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"The conclusion to the Big Chill’s epoch-forming week in Naxos last September was a highly emotional affair. The small crowd - ‘dancing under the stars pissed as loons’ as Daniel Newman of DJ magazine would later put it – just wouldn’t let Jedi Master Tom Middleton go to bed.

But of course all good things must come to an end, and Tom gracefully brought the assorted revellers back down to earth with the gentlest of touches. And then, just as he made it clear that the best party of 2000 was genuinely about to end, he sprung a real dubplate surprise – a haunting, blissed-out vocal track that touched a vital nerve in everyone present. Telling a simple story of unrequited love, the song paid tribute to a core truth embedded deep in the hearts of all dedicated Big Chillers: ‘If you don’t express your feelings, how is anyone supposed to know?’

It was one of those moments of musical bliss that occasioned a rash of communal smiles, hugs and tears. A Big Chill anthem was born. That track was Alucidnation’s ‘I’m not bad’, which is at long last now getting the release it deserves – on the Big Chill’s own label, naturally. Whether you are a dedicated chiller or not, rest assured that this track is going to get inside your head this summer and, from there, work its way down into your heart. The time for the wider world to meet Alucidnation has come.

Bruce Bickerton is the one-man powerhouse behind Alucidnation, responsible for all the act’s music, photography, design and website. A soft-spoken, naturally chilled fellow with a good deal of the Yorkshireman about him, Bruce is precisely the kind of person who makes the Big Chill what it is. Underneath his laid-back demeanour is a veritable wealth of talent, imagination and humour - and a passionate devotion to music.