The Wiseguys — The Antidote. Brief story behind the album

In the early nineties, 20-year-old Paul Eve (DJ Regal) worked in a London audio/video exchange shop with a huge warehouse. Theo Keating (Touche) walked into the shop with a voucher. Eve gave him twenty boxes of discounted records, and after work they listened to what one had sold to the other. As DJs, Theo and Paul had the same idea: they went through all the famous records in search of unique samples. And as part of the duo Wiseguys, they both invented a competitive game: to include in their own collage tracks only those pieces that had never been heard before: “There was so much stuff that we found during the making of the first album that we had to lose, because by the time we got around to releasing the [first] LP, someone else ended up using it on their track. That was the thing about the whole process, back then. You had to hurry up!”