except it was recorded in 2017!
no, but it's great stereo-panning rhythmic psychedelia
like a lost batch of barely recognisable remixes of Goldie tunes done by Source Direct and Hidden Agenda
lead track of OneMind's debut album OneMind presents OneMind
(via Tim Finney)
sweird
it still sounds
like
the future
to me
very odd, that - cos i know it's not, that it's a now classic sound-style...
that it's history... legend...
a mythic and mythologized era
(hell, I done mythologized it myself - not single-handedly but certainly made an outsize contribution there!)
i know that we've gone past this and are looking back at it in the rear-view mirror
except that listening, it feels open and wide and forward-leaning - a full-speed ahead windshield view
perhaps it's just a trick of memory, how I felt then flooding back involuntarily
or that it's all so imprinted in my neurology and brain pathways that those sounds can't be heard any other way
it's not like I don't feel that feeling about some things happening today
(more so than 2009-2010)
but yeah, it feels like my ears are staring out at a vista, a frontier, when I listen to it
if i played it to my beats and bleeps mad son, I wonder if he's be able to tell it was from the past ?
(not literally from the past obviously, in actual fact made virtually yesterday)
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
EBM
cool super in-depth piece by Holly Dicker for Resident Advisor on the history - and contemporary influence / resurgence - of EBM - aka Electronic Body Music
I often used to de-abbreviate the term incorrectly as European Body Music - which i actually think is a better term, given the ancestral role of DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, Die Krupps, etc
if I was to do Energy Flash again, one of a bunch things I'd add is more on the non-disco, non-American, Euro-industrial prehistory of rave
it's there implicitly and name-checked with the coverage of Belgium, gabba etc - but there is more to say about this other dance-oriented club culture of the Eighties that was going on at the same time as the black street sounds like electro, synth-funk, freestyle, early minimalist rap and proto-house - a scene / sound that was stompy, Euro, and descended out of industrial if veering often into a sinewy sort of fun
mind you, i never found it easy to dance to industrial - i remember going to a place with the Stud Bros and Stubbs (champions of Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, a; grumh, et al at Melody Maker), right in the centre of London - it might have been a particular at Gossips now I think about it - and it was dedicated to industrial and EBM - and recall finding that the beat got tiring quickly - too hard stomping, too nail-gun regular - there was something missing, a shimmy that house added
an old piece of mine about what I called "industrial disco" circa 1991
I often used to de-abbreviate the term incorrectly as European Body Music - which i actually think is a better term, given the ancestral role of DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, Die Krupps, etc
if I was to do Energy Flash again, one of a bunch things I'd add is more on the non-disco, non-American, Euro-industrial prehistory of rave
it's there implicitly and name-checked with the coverage of Belgium, gabba etc - but there is more to say about this other dance-oriented club culture of the Eighties that was going on at the same time as the black street sounds like electro, synth-funk, freestyle, early minimalist rap and proto-house - a scene / sound that was stompy, Euro, and descended out of industrial if veering often into a sinewy sort of fun
mind you, i never found it easy to dance to industrial - i remember going to a place with the Stud Bros and Stubbs (champions of Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, a; grumh, et al at Melody Maker), right in the centre of London - it might have been a particular at Gossips now I think about it - and it was dedicated to industrial and EBM - and recall finding that the beat got tiring quickly - too hard stomping, too nail-gun regular - there was something missing, a shimmy that house added
an old piece of mine about what I called "industrial disco" circa 1991
Thursday, August 16, 2018
starshine
a fan video but conveys / intensifies the nova-psychedelica of now better than any of their own efforts
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
AfroRetro2
the retrovirus spreads deeper into rap culture (see previous episode)
lame video for mystifyingly poor single choice off otherwise largely splendid album
this is a bit better video wise, and a thrilling single out of many potential ones
Monday, August 13, 2018
nuum nuum nuum - the Matos pirate radio deejay set selection 1989 - 2008
almost every set mentioned in Michaelangelo Matos's Wire Primer on pirate tape recordings from April 2018 issue - UPDATE - MISSING MIXES NOW PROVIDED BY MATOS!!!!
Danny Rampling, Kiss FM, London (December 25, 1988)—labeled simply as 1988 (39 min.)
https://www.mixcloud.com/Radionecks/pressure-fm-1004-london-dj-target-mcs-wiley-riko-buckie-1st-february-1998/
Heartless Crew, Mission FM 90.6, London, part two (May 1988)
Saturday, August 11, 2018
"it’s muuuuweee, muuuuuweee"
Dan Hancox on the history of grime MCs and pirate radio, with particular focus on the quirky early days of vocal-noise and audio-logos
Friday, August 10, 2018
the laugh that launched a thousand tracks (well, 93 at the last count)
a fun and interesting piece by Marke B. concerning one of the most proliferated and profuse samples of all time - Alison Moyet's liquid chuckle of pure delight from Yazoo's "Situation"
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