation CD’s worldwide, and even ended up as a ringtone!

The blessing of our tune was that it opened the door for us to one of house music’s biggest record labels and more importantly to the experience of producing our debut albumof original music.

At any rate, it was truly exciting to hear our old tune blaring in the background through the small screen, so here it is in all its televised glory. Enjoy!