Back in 2021, Ashley Beedle very kindly granted me a brilliant interview. It was in part to help promote the reformation of Black Science Orchestra, and rode in on a series of incredible remixes from Ashley and his No’West production crew. To be honest, I knew that Ashley was unwell. However, I was horrified when I learned this morning just what he’s recently been going through.

Alongside that interview I posted a personal journey through ten of Ashley’s releases: Where Were You?, London X-Press, Take A Stand For Love, Blacker, A Beautiful Space, Welcome To The Club, I Can’t Turn Around, Weak Become Heroes, Half The Day’s Gone, Ghosts… This, of course, was just the tip of the iceberg, and a ton of other top tunes could have easily taken their place: Strong, Sugar Daddy, De Niro, I Wanna Sing, New Jersey Deep, Philadelphia, Friendly Pressure, Voices Inside My Head, Strings Of Life, Love & Happiness, Make Me Believe In You, Are You Ready For Love, Lazy, Edwyn’s You’ll Never Know, Pinball, Rain Fall Down, Running Up That Hill, Time Is Running Out, Mr. Mathis’ I Love My Lady, Whatcha Gonna Do, Unmask Me, Heaven & Earth’s I Really Love You, American Cars, Beware The Stranger…

You’ll all no doubt have your own favourites, and if you do, if you’ve every danced to Ashley’s DJing or his productions, or cribbed the odd lost classic from one of his dynamite Heavy Disco lists (I know I did), or discovered new music via his Worldwide FM show, if you have sufficient funds, please help out.