Mark Radford interviewed by Blackdown

main takeaways from Blackdown / Martin Clark's incredibly long interview with Lon Don Deejay of the moment Mark Radford, founder of  the Audio Rehab label and Rinse FM resident

1/ the sound starts with Booka Shade of Get Physical renown  - initially with just two, maybe three tracks by the duo that suggested to Radford the possibility of a future sound, a new direction -   a way of making his name - a whole concentrated night of just that, he found, drove the dancefloor mad

2/ it's all about the B-line

3/ Radford loves bleep and the Nineties North East techno sound of Unique 3, LFO, et al. And Nightmares On Wax, evidently - https://soundcloud.com/markradford/its-something-i-feel-exclusive-preview-mark-radford

So far, so nuumy then...


4/ Except: MCs are a no-no. Punters just want go deep with the music, get lost in it. Voices on top just distract

5/ It's a drug sound, a druggy scene.

6/ Wot u call it? Deeptech is the nearest name, the least unsatisfactory, but Radford doesn't like it - would prefer to not call it anything - just "house"


And one sweetly humanising data nugget:

He's 40, he had kids young, and they are now old enough to come to raves and watch Dad deejay.


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Interesting interview, but what I'd really like to read is Martin's thoughts about deeptech / whatever u call it - since he's been a sceptic up until now, firmly in the "end of the roads" / nuum's up camp


This Booka Shade as Secret Source / Origin / Degree Zero  for deeptech is

a/ classic example of Vibe Migration

b/ a Tim Finney orgasm



I can't really hear how he got from there to here though



there's the bippety bassline I spose

but it all seems so much lighter than Nightshift, Massien, Cotier, Theo Nasa

lighter as in "less dark" but also less weight, less impact - detail-oriented, feathery