FUTURE CUT: ALRIGHT, STILL
The reason the middle eight to Lily Allen’s debut single, Smile, is comprised of ‘la la las’ is because she had no idea what one was. These are the kind of juicy pop culture tidbits that production duo, Future Cut, toss out when asked to reminisce about their time in the music industry. Tunde Babalola and Darren Lewis found heavy rotation in the digital underground scene from 1998 to 2004, striking gold when working with a then unknown Allen in the early 2000s. Headliner visits a west London studio to talk creativity with the producers that ‘no one has heard of’. Words Alice Gustafson
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