Rilly Groovy

The song was written by group-leader Du Kane, with the programming done by Luke Baldry[3] at Kane's mother's house in Sussex.[4] Like the rest of Rilly Groovy's parent album If 60's Were 90's, the song extensively samples the works of Jimi Hendrix; Rilly Groovy samples guitar from "Wild Thing", "Up the Road" and "Bleeding Heart" and bass guitar and spoken words from Jimi Plays Monterey.[4]

The sample used for the guitar solo, like the others on the album, was a multitrack solo; although the group had permission to raid Jimi Hendrix's archive and indeed did do for the song's solo, most of the album's samples were taken from CD to show how much could be done. However, Rilly Groovy's solo posed an extra challenge as the drumming used in the source solo was non-metronomic, with Mitch Mitchell starting at about 100bpm and rising to 140bpm; Baldry's response was to cut it into about twenty different chunks each on the left and right, reordered them, then replayed them across the beat.[5]

A music video was produced for the song. It was shot at the now-defunct Fungus Mungus in Battersea, although as much of the footage was originally taken from Jimi Plays Monterey, so too was video.[4]

Rilly Groovy charted at No. 3 in the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart; on the back of this, "If 60's Was 90's" was re-released and peaked at No. 74 on the UK Singles Chart,[6] and No. 5 on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart.[7]