Jones/This is Hip, 9. It's Hot, it's Red Lights, it's Exciting!

In the mid-Eighties a jazz dance craze swept the UK, as DJs like Gilles Peterson went looking for the original bebop and Latin sources of samples used in hip-hop. Mark Murphy tracks like Milestones quickly became dancefloor favourites, and Murphy himself became a major live attraction for this younger audience. Meanwhile he continued to record for both Muse and the Milestone label.