Sheffield! City of cutlery — no, wait, we’ve already done that intro.

But we’re sticking around town for another few days because there’s still more for us to see and do here!

At the same time as Dean Honer enjoyed membership in electronic music trio The All Seeing I, he also maintained a partnership with Jarrod Gosling in an electronic music duo called I Monster. Due to the success of the former, the latter took a backseat, finally releasing their debut album in 1999 only after The All Seeing I saw no more, and not dropping their first single until 2001. But what a single!

It all started some 30-odd years beforehand with a Belgian band called Wallace Collection. In 1969, they recorded their debut album at Abbey Road Studios, including a group-penned song titled “Daydream,” which reached #1 in Belgium but also proved popular in France and the Netherlands. It did not prove popular anywhere else. The following year, however, a German vocal group, The Günter Kallmann Choir, covered the song, which then appeared on a best-selling easy listening album. After that, nothing much happened for a while.

Until two gentlemen from Sheffield brought the past to life.

Whether they knew the song from childhood or stumbled upon it while crate-digging for obscure and esoteric records, I Monster took the Kallman Choir’s cover, remixed the track — adding trip-hop beats and bass, and a funky, distorted vocal that sounds like a demented, robotic fly — and retitled their finished work, “Daydream In Blue.”

Released as a single in 2001, “Daydream In Blue” floated into the Top 20 in the UK and later featured in television shows on both sides of the Atlantic. Wallace Collection and The Günter Kallmann Choir likely would have faded into obscurity, but now find themselves forever linked with I Monster, in a dream amid the flowers, on a beautiful day.