Once again Pete Ellison is the man on the spot with a remix of a blast from the past that you probably forgot about.
Mark Moore had already made history with Theme from S-Express—a song that rode the acid house wave straight to the top of the UK charts. Superfly Guy, released in 1989, was the follow-up, a disco-infused house track that aimed to keep the momentum going.
Built on a tight bass loop and neon-lit synths, Superfly Guy borrowed its name from the Curtis Mayfield Super Fly era but gave it a new spin. The track wasn’t about street hustlers or crime—this was club culture mythology, a character pulled from the sweat-drenched dance floors of London’s underground.
It was released in a time when acid house was under scrutiny. The UK government and tabloids had begun their crackdown on raves, branding the movement as dangerous. Superfly Guy landed in that moment—playful on the surface, but a soundtrack to a nightlife scene that was being pushed further into the shadows.
The song climbed to #5 on the UK Singles Chart, keeping S-Express relevant in a shifting musical landscape. But the acid house explosion wasn’t built to last. By the early ’90s, the movement had fractured, and mainstream attention moved elsewhere.
Still, Superfly Guy didn’t disappear. It lived on in DJ sets, in the DNA of house and electronic music, in the echoes of the scene that never really died. Mark Moore had crafted something more than a club hit—he had bottled a moment, a sound that still hums beneath the surface of every underground beat.
Pete Ellison steers it into House territory, layering the track with deep cuts and nods only true S-Express devotees will catch. The kick hits hard, the bassline wobbles just right, and the whole thing feels engineered for the kind of late-night dancefloor moment where time bends. Ellison reimagines, distilling the essence of Superfly Guy into a peak-time anthem built for the future.
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