Paul soon graduated out of the DJ booth and into the studio being asked to remix and produce at the time this felt like more of a challenge, as club music was taking a harder edge away from the house music he loved. He formed ‘Colour System Inc’ with Fionn Lucas and following on from the success of their own releases the offers started flooding in for remixes over the four years they had mixed an eclectic mix of artists, including All Saints, Felix The House Cat, Giselle Jackson, Johnson and Abacus, Abacus became one of the most played records on Pete Tongs show…. All was looking good, but then in 1999, the music scene shifted again, and Paul returned to the booth spinning at London’s hottest parties hosted by close friends, and THE original party girls, Charlotte and Fran Cutler and Meg Matthews.

Paul reclaimed residencies at the hippest nights, Miss D’s Playboy @ Madam Jo Jo’s, the infamous Thursday nights at Kabaret and a number of premier / launch parties spinning for the likes of Kylie, Madonna, Mario Testino, Fendi and Juicy Couture (Paul can still count a number of these names as current clients). Then in 2000 a chance meeting with old friend Ben Harris and a chat at a party, led to ‘Hydrogen Rockers’ being formed – their first release ‘Musica’ was available on CDR and the underground buzz was massive, the track was picked up by Plastica in London and Yoshitoshi in the USA and once again Paul felt he had found a sound he liked !

As well as creating their own music Paul and Ben, once again, turned to remixing with the boys having a seemingly golden touch, their supporters included Sasha, Digweed, Howells, Tong, Deep-Dish and Lawler with dance floor fillers including ‘Sono Keep Control’, ‘Lil Louis Blackout’ and ‘J Magic Love is Not a Game’. A second chance meeting saw Paul bump into anther old friend Steve Smith who presented him with a demo CD containing six tracks he’d been working on one of which Paul and Ben developed a house version of, and was transformed into the modern day classic ‘Days Go By’ so with an essential new tune under the belt ‘Dirty Vegas’ was formed!