I read an article on the way back from a gig about industrial food production and the consequences for human health environment,” explains Cato. As the meaning behind their label name suggests (a rough translation from Spanish as 'hill view') Loma Vista has climbed to the summit of today's musical landscape, engaging and representing a sweeping range of the most popular scenes and genres of today. Earlier this year, Groove Armada – musical duo Tom Findlay and Andy Cato – embarked on their final UK tour, opening at Glasgow’s Barrowlands before closing out with two nights at Brixton Academy, where they were joined byNorman Jay, PBR StreetgangandEwan McVicar. New music plays a key part of the GA25 celebrations, with the duo recruiting some of today's leading underground artists to remix their most iconic tracks, packed into a box set celebrating an award winning career that has seen them produce an impressive, record-breaking body of work.

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Among the tracks included are iconic Groove Armada cuts including 'Superstylin'' and 'I See You Baby', as well as 'Song 4 Mutya', 'If Everybody `Looked The Same' and 'Back to my Roots' feat. Cato recounts tales of flying in a bi-plane “in full Biggles outfits” into a US aircraft hangar to DJ and being told to “look natural” while posing between two scantily clad, greased-up ladies doing the hoovering for a big American dance magazine (neither can remember which).

Nearly meeting Prince 10 years ago in San Francisco’s Ruby Lounge was pretty amazing,” says Findlay. Two months after announcing further details of the release alongside their first song in over two years, ‘Hold A Vibe feat. New music plays a key part of the GA25 celebrations, with the duo recruiting some of today’s leading underground artists to remix their most iconic tracks, packed into a box set celebrating an award winning career that has seen them produce an impressive, record-breaking body of work.

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It’s not often in the spotlight maybe; but ask the people who have come and filled the tents and surrounded the stages for the last decade. Now with a massively successful US tour opening for sweet soul darlings Thee Sacred Souls behind him, 2023 is sure to be a propitious year for Daptone's newest signee. The pair remain at the forefront, too; festival favourites, 2022 proved to be one of their busiest ever years, with Groove Armada reaching new audiences in the process. Groove Armada have announced a career-spanning boxset to celebrate the duo’s 25th anniversary, dropping on November 11th.

I know Luke Howard from Horse Meat Disco, who I bumped into the other night, is training as a psychodynamic therapist. There would be someone sitting on the stairs, naked, with a sewing machine, repairing their nipple tassels. I started working at the beginning of the pandemic because I assumed music wasn’t going to be a concern for a while.

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Despite their extensive list of achievements, there’s still plenty of motivation to have another huge party and go the extra mile to make GA25 one to remember, for fans new and old. Even today it is impossible not to slip into nostalgia or let loose a few dance moves to the sound of ‘ I See You Baby‘ or ‘ Superstylin‘. It encompasses a record label, pressing plant and online magazine, and collaborates with artists and musicians to create stunning audio-visual shows. Ahead of this, Clash spoke to Groove Armada about one of their formative, and longest-lasting club experiences. I think it was just a mild sense of unfinished business that we would regret it if we didn’t,” explains Findlay.Obviously, we’ve said this in 2010, when we brought the live band to a close before…” says Cato, labelling Groove Armada’s then 25-man live crew as “commercial idiocy”. To mark the 25th anniversary of the dance music duo’s debut single, ‘At the River’, Groove Armada will revisit their most iconic songs on GA25, which will be released 11 November via BMG.