OK, I was a little wrong on the sequence of events leading up to my uncovering the true identity of Quiet Daze, but not the actual info.
I wrote this before there was any info out there on Time: Space - so it must have been early last year? It was done through V2, anyway. Then subsequently I got hold of the Time: Space promo and both read in Jockey Slut and heard that Quiet Daze was in fact Ian Pooley - and everything fell into place. Then I met Ian and told him how I loved the track. Don'tcha just love a little mystery! ... Pooley is still elated about a new EP to be released by one of the Motor City's original techno labels. "I've just had the opportunity to do an EP on Transmat, which is a great honour for me, because I've been friends with Derrick May for a long time. We've just exchanged a lot of music and records. So it's pretty cool to do this now." Pooley says that the EP represents something of a return to his Detroit-fertilised roots. "It's maybe a bit more techno-influenced, but still very warm-sounding with a lot of strings and things, so, yeah, I like it." Before that materialises, though, Transmat will issue a compilation with tracks by Pooley, A Guy Called Gerald and even some Australian cat (an apologetic Pooley doesn't know - or can't remember - the name)...
