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.
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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I always thought it was a little unfortunate they'd chosen a similar name to "The Microwave Beatles" (think that's a Ron Wells quote).
There was also a 96 Slipmatt remix in addition to the 93 one you posted which is more stompy, on the Formation happy hardcore sub-label vicious vinyl.
https://youtu.be/3mtsmi2OQPg?si=BtQv0BSnyiBAij7p
I think Incredible Bass or Enticer are my favourites!
Well I think they came up with it simultaneously with the band, who were unknown then. Oaysis had releases out a year before the Gallaghers did, their first single was 1993.
I think it's kind of pukey name in both cases, and worse with the 'y'. It's like a wank intelligent jungle name before that sound existed. Bit like Aquasky but worse!
aquasky strugatsky
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