Granted, Dekkard had already left Boston to take up residency over in the UK to be closer to Stress and the goings on of the UK dance scene. Upon his arrival in the UK, Dekkard was really eager to work, but started feeling Stress' total lack of support for him right as soon as he landed at Heathrow. "They kept trying to change the product. They wanted to control what I was doing by saying 'well, that was really good, but can you do this...' they were not being objective, they were going on personal taste." Not feeling that Stress were interested in exploring the potential he had, he left the label, which also created turmoil between himself and Debo, who didn't quite understand.
Broke, hungry, and not much legal chance for making any money, Dekkard locked himself in his studio for a month to concentrate on producing tracks. Upon completion, he bought up a one-day unlimited rail pass and went all around London in search of the next label that would give him work. Sure enough, 7PM Management (home of Jackpot Recordings) raised their right hand and offered Dekkard his next work opportunity. "The called me up and asked me if I wanted to do programming on a CeCe Rogers track. When I said 'Who?' they were even more interested because I suppose they wanted somebody outside the deep house realm to produce the record." So he took his keyboards and Mac down to the studio where he met Tom Fredrikse who, at the time, was a hotshot producer of D:Ream as well as super DJ Sasha's programmer. "He turned out to be a real asshole" claims Dekkard. Instead of getting down to work on music, he spent the next three days watching Fredrikse and Rogers smoke hash and score with hookers, but he made $100 pounds per day, so he wasn't really complaining. After a pep talk from top producer Danny Campbell who was impressed with Dekkard's programming ability, Rich went to 7PM head Seven Webster and told him of his desire to move forward in his career rather than watching people smoke hash in the studio. So they hooked him up with another person Dekkard refers to as a "total loser" named Spencer Williams, who had just split up with the Well Hung Parliament production team. Together they worked on Nootropic's "I See Only You" umm...scratch that, Williams smoked pot all day long while Dekkard worked on the record. It came to a point where he asked Williams to just leave the room and let him work alone without the smell of skunk weed to hinder him. After completion of the project, Dekkard felt proud of his work, and told Williams to get lost.
