"My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the music was new and had no rules" -LUNA C
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Dr. S. Gachet
always loved the fact that there was a rave DJ called Dr. S. Gachet
i bracketed it alongside names like LTJ Bukem
mysterious!
what did these people look like?
how did they come up with the names?
Bukem - it transpired - came from Hawaii 5-0 ("book 'em, Danno")
Dr. S. Gachet, someone told me, was a character from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
however i can find nothing to substantiate that at all
so it remains a mystery and perhaps this is as it should be
a couple of sets from Gachet at his height as a AWOL regular
here's a feature about the return of Dr S. Gachet to the deejaying scene after what seems like a rough personal patch in the 2000s following a jungle-related injury to his back and various other misfortunes
other names from pirate ads and rave flyers (or artist names) that always tickled me
Shaggy & Breeze
Kieran the Herbalist
Gappa G
Rude Bwoy Monty
Another huge early Gachet tune:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-CvNkVXjA
Amazing drumwork for such an early tune.
He was more of a DJ than a producer, but the tunes he did produce were all killer.