slammige cru #2 (let us now praise hardcore's other Michael Wells)

yes - as i just learned in the nick of time, before repeating the mistake already made a few times - the Michael Wells in GTO is not the same Michael Wells in Force Mass Motion

biographical snippet from Discogs

"Heavily influenced by Humanoid's "Stakker Humanoid" and the Sterns club in Worthing. He started making dance tracks in 1989. He was discovered by Colin Faver after sending in a tape to his "Demo DAT Pressure" section on his Kiss FM show. He combined his music production in the early 90s with studying Aerospace Engineering at Kingston University"

Force Mass Motion made many bangers, many many blasters





And actually - I did not know this - a whole album in 1992 for Rabbit City, that may well qualify in the Leaving Earth list of Rave LPs

Which funnily enough seems to have been reissued this very year by a label called Music Preservation Society

you can hear the whole thing here



Music Preservation Society has quite a trove of slammige on YouTube - stuff that it is reissuing in remastered form on vinyl

slammige cru (let us now praise Lee and Michael)

tuff tune, with delicious proto-vocal-science of that elf-girl gurgle at 0.57 seconds and passim

heard while making my way through the Leaving Earth list of rave LPs

from the good old days when "techno" didn't promise hair shirt longeurs and triple turntable tedium -  when techno banged, slammed, kicked (and even shoveled, now and then!)...  when a tune might actually contain, well, a tune -  as opposed to just a grackling sound and a nail-gun beat

GTO -  another example of the  personnel and sonix flow between industrial and techno

Started as Greater Than One, than proliferated under a thousand aliases, in multiple modes of slammige - bleep, hard techno, near-trance, jungle-ish, gabba



tearin' tune - B-line like concrete liquifying  (as the Man like Me said once upon a time)

another version












fame at last

Rabbit City!

Great little label, not much talked about these days, bit like Rising High in that it moved around in a zone between acid, industrial-strength hardcore, breakbeat hardcore, hardtrance and UK tekno

Well well well - i knew it was mentally linked for me with Edge, and turns out that Gordon Edge, aka Gordon Matthewman, co-founded Rabbit City with Colin Faver in 1991.

Force Mass Motion was one of the main artists -- Michael Wells who i've always assumed was the same Michael Wells as in John + Julie / Technohead / Church of Ecstasy / Tricky Disco etc etc -- but apparently not