Their first project together was Reese Project's amazing remix of "Direct Me" which absolutely blew the roof off of the underground scene in the UK and basically spawned the genre known today as "epic house." At over 12:00 in length, the track was pretty epical. With that, they cut their teeth on a whole slew of remixes, including B.T.'s "Embracing the Sunshine," and Up Yer Ronson "Lost In Love." This is the first time where Dekkard felt like he was being challenged. "The projects were getting really exciting for me, because, for the first time I had large studio resources at my expolitation and thus, I was able to show off and be self-indulgent." And with that, he was producing some incredible music. But his learning process was not nearly finished. "While we were working, Sasha's friend Guy Oldhams would send over DATs of B.T.'s first music. And we kept listening to this music in the studio and it blew our minds." So much, that the two sprung for a round trip ticket to bring Brian over to England.
Once B.T. arrived in the UK, Sasha and Dekkard just let him do his thing. Anyone that knows Brian is well aware of the amount of energy this kid has, and neither of them were going to try and calm him down. Of course, the two of them were rather amped as well, listening to the DAT tapes which he brought with him, they knew they had found the real deal. Spencer Baldwin, a friend of Sasha's as well as A+R man at East West Records, UK just happened to be hanging around the studio too, and immediately gave Brian a recording contract right on the spot. "To me, that was very encouraging, because Brian's music taught me a very important lesson; even though I was happy doing what I was doing, it taught me that you don't have to be afraid to do absolutely anything you want no matter what -- there's no limit to how bizarre and how obnoxious you go. It is something I am very thankful to Brian for paving the way for. Before that, dance music was very genre oriented, very stale and similar sounding. When Brian came along, his ignorance of the styles basically allowed him to not know what he was doing and stir everything up." As the threesome got along handsomely, they ended up working on one of the finest remixes to ever leave a studio, Seal's "I'm Alive," a track which is Dekkard's personal highlight as a producer. Admittedly, with three very large, yet talented egos in one room Dekkard grew a few gray hairs from the experience.
