7th Storey Ghosts is a WhatsApp group chat with Simon from 7th Storey Projects, Dom, and me. We all live quite near each other, so we’ve met up a few times in real life, including last week to check the lathe cut of this release (thanks Simon for the use of an Ortofon Concorde needle!). However, we had never made music together until last year.

So, back in early summer 2025, we met at my house to mess around with Ableton for a couple of hours after I had an idea of making a track in the style of the Bookworm 12″. I collated a collection of samples, Simon came prepared with his wealth of knowledge and passion to help craft the track, and Dom was on the controls.

And that’s where Imagination first took shape under the working title The Paperback Tune (another nod to Good Looking Records and the Bookworm 12″).

It might be worth mentioning that I once wanted to do a physical mixtape of floaty music that Dom said I should put out under the Tapeworm, which I found very humorous and clever.

The initial version of Imagination had the second breakdown at the start. We had worked on it for just over an hour when we decided it needed a more musical section, ideally Rhodes or a piano, to offset the purely electronic elements and give it a more human/soulful edge, like 19.5 manages to do so perfectly.

We then tried the sample you now hear at 1 minute 13 seconds, which Dom managed to fit the vibe of the track perfectly.

Dom then left the stems with me, and I played around with it after everybody had left. We later shared new versions of the track through WhatsApp, which is when we had the idea to switch the breakdowns around, change the movie sample (which was originally from Lucio Fulci’s House By The Cemetery), and tidied the arrangement.

For quite a while after making this, I debated not playing it to anyone. Not because I didn’t like it, but because it felt wrong to base a track largely around the musical elements of other people’s songs. But I was reminded that this was exactly how early “intelligent” drum and bass was made, as the producers didn’t always have the technical ability or equipment to play their own breakdowns and musical sections.

There was some talk of giving this a full release, but I feel it’s best left as a dubplate. I’ve had ten of these cut so far, with the three of us having a copy each, and I will be sending copies to Shadow Club and Infest as the Dreaming remix is on the other side.

I’ve often thought of putting out a record on a Two Hungry Ghosts-themed label, and Simon has always been very polite when I’ve talked about it, even though it never happened after countless conversations. I like to think he would be there to listen and share his thoughts again if I ever came up with another concept, but part of this project is to finally put that idea to bed, and these ultra-small runs of lathe cuts do satisfy that urge and feel special to me. I might be tempted to get a few more cut at some point to put out through Simon’s shop, but I wouldn’t want to do too many more, and there is no guarantee that will happen. If it does, I will post on the blog.

Cheers for reading, and we all hope you like the track which can be played here.