"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
Sgt Wilson aka John le Mesurier is the narrator on the original series
But it's a different - smarmier - voice used on the record
Gavin C he had a lot of aliases and scrutinizing those names I suddenly saw like a flash another toytown tekno contenda - Windy Milla, based on Windy Miller, a character from Camberwick Green - (itself a spin off of Trumpton - Camberwick Green being a village in Trumptonshire. Or is Trumpton a spin-off of Camberwick Green? Hauntology cru will know)
Sure enough the "Windy Miller" song is sampled and sped up in "Windy's Theme"
Brian Cant at 78 rpm
Windy Miller get mash up on scrumpy
Late addition of another piece of Bod-y music via yt in comments:
Grant Nelson, aliased as Ruff Rider, put out this track "Move Ya Bod" on the Shaggy Ridims EP
has the same gorgeous mellow house-infused vibe as this even lovelier tune - one of my all-time absolute faves of the era - so slinky
And as if recognising the vibe-ual affinity, YouTube segued straight into it before I even made the selection myself
Met Gavin Cheung aka Nookie early in '94 - round at Goldie's England's Lane tower block flat
Immortal for this tune above all - another all-time fave
"you know House is a feeling"
Keeping the house ancestry alive within the hardcore and the junglizm - that was his thing, Nookie / Cloud 9
But he also did tunes like this - whence the "hardcoouooor" whimper-vocal as used in Mark Leckey's Fiorrucci Made Me Hardcore - although he might have got from another track that used it, I think there were several....
And this goofy one
Never noticed before that the daft vocal lick is human beatboxing
Man like Gavin could do that bliss-2-dark distraught-diva ecstasy-edging-dysphoria hectic-histrionic fever rather well
But lover's jungle (perhaps that's why he chose the alter-ego Nookie) was his forte
Did a lot of very nice piano-based tunes that are just a little bit too uplifting maybe
That one is faultless though.
Remodelled for 94
These are a bit too bright 'n bouncy
Ooh but this next one is a classic - and gets the balance just right
And he weren't just about the pianos - the breaks on this are awesome
I suppose he's only a notch or two behind Omni Trio when it comes to the piano-uplift style of jungle.
Rob Haigh's vamps are just a little more bittersweet, more fleeting and spare. Nookie's a little too florid at times.
Here's a great mindmeld of the two piano-core gods - fabulous Nookie remix of Omni's "Soul Promenade", with a great push-me, pull-you swaying rhythm
Of course he actually done a tune called "A Drum A Bass A Piano" - shades of the Red Crayola tracklisting for Coconut Hotel, demystifying their means of production or something
I like the fact that an early Nookie alter-ego was Windy Milla
Also like the way the bpm actually written after the track titles on this one - DJ friendly!
Ooh some very early indeed Cloud 9
sampled from Scientist / Jackie Mittoo?
Thursday, March 15, 2012
"too much speed and we see nothing"--Virilio
"I was born with a sense that my time was running out. Not long ago, I too began blaming the speed of the internet and its corresponding mobile, digital technologies. But then I realized that the problem wasn't being able to do more, faster; it was that, faster and faster, I was spending more of my own precious time doing more of less.... We need to slow the internet down, and should probably hurry up about it"
