The Gentle People were a group of friends who went by the aliases Dougee Dimensional, Laurie LeMans, Valentine Carnelian*, and Honeymink. Their adventures began when Dougee and Honey started throwing themed, “dress up” parties at their shared house in Brixton during the early 1990s. Lifting the name for these events from notorious kitsch 1970s flick, “Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls”. They were enthusiastic contributors to an “E-Z listening” scene, made possible by a then un-gentrified, still sleazy West End, that for a while flourished in London. Bruce Marcus’ Club Indigo is the place that springs to my mind, but The Gentle People were very tight with James Munns and Martin Dingle aka The Karminksy Experience. Guided by Carnelian’s considerable production chops The Gentle People set about sampling the `60s pop they coveted to create something just as shiny, but brand new. A demo was passed, via a mutual mate, to Richard D. James who, “fed up with boring techno”, signed the outfit to…
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