Oaysis

 

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

St Albans massive - part of the Hertfordshire Annex to the Hardcore Continuum (Omni Trio, Source Direct, Photek, Gappa G and Hypa Hypa, Omni Trio, Nookie, DJ Trax I think, others too... Moving Shadow in Stevenage, Chill Records in Luton)

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.

via Phil Zone,chunklets of Ozzy Spengler that (if you subtract the raciological aspect) has some aspects to the problem of "intelligence" in music as commonly understood and celebrated in terms of eclecticism / cosmopolitanism / post-genre-ism / rhizo-deterritorialisation/ deracination etc

"What makes the man of the world-cities incapable of living on any but this artificial footing is that the cosmic beat in his being is ever decreasing, while the tensions of his waking consciousness become more and more dangerous....

Beat and tension, blood and intellect, Destiny and Causality, are to one another as the countryside in bloom is to the city of stone, as something existing per se to something existing dependently. Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness. But Civilisation is nothing but tension. 
 
Intelligence is only the capacity for understanding at high tension.... The advance too, from peasant wisdom - "slimness", mother wit, instinct, based as in other animals on the sensed beat of life - through the city-spirit to the cosmopolitan intelligence - the very word with its sharp ring betraying the disappearance of the old cosmic foundation - can be described as a steady diminution of the Destiny-feeling and an unrestrained augmentation of needs according to the operation of a Causality.

Intelligence is the replacement of unconscious living by the exercise of thought, masterly, but bloodless and jejeune. The intelligent visage is the same in all races - what is recessive in them is precisely, race.

Replace the word "race" with "genre", or with "tribe-vibe" , and there you have it...

The cities (post-everything music) depend on the countryside (genres / scenes)