Dweeb - ’Oh Yeah, Baby [Beatmasters Club Vocal Mix]’ (1997)

Kris, sister Lara and friend John were the Watford lo-fi indie-pop darlings, Dweeb. Inspired to form a group after catching Glasgow’s Bis perform live in London, they quickly racked up three one-off single releases throughout 1996 for taste-maker labels Fierce Panda, Ché and Damaged Goods. This got them on the airwaves, notably BBC Radio 1’s Evening Session and John Peel shows, as well as inches in the influential music papers, NME and Melody Maker. NME even included Dweeb on their C96 compilation, alongside Urusei Yatsura, Comet Gain and Broadcast, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the original seminal C86 release. Managing Director Geoff Travis, ex-Rough Trade Records, was paying attention to all this and signed the trio to WEA’s indie subsidiary Blanco Y Negro (Catatonia) in 1997. Here, they issued three more sprightly singles with ’Scooby Doo’ (#63), ’Oh Yeah, Baby’ (#70) and ’. Everything’ (#93), all taken from their sole full length album release, 1998’s ’Turn You On’. The album was produced by Pete Woodroffe (Def Leopard, Tiger) but for the ’Oh Yeah, Baby’ single, they enlisted hip-house/dance-pop production outfit The Beatmasters (Betty Boo, Yazz, Shamen) to deliver this totally banging remix. Elsewhere across the single formats was a trance mix by Tony De Vit and a cover of Adam & The Ants ’Beat My Guest’.