tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39058865286681520252024-03-19T04:51:05.315+00:00WOEBOTHollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-29602351283758881802023-03-30T14:51:00.000+01:002023-03-30T14:51:01.747+01:00Sick Veg<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hl_VfGXf6kQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.sickveg.com/">I can hear the grass grow...</a></div>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-25098488868896436242023-02-27T11:17:00.005+00:002023-02-27T11:17:35.692+00:00Pop Up Subculture Music Book Festival<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8eJYeWftBFqCu7UQqzLFswJkK1cWS_WYqJCfXZdjBAa1VyyC-Z3oV_HQJjrOHAuuG78StRPHKR14ME7ZvMMadNSgAZfbUPQYYCA9X3WhAwGmySH8vOWvFMd8OA0redM_3N_8sGPW-EE1iqrK-J5ZWY_Xj8HzfeaWGhr74UxZeY2rd7tjZvzQXLkfa/s4500/unnamed%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4500" data-original-width="4500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8eJYeWftBFqCu7UQqzLFswJkK1cWS_WYqJCfXZdjBAa1VyyC-Z3oV_HQJjrOHAuuG78StRPHKR14ME7ZvMMadNSgAZfbUPQYYCA9X3WhAwGmySH8vOWvFMd8OA0redM_3N_8sGPW-EE1iqrK-J5ZWY_Xj8HzfeaWGhr74UxZeY2rd7tjZvzQXLkfa/w640-h640/unnamed%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-65801169886255955192023-01-15T00:03:00.029+00:002023-01-26T12:09:29.773+00:00The Black Dog<p>The first time I encountered The Black Dog was upon visiting Mike who is now my brother-in-law. It was 1992 and I was a relatively solitary student at Glasgow University. Since schooldays I had followed music closely. Devoted to the music press I'd collected records since 1985 but, like many I'm sure, Acid House and Rave had at first proved difficult to assimilate and follow. My way in was through Dub Reggae and Kraftwerk. You went to raves, club nights and parties but you rarely had a handle on precisely what records were being played. </p><p>Mike, who at that stage was part of a collective called (I think) Wave, sometimes DJ'd the second room at Pure in Edinburgh. Mike is an incredibly charismatic, magnetic character. He has a proper reality distortion field around him. Many people recognised this in him or get sucked into it. For instance, I remember him visiting our house in London once and him wrapping my mother round his little finger. I recall her cooking him breakfast in the middle of the day. He is the kind of individual that you find at the edges of great culture. Like the luminous musicians who never get round to making more that one twelve inch, where that one twelve inch changes everything. Or those people who just create an atmosphere! It's often the most chimeric individuals who are responsible for a scene and the artists are just the worker bees.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkad8NqFTD9vVQ08n-g9BePUFtnk84cko2gGOykTXbQViEUV40ceSN-3kn_nSm4ufd4Qq1yTWjS44aqF3LSnXhAf_4z6ELyf8-PAKH9qehDUdAiJ4IyAba--8XU40RJW4UGRXAiHw5lssqlkKB4Gw5wgWbR8KtNCAYtvX_gdfNy3hFVUgtJUpkc8yq/s600/art1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="600" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkad8NqFTD9vVQ08n-g9BePUFtnk84cko2gGOykTXbQViEUV40ceSN-3kn_nSm4ufd4Qq1yTWjS44aqF3LSnXhAf_4z6ELyf8-PAKH9qehDUdAiJ4IyAba--8XU40RJW4UGRXAiHw5lssqlkKB4Gw5wgWbR8KtNCAYtvX_gdfNy3hFVUgtJUpkc8yq/s320/art1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyv8saLHO3VBx9ZEKLDvWI5MEc4uAl2zxSdcbT6wmgXJYA10bSkIXZ6p3aE8Zp8LklQSbTVdEz4mr8Q5XyrY-YmAJMO4JTOmL2qnTlpFeaZrDFoCHztPHV_h3uWXigZVuikyIgclu6EavP58HhcExEQLsHwWW9yNSIKH7EV6M5-37byQ5hXiqjD3hr/s600/art1b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyv8saLHO3VBx9ZEKLDvWI5MEc4uAl2zxSdcbT6wmgXJYA10bSkIXZ6p3aE8Zp8LklQSbTVdEz4mr8Q5XyrY-YmAJMO4JTOmL2qnTlpFeaZrDFoCHztPHV_h3uWXigZVuikyIgclu6EavP58HhcExEQLsHwWW9yNSIKH7EV6M5-37byQ5hXiqjD3hr/s320/art1b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Mike had unusually immaculate music taste. I remember my (now) wife Catherine had a cassette he had made her with Neu! on it - back when you literally never had the opportunity to hear their music. So I remember I visited Mike in this flat on Queen Margaret Drive where he was living - and he played me the first A.R.T. EP. He explained the eccentric international nexus of musicians of the post Detroit era - how Carl Craig was hob-nobbing with Dutch and British artists. He alluded to an earlier record by The Black Dog which he explained included a voice saying, "I sit in my room, Imagine the future." That record, which I came to learn was called The Virtual EP, was like recorded music could be in those days, extremely difficult to hear let alone lay your hands on.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJE-3KK1FTOkJAf4zLNqQw3AUuSXA6eOGKZJgwjYZjHUvomk1GgpH5GUXLELzXp571Y1vIxmoaggfEUNuhO5vwPZVTKlZBe5D6CKr-lsSuAPRJB6UXY5Rs4MgNK44ZUG29Q0RDPsUA3d1l6xqLmxCPE9Cid8aQsNhbsHxtqLiEesY-wJlDYCP2PFvO/s600/parrallel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="600" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJE-3KK1FTOkJAf4zLNqQw3AUuSXA6eOGKZJgwjYZjHUvomk1GgpH5GUXLELzXp571Y1vIxmoaggfEUNuhO5vwPZVTKlZBe5D6CKr-lsSuAPRJB6UXY5Rs4MgNK44ZUG29Q0RDPsUA3d1l6xqLmxCPE9Cid8aQsNhbsHxtqLiEesY-wJlDYCP2PFvO/s320/parrallel.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>FOPP Records on the Byres Road in Glasgow stocked a small selection of new dance music and a few weeks later I discovered The Parallel EP there. Parallel had a funny "Minimalist <i>DANCE</i>" sticker on the cover, and it struck me as a beautifully designed sleeve (props to Richie B). This was before any counter-dialogue about pretentiousness in Techno had sprung up; but the music inside was anything but that. The breakbeats make it an extremely visceral listen; it's powerfully propulsive dance music; got a real wiggle to it; but is simultaneously very opaque and mysterious. There's something about the chords they chose that sounded very acid-drenched, somehow alien. Some radical idea was lurking behind that sound. [We played a lot of Parallel when throwing raves in Senegal later in 1993, Mike particularly liked "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II7gtHVFMTk">Erb</a>" and we had a shot in the final <a href="https://vimeo.com/500200637">Echo</a> documentary of a crab dancing to it.]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsD859tuJPjN6tI3ZNaSCx-KUcjFF6hCwWpXaGjn4T8R-SXA-eoqRhz3qQls2vSQdhHjcALL17jp22vC6S9eq4Alj3pNKFb9axNFu_5Ac4qA7UGXc20Z3SZdCNA5FwW4cbBHdkTUd82vcVpZtedpubuu8BYGO2CRyFnITlhJ3HDsTD--BHD1ctVVoY/s480/articialIntelligence.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsD859tuJPjN6tI3ZNaSCx-KUcjFF6hCwWpXaGjn4T8R-SXA-eoqRhz3qQls2vSQdhHjcALL17jp22vC6S9eq4Alj3pNKFb9axNFu_5Ac4qA7UGXc20Z3SZdCNA5FwW4cbBHdkTUd82vcVpZtedpubuu8BYGO2CRyFnITlhJ3HDsTD--BHD1ctVVoY/s320/articialIntelligence.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>In July 1992 I was back in London for the Summer and this coincided with the release of WARP's "Artificial Intelligence" compilation. WARP's was a nifty bit of conceptual work which tied together lots of the thoughtful post-Detroit Techno music. By this stage I was already on board but really liked the record. Especially the inscrutable track by The Black Dog as one of their alter-egos, I.A.O.'s "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2w2wQ21Ok">The Clan</a>" - something I still return to, its bashful, bruised, busy breakbeats ran counter to the Ambient orthodoxy; withholding its spine-tinglingly delightful four note refrain till the four minute mark. I went to the record's launch night at the Ministry of Sound where The Black Dog played behind a drape. I still have the promotional poster somewhere. I understand it has been reissued recently.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_qNlWy4G_7GhP6NJ4aegMtU_8cnCAS4H05Buuy7_mN6EAOlMENbdH3R5Rtr9-BhLJwNvcubWXiVxGrsFUNIAvFj2gHy3yjNUWJeFLKN2r3hOQ-75d4uyB7vA8eUTtz7h2FdGSg3nhZHDTPk9RQltcAtzNuFkHo8WHH_RmGMJNxAdnv2AafmA2LuJ/s305/virtual.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="305" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_qNlWy4G_7GhP6NJ4aegMtU_8cnCAS4H05Buuy7_mN6EAOlMENbdH3R5Rtr9-BhLJwNvcubWXiVxGrsFUNIAvFj2gHy3yjNUWJeFLKN2r3hOQ-75d4uyB7vA8eUTtz7h2FdGSg3nhZHDTPk9RQltcAtzNuFkHo8WHH_RmGMJNxAdnv2AafmA2LuJ/s1600/virtual.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><br /><p>Visiting one of Mike's friends Lloyd in 1993 towards the end of my degree - Lloyd had a copy of Virtual and dubbed it onto a side of a C90 cassette for me. The other tracks were all in that vein of spacey Techno before it had been codified into Intelligent Techno things like Lil' Louis's prototypical "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E602Fgr6Bfc">How I Feel</a>", As One's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udljt4QzzsE">Your Hand in my Mind</a>" and Nexus 21's remix of Paris Grey's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrYQZUjLs3w">Don't Lead Me</a>". I listened to the tracks on The Virtual EP pretty much on repeat for a whole year on headphones. I think The Black Dog had really tapped into something much more profound, truly an ur-current which I'm still excavating in my journeys in spirituality. It totally fascinated but also puzzled the hell out of me in the way that the great music is always a riddle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSREj-pbDNWk6Y3PaZ76T0VvEeI4YXKIL-XQNNFMVkNTW7kN2YqoGy8KOceKXzSaIQLhz6HFQF4GcD4u4kMGcDHIBmt5tfTbCPesv3xRvY4z_kyksakv8jPijwL6bmh8YvzMFBLrvJRP-zNOwo85toVVmmbRPJFK-Zy9dE6mxnCMY6vTaJ_4jJ9zu9/s263/vir2l.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="261" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSREj-pbDNWk6Y3PaZ76T0VvEeI4YXKIL-XQNNFMVkNTW7kN2YqoGy8KOceKXzSaIQLhz6HFQF4GcD4u4kMGcDHIBmt5tfTbCPesv3xRvY4z_kyksakv8jPijwL6bmh8YvzMFBLrvJRP-zNOwo85toVVmmbRPJFK-Zy9dE6mxnCMY6vTaJ_4jJ9zu9/w318-h320/vir2l.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhlZJLoBAdrt60UxhYuKUqapXNUslVbNrS_uDhm4i0Vl6lV286r3u-TLOyM_Wq3YusrJ2wgASwtO0mCNISxZjy-IP2Me6yZ0eNIc0ush3X3IykkGP4xMYgWT-LSVhyN9H8qMpmiY-VxTF9PwCcjpeIRUhfRaBSN30--fg-FyGNyoqopwLZYHV-Lcv/s599/vanttool.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="599" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhlZJLoBAdrt60UxhYuKUqapXNUslVbNrS_uDhm4i0Vl6lV286r3u-TLOyM_Wq3YusrJ2wgASwtO0mCNISxZjy-IP2Me6yZ0eNIc0ush3X3IykkGP4xMYgWT-LSVhyN9H8qMpmiY-VxTF9PwCcjpeIRUhfRaBSN30--fg-FyGNyoqopwLZYHV-Lcv/s320/vanttool.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC68ecrFdfOIE0giVThg3Qb7bLqT9CptUXlXY9LBauFZoU9Kb7KSsX7h2mE0HRjesU8KI-QDuQzwZP0ljMonx7zqFCAe1J8CQFI2ibkPFuOFX-umdFDJJTqfwWM8BC8yht6-N-uJq_XAbaDZ5-027-gEndG1qpP8OuuqMVK-qW0Z7Xc-m-zosyu1Lu/s600/otaku.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC68ecrFdfOIE0giVThg3Qb7bLqT9CptUXlXY9LBauFZoU9Kb7KSsX7h2mE0HRjesU8KI-QDuQzwZP0ljMonx7zqFCAe1J8CQFI2ibkPFuOFX-umdFDJJTqfwWM8BC8yht6-N-uJq_XAbaDZ5-027-gEndG1qpP8OuuqMVK-qW0Z7Xc-m-zosyu1Lu/s320/otaku.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Moving back to London in 1994 I started smoking a lot more marijuana. Mainly hashish in those days before hydroponic weed took off. I got a job as runner for Ridley Scott's production company and spent a lot of time wandering through Soho listening to music on a SONY Walkman as I made deliveries and collections. I would occasionally find rare early Black Dog records in Soho's record shops. Vir2l (top), the radically remixed versions of Virtual I found at Reckless Records on Berwick Street. Vanttool (middle) somewhere else. The Black Dog Productions "Flux/Otaku" record (bottom) was new from Fat Cat Records in Covent Garden.</p><p>Fat Cat was the home of this music in London and grew from a tiny room in the basement when I first would visit to a much bigger shop upstairs where you would bump into people like Bjork and where the walls were covered with the latest releases on Planet E and Plus 8. Atypic's "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYusX7V1SaI">Otaku</a>" is something I remember particularly from this era. Playing it at maximum volume in the summer at the weekend, high, with the windows wide open, I had a view across the skyline of Battersea.</p>Working as I was at Ridley Scott's I would daily be summoned to his secretary Julie's office to perform tasks like picking up cigars from Old Compton Street. Once buying a copy of the soundtrack for "Zorba the Greek" for the great man at the now vanished soundtrack record shop on Dean Street. His Bladerunner movie had particular currency at that time. Justin, my fellow runner, had been given the job of tidying the cage in the basement where everything was stored and together we looked at Ridley's beautiful hand-drawn storyboards for that movie.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIpw_sF5BlsDjpYZPAc9sOTiG727--rSx3ix9r3tGwasfJ0LUdWLRJazY1geGys0amIqhDNTHUUJHj9fEjTIRf0V8Qilb1NUtKEDtIB5bcyVSMTK7RgF9-935bOZNvLQ06FBRDqvkPRadyh6zdDvx3ko-6zpt_bQeJp7j34Dqhh23I2fQmOut9eY8/s702/bd1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIpw_sF5BlsDjpYZPAc9sOTiG727--rSx3ix9r3tGwasfJ0LUdWLRJazY1geGys0amIqhDNTHUUJHj9fEjTIRf0V8Qilb1NUtKEDtIB5bcyVSMTK7RgF9-935bOZNvLQ06FBRDqvkPRadyh6zdDvx3ko-6zpt_bQeJp7j34Dqhh23I2fQmOut9eY8/w399-h400/bd1.jpg" width="399" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvm5_M4ez_QBBGz1T3zVEmxkBom4Xt9TcOxFkUqdo2qKHWfn1085tPfJL8XkUbh-_gvEEJwh7S24k3YcIy6oC1Rs_q2BF6-HrgUADJKxrmE2VQKy4xrNfIqeTSUAXlDVduxpbIdlnZ8w9DAo6XLfk61bXkhUyIhRB-ieLTjyQO19DsFhQlWbI9I5r/s1008/bd2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvm5_M4ez_QBBGz1T3zVEmxkBom4Xt9TcOxFkUqdo2qKHWfn1085tPfJL8XkUbh-_gvEEJwh7S24k3YcIy6oC1Rs_q2BF6-HrgUADJKxrmE2VQKy4xrNfIqeTSUAXlDVduxpbIdlnZ8w9DAo6XLfk61bXkhUyIhRB-ieLTjyQO19DsFhQlWbI9I5r/w445-h640/bd2.jpg" width="445" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6qdOJSsdPBZ9n-vgfKVaVmPJzTnBT1EGcnozOWKksjtWFuUnmEcjjaMkaiNv2FZLb7B-NgZgbtjDbFcW2c7zwnBiuSMlnXQ2ZQM_7wRG5QFSF6xhUkXxQKQgMNXpcM2P_zHQ8KoGLYd2AeZcZYshaVXie9M8cG0h54pwA8l80V_VOFy6XZJFR6R4/s983/bd3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="983" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6qdOJSsdPBZ9n-vgfKVaVmPJzTnBT1EGcnozOWKksjtWFuUnmEcjjaMkaiNv2FZLb7B-NgZgbtjDbFcW2c7zwnBiuSMlnXQ2ZQM_7wRG5QFSF6xhUkXxQKQgMNXpcM2P_zHQ8KoGLYd2AeZcZYshaVXie9M8cG0h54pwA8l80V_VOFy6XZJFR6R4/w456-h640/bd3.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSFvN3hPBIHR04w78116H9omm2E2L_zwWG-wiedcsKdtWkwIVBMm7MixS04Tv-ldkRBG1a-Dw0DNMqMumG3t-Y6uFKVCb_KUblszO8jgd-fVeh1xSYixDTTsCaRNSTNtDcBDM3CqREfnzduye3h7bu8M2BSQzOhSgBGGoOF662Hwm23pHJ__9JUBbO/s981/bd4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSFvN3hPBIHR04w78116H9omm2E2L_zwWG-wiedcsKdtWkwIVBMm7MixS04Tv-ldkRBG1a-Dw0DNMqMumG3t-Y6uFKVCb_KUblszO8jgd-fVeh1xSYixDTTsCaRNSTNtDcBDM3CqREfnzduye3h7bu8M2BSQzOhSgBGGoOF662Hwm23pHJ__9JUBbO/w456-h640/bd4.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">[Click on these images to enlarge them]</div><br /><div>Going about my daily chores I was also simultaneously drawing comics, printing them on the RSA Films photocopier and leaving them in record shops in Soho - chiefly Ambient Soho. This was at the foot of Berwick Street and was run by a guy called Rocket. One of my most carefully crafted comics was Black Dog Story (above) which told the story of my engagement with their early singles.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwD273DoiHtLm5WHOcWEdUjdOclI0ZnEOvWABQfsNHy17yUgUx9DWjW1EyGcMToxCDPIiDZkmD6r4ME3AJjN_rujI3bVgBS6xzNlnqg4Q0Ihb7SGsBq9nICes9XnSKpp81A6uwVQwQR_ovia0pBTk2vUO-2x2pMYnoAXmxbvBs_SMtbRV0_O4aOer8/s600/bytes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwD273DoiHtLm5WHOcWEdUjdOclI0ZnEOvWABQfsNHy17yUgUx9DWjW1EyGcMToxCDPIiDZkmD6r4ME3AJjN_rujI3bVgBS6xzNlnqg4Q0Ihb7SGsBq9nICes9XnSKpp81A6uwVQwQR_ovia0pBTk2vUO-2x2pMYnoAXmxbvBs_SMtbRV0_O4aOer8/s320/bytes.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxD9QPDTJcBQVchxm88RwviYeuRBlHnAjzRKnr99EXT90sIyuhstrLk0mCBjOp2h122npDK6pc8otPW36sMOaoyziFh_tK0dG8baMO-NRr1nQpJd2rRmQHgbNuNQHDehOH1-uGCOfqaUxFzMfLq0M7cM-C3M-PDKiTxIxAQ3HXcED_c8epqFSLejiV/s500/spanners.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxD9QPDTJcBQVchxm88RwviYeuRBlHnAjzRKnr99EXT90sIyuhstrLk0mCBjOp2h122npDK6pc8otPW36sMOaoyziFh_tK0dG8baMO-NRr1nQpJd2rRmQHgbNuNQHDehOH1-uGCOfqaUxFzMfLq0M7cM-C3M-PDKiTxIxAQ3HXcED_c8epqFSLejiV/s320/spanners.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>Imagine my surprise when one day there were two Black Dog CDs on Julie's desk. As I later discovered Ken's new manager Keir, who was a slick networking type, had sent "Bytes" and their latest "Spanners" through to the RSA office. "Bytes" I knew and loved for tracks like "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Ai2OjJNXQ">Merck</a>". Julie, who didn't know what to do with them, gave the discs to me and I reached out to Keir sending him the Black Dog Comic I had made.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>At the same time the combination of very draining work with the production company (very long hours - lots of shoots on location - often travelling abroad) and quite a heavy consumption of hashish were taking their toll on me. I asked for a holiday in March 1996 and travelled to Hurghada in Egypt on my own thinking I would learn to scuba dive. It was like a building site. Among my strongest memories was of "Spanners" which I listened to on repeat - sometimes at night wandering around in the desert outside the town. "Spanners" really sunk in very deeply. Especially "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm3r9D3tqpY">Psil-cosyin</a>" which had a strong middle-eastern flavour which somehow felt more authentic than just exotica and was a fitting soundtrack to the Valley of the Kings when I travelled further south. When I got back to London, pretty much in free-fall, I resigned from my job.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEuurLDpJ5ckIvLJ9RL9kFUj-hG_bgmIPCPH4w92PojdwwMrUDmd4yOFQ8SDzuo7cLz6Rady-eDRP_WlhdyU2EK408FWqDd9QVs5wCdMwfePmawPay5oW0Cxv9xtQ_zSa97j8uq9y0-LnGuaYo9qr_mw0c-AwngzBieZAzALVgMLUQhRVwlKhRlrfd/s3508/presspack_Page_07.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3508" data-original-width="2480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEuurLDpJ5ckIvLJ9RL9kFUj-hG_bgmIPCPH4w92PojdwwMrUDmd4yOFQ8SDzuo7cLz6Rady-eDRP_WlhdyU2EK408FWqDd9QVs5wCdMwfePmawPay5oW0Cxv9xtQ_zSa97j8uq9y0-LnGuaYo9qr_mw0c-AwngzBieZAzALVgMLUQhRVwlKhRlrfd/w453-h640/presspack_Page_07.jpg" width="453" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMnNoqiEI06ned0YmTQNPXI63pGeNaPjNSYlaBe6bF9BhBp5f524X7q5tFIDnai0uPpiYPGChtrCx2ij7GBc097tqgVfH8KhBn5I8vz0AQFGgrhmyfYBs7XUmk0Vs5PIHPdrMRcJoq5k-ceB3g0hn0fqSXi5OgHwQ1y6l0rs5BR9ba-2tq4grAX33/s600/playtime.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="600" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMnNoqiEI06ned0YmTQNPXI63pGeNaPjNSYlaBe6bF9BhBp5f524X7q5tFIDnai0uPpiYPGChtrCx2ij7GBc097tqgVfH8KhBn5I8vz0AQFGgrhmyfYBs7XUmk0Vs5PIHPdrMRcJoq5k-ceB3g0hn0fqSXi5OgHwQ1y6l0rs5BR9ba-2tq4grAX33/s320/playtime.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Released from daily employment (to my parent's distress) and at this stage planning to make a go of it drawing comics I was, for the time being, without a regular job. I got back to Ken Downie (who had written me a very sweet letter - see above - amazed I still have this...) and visited him at his house. This was a short distance east from where I had just moved to on Old Street - at Yorkton Street off the Hackney Road. As you can imagine this was a very exciting experience for me! I must have been the number one Black Dog fan in the world at this point in time. They had sent me a sent a promo copy of his last WARP LP, which hadn't yet been released, "Music for Adverts (And Short Films)", and had I listened to it a great deal. I loved it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ken didn't disappoint. Then aged 25, I'd already been around some interesting people by this stage of my life, not least by being exposed to extreme characters (masters and boys) at Eton College, but Ken was coming from somewhere else entirely. He alluded to his time working as a radar operator in the Navy (all very top secret), talked about the Crowleyan magic he was into, and the nascent internet of message boards they were a significant presence in. We smoked a lot of hashish together and listened to a lot of music. On that first visit, as I was leaving, Ken disappeared into another room and re-emerged with a copies of the "Virtual EP" and the "Techno Playtime EP" for me. I remember Ken's wife Sheena asking if he was sure he wanted to give them to me. I cherish these copies to this day.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjv_S3SP4j8Jn9CPUZ46odzXvzxnzl4SYc7K-62y1VO7hXpY6aNY_te3MDwKiXgC7zAxcR_pPSxIOwh7ZjVLst9V-yplaYGtO095YBTcKagi13euTfcYrKiOmp7sm2Lfyl06qzeUlHB5LNgWP5R8YbNIj5L9ZTJl9hUyEGghjJf2-YM-V5JpNfkWS5/s600/musicForAdverts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="600" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjv_S3SP4j8Jn9CPUZ46odzXvzxnzl4SYc7K-62y1VO7hXpY6aNY_te3MDwKiXgC7zAxcR_pPSxIOwh7ZjVLst9V-yplaYGtO095YBTcKagi13euTfcYrKiOmp7sm2Lfyl06qzeUlHB5LNgWP5R8YbNIj5L9ZTJl9hUyEGghjJf2-YM-V5JpNfkWS5/s320/musicForAdverts.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>In turn Ken visited me at my place off Old Street where I had my friend Rafs' massive sound-system speakers set up in the basement. We listened to the b-side of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House", Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27-10:06:41 PM NYC, and wandered around the room experiencing the pitch changing as we did. And Charlemagne Palestine's "Strumming Music" which had just been reissued.<div><br /></div><div>And then for a few months we saw one another pretty regularly. Smoking. Listening to music. We went to a strange expo which his friend Jimmy Cauty of the KLF had invited Ken to. Jimmy had a tank with this sonic weapon. That was a far-out scene. I remember one evening we went together to see A Guy Called Gerald DJ-ing at a unusual space in Smithfield market. Ken set up a recording session in my basement with a bass-player called James and I ran projections of Super-8 film I had shot in Egypt. Having dinner at a Chinese restaurant I remember Ken started talking about the three of us as being the second incarnation of the group - we were all "air signs" apparently. I suppose he was imagining me as the AV component, they had after all just released a kind of conceptual soundtrack. I also remember supplying a bunch of records for Ken to sample for a Lalo Schiffrin remix that his manager Keir had arranged - I think Ken had written the project off as a bad idea (he was probably right) before I produced some others of the soundtrack composer's stuff. Ken particularly dug a funk cassette I made him.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, at this point everything really started catching up with me. I had left RSA Films pretty much under a black cloud and had burnt my bridges back to that business quite effectively. I was not really looking after myself as young people are wont, and was smoking a lot of pot. Possibly one of the last times I saw Ken I remember him explaining to me how flying saucers travelled through inner space, and, if I remember rightly, talking about his past-life experiences. These are ideas I'm thoroughly au fait with now after years of reading Jung and studying Eastern Philosophy. But then I remember being thoroughly confused. Maybe even shocked! I was way out of my depth.</div><div><br /></div><div>I think this experience of dislocation I felt is akin to what a lot of people who have had reasonably conventional Western upbringings undergo when, through the internet, they come across non-western ideas often wrapped up in cults and conspiracy theories. They have no barriers when it comes to processing and assimilating these concepts - no context within which to understand them. They are overpowered. Nowadays, as you can guess, I would have taken it in my stride. But at this point, across a wide front I was losing touch with reality, and I needed to step back from the whole thing. In fact, October 18th 1996 was the last time I ever touched marijuana. Ken and I have remained in touch over the years - he's a beautiful dude, a bonafide original.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's funny to look back on those days which are nearly thirty years ago. In a significant respect I'm pleased that my preoccupations are, if matured, very similar. My pal Luke Davis has a riff about the importance of being able to confront your teenage self with confidence, having kept faith with those youthful ideals. What will always remain with me is an intense affection for the music Ken, Ed, and Andy made between 1989 and 1996. It's really very unique, profoundly affecting, and eternal.</div>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-71446164023779797292022-12-24T12:12:00.027+00:002022-12-26T13:55:57.538+00:00Forms NFTs<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3voDa_aUTJU5ezFxgmisVwqv9zIR_AZ58C81A-Q1I92_58rqDyTV44lOkCkSBXpu_aovE5MzB1LRpH48IgYpkpQb0lp9oWrTfuwI9KVLREUTq8opv-HXzwUQTzRwGx3aC02ZrF3dVgbxBZ7YV71N9NTCDgIILZoaqqkvc2egFWHQmLGIrs-EFATma/s350/icon.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3voDa_aUTJU5ezFxgmisVwqv9zIR_AZ58C81A-Q1I92_58rqDyTV44lOkCkSBXpu_aovE5MzB1LRpH48IgYpkpQb0lp9oWrTfuwI9KVLREUTq8opv-HXzwUQTzRwGx3aC02ZrF3dVgbxBZ7YV71N9NTCDgIILZoaqqkvc2egFWHQmLGIrs-EFATma/s320/icon.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Had this in the back of my mind as a fun idea for ages. <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/forms-ntfs">Forms NFTs.</a><br /></div>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-85994920020707525262022-12-02T22:40:00.028+00:002023-04-25T08:25:31.894+01:00The "S" Word<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6iv1OhJHCXo6--aiLp1FK4Dk-8wEstBtqBqRondVHlarRwVnyhIbmGu57ptccmJxkHmWzlnrmwVu9GLMWxx0inoiiaGcKiAqE-9Kd71VmXEEwQSCoXhi6nSujbiWRqb8_P6Nt_IEsDiLsYPUvqcemTojbO9kDQ53j6nMf3od2CmXLxw5t2DfWubX/s1080/000.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6iv1OhJHCXo6--aiLp1FK4Dk-8wEstBtqBqRondVHlarRwVnyhIbmGu57ptccmJxkHmWzlnrmwVu9GLMWxx0inoiiaGcKiAqE-9Kd71VmXEEwQSCoXhi6nSujbiWRqb8_P6Nt_IEsDiLsYPUvqcemTojbO9kDQ53j6nMf3od2CmXLxw5t2DfWubX/w427-h640/000.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">[Click image above for gallery view]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This <strike>very geeky</strike> book about the covert strand of spirituality in alternative music is now ready for ordering.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Under half of it is comprised of articles once posted here but no longer available online: <b>Eastern Philosophy and The Cosmic Sound</b>, <b>Psychic Pop Relics</b> (which has been extensively rewritten), <b>Dub</b>, <b>His Tender Heart</b> (on Neil Young), and <b>Hip Priest</b> (on Mark E. Smith). I've added my article on <b>Chris Blackwell</b> too because it works well here.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>Over half</u> of the book is made up of totally new material. There's a literally <i>massive</i> 18,000 word piece on what is called <b>New Age</b>, but really covers a whole range of New Age, Ambient, Minimalist, Avant-garde, Drone and Eastern musics. This is built around a survey of 50 albums. Unmissable! A book in in itself really. Then there's a piece on <b>Prince </b>in the same vein as my viral-hit on The Fall. There's a chapter on <b>Roedelius</b> (of Cluster and Harmonia fame) which includes an interview with the great man himself. Finally, there's a thing on my <b>Tibetan</b> LPs. By the time you've finished it you will be a new person or your money back (<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Terms and conditions apply</span>).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've got five amazing endorsements from <i>the big people</i>:</div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">“Intensely researched, latticed with surprising connections and correspondences, these essays expand and deepen our awareness of the links between music and the numinous. The S-Word is an illuminating book about illumination.”</div><b style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Simon Reynolds,</b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>author of Energy Flash and Rip It Up and Start Again</i></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">“You'd nearly mistake it for an uncomfortable topic instead of an invisible one, but Matthew's book confronts it head on: even in the hands of secular musicians who strip their practice down to pure aesthetics, what we're responding to in so much of all of this new music is devotional. Or it could be, if you're interested in listening.”</div><b><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Jon Leidecker,</b></div></b><i><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Wobbly</i></div></i><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">“Discussing the spiritual connections and interpretations of music can be something daunting for both readers and writers — where does one stop and one end? The collection of pieces that make up ‘The ‘S’ Word’ show that Matthew Ingram can balance his own particular perspective and experiences with wider considerations of what the spiritual can mean, casting new, unexpected light on deeper areas and suggesting paths of further exploration for the curious.” </div><b style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Ned Raggett,</b></div></b><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: right;">AllMusic</i> </div></blockquote><blockquote>"...an amazing book..."<div><b>Erik Davis,</b></div><div><i>author of Techgnosis and High Weirdness</i><br /><br />"What an amazing overview. You covered it all! I will definitely reccomend to everyone."</div><div><b>Ramón Sender,</b></div><div><i>co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center</i></div></blockquote><div><i></i><p></p><p> It is <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BNWGQTN5">available as an eBook globally here</a> <strike>and is for sale as a paperback book </strike><i style="text-decoration-line: line-through;"><b>in the UK only too</b></i><strike>. The price reflects the fact that it is 260 pages long and has cover-to-cover colour photography so is reasonably costly to print.</strike></p><p></p><p><strike>It's one copy only each. Send one of the following to my Paypal account: alias@hollowearth.org</strike></p><p><strike><b>Standard Delivery</b>: (£25 + £3.35) = <b>£28.35</b><br /><b>Recorded Delivery</b>: (£25 + £4.45) = <b>£29.45</b></strike></p><p><b><i><strike>Copies will be signed. And include your address!</strike></i></b></p><p><strike>SMALL NUMBER OF COPIES NOW AVAILABLE (10.1.23)</strike> <b><u>SOLD OUT</u></b></p><p><b><u>TLDR:</u><br /></b><i><b><br /></b></i><i><b><strike>- music geeks only</strike><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BNWGQTN5">- ebook available globally.</a> [NB You don't need a Kindle <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=kindle+app&rlz=1C1PNBB_enGB972GB972&sxsrf=ALiCzsbRYRFNHfnnt8KncZaIIDleAm1TvA%3A1670434394554&ei=Ws6QY8y_IbWRhbIPxMaH4AE&ved=0ahUKEwjM1NSFhej7AhW1SEEAHUTjARwQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=kindle+app&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIICAAQgAQQsQMyCAgAEIAEELEDMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgoIABCABBCHAhAUMgUIABCABDoHCCMQsAMQJzoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoNCAAQ5AIQ1gQQsAMYAToVCC4QxwEQ0QMQ1AIQyAMQsAMQQxgCOhIILhDHARDRAxDIAxCwAxBDGAI6BAgjECc6BwgAELEDEEM6CggAELEDEIMBEEM6BAgAEEM6DQgAEIAEEIcCELEDEBQ6CwgAEIAEELEDEIMBSgQIQRgASgQIRhgBUPwHWIIOYNsPaAFwAXgAgAFEiAH5AZIBATSYAQCgAQHIARPAAQHaAQYIARABGAnaAQYIAhABGAg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp">only the free app</a>]<br /></b></i><strike><i><b>- Paperback only available in the UK.<br /></b></i><i><b>- One copy per person.<br /></b></i><i><b>- Costly to produce.<br /></b></i></strike><i><b><strike>- Delivery will not be instantaneous be quite quick.</strike><br /><br /></b></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Grof has a fascinating conviction in the reality of the psychic experience; to the degree that one starts to ponder whether certain things might be possible. In my working notes TPM stood for "Transpersonal Marketing", "Transpersonal" being the Grof-ian buzzword, but it morphed into the name of the agency itself with only echoes of this original meaning remaining. I suppose this is akin to how the acronym KLF always meant <a href="http://klf.de/home/ufaqs/what-does-klf-stand-for/">a number of different things</a>: Kopyright Liberation Front, Kings of Low Frequency, Kevin Likes Fruit, etcetera.</p><p>The comic was also inspired by the research that I did after finishing "<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Retreat-How-Counterculture-invented-Wellness/dp/1912248786/">Retreat</a>" around the areas where New Age thinking collided with business - that fascinating nexus of self-help, therapy and marketing. If you're interested in a full reading list look at Myers' bookshelves in the comic - it's all there. EST, Werner Erhard's cult, was obviously of interest here; but also the British therapy cult <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exegesis_(group)">Exegesis</a> run by Robert D'Aubigny which, remarkably enough, I came within a whisker of getting involved with in the late eighties, aged 18.</p><p>My nanny had been involved with the group, then trading as Programmes Ltd, and had told me that she thought she could get me work with the record producer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Visconti">Tony Visconti</a> who allegedly had connections with them. I remember visiting Visconti's studio at the time and marvelling at a tiny transistor radio perched on the mixing desk through which they would test the music. I spent a week waiting around at said nanny's house for the call to come (<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/caplin-recruited-for-therapy-cult-investigated-by-police-135739.html">classic cult strategy apparently</a>), visiting Exegesis' HQ in the mornings where they would do a "Positive Telephony" dance before starting the day's telemarketing.</p><p>And obviously there's a healthy dose of insights from my twenty years working at the coalface of advertising. <i>Any similarity to persons living or deceased is purely coincidental...</i></p><p>Writing and drawing a comic book as large as this is no mean undertaking. To start off one has to block out the entire script in boxes. Then there's the character design; I needed all the characters to look very different so as to make the complex story as clear as possible. I started by only being able to execute one page of eight frames a day. I thought this was slow, but I found out recently that comics legend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTPXeCUinfh6RDdmcn1co9g">Alex Ross</a> works at a speed of ten pages a month. Eventually I got this up to two pages a day. It was difficult putting aside clear days to dedicate to the process and in total the whole production took two years.</p><p>The comic's biggest formal innovation is the absence of speech bubbles - this is something of a feat as, you will notice, apart from a few place and time cues, the book is 100% dialogue. That's what comics are innit.</p><p>There is a digital copy available for immediate download at <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BH1PKDZZ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i4">Amazon</a>. This was built in Kindle Comic Creator and works very well. You can see a preview there too.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrhTdb8YNq4aDQS-TUJFL8sUwWhu14e-nxe3A045ItWahH2FoFHr8_1eLna-eKton1HQ8iwHEBaeXCgfeKBl9F5RehIClndEkwsPaA5IYPiEmOlJQZ3I4roAliXBBUH9dmuZmYUpBvkdBZhwyxfaI2oluijx2M7s7i4RKq8idLfAetzUSNDC5yYB2E/s1000/tpm_002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="1000" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrhTdb8YNq4aDQS-TUJFL8sUwWhu14e-nxe3A045ItWahH2FoFHr8_1eLna-eKton1HQ8iwHEBaeXCgfeKBl9F5RehIClndEkwsPaA5IYPiEmOlJQZ3I4roAliXBBUH9dmuZmYUpBvkdBZhwyxfaI2oluijx2M7s7i4RKq8idLfAetzUSNDC5yYB2E/w640-h578/tpm_002.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3Eg0zar_QzWaWkvHrxcSQXeW13rY0qIXy_ppKavzQCrN7i2AZSCm_FlH63yu3aCByxLOWMHSpi0lPpgYDesARac-Hgp31p-YzFW5-DQdHog3r0V5Kto5QAS5wrQzh66uBRYcIvkROezvVdyEzH6-kCUHUat4rhdc_zH-JLm1m9ygk9P1yhLKL2Cw/s1000/tpm_001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3Eg0zar_QzWaWkvHrxcSQXeW13rY0qIXy_ppKavzQCrN7i2AZSCm_FlH63yu3aCByxLOWMHSpi0lPpgYDesARac-Hgp31p-YzFW5-DQdHog3r0V5Kto5QAS5wrQzh66uBRYcIvkROezvVdyEzH6-kCUHUat4rhdc_zH-JLm1m9ygk9P1yhLKL2Cw/w640-h480/tpm_001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><strike>There is <i>also</i> a small first edition print run. Signed naturally! I've had very favourable feedback from everyone who has seen the comic, it's funny and full of surprises, so I hope that you will buy one.</strike></p><p><strike>Send money to Paypal address <b>alias@hollowearth.org. </b>Prices for <i>one copy</i> as follows:</strike></p><p><b><strike>UK</strike></b></p><p><strike>Standard: £13.61<br />Tracked: £18.79<br /></strike></p><p><strike><b>EU</b><br /></strike></p><p><strike>Standard: £16.30<br />Tracked: £21.17</strike></p><p><b><strike>USA</strike></b></p><p><strike>Standard: £19.46<br />Tracked: £23.91</strike></p><p><i style="font-weight: bold;"><strike>Very limited copies remaining.</strike> </i>SOLD OUT OCTOBER 2022.</p>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-79498197243041301892021-11-14T20:45:00.003+00:002022-01-26T08:23:12.052+00:00Unsound Talk<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CEopBeXDPnM?start=11039" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-58634049998849593862021-09-27T09:01:00.020+01:002022-01-26T08:23:04.938+00:00Red Medicine Podcast Interview
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSP1fXNcf7tIv6XQrkIIqYrAqZbAudv03xqtOgy7NTvUypjsD6BsEIC35Nc-VLj56WIGvdETRfOjVi3SOAti00LopWQV6btIRyBP-JY0TAR2au6Td5oRnzj7ItFt2Fj9MtlE1t6Namopk/s723/rmBig.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="723" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSP1fXNcf7tIv6XQrkIIqYrAqZbAudv03xqtOgy7NTvUypjsD6BsEIC35Nc-VLj56WIGvdETRfOjVi3SOAti00LopWQV6btIRyBP-JY0TAR2au6Td5oRnzj7ItFt2Fj9MtlE1t6Namopk/s16000/rmBig.png" /></a></div><p><a href="https://www.redmedicine.xyz/interviews/blog-post-title-two-3rtda-ydx95">Interview at the Red Medicine Podcast with Sam Kelly.</a></p><p></p><p></p>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-64630973300283188032021-08-27T09:00:00.001+01:002022-01-26T08:23:20.818+00:00Jules Evans Interview<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rbI0anOJvs8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-31766789945545787862021-04-13T12:02:00.004+01:002021-04-13T12:03:46.408+01:00Forms<iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/535629921" width="560"></iframe>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-9448234013507843812021-01-24T17:24:00.005+00:002021-04-14T12:37:58.440+01:00Retreat Videos Playlist<iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/UBBIy8aC6k8?list=PLjjySfsTtIl2f6dZvBG9zydjXHP96Y1Sc" frameborder="0"></iframe>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-55007035785707488872021-01-15T19:14:00.002+00:002021-01-26T19:15:48.275+00:00Sensory Deprivation and the Counterculture<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/438504661" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/438504661">Sensory Deprivation and the Counterculture</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/hollowearth">Hollow Earth</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-8209164491743680262021-01-14T19:13:00.003+00:002021-01-26T19:16:16.901+00:00Psilocybin & LSD: Lessons of the Sixties<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/429834397" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/429834397">Psilocybin & LSD: Lessons of the Sixties</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/hollowearth">Hollow Earth</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-16122856027318288612021-01-13T15:16:00.002+00:002021-02-22T11:54:46.079+00:00Retreat New Thinking Allowed Interviews<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MxU09G0a_Yc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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I've only gone and done it again! Here is the sequel to 2013's "<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AY0D4GI">The Big Book of Woe</a>," my latest collection of writing on music, "<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081GG7MVL">The Bumper Book of Woe</a>."</div>
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This collection has less bells and whistles than the last. It was impossible to organise into anything but a reverse chronology and a preface seemed excessive. However, to my mind, the writing is better and feverish in its own new way. I've tidied up the text and weeded out any crap so what you're left with is 77,594 words for the low price of $2.99. Now THAT'S what I call value.</div>
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Keep your eyes peeled for my [now-completed] Non-fiction epic "Retreat: How the Counterculture invented Wellness" coming out on <a href="https://repeaterbooks.com/">Repeater</a> next year.</div>
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<br />Hollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-49722089283737659782017-12-16T08:00:00.000+00:002018-11-22T08:15:06.393+00:00Reggae Playlists<b><a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/woebot/s90/">S90</a></b><br />
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Blue Boot : Eric Donaldson<br />
Ghost Dance : Prince Buster<br />
Jack Of My Trade : Sir Lord Comic<br />
Preacher Man : The Stingers<br />
Chi Chi Bud : Max Romeo<br />
Them A Fi Get A Beaten:Reuben : Peter Tosh<br />
Dark Shadows Version : Charles Hanna & The Graduates<br />
Do Your Thing Part Two : The Tornadoes<br />
Milk & Honey : Dennis Alcapone<br />
This is a Welding : Keith & Romay<br />
Finders Keepers : The Crystalites<br />
Dr. Who : I Roy<br />
I've Got a Burning Fire : The Wailing Souls<br />
DJ Special : King Sporty<br />
The Gardener : Julie Anne (Judy Mowatt)<br />
Ontarious Version : Charley Ace<br />
Lorna Banana : Junior Byles<br />
Cow Thief Skank : The Upsetters<br />
Black IPA : The Upsetters<br />
Whole Lot A Fire (12" Mix) : Big Youth<br />
Brimstone & Fire : Clifton Gibbs & The Selected Few<br />
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Aily Sound : Lloydie<br />
Guns In the Ghetto : Broadway<br />
Ethiopian War : Roland Alphonso<br />
Bike No License : Easton Clarke<br />
Festive Season : I Roy<br />
Gone Is Love : Inge Larsen<br />
High Locks : Pablove Black<br />
If Loving You is Wrong Version : Busty Brown & The Chosen Few<br />
You're No Good : Ken Boothe<br />
Love of Jah : Vivian Jackson and The Prophets<br />
Tell It Like It Is Version : Glen Brown:King Tubby<br />
Liberty : Junior Ross & The Spears<br />
Freedom : Tappa Zukie<br />
Weeping : Junior Byles<br />
Water Rate : I Roy<br />
Big Cockey Wally : Fay Bennett<br />
Big Pussy Sally:Big Sally Dub (Extended Version) : Lord Creator & The Upsetters<br />
Deck of Cards : Prince Far I<br />
Lagos : Heptones Version<br />
Chim Chim Cheree : The Upsetters<br />
Hard Man Fe Dead : I Roy<br />
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Eek a mouse : Virgin Girl<br />
Horace Andy : Spying Glass<br />
Tristan Palmer : Spliff tail<br />
Michigan and Smiley : Nice up the Dance<br />
Nicodemus : Dog is Better than a gun<br />
Michigan and Smiley : Diseases<br />
Tenor Saw : Golden Hen<br />
Sophia George : Girlie Girlie<br />
Reggie Stepper : Cu Oonuh<br />
Nitty Gritty : Hog in a Minty<br />
Super Cat : Si Boops deh<br />
Shelly Thunder : Kuff<br />
Shabba : Roots and Culture<br />
Nardo Ranks : Burrup<br />
Flourgon : Follow me go dancehall<br />
Cutty ranks : Hitman<br />
Ninjaman & Flourgon : Zig it up<br />
Cutty ranks : Pon Pause<br />
Shabba : Respect<br />
Tony Rebel : Chatty Chatty<br />
Shabba : Wicked Inna Bed<br />
Marcia Griffiths/Tony Rebel/Cutty Ranks/Buju Banton : Discovery<br />
Wayne Wonder : I'd Die without you<br />
Papa San : Hippity Hippity Hop<br />
Louie Ranking : No Move<br />
Louie Ranking : Typewriter<br />
Supercat : Don Dada<br />
Shabba : Ting a ling<br />
Dirtsman : Dance fever<br />
Shabba : Caan Dun : Steely & Cleevie<br />
Capleton : Armshouse<br />
Buju Banton : Batty rider<br />
Ninjaman : The World<br />
Buju Banton : Mind behind the wind<br />
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Buccaneer: Skettel Symphony<br />
Beenie Man: Badder than the rest<br />
10%: U Sue Dub<br />
Tanya Stephens: Big Ninja Bike<br />
Beenie Man: Old Dog<br />
Stink: Girls Anthem<br />
Stranger: Dugu Dugu<br />
Beenie Man: Who Am I<br />
Mykhal Roze: One A Wi<br />
Luciano: One Way Ticket<br />
Johnny Clarke: Leggo Violence<br />
Capleton: Mankind<br />
Louie Culture: Bogus Badge<br />
Sizzla: Black Woman And Child<br />
Sizzla: Mama Africa<br />
Vybz Kartel: Picture This<br />
Elephant Man: Fuck U Sign<br />
Sky Juice: Dance Moves<br />
Wayne Marshall: I Will Love The Girls<br />
Beenie Man: Girls Way<br />
Goofy: Fudgie<br />
Beenie Man: Year 4<br />
Red Dragon: Explode Gal<br />
Beenie Man: Row Like A Boat<br />
Sean Paul: Ever Blazin'<br />
Vibes Kartel (sic): Nobody No Dead<br />
Bounty Killer: Sufferer<br />
Vybz Kartel: Send On<br />
Buju Banton: Up Close And Personal<br />
General Degree: Last Night<br />
Elephant Man & Wayne Marshall: War<br />
Elephant Man: Wrong Application<br />
Baby Cham: Wha Dah Fah<br />
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Dub So True: Treasure Isle Dub<br />
More Dub Version 2: Dub Serial<br />
Open The Iron Gate part 2: Max Romeo Revelation Time LP<br />
A Who Sey Version 2: Drum Sound<br />
Beware: Yabby You<br />
Counter Attack: Maxfield Avenue Breakdown<br />
Full Dose of Dub: Harry Mudie Meets King Tubbys In Dub Conference<br />
Hell and Sorrow Dub: Jimmy Radway<br />
Jah Macka: Natty Locks<br />
Kunta Kinte: Drum Sound<br />
Ordinary Version 3 Forward The Bass: Randys<br />
Dub with a Difference: Harry Mudie Meets King Tubbys<br />
Pick Up The Dub: Tappa Zukie In Dub<br />
Rebel Dance: Strictly Dub Wize Dennis Bovell<br />
Heavy Duty Dub: Harry Mudie Meets King Tubbys In Dub Conference<br />
Rockers Meets King Tubby Inna Firehouse<br />
Rocking Vibration: Black Foundation Gussie<br />
Romans: Don't Underestimate The Force<br />
Taxi to Baltimore: Scientific Dub Scientist<br />
West Dub: Dreadlocks in Jamaica Jah Stitch<br />
Verdict In Dub: Randys All Stars<br />
Glen Brown: Black Dub<br />
Jammys On The Move: Fatman Dub Contest<br />
Country Gal Dub: Dangerous DubHollow Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908479267124177173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-68120702624161484462017-06-30T20:28:00.001+01:002020-03-24T08:09:31.552+00:00Indian Classical Mix<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I wrote about these records, as cursorily and unprofessionally as is expected of me, at the original TWANBOC blog. In those antediluvian days one couldn't simply upload mixes which people could stream. That's all changed.</div>
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Currently I have 89 mixes on my Mixcloud page. My aim is to have 100 there. 100 mixes which cover the fields of music I'm interested in. Which do justice to my tastes. None of us lives forever. All good things must come to an end.</div>
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Accordingly I've been going through my collection of records by genre; slowly picking off the important ones. And Indian Classical music is very close to my heart. It surprises me that in a climate in which the "Composer", "Neo-Avant Garde" and "Drone" are such immutable fixtures that there is almost no coverage of this massively important music. No reissues. Like for instance (to pick a random example) INA-GRM has arranged for it. And yet, of all the "out" musics this is unquestionably the most lovely.</div>
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I picked up these records in the nineties. With both my own recent travels in the sub-continent and the post-Acid musical climate in mind. I can't claim to have any gurus with regards to guiding my choice, but I remember David Toop was also "out there". I suppose Arthur Russell's influence, "World of Echo" dropping in my world like a Neutron Bomb, is also tangible.</div>
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The things I liked were almost always on non-standard instruments. That boils down to NO SITARS. I don't mind sitars actually, but once you remove them from Indian Classical Music its "unflavoured" sonic purity is made manifest.</div>
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You may not have enjoyed this music before, you may be prejudiced against it. But cast aside your preconceptions - zone out - think of it as summertime, Ambient Music if you like - but LISTEN to the awe-inspiring breadth of expression these masters bring to but single instruments as these sonic worlds unfurl like mandalas.</div>
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On the legendary French Ethnographic label "Ocora". The Santur sounds a little like a Harpsichord - it's a strange instrument played by hammering strings with small wooden sticks. Sarma, or Sharma, was the undisputed master. This LP was on my WOEBOT 100 list and it justifiably belongs there.</div>
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If the Santur is like a dulcimer, the Sarod is something like an Oud, guitar or mandolin. Much lower in tuning than the Sitar. I always think this stunning recording by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan has a bluesy, almost Rolling Stones-like, quality to it. A bit like that delicious, forbidden pleasure Ry Rooder's "Paris, Texas" soundtrack, even. Notes here like birds.</div>
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OK, so here's the bridge to Western music. You like The Velvet Underground? Well this disc was produced by La Monte Young, VU-godfather and Avant-Classical Titan - John Cage's chosen heir. La Monte frickin' loves the tambura, it reminds him of his inadvertently psychedelic childhood spent zonked out on gasoline fumes lurking atop industrial step-down voltage transformers, so here that instrument is pumped way high. Cover here by his wife the gifted calligraphist Marian Zazeela.</div>
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Pran Nath was the master of the Kirana school, in some ways an eccentric, non-central body in the Indian Classical Music Cosmos. I always think this is how Dr Seuss's Lorax would have sounded if he sang, rather than spoke, for the trees.</div>
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And finally another "Yaaman" - a supposedly romanic night-time raga of which there are three versions in this mix. This Barenreiter Musicaphon LP, like Ocora a top-flight ethnographic recordings label, is curated by the celebrated ethnomusicologist Alain Danielou. As one might expect from such a survey-type recording it takes a bit of digging round in the linernotes to discover the name of the master Hiralal. Always loved the incredible intensity of the Shenai on this one.</div>
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Calm yourself people! No, this was not mixed by a machine. It was mixed by I, the god-like Woebot. Live on the twelve-tens. No edits. Bo bo bo! Absolutely stunning mix skills in effect. The final part of my massive all-conquering epic House and Techno Roots trilogy and displaying almost scarily perfect taste, education and acumen.Oh my gosh... Bit shorter than the other two mixes at 1 hr 40 mins - a mere 35 tracks - but it felt right.</div>
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The sonic argument here is that, in real terms, in genres spawned and ideas conceived, New York was the true sonic innovator of the golden era of dance music (1984-96). New York gave us House (the epicentre moved from Chicago quite quickly), Rave (Beltram, Landlord), Trance (Revelation - first trance track IMHO), Ambient House (the likes of Sound Waves), Jazz House (Burrell), and Dub Techno - Dubstep, even! (Bobby Konders).</div>
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Cuba Gooding - Happiness Is Just Around The Bend<br />
The Todd Terry Project - Weekend<br />
Lenny D and Tommy Musto - Everything Bamboo<br />
Masters At Work - Alright Alright<br />
The Break Boys - And The Break Goes On<br />
Ray Love - The Delusion<br />
Flowmasters - House The Crowd (Dub The Crowd)<br />
Landlord - I Like It (Blow Out Dub)<br />
Fallout - The Morning After<br />
DMS - And The Beat Goes On<br />
Royal Orchestra Ltd - Get Down<br />
Bas Noir - I'm Glad You Came To Me (Dub Mix)<br />
Sound Waves - I wanna Feel The Music<br />
33 1/3 Queen - Searchin'<br />
CLS - Can You Feel It (In House Dub)<br />
N.Y. House'n'Authority - Apt 2A<br />
Metro - Angel Of Mercy<br />
Aphrodisiac - Song of The Siren (Black Sea Mix)<br />
Project 86 - Total Recall (Original Mix)<br />
Rydims - Rydim #2 Version<br />
Code 6 - C.O.D.E.S.<br />
Project 86 - Legends<br />
Revelation - First Power<br />
4 Most Poets - Reasons To Be Dismal<br />
Beltram - Reflex<br />
Lost Entity - On The Verge<br />
Code 6 - Third Aura<br />
Major Problems - Overdose<br />
Gypsymen - Bounce<br />
Nu Yorican Soul - The Nervous Track<br />
Aly-Us - Follow Me<br />
South Street Player - (Who?) Keeps Changing Your Mind (The Night Mix)<br />
Kenlou - The Bounce<br />
Mood II Swing - I See You Dancing<br />
Todd Edwards - Fly AwayMatthew Ingramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06539592736171186669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-91812581997389604262017-03-05T09:53:00.004+00:002018-11-22T07:38:28.834+00:00Chicago House Music 1986-1994<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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On to part two of my monumental trilogy of mixes dedicated to the US roots of House and Techno! The artwork above, which I have always loved, turned out on closer investigation to be <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Adonis-Reck-The-Joint-HOUSE/release/63666">by an old friend of mine Suzy Godson</a> who is now the deliciously controversial sex columnist for The Times.</div>
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Detroit produced an army of shaolin monks toiling away to finely hone masterpieces of neurotic electro. Chicago's approach could haven't been more different. Disco, not electro, was always the template and rather than working away in cloistered obscurity Chicago producers seemed under an invisible pressure to commit their ideas to tape as quickly as possible before someone else had the same idea. Often, as is perfectly illustrated by the trio of "Video Crash", "Video Clash" and Magic Feet" producers pretty much released the same track.</div>
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This closely-fought squabble for near-identical intellectual capital is hilariously highlighted in the story of JM Silk and Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's very names. Silk announced one afternoon to his friend Farley that he intended to call himself "Jackmaster". Farley thought this was too great an idea to let his friend keep and went around the neighborhood that evening announcing that henceforth he was to be known as Farley "Jackmaster" Funk. The next day the furious and chastened Silk had to contract his choice to "JM".</div>
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Tracks always seem as though they are mixed live, the hurry extending to pressing the discs themselves which often suffer from legendarily bad pressings. To criticise this is to fail to grasp the breathless urgency which gives this music its astonishing raw energy. Originality isn't the cherished concept it is in Detroit so the brilliant inventiveness of the music is a testament to the genius of its creators.</div>
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Recorded live on the 1210s the mix is, again, arranged chronologically. It moves from the early Jacking sound, to Vocal House to Acid. Acid is most definitely still in the air. There's the splendid pHarmerz "20 Acid Clonk Greats" release and as recently yesterday FACT posted <a href="http://www.factmag.com/2017/03/03/tb-303-classics-playlist-acid-house/">a playlist of TB-303 tunes</a> an instrument with which shows up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpI8_5tJFyQ">in the strangest places</a>. DJing Acid requires nuff chops because, unlike Techno with which you can be "neat and discrete" and chop into a new track, Acid is intended to be layered. The long segue is essential to get those 303s chattering in sync and to produce the rich, multiplied harmonics.</div>
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After Acid there's a palate-refreshing sequence of Hip-House before a touch of, I guess, proto Ambient House (by the likes of Virgo) before a stretch of the hard Jacking post-acid sound whose most notable protagonist must be the godlike Steve Poindexter and found its home on the peerless Muzique label. Towards the end of the mix Cajmere and his Clubhouse and Relief stables predominate. By this stage there is the sense that Chicago's distinct local identity is beginning to be subsumed into New York's. This is exemplified by Pierre's move to that city and his Wild Pitch mixes on that city's Strictly Rhythm label.</div>
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Word must go out to my illustrious ancestor Sir Herbert Ingram <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Ingram">who perished with his young son on Lake Michigan in 1860</a>. My aunt, the family historian, contradicts this Wikipedia entry and tells me that Herbert had joined all the passengers on one side of the steamer so as to have a view of Chicago and that this action caused the boat to capsize and for them to be drowned in the freezing waters.</div>
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Jamie Principle - Your Love (Original Mix)<br />
Fingers Inc - Can You Feel It (Martin Luther King Mix)<br />
Fingers Inc - Waterfalls<br />
Adonis - No Way Back<br />
Robert Owens - Bring Down The Walls<br />
CJ & Master - Dub Love<br />
Jungle Wonz - Time Marches On (Straight Up Mix)<br />
Fingers Inc - Music Take Me Up<br />
Jungle Wonz - The Jungle<br />
Blakk Society - Just Another Lonely Day<br />
Da Possee (feat Martell) - Searchin' Hard (House Mix)<br />
Joe Smooth - Promised Land<br />
Ralphi Rosario (feat Xavier Gold) - You Used To Hold Me (Micky 'Mixin' Oliver Mix)<br />
Pierre's Fantasy Club - Dream Girl (Ralphi Rosario Mix)<br />
Adonis - Reck This Joint<br />
Hot Hanas Hula - Hot Hands<br />
Armando - 151 (Orig. Mix)<br />
Armando - 151 (Hot Mix 5 Mix)<br />
Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - The Acid Life<br />
Armando - Confusion Mix ("Land Of Confusion")<br />
K Alexei - Vertigo<br />
Steve Poindexter - Maniac<br />
Bam Bam - Where's Your Child?<br />
DJ Pierre - Box Energy<br />
LNR - Kream (Till The Cows Come Home Mix)<br />
Phuture Phantasy Club - Slam<br />
Da Possee - In The Heat Of The Night (Vocal Version)<br />
K Alexei - All For Lee Sah<br />
The "Chicago Bad Boy" (feat Gershon Jackson) - House Music All Night Long (New York Club Mix)<br />
The DJ Fast Eddie - YoYo Get Funky<br />
Tyree - Video Crash (Crash Instrumental)<br />
Lil Louis - The Original Video Clash (Often Imitated Never Duplicated)<br />
The MD Connection - Magic Feet (Orig.)<br />
William S - I'll Never Let You Go (Instrumental Mix)<br />
Virgo - In A Vision<br />
Da Possee - It's My Life (Aluh Mix)<br />
Ron Trent - The Afterlife<br />
Terry Hunter - Back 2 House (The House Mix)<br />
Mike Dearborn - 1991 (A New Age)<br />
Steve Poindexter - Body Heat (1991)<br />
Steve Poindexter - Mental Problems<br />
Ricky Smith - Crazy Drums<br />
LNR - Work It To The Bone<br />
Neal Howard - To Be Or Not To Be (Mayday Mix)<br />
Cajmere - Mind Gamez<br />
Cajmere - I'm A Dreamer<br />
DJ Rush - Jack N Da Box<br />
Steve Poindexter - Entercourse Of The New Age<br />
Jungle Wonz - Bird In A Gilded Cage (Club Mix)<br />
Green Velvet - Flash (Green Velvet Mix)<br />
Robert Armani - Circus Bells (Armando's Mix)<br />
Phuture - Rise From Your Grave (Wild Pitch Mix)<br />
Chez N Trent - UntitledMatthew Ingramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06539592736171186669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-24589732424782742016-12-23T12:54:00.003+00:002023-03-28T16:48:31.218+01:00Force Field: Detroit Techno 1985-1995<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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This is the conceptual twin to my <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/woebot/londons-dreaming-a-history-of-hardcore/">London's Dreaming mammoth 'Nuum mix of February</a>. Whilst I probably heard Hardcore first, my first musical love in the days of Acid House was Detroit. That's what inspired me <a href="https://vimeo.com/5037567">to travel around West Africa in 1993 throwing raves</a>. It wasn't seeing Derrick DJ at Bath in 1989 (an alienating experience at the time) or loving the Rhythim Is Rhythim "Emanon" track on the seminal 1990 Network Bio Rhythms compilation which stoked my obsession so much as the influence of my brother-in-law Mike. Later I appreciated David Toop's, and then Kodwo Eshun's writing which included references to Detroit.</div>
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Early on in the course of blogging in 2003 I wrote a number of things on Techno which drew me into cahoots with the legendary Kirk Degiorgio, a well-known fellow traveller of those musicians. I think Kirk and I shared a frustration with the discourse around Detroit which in spite of his unquestionable taste and robust support for it, he was perhaps in part responsible for forging. To hear the music as indebted to black music is in some way to negate what makes it so truly exceptional. As a music it doesn't so much as enact the donning of a "white face" (in Fanon's sense) as try to think beyond race. Another way of approaching the topic theoretically it is to try and deconstruct those earlier forms of black music; to look at the likes of Herbie Hancock and George Clinton as transgressive themselves as opposed to automatically belonging to any kind of continuum of Jazz or Funk.</div>
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In collecting my thoughts to put this mix together, just shy of 4 hours of my personal favourites of the genre, I read and watched a lot of things on the internet that certainly weren't there in 2003. A few resources stand out: There's the great <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gElNoedRj5Q">"Hi-Tech Soul" documentary</a>, also the slightly tedious but ultimately rewarding <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQoOr_59N0">Red Bull Music Academy interview with Derrick May</a> (hearing Derrick on Ron Hardy and The Institute is powerfully illuminating), Mark Fisher's splendid <a href="http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/mike-banks-interview">interview with Mike Banks</a> at The Wire, and finally this excellent <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/mikep/heterotic-detroit-techno-mix-for-dummy-mag/">Mike Paradinas</a> mix in support of a <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/2326812-Heterotic">Heterotic</a> release. What did strike me forcibly was, besides Mike's mix, the almost total absence of a good "classic" Detroit mix online. Think of the multitude of classic Hardcore and Jungle sets! There are many YouTube and Mixcloud shows which feature Detroit legends promising to give an old skool set - but, presumably to the promoter's chagrin, none of the performances contain more than a few great old tracks, and usually much more recent stuff. I can't blame those guys at all, they have moved on and quite rightly so. Derrick, for instance, will always play a few very old tracks, but is also madly passionate about new stuff. If you haven't seen him DJ live, DO NOT MISS THE OPPORTUNITY.<br />
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This mix was done live on the 1210s in three sessions, recorded on a Prism Lyra and spliced together in Audition. Mixing Detroit Techno on the decks always has some funny little gotchas: two of these records spun from the centre to the record's edge; Underground Resistance Records especially are always extremely fast, it takes a lot of forward thinking if you do not want to slow any records down (as I have completely avoided); and many of the records have fragile run-in grooves (funky pressings) which makes it extremely hard to hit the first beat if you spin back a record to it.<br />
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The mix of 63 tracks is essentially, but broadly, chronological. It would have been predictably geeky to start with A Number of Names "Sharevari" or Cybotron's "Clear" but I decided that this was to be a Techno mix. To that end the first track is Juan Atkin's "Techno Music", the track which caused Ten Record's "Techno - The New Dance Sound Of Detroit" to be called just that, and not "The House Sound of Detroit". That said the first tracks still have a gorgeous, glistening Electro quality. "Techno Music" itself is as near to a Kraftwerk track in spirit than I think any other record ever made. Startling stuff...<br />
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The mix takes in the First Wave, the Second and, er, the Third. There a few markers at which point I don't think it makes sense to still be talking about Detroit Techno in the same way. They don't happen all at the same time - some sooner than others - but all combine to sink nails into its coffin. So for instance when Jeff Mills left Detroit for Berlin - nail. When Transmat started licensing 3rd party stuff more, the "Energy Flash" and "Der Klang Der Familie" releases in particular, nail. Richie Hawtin's Plastikman alias, nail. I like Ghostly International, Ectomorph and Matthew Dear very much indeed - I just happen to think that they are something different, albeit great.<br />
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Dedicated to those titans of Detroit, Belleville, Windsor and Kalamazoo.<div><br />
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Juan Atkins - Techno Music<br />
Model 500 - Night Drive (Thru-Babylon)<br />
First Bass - Seperate Minds<br />
M 500 - Testing 1-2<br />
Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes - Time to Express<br />
Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is<br />
Model 500 - Off to Battle<br />
Kevin Saunderson - Bounce Your Body To The Box<br />
Reese and Santonio - The Sound<br />
Kevin Saunderson - The Groove That Won't Stop<br />
R-Tyme - R-Theme<br />
Mayday - Wiggin<br />
Suburban Knight - The Groove<br />
Reese - Just Want Another Chance<br />
Ocatve One - I believe<br />
Symbols and Instruments - Mood<br />
Model 500 - Wanderer<br />
Blake Baxter - Sexuality<br />
Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes - Goodbye Kiss<br />
Reese - Funky Funk Funk<br />
Suburban Knight - The Art of Stalking<br />
Rhythim Is Rhythim - Emanon<br />
Rhythim Is Rhythim - Kaos<br />
Rhythm Is Rhythm - The Beginning<br />
Psyche - From Beyond<br />
Vice - Constant Ritual<br />
Fade To Black - The Calling<br />
69 - Ladies and Gentlemen<br />
Bango - Wave The Rave Goodbye<br />
Drexciya - Sea Snake<br />
Underground Resistance - Predator<br />
Underground Resistance - The Final Frontier<br />
Carl Craig - Wrap Me In Its Arms<br />
B.F.C - Please Stand By<br />
Drexciya - Wavejumper<br />
69 - Microlovr<br />
Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino (Illusion First Mix)<br />
Octave One - Nicolette<br />
Psyance - EQ<br />
Open House - Aquatic<br />
Prototype - Biotic<br />
Dark Comedy - War Of The Worlds<br />
Kenny Larkin - Metropolis<br />
Shop - Nitwit<br />
B.F.C - Galaxy<br />
Underground Resistance - Amazon<br />
Paperclip People - Oscillator<br />
MK - Feel The Fire<br />
Derrick May -Icon<br />
Urban Culture - Wonders of Wishing<br />
Kosmic Messenger - Soundscape<br />
UR - 046<br />
The Martian - Search Your Feelings<br />
Eddie "Flashin'" Fowlkes - Sex In Zero Gravity<br />
Red Planet - Star Dancer<br />
Robert Hood - Untitled 2<br />
Psychic Warfare - Tails From The Crib<br />
Jay Denham - People's Revolution<br />
Millsart - Gateway Of Zen<br />
Robert Hood - Museum<br />
Dan Curtin - 3rd From The Sun<br />
Morgan Geist - Stillway<br />
Space - Envision<br />
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A classic bit of troublemaking really. On Billy Bunter's recent show with Floyd Dyce, Floyd pointed to the massive influence of Bleep'n'Bass on his classic "Daydreaming". I got to thinking about of a strictly UK bleep mix that steered several 'Nuum figures (like A Guy Called Gerald and Mark Ryder) into Techno where they also rightfully belong. Also there's the breakbeats of TFSOL and Black Dog. It was never a hard and fast distinction in those days. Also there was the sheer joy of rubbing B12 up against the 'Nuum and rejoicing in beautiful tracks by Kirk Degiorgio and Iueke. On the wheels of steel. No edits at all.<br />
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Original Clique - Now Hear Me Now<br />
Unique 3 - Weight for the Bass (3 Ton Mix)<br />
Forgemasters - Stress<br />
Inertia (A Guy Called Gerald) - Fragments<br />
M-D-Emm (Mark Ryder) - Get Acidic<br />
Bang The Party - Instrumental<br />
The Aphex Twin - Delphium<br />
As One - Isatai<br />
Iueke - Tape 4<br />
Likemind - Artifax<br />
Orbital - Belfast<br />
Mark Broom - Seagulls<br />
Reload - Le Sol Et La Mer (Black Dog Productions Remix)<br />
Intelligent Communication - Drive<br />
Musicology - Mondrin<br />
Baby D - DaydreamingMatthew Ingramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06539592736171186669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3905886528668152025.post-25213478181865836582016-02-20T19:15:00.002+00:002020-03-24T08:11:36.386+00:00London's Dreaming Mix<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I know, I thought, I'll make a Hardcore mix. All my own personal favourite tracks. No, wait a second. What about four mixes? 92. 93. 94. 95-96.<br />
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Then, hang on, why don't I just make one massive five-hour continuum style mix spanning the whole era. But was such a thing even possible in human terms? Would I survive such an endeavour?<br />
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It took weeks to go through all my old jungle records appraising them. It couldn't be one of those tedious "best of jungle" mixes" that litter YouTube and Mixcloud full entirely of famous tracks which everyone has heard. And I picked up a few new tracks. My, how expensive they have become...<br />
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Equally it couldn't be simply obscure tracks, because the big tracks are frequently the greatest. "Personal favourites" - that became the organising principle and there are many tracks in here that even the deepest Hardcore aficionado will never have heard.<br />
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If there one was one mix which inspired me it was <a href="http://drumtrip.co.uk/mixes/drumtrip-sessions-04-j-rolla/">J Rolla's "Drum Trip" mix</a> - well, I may not be able to beat that but I thought I'd give it my best shot. Rolla's is a brilliant mix. I even stole two tracks from him. Thanks for that J. I may have given him a run for his money but the criteria are different. I haven't had to deal with the dread of repeating myself too much, which anyone DJ-ing and uploading more frequently would have to contend with. But I still avoided tunes from my mixes <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/woebot/joyride/">Joyride</a>, <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/woebot/ambient-jungle/">Ambient Jungle</a>, and <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/woebot/brick-door-mix/">Brick Door</a> all of which traverse similar terrain.<br />
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I briefly looked into studio mix software, then thought better of that. I rigged up the ol' 1210s (I had to reclaim them from my children) and got my bearings with the beat mixing reasonably quickly. There is some bad mixing - there are a few tense moments. A few cuts are too abrupt (woah, it's going wrong!!!). It was completed in three sessions. The only post work was to bring up the volume of a couple of tunes and splice out Foul Play's original version of "Feel The Vibe" with "Feel The Vibe (Again)" - their remix is SO much better.<br />
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Here's to the genius of those wonderful dreamers who gave us these 83 magical tracks.<br />
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<b><u>London is Dreaming track-list in full:</u></b><br />
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Rhythm Section - Dreamworld<br />
Urban Shakedown - Bass Shake<br />
A Guy Called Gerald - The Musical Magical Midi Machine<br />
Nookie - Give A Little Love<br />
The House Crew - Keep The Fire Burning<br />
4 Hero - Ghost Stories<br />
Ephemerol - 456<br />
MI7 - Rockin’ Down The House<br />
The Brothers Grimm - Exodus<br />
Hyper-On Experience - Assention<br />
Sy-Kick - Follow Me<br />
Sub Love - Maniac Music<br />
Foul Play - Feel The Vibe<br />
Body Snatch - The Strength<br />
Foul Play - Dubbing You<br />
Rufige Kru - Kemistry<br />
Noise Factory - All Crew<br />
Yolk - Music 4 Da People<br />
DJs Unite - Bass Penetrates<br />
Psychotropic - Hypnosis (SL2 Remix)<br />
Andy C - Never Felt This Way<br />
A Guy Called Gerald - The Freak Inside<br />
Q Bass - Funky Hardcore<br />
D’Cruze - What A Rush<br />
Neuromancer of Structural Damage - Pennywise<br />
Wax Doctor - The Stalker<br />
Tango - Timebomb<br />
Bay-B-Kane - Bagpipes in Effect<br />
Timelapse - Sued For a Sample<br />
DJ Rap And Aston - Feel The Magic<br />
Ekude - Common Sensi<br />
DJ Crystl - Suicidal<br />
Hyper-On Experience - Disturbance<br />
Noise Factory - We Have It<br />
Body Snatch - Tuffness<br />
A Guy Called Gerald - Darker Than I Should Be<br />
4 Hero - Journey From The Light<br />
The House Crew - Maniac (The Final Conflict)<br />
Ruffige Cru - Ghosts of My Life<br />
Foul Play - Finest Illusion<br />
Manix and Rufige Cru - You Held My Hand<br />
Noise Factory - Can You Feel The Rush<br />
Doc Scott - Street Knowledge<br />
Trinity - Chapter 19<br />
DJ Hype - Come Again<br />
Dillinja - Untitled<br />
The Whitehouse Crew - Anonymous<br />
Underground Software - Music Maker Possee<br />
Tayla - Remnants<br />
Flatliner - The Big Bang<br />
DJ Kane - Lost<br />
Smokey Joe - Shining Remix<br />
Randall and Andy C - Feel It<br />
International Rude Boyz - Paragone<br />
DJ Solo - Deal Wid It<br />
L Double - What Am I Gonna Do?<br />
AK47 - Body Candone<br />
DJ Flynn and DJ Flora - Jungle Love<br />
Aladdin - We Enter<br />
Noise Factory - Feel The Magic<br />
Fusion - Love for the World Part 2<br />
Roni Size - Fresh<br />
Dillinja - Stompers Delight<br />
Dillinja - Deep Love Remix<br />
Cold Mission - Drug Store Rude Boy<br />
Deep Blue - Helicopter (Rufige Kru Remix)<br />
Low Key Movements - Come Cross!!<br />
Koda - The Deep<br />
DJ Crystl - Crystylize<br />
Gappa G and Hypa Hyper - Roach is Burning<br />
Charlie Recall - Submerged<br />
DJ Nut Nut + Pure Science - The Rumble<br />
DJ SS - Black<br />
DJ Pulse - Stay Calm (Foul Play Remix)<br />
Shimon - Within Reason (Liftin’ Spirits Remix)<br />
Cool Hand Flex - Melody Madness<br />
808 State - Azura (Dillinja Remix)<br />
Maldini - Daze<br />
DJ Die - Play It For Me<br />
Glamour Gold - You Can Run<br />
Firefox - Bass-switch<br />
Capone - Mysteries of The Deep<br />
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I just couldn't leave it alone could I? I just had to have another crack didn't I?<br />
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I thought the best way to illustrate my point that: the Reggae influence on Hardcore was greatly overstated; that Reggae, when it worked best, was largely a "flavour" a "sample-source"; and that when Jungle (<i>eventually</i>) became too literal about aping dub or in using actual dancehall MCs it lost its way - was not in becoming argumentative, but by making a mix.<br />
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This way one can actually hear, and pretty clearly I think, that UK Hip-Hop was the chassis upon which Hardcore was built. It's not always a pleasurable experience - but I guess that's the way with these protean things. I suppose too that because Brit-Hop was occasionally ugly and a bit silly is another reason why people are in a rush to forget it...<br />
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See, I remember in 1990 desperately wanting to hear more Reggae than Hardcore would allow. And that's why I ended up getting into Dancehall.<br />
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<b>Mantronix: King of the Beats (White Label 1990)</b><br />
<b>Public Enemy: Show Em Watcha Got (Def Jam 1988)</b><br />
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<i>The source.</i><br />
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<b>Depth Charge: Bounty Killers (Vinyl Solution 1989)</b><br />
<b>Phuture Assasins: Phuture Assasins Theme (Boogie Times 1990)</b><br />
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<i>I couldn't resist putting Depth Charge in there. Sped up to +8 that'd sound like a nutty Hardcore tune. But I drew the line at Eon and Renegade Soundwave. Though they're still Hardcorey - but like a big-beat Electro.</i><br />
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<i>"Phuture Assasins Theme", off the first Boogie Times release, is a gift for my argument.</i><br />
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<b>London Posse: How’s life in London? (E1 1993)</b><br />
<b>MC Duke: I’m Riffin' (English Rasta) (Music Of Life 1989) </b><br />
<b>Hijack: The Syndicate Out of Jail (Warner 1991)</b><br />
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<i>Probably should have cut straight to these. Proper UK Hip-Hop entirely in thrall to Public Enemy. Check the "can't beat the system - go with the flow" sample from "I'm Riffin'". Left out Gunshot.</i><br />
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<b>Hardnoise: Untitled (Music of Life 1990)</b><br />
<b>Criminal Minds: Prepare for The Holocaust (TCM 1991)</b><br />
<b>Blapps Posse: Don’t Hold Back (Tribe 1991)</b><br />
<b>Shut Up And Dance: Rap’s my occupation (SUAD 1989)</b><br />
<b>Code 071: Stand Together Yo Breakthrough (Reinforced 1992)</b><br />
<b>Rebel MC: Wickedest Sound (Desire 1990)</b><br />
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<i>On the other hand these six, though they sound identical to the previous 3 (more PE clones) are all within the 'nuum. The Hardnoise "Untitled" instrumental was caned on the pirates. Criminal Minds from their seminal second EP. Almost exactly "Baptised in Dub" - but with MCs. Blapps Posse ressiued on the Rebel MCs label. SUAD, make no mistake, this is 100% Hip-Hop. Code 071 from the same EP as a "London Sumtin'".</i><br />
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<b>Demon Rocka: Hard Drugs (Unity 1988)</b><br />
<b>The Ragga Twins: Ragga Trip (SUAD 1991)</b><br />
<b>Ninjaman and Flourgon: Zig It Up (Main Attraction Remix) (Jet Star 1990)</b><br />
<b>Smith & Mighty: Killa (Three Stripe 1988)</b><br />
<b>Dee Patten: Who’s the Badman (Hard Hands 1991)</b><br />
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<i>Yes. Certainly. Here is Reggae.</i><br />
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<i>Barring the Demon Rocka track however I would argue that it's firmly from the prism of Hip-Hop. Like Busta Rhymes' bits of chat with L.O.T.N.S. or the bits of Tribe Called Quest. Fu-Schickens. Mad Lion. Not really Ragga. The remix of "Zig It Up" by Nookie (later of Reinforced) falls squarely in this camp.</i><br />
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<i>Smith and Mighty and Dee Patten show how the dalliance with Reggae is frequently just one with very deep jeep beats. Apache in effect on "Who's The Badman".</i><br />
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<b>Tek 9: Kingdom of Dub (Reinforced 1991)</b><br />
<b>Code 071: A London Sumtin’(Reinforced 1992)</b><br />
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<i>The roots of Jungle. "Kingdom of Dub" with almost no Reggae whatsoever in it. It's 100% Public Enemy really.</i><br />
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<i>"A London Sumtin'" - again more Public Enemy. Could the fragile bass line be described as dub-like? In fairness to detractors I think it is probably supposed to be reggae-ish but perhaps owing to lack of production skills it isn't thick or prominent enough. And let's face it - Hip-Hop had plenty bass.</i><br />
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<b>Bang The Party: Rubbadubb (Warriors Dance 1990)</b><br />
<b>The Black Dog: The Weight (Black Dog Productions 1989)</b><br />
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<i>So far however, barring 2 Bad Mice, breaks were used quite faithfully. These two tracks were from outside the 'nuum, but were arguably influential within it.</i><br />
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<i>Without the MCs there was a big hole in the music and polybreaks were one of the first to fill the hole.</i><br />
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<b>DJ SS & EQ: The Beat (Formation 1992)</b><br />
<b>Dance Conspiracy: Dub War (Metamorphosis 1992)</b><br />
<b>Sonz of a loop da loop era: Calmdownizm (Suburban Base 1992)</b><br />
<b>DJ Crystl: Warprdive (Dee Jay 1994)</b><br />
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<i>The first a persy. Dance Conspiracy with the "Darkest Light" sample via Public Enemy. Unabashed Hip-Hop from Danny Breaks with "Calmdownizm". Finally, a leap forward in time, to former Brotherhood member DJ Crystl's "Warpdrive" which would seem to owe something to the absent Eon.</i>Matthew Ingramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06539592736171186669noreply@blogger.com