RIP the legendary Lennie De Ice
Real name Lenworth Green. A first name I've never seen before. The whole name sounds like a place.
I can't remember what I was watching - an old episode of Snub seen many years after its 1988 broadcast ? - but can remember my surprise on encounteringthe source of that almost distraught-with-XTC "we are e-e-e-e-e"
It was on the indie-alt TV show Snub because Factory licensed the rai track and put it out late 1987.
Mixed at the Dark Side Studio - quite early for that concept to be in circ.
Like the use of the wonderful phased vocal intro bit - "no time for no time for criticizing / music's hypnotizing" - from Raw Silk's "Do It To The Music" (postdisco classic, bought this at the time - heard the first time on Top of the Pops and was floored)
A reflicker here of the bliss-stricken "we are eeeeeee" sample
Smackman on the right geeking out
Getting intelligentish in a sort of Bodysnatchish way
Which is funny cos one of his alter egos was called Body Snatcher
I like the use of the word 'terrible' in this next title - the Ivan / sublime awe-ful majesty vibe of it undercut by the blokey bathos of 'well'
The best things he did apart from 'I.E' were as part of Dubb Hustlers
"Jungle Tremble" - cool, odd title that
One more time for the all-time classic - the original remastered (and on Hooj Choons for some reason)
