Oaysis

 

Loft Conversion E.P.  - you got to love it

St Albans massive - part of the Hertfordshire Annex to the Hardcore Continuum (Omni, Source Direct, Photek, Gappa G and Hypa Hypa, Omni Trio, DJ Trax I think, others too)

Not in the first rank of ardkore + jungle - now if they were Omni level, there'd be more polemical strength to the comparison with you-know-who

But this kind of thing = the real Britpop.  I thought that then. Think it now. 

And it was pretty popular, with the populace. Chart music for a good stretch there..

This is Oaysis's first-rank moment 

"I think we've found / A special place...  Just close your eyes / And dream with me"

Better still, the Slipmatt remix

Oaysis started on Formation, up in Leicester, then went to an actual Hertfordshire label - Stevenage's Moving Shadow

One of those groups that tended to go a bit wispy when they shifted from ardkore to intelligent 

One of them  - Danny Hopkins - became Hopa, as in Hopa & Bones - a name that always tickled me.  Although I can see now that it's just a twist on Hopkins. Still, it's an archetypally nuum sort of name, isn't it? Hopa n Bones.

Hopa and Bones featuring Oaysis - a transitional nomenclature. Was this like Hopa saying to the other two in Oaysis - "okay, you can be in the room with us while me and Bones make the tune?" Like letting them down gently, aka not pulling the bandage off.  Maybe they helped, contributed, advis.

Or  maybe it was trying to drag over the "name-recognition" factor into the new enterprise.

Good stuff. Not wispy at all. Glistening and "musical" and cold-fresh-airy, yet the beats are lively and limber, the bass booms in all the right places. 

Danny Hopkins also recorded, earlier, as Higher Octave 

Track called "Raise the Bones"

The other two seem to have dropped out of music.

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                                                                  1971!

                                                    Sonix by Eugeniusz Rudnik

smackman crackman crackman crackman crackman crackman

the most famous iteration of this theme - or iterations plural

the version I remember best - "crackman on the line freaking out - don't do that - crackman on the line freaking out - dangerous!"

more Smack-ing tunes

more Crack-ing tunes 

Story behind "Autobiography" / "Green Man" via Class of 88 website

SMILEY: The Shacklewell Arms used to be called The Green Man. And basically The Green Man pub was where all the local guys used to go and buy their crack cocaine. That’s where it was sold, in that pub, so you know that pub is responsible for smashing so many lives. I mean, tearing families apart.

Seriously, that was like the devil was there. And I mean, we’ve seen from ages of, like, fourteen year olds to fifty year olds coming out of that pub, and they’ll be stealing from mums and brothers and dads, and robbing old ladies. Doing aggravated burglaries so they could get money to go into that bloody pub, The Green Man.

I mean, that’s a significant piece of history that place is, but a lot of people don’t know this.

But we was here from the beginning. So, we made a song called The Green Man. It was about people going in there buying crack.

And also on the flipside of Green Man, where it was more PJ’s idea, we had a song called Autobiography Of A Crackhead, and that was sort of like one of our deepest songs we’ve ever done really.

PJ: Basically it was a rap tune, and it was us both doing a verse each about living the life of a crackhead.

SMILEY: It’s not, like, bigging up crack…

Another Crack-in tune, suggested by YT in comments

SIZEable RESPECT

 

This 12-inch does have a tribute-ary relationship to the greater artist. 

Man at Discogs says it borrrows beatige from "Music Box".... but I hear more of a resemblance to "11.55" on this side

Ah this on the flip does have the "Music Box" feel about it  - that sort of skittery whirr - perhaps hence the apologetic title "Sorry" !

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 I had a great chat with Paul Rose - a/k/a Scuba a/k/a the man behind Hotflush Recordings -  for his Not A Diving Podcast. We talked about Futuromania, electronic dance music, back in the day blogging, and much more besides. Immerse. 

you know how to love me (SSS pt. 1028)

the sample chain continues

sourced in this 

"Tuch Me"!

SSS = sample spotting saddo