Fresh from leaving his 1980s Jazz Fusion career behind, Ceri Evans created Sunship: his new Electronic Music project that facilitated his new UK Garage interests. Being one of the few producers with a musical past playing piano and bass guitar made his work stand out as technically and melodically innovative, quickly making him the Trope Codifier when the genre left the London club scene and went mainstream nationwide. The music industry snapped him up once he became a go-to producer for many soon-to-be-famous independent artists and assigned him as a remixer for music stars like Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera, Victoria Beckham, Naughty By Nature, and Gabrielle.
Sunship slowed down by the end of the 2000s as the genre left mainstream relevancy but sometimes showed up to deejay at festivals and released an occasional extended play on his self-owned label Sunship Recordings. To the surprise of many old skool UKG fans, his work would get a Newbie Boom in the 2020s thanks to TikTok creating a Dance Sensation with his Into The Sunshine remix of Jhelisa's "Friendly Pressure", as well as his remix of Sweet Female Attitude's "Flowers" appearing in I May Destroy You and getting sampled by PinkPantheress.
Discography
- Sunship (1997)
- Is This Real (1998)
- Missing in (East) Acton (2017)
Let me trope it
- Either/Or Title: Sometimes used, notably "Try Me Out (Let Me Lick It)".
- Genre Shift: Went from being in two Jazz Fusion bands to UK Garage within two years.
- He's Back!: After "Friendly Pressure (Into the Sunshine Mix)" became a TikTok viral sensation in 2024, he announced in August new extended plays (his first music since his underground work from 2017) and the new singles "You’re My Thrill" with Special Guest Tracy Ray and "The Girl From Ipanema".
- Irony: Became the Trope Codifier for many future UK garage producers when he was the most inexperienced of his peers. The "Friendly Pressure (Into the Sunshine Mix)" remix he did (along with his other remix of the song known as the "From Midnight Mix") was his first UK garage remix job, and retroactively became the most popular UKG garage song of the old skool era.
- Limited Lyrics Song: Crossed with Title-Only Chorus, some of his music's vocals are just the title being sung by an uncredited vocalist. "Try Me Out (Let Me Lick It)" is a perfect example.
- Record Producer: Is his own and has notably been one for Mis-Teeq, which is why Alesha shouts him out in "All I Want" (the page quote and photo caption).
- Rock Me, Amadeus!: His remix of Sweet Female Attitude's "Flowers" interpolates the chords of Erik Satie's "Trois Gymnopédies".
- With Lyrics: This trope's version of "Cheque-One Two" has MC RB as a Special Guest, but from the moment the RB says "X-Rated" and it gets echoed throughout the song, you realize there's a reason the dub is the mainstream version.