The 10 Tracks That Shaped Hifi Sean + His Uplifting New Anthem ‘Waiting For The Sun’

Kono Vidovic June 6, 2025 61

Hifi Sean drops a moment we all need in our lives right now. Full on ‘Sly & the Family Stone’ meets ‘gospel’ vibes to lift even the weariest of hearts. Sunrise / sunsets all catered for. Sometimes words are not needed, and the music just speaks for itself. Released on vinyl 12” and digital on his label Plastique Recordings.

In 2021 Sean released his iconic remix of the Fire Island version of ‘Shout To The Top’ on his Plastique label which sold out in a week on vinyl and then the 2nd pressing did the very same. ‘Waiting For The Sun’ is his first vinyl 12” release on his label since that very platter.

Hifi Sean tells us “I wanted to make the positive, the most uplifting, the most euphoric track I could muster. I was walking my dogs one morning and this nursery rhyme style phrase kept going round in my head and I rushed home and started to write it. Musically it’s taken me a year on and off to get it where I want with all the right musicians and singers. I was in no rush as I just wanted to make for myself the perfect sounding record and basically just get what was in my head nailed. Some might see this as a summer record but for me it is more a song about hope and always knowing whatever is putting you in a dark place at that certain time that the next day can take a completely different turn and bring that light back into your World”.

The Archies – Sugar Sugar

The first ever record I had was ‘Sugar Sugar’ by The Archies. A total bubblegum pop classic but man what a solid groove. That is where my love for a pumping backbeat came from as I wore that 7” out as a child. (I had my first record player age 5).

I still have that very 7” and it has my name scrawled on it badly when I took it to a school disco. God, I used to hate school discos. It’s my prized childhood possession that 7”. A total ‘backbeat groove.’

T-Rex – Get It On

Another 7” record I wore out my dad bought for me? I was born in a town outside Glasgow, Scotland called Bellshill. The local record shop was also the local barbers, and my father realised very early on that if he bought me a record player and said, “if you go get your haircut you will get a new record’ it would keep me looking tidy.

So, I always had short hair as I went there a lot to amass my little teenage record collection. I was in a band later in life called The High Fidelity. Hence my DJ name Hifi Sean. My friend when I started a club with him said that’s a cool name for a DJ …. use that.

It was predominately a disco, Italo, electronica, house music mash of music and this single I used to play sometimes as the last record after a hi-NRG night of pumpers. BOOGIE till the lights come up.

Anyway ‘Get It On’ is another killer ‘backbeat groove.’

The League Unlimited Orchestra – Love & Dancing (album)

This is the point where electronica started seeping into my teenage bones. The Human League were HUGE in the UK with the album ‘Dare,’ but this came out a year later. A total genius re-fix, re-imagine , re-mix you call what it will, but this was the album that changed how I thought about music.

To listen to someone …the genius producer Martin Rushent completely dub the hell out a Worldwide number one album and make it sound like the future and still does! Blew my teenage mind.

It was my brother’s album, but I nicked, and it sat proudly in my little record collection. I still play this album a lot to this day. It introduced me to the word ‘DUB’ and from that point on I always thought of how to destruct and re-construct making music.

I can air drum every drum fill on this album … FACT.

Soft Cell – Insecure Me (Hifi Sean remix)

One of the first ever concerts as a kid I ever went to was Soft Cell. I love all the sleaze with the electronic freedom of expression on all those early albums.

One of the greatest things that have happened to me in my musical journey is becoming friends with Soft Cell and I have now done 3 remixes for them over the last few years. Even getting hold of the original tapes with all the parts blew my teenage mind.

All those parts I knew off by heart were all laid out as single stems for me to have fun with and dub them out. This was one of my faves with Cindy Ecstasy rapping on it.

I did a great dub of this track too which is sadly not on YouTube.

Will Powers – Adventures In Success (dub)

Another 12” where I was more drawn to the dub as a young man. 100% chugger and what a sexy groove. I must have played this track a few hundred times over the years at many pool parties or laid-back happenings. People ALWAYS Shazam it or ask me what it is.

Of course, we DJs all know what it is as a classic but out there in the non-DJ World this has to be heard MORE.

The Soup Dragons – I’m Free

Roll on many years later when I was in my early twenties. This was the band I was in and this still sounds as relevant today as it did then.

I added that line ‘don’t be afraid of your freedom’ as the opening phrase. That line is as powerful now as it was then.

What is freedom in 2025? And where are we with that?

Ceybil – Love So Special

So, let’s get to the time when I spent a lot of time in NYC when I was in the band where I felt like I kind of lived on and off there for a few years.

House music was everywhere and going to some of the iconic clubs was a real ear opener for me. I remember 4am walking into ‘Save The Robots’ in East Village and this was playing. I still adore this and drop it all the time.

It has so much sass being under-produced and the way it just rattles on like a live studio jam. To me this is H.O.U.S.E. That sense of not overplaying the statement but captures the mood of the moment.

The Fog – Been A Long Time

Once again so under played and minimally produced as it’s all about that powerhouse vocal by Dorothy Mann. One if not the best vocals on a house record. Fact.

I love playing this in sets to younger people who might not have heard it before. It still blows people’s minds. It has all the ingredients that I love on a house record. A great vocal, a great melody and that killer relentless ‘backbeat groove.’

Hifi Sean Ft. Crystal Waters – Testify

A record I made with the house legend Crystal Waters a few years ago that has this amazing video by Joseph Patisall.

This single became a #1 Billboard Dance Record in the USA. I still have the lovely silver disc on my wall that Crystal carried over on the plane all the way from U.S to London for me.

This is one of those special ones where Worlds collided and the planets aligned, and we made something more special than we could ever imagine.

I remember first time I finished it and sat back and listened to it I must have played it like a hundred times thinking, holy shit what has just happened here. Very very proud of this record. It is a classic.

Hifi Sean – Waiting For The Sun

Talking of records, I am very proud of, this is one of them.

My new release, “Waiting For The Sun’ which I have been working on for a long time revisiting it with different musicians and singers till I got it just right. It just had to give me that tingle in the nether regions which clicks and then I know ‘it is there.’

I wanted to make the most positive, the most uplifting, the most euphoric track I could muster. I was walking my dogs one morning and this nursery rhyme style phrase kept going round in my head and I rushed home and started to write it. Musically it’s taken me a year on and off to get it where I wanted. I was in no rush as I just wanted to make for myself the perfect sounding record and basically just get what was in my head nailed.

Some might see this as a summer record but for me it is more a song about hope and always knowing whatever is putting you in a dark place at that certain time that the next day can take a completely different turn and bring that light back into your World. It seeps that energy and emotion. Hope you enjoy it … I love it.

Thank you and conclusion.

A massive thank you to Hifi Sean for taking us on that inspiring trip through his musical world, from bubblegum grooves and dub experiments to timeless house cuts and personal triumphs.

Now it’s your turn to feel the energy: go check out ‘Waiting For The Sun’, out now on 12” vinyl and digital via Plastique Recordings. It’s a soulful slice of hope that will light up your next sunrise, or sunset.

Spin it. Support it. Share the vibe. This one’s special.

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