Dilated Choonz

Ode to Croissant Neuf

The Mighty Alboy — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:16:00 +0100

Bon Iver- “Flume”

Myself and P Rice, accompanied by a number of friends and families, had the pleasure of attending the rather lovely Croissant Neuf festival in the lush valleys of Monmouthshire in Wales the weekend before last.

Croissant Neuf is an off-shoot of the longest running area at Glastonbury (besides the main Pyramid stage), and is a solar powered and chilled zone they have apparently been running since the 60’s. Unlike it’s mothership festival, it thrives on being small and sustainable- the organisers reckoned there were only about 1500 people there, and these of all ages and pursuasions.

Rather than getting in the big name bands to bring hordes of punters and ramp up the entry fee (eg this year’s festival was headlined by the Magic Numbers), C9 features a diverse range of sounds of generally high quality- I dont think I saw a programme as such, so no one really knew what was good and when it was playing, so instead we found ourselves pleasantly surprised to hear good music fairly regularly.

The site itself is beautifully located- there’s views across the Welsh valleys, and an Iron Age fort nearby- and because it’s so small, you cant lose your tent and you dont have to pack for the day out or trudge for half an hour to go from home to where the action is at.

Add to this a range of arts and craft type activities (I am the proud owner of a lamp I made out of twigs and some hairy string), circus types showing and sharing their skills, a nice selection of wholesome foodage and an amusingly named bar (the “Stumble Inn”) situated in an old barn selling only cider and real ale (neither of which I particularly like, mind) with real spit & sawdust on the floor, good friends and a nice break in the Welsh weather, and you’ve got a really good festival experience.

Highly recommended!

And to the ode- I was introduced to the track here by one of our campers who played it nice and loud on the last day as we were about to start packing up. It’s a bitter tune that fitted the end of a good time very nicely, lifted from an album called For emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver, who at the time the album was written, consisted of just one chap- Justin Vernon.

The album was conceived and recorded in a cabin in the mountains of Wisconsin, where Vernon had decided to isolate himself for the winter season in 2007, following a particularly difficult year where he suffered the break up of a relationship, his band and a severe bout of glandular fever:

“I left North Carolina and went up there because I didn’t know where else to go and I knew that I wanted to be alone and I knew that I wanted to be where it was cold.”

The resulting music is really achingly beautiful, featuring lots of rich guitar work, found percussion and overdubs of harmony and melody that are just stunning.

Not news to many, but news to me- thanks Rhys!

not usual fare for DC, either, but it’s so lovely I thought I would share…

Croissant Neuf homepage ::
Bon Iver home page ::

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Ode to Croissant Neuf (Comment #1)

martin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:31:23 +0100

hi guys,
nice work! where can I drop new music?
e-mail?

Best,
MArtin

A Rediscovered Groove

The Double K — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:22:00 +0100

New Grooves – 2 A.M.

This is a tune that I’ve loved for years and years but only just found out what it is. I know it intimately from an amazing Jon Da Silva tape from the Hacienda that got caned round my way back in 1992. If you’ve been keeping up with the comments on here you’ll know I recently read Peter Hook’s “The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club”, where after all these years I finally found a track list for the tape (and also discovered that it was recorded at the Robs Records Party on Wednesday 4th March 1992). I’m currently in the process of tracking down some of the tunes that I’ve never identified up to now, and this is one of them.

It was released in 1991 on New York’s Nu Groove Records, and is one of those great tracks that sits right on the boundary of House and Techno (and in this case also Acid). After a short intro the groove builds as drums are gradullay added to the mix. Urgency is added to the already driving bassline as the awesome 303 acid line flitters in and out, and that’s about it – nothing too big or clever: just a great tune.

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newport state of mind

The Mighty Alboy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:25:00 +0100

many of you will have seen this already, but Ive only just come across it, and think it’s fantastic

Great Boo's Up

The Mighty Alboy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:15:00 +0100

Boo Williams- “midnight express”

Apologies to our regular listeners for inactivity at DC- no posts here for a month, shocking indolence from me and our reduced roster of co-bloggers.

To make some small amends, here is a gem of a track from Boo Williams on the mighty Relief Records label

Born and raised on Chicago’s south side, Boo Williams’ career as DJ/producer, began back when house music was still creating an identity for itself. He was raised on a healthy diet of Larry Heard, Marshall Jefferson, Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy, and over the years has become part of the house music foundation himself.

This track is a long time favourite of mine and various others of the dilate posse and crew. I remember a bunch of us first hearing it on the Colin Faver show on Kiss FM in the back of our mate Rob’s car as we headed home to our communal pad in Hendon- the awesome combination of huge, loose breaks with the tight-assed swing of the drum track and crazy synth madness got us all very excited, and had us dashing out to our favourite record stores to try and find it the next day.

Still a stone cold, stand out classic to this day…

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Great Boo's Up (Comment #1)

Radar — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:25:38 +0100

Welcome back – and nice tune!

Great Boo's Up (Comment #2)

The Double K — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:03:36 +0100

Killer!

To the Max

The Mighty Alboy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:08:00 +0100

Gil Scott Heron vs DJ Asparagus- “Your Daddy Loves You”

A further tribute to the youngest addition to Dilated Choonz, young Max Shooter- this one perhaps more up Squeaker’s alley than the ruffness from Double K…

A smooth jazz house edit of Gil Scott Heron’s your daddy loves you by Stockholm’s DJ Asparagus. In this case a moving message of love to Gil’s young daughter, but I’m sure the sentiment applies to the Max Daddy n’all

Congratulations to mother and father- and to baby Max for finding such a fine family to be born into! Love to all…

discogs profile ::
myspace page ::

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To the Max (Comment #1)

squeaker — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:54:32 +0100

Cheers Alboy and Double K – touching tributes to my son and heir. It's been quite a rollercoaster ride the last couple of weeks, but things might just be settling down a bit. Max is developing a taste for classic Orb, circa 1990-1 (Spanish Castles in Space is a favourite) and slept along happily to a selection of choice house and disco cuts on Spotify this afters. He's now enjoying Future Days by Can. I've yet to try out ruffneck jungle bizness on him but it is, no doubt, only a matter of time.

Gimme an M!

The Double K — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:05:00 +0100

Tom & Jerry – MAXi(mun) Style

This is a post (actually 3 posts) in our long-running occasional series of tunes dedicated to the new offspring of Dilated Choonz crew members. This time it is the fecund loins of Tommy Squeaker that we’re celebrating, as he and his good lady were recently blessed with a baby boy, Max.

Squeaker steadfastly refuses to acknowledge the superiority of Jungle over other musical forms, despite the existence of tunes like this one by Tom & Jerry (an alias used by 4 Hero from '92-'94), which literally has everything you could possibly want out of a tune: it’s got soul, it’s got funk, it’s got shouty ragga vocals, it’s got flutey bits, it’s got an enormous fat bassline, it’s got spacey ambient noises, it’s got girls singing and it’s got a variety of breakbeats. I mean, what else could you possibly need in there? What other genre gives you all that in under 5 minutes? Absolutely brilliant.

Still, despite this oversight in musical taste, Tommy Squeaker is a great man, a true gent and the best friend anyone could hope to have, so I’m sure you will want to join me in congratulating him and wishing him all the best in his new role as a dad.

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Gimme an A!

The Double K — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:03:00 +0100

Ordinary People – Baby You Make My Heart Sing

Here’s a tune I’ve been meaning to post for a while now, and this seems like an opportune moment for it, due to the Oooooohoooo Baby You Know You Make My Heart Sing! vocal that probably captures pretty much how our man Squeaker feels about little Max at the moment (I’m guessing he feels it minus the pounding, tuff-as-hell garage beat in the background though!)

The main man in Ordinary People is Jason Kaye, who, like Dilated Choonz favourite Steve Gurley, made the transition from the hardcore and jungle scene into UK Garage production: he was/is part of the legendary Top Buzz crew.

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Gimme an X!

The Double K — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:01:00 +0100

Space – Jupiter

And finally, something I know the Squeaker loves dearly but may not have had out in a while… something to help shattered new parents relax, and if they’re lucky it might even help send little Max off to sleep.

Space is probably the best ambient house record ever made. To listen to it is to journey across the Solar System, at times experiencing true beauty and at times being afraid, very afraid. This part of the journey – Jupiter – comes from the end of Side 1 and is a beautiful mellow section which calms the nerves following Mars, the scariest most darkside part of the LP that really gets your heart pounding. The album is a continuous mix and makes sense best in its entirety rather than on a track-by-track basis, so it was tricky to pick a single track to post. The lullaby at the end of this makes it most appropriate I think.

If you don’t know it then go and get it now. You need Space in your life.

Space is the work of Jimmy Cauty, who is most famous for being half of the KLF (Space was released on KLF Communications). Over the years he has been involved with loads of interesting & subversive music and visual arts projects too numerous to mention here – he featured in a very early incarnation of The Orb, has remixed various people as “The Scourge Of The Earth”, and one of my favourite of his recent works is a set of “Scab” stamps issued during the UK postal strikes a little while back, and which you can buy here if you have a lot of money to spare.

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Gimme an X! (Comment #1)

squeaker — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:01:14 +0100

Beautiful stuff, KK. Space brings back many happy memories – I may bequeath my scratchy vinyl copy to him as part of his inheritance. Might be worth a few bob by then.

Gimme an X! (Comment #2)

The Double K — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:56:08 +0100

Would probably be worth more if you hadn't smashed that bouncy ball into it just before it disappeared into the fifth dimension ;o)

Gimme an X! (Comment #3)

squeaker — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:11:04 +0100

ah yes, the bouncy ball incident. Seemed like such a good idea at the time…

You Have - In Your Big Shorts

Hal Berstram — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:53:00 +0100

Frank Sidebottom – Guess Who’s Been on Match of the Day

I was devestated by the news this week that Chris Sievey, the creator of one of the greatest ever musical performers – Frank Sidebottom – had died of cancer aged only 54.

One of the first conversations I had with Alboy was discussing Frank’s set at Reading Festival 1991 which I only saw part of I am ashamed to say, but it was wonderful. And this track used to come up a lot in casual conversation.

There have been other attempts to do great music with only a Casio keyboard and a sense of humour – John Shuttleworth, my old mate Foley from school, the later work of Steve Winwood, and others. But none of them have a papier mache head so they just can’t compete.

You’ll be sorely missed, Frank.

Frank on the t'interweb :: repository of all things Sidebottom

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You Have - In Your Big Shorts (Comment #1)

little frank — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:15:38 +0100

a legend in papier mache – and he also issued a music business spectrum game as a b-side. Its called the Biz, is annoyingly addictive, and you can find it to play in the big man's honour at www.zxspectrum.net :-)

Something I have been working on recently

Hal Berstram — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:11:00 +0100

Brother Typewriter – Hushed Tones in The Recording Industry (edit)

This is just a little thing I was working on last month with the Burning Lodge immersion composition group.

I miss the old days of 1970s vinyl when you could get albums which had one track on each side, normally about 17 or 18 minutes long. So I did an album like that.

“Hushed tones…” starts off a bit Floyd and then goes into something a bit like the 70s Tangerine Dream. When the sequencers were primitive and didn’t like to be tuned properly. And then… who the hell knows.

At some point I might post the other “side”, titled “The Great Shortage of Songs About Shop Work”. Named in honour of an in-joke too lame to explain here.

More mad stuff as it becomes available.

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Something I have been working on recently (Comment #1)

Alex — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:26:33 +0100

Orb remix please ;)

Seriously though, this is ace.

Something I have been working on recently (Comment #2)

Hal Berstram — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:53:00 +0100

Thanks Alex – that's very nice of you to say so! :-)

electro tune made with reason 4 & rebirth

T Pot — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:21:00 +0100

ez folks, here is a track lurking on my HD. Quite an odd tune…. the vocal was taken from an xbox360 game. I ran the mix through a decent multi-band compressor afterwards.

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electro tune made with reason 4 & rebirth (Comment #1)

Paul C — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:48:24 +0100

really reminds me of old school Luke Vibert. Nice work :-)

electro tune made with reason 4 & rebirth (Comment #2)

alboy — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:54:35 +0100

Yes T Pot- this is a great little number! Very nice… :)

electro tune made with reason 4 & rebirth (Comment #3)

Hal Berstram — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:53:44 +0100

This is fantastic. Love it.

It's Tiiiiiiiiiiiiime...

The Mighty Alboy — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:15:00 +0100

Soul Clap remix- “Al Naafiysh (The Soul)”

One for all the original B-Boys and B-Girls in the virtual house

We had Hashim’s 1983 original here way back in Jan 2006- this is fresh for 2010, a new-funk rework with live instrumentation and scratching, courtesy of Berlin’s Soul Clap crew.

Like the El Michels Affair Wu-Tang re-works, am loving this rejuvenation of classic, digitally sequenced tracks through good old fashioned analogue musicianship.

Here’s the original video on youtube, from 1983 “when fresh was the style plus the word to say”:

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It's Tiiiiiiiiiiiiime... (Comment #1)

KL — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:24:51 +0100

Top quality funky action!

It's Tiiiiiiiiiiiiime... (Comment #2)

tfl — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:49:34 +0100

Am loving the video on the london underground- really funnny!

Especially the bit on the escalator: "please stand on the left and walk on the right- and body-pop in the middle!"

And Just Because...

The Double K — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:15:00 +0100

...we haven’t had any PURE RUFFNESS like this on here for absolutely aaaaaaaaages…

Edcase – Untitled (Ed’s Venture EP Side A)

From an obscure 1993 white label, this is a Darkside tune from those amazing few months that saw the evolution of hardcore into jungle proper, when no two tunes sounded the same and literally anything went. The tune kicks off with some crazy chopped breakbeats that gradually fall into an almost military-style 4/4 march and stomp right along until 1.38 when the MONSTER bass drops and darkness descends with spooky melody and creeping insect beats. The atmosphere builds and there is more HUGE scary bass at 2.40, the choppy pots-and-pans breaks marching through the whole while.

What strikes me listening to this now is the sheer amount of stuff that goes on in the (too short!) four-and-a-bit minutes: the massive variety of breakbeats, bassdrops, noises and patterns – so many ideas thrown in to the mix that it just makes for totally exciting listening. These days each separate element would be worked up into a repetitive six-minute DJ tool, but back then they just threw it all in to the tune without dwelling on any one element too much.

I just fucking love this stuff… so much going on, so fresh, so totally ruff. Amazing.

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And Just Because... (Comment #1)

KL — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:09:13 +0100

Ruff indeed!

And Just Because... (Comment #2)

REFFA — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:19:35 +0100

Yeah, good tune, ruff inna jungle!
Same EDCASE who did a few tracks on MIDDLEROW RECORDS i wonder? Good few tracks on that label, early 2-step, Soundboy a particularly good one, a cross of THE SPECIALS GHOST TOWN and DREADZONE LOVE THE LIFE, worth checkin….

Another Choon for the Sun

The Double K — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:14:00 +0100

Alex Neri – The Wizard

Here’s some lush summery Italian House (see picture) from 1992, kicking off with a no-nonsense big club bassline the percussion creeps in with some nice cowbell and the tune progresses at quite a pace with large splashes of funky guitar, nice ambience, flutey bits and plenty of breakdowns and build ups. It’s an absolute belter of a tune and no mistake.

Alex Neri has been a player in the Italian house scene for years and produced the stone-cold classics Moving Power (To The Music) and Move Your Body (To The Sound) as half of Korda in 1991. For the last ten years he has been making chunky club house music as part of the Planet Funk ensemble.

Alex Neri official site ::
Alex Neri on MySpace ::

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Another Choon for the Sun (Comment #1)

Alexois — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:36:25 +0100

Oh this house looks great…that must be a fantastic view out of the house! I want to go to this place, NOW! :)

Campaign tracks (4)

Hal Berstram — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:45:00 +0100

For the Labour Party:

BBC Sound Effects – Train Crash

And so to New Labour.

I thought long and hard about what song would best capture the momentum of the campaign. There were several strong contenders, e.g:

Wedding Present – “Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft”
Led Zeppelin – “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”
The Smiths – “I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish”
New York Dolls – “Personality Crisis”

and I came very very close to putting up 10cc’s “I’m Mandy, Fly Me”(!?)

But in the end it had to be “Train Crash”. Courtesy of a 1977 BBC Sound Effects LP called “BBC Sound Effects No. 16: Disasters”.

It’s a rather sedate crash to be honest – maybe that was state of the art in ‘77. Nowadays we expect a little more bloody and guts… and I think there will be plenty of that tomorrow night when the count starts. :-(

It’s been a fun election, but I’ll be honest, it looks like it’s gonna be a real train wreck of a result. But I could be wrong about that… we’ll see.

Buy it here :: at Discogs on vinyl (not surprisingly, it hasn't been reissued on CD!)

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Hal Berstram — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:30:00 +0100

For the Liberal Democrats:

Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange

I was stuck for one to put up for the Lib Dems for some time: possible candidates included Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck In The Middle With You” (Nick Clegg would particularly like the line “clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”) and anything by Yellow Magic Orchestra.

But the Lib Dem posters I’ve been seeing around (zilcho in my constituency of Witham, but squillions in Colchester, where they are defending the seat) look more orange than yellow. They have a very 1974 feel about them (and more to come from 1974 tomorrow, as I post up a special boot-sale find) and the seventies seems in retrospect to have been a very orange decade. Orange and Brown. (but not Gordon).

Anyway this is an absolute classic. The soundtrack album for the Stanley Kubrick movie A Clockwork Orange, banned for several decades in this country on orders from Kubrick himself after a couple of dweebs in boiler suits started beating people up (the ban has since been lifted and not a boiler suit in sight – Burberry, yes, but that’s not in the film I don’t think) was performed by Wendy Carlos on her gigantic modular Moog synth.

Carlos first came to prominence with the Switched-On Bach LP in 1968 which featured painstakingly assembled multitracked renditions of Bach chamber and small orchestra pieces on the Moog. The Clockwork Orange soundtrack mixes her renditions of pieces by Beethoven and Rossini with original compositions.

The track I’ve posted here is the title music, which is based on a theme by the English composer Purcell but sets the scene for the film perfectly – dark and moody. Overall it’s a great album, ranging from the avantgarde stylings of “Timesteps” to the ludicrous Benny-Hill style speeded up version of the “William Tell Overture”.

If only most of today’s film composers were allowed to demonstrate 1% of the ingenuity on display here.

Note that although I’ve provided a link to a reissued expanded CD version of this soundtrack, the vinyl, like all early Carlos, is not hard to come by – these were the most successful of all the “Moog” records of the “electronic easy listening” boom of the late 60s through to mid-70s (even though Carlos’s output was much more highbrow than your average easy listening fodder), and so they probably turn up in vast quantities at charity shops and car boot sales near you. I’ve sourced this off the vinyl for that authentic seventies snap, crackle and pop.

CD reissue :: of soundtrack album at Discogs (with extra tracks)

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One More Orbit

The Double K — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:12:00 +0100

Bassomatic – Fascinating Rhythm (Soul Odyssey Mix)

While I’m at it there’s no harm in breaking out this classic, also from 1990. Fascinating Rhythm was first released on Orbit’s own Guerilla label but soon picked up by Virgin to secure a major label release and sales that made it (probably) William Orbit’s biggest pre-Madonna chart success, hitting a respectable number 9 in the UK charts back in September 1990.

Orbit’s output as Bassomatic was dancefloor-oriented in a way the Strange Cargo stuff isn’t, and to be honest it’s pretty hit-and-miss. Maybe more miss than hit in fact, but Fascinating Rhythm is a classic Soul II Soul-bandwagon-jumping 90’s pop dance tune for sure. On another day I’d have gone for the full-on-raving In The Realm Of The Senses but while it’s also a great track it has much less laid-back-chilling-in-the-sun appeal than Fascinating Rhythm. This Soul Odyssey Mix omits the cheesy early 90’s rap, which may or may not be a good thing depending on your outlook. Given the discerning tastes of our rapidly diminishing readership I thought it best to go with this version though.

—- STOP PRESS—- STOP PRESS—- STOP PRESS—-
OK I’ve just found William Orbit’s website and there is tons of great stuff to check out, including a collection of “streamcasters” that provide a range of William Orbit radio stations like Ambience and Bassomatic. Brilliant stuff – get yourself over there!

William Orbit website ::

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One More Orbit (Comment #1)

James — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:35:51 +0100

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bassomatic/229056/

Chillin' in the Sun [1]

The Double K — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:13:00 +0100

William Orbit – Dia Del Muerto

We’ve seen some beautiful weather here in London over the last couple of weeks, and yesterday it actually felt warm out too so it’s time to break out some sunshine tunes!

I’ll start with a couple of beauties from William Orbit’s 1990 LP Strange Cargo 2 (which is, as you might guess, the follow-up to 1989’s Strange Cargo and predecessor of 1993’s Strange Cargo 3). Prior to producing some top-class pop records for the likes of Madonna, All Saints and Sugababes (presumably for X amount of dollar) Orbit honed his lush production style crafting a bunch of ambient-house-ish stuff on these LPs (and I think he played guitar and bass on them too).

This track is pure chilling-on-a-beach-somewhere stuff: lovely little guitar licks, varied percussion and a bassline with more than enough groove to get your toes tapping.

Buy a Strange Cargo 3-pack Here ::

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Chillin' in the Sun [1] (Comment #1)

Hal Berstram — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:23:12 +0100

Lovely picture to accompany this posting, KK – you'll have to show me how to provide pictures to accompany postings at some stage (I can't work out how to do it with loudblog – it's probably just me being thick.)

Chillin' in the Sun [2]

The Double K — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:12:00 +0100

William Orbit – Atom Dream

This second track, also from Strange Cargo 2, is very much more of the same style as Dia Del Muerto, although with more of a distinctive early 90’s feel to the beats and bass. There’s even a bit of ‘funky’ slap-bass in the middle section which if I’m honest is probably a bit dodgy, but Forgive me – I’m feeling it at the moment.

Buy Strange Cargo 2 Here ::

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Hal Berstram — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:32:00 +0100

For the Green Party:

New Order – Everything’s Gone Green (extended “Substance” mix)

Going on the movements in the polls over the past week, “Everything’s Gone Yellow” would have been more appropriate, but this was the next one I had cued up in a sequence of four, so here it is.

The Greens are reportedly doing well in Brighton and Norwich so could pick up at least a couple of seats this time round…

But in any case, this is a good excuse to post some early New Order. I think I may have posted a track from their 1981 debut LP “Movement” some time ago… “Everything’s Gone Green” was a single released the same year as “Movement” but there was no overlap between the “Movement” tracks and the 7” or 12” versions of “Everything’s Gone Green.”

The 7” single featured the B side “Procession” which also made it onto the 2nd CD of New Order’s excellent 1987 singles compliation “Substance”. The 12” single also featured “Mesh” (which made it onto the “Substance” CD) and “Cries and Whispers” (which was criminally omitted from the “Substance” CD, but is on the cassette version). Sorry… this is all very spoddy, trainspotting stuff.

Some of the tracks on “Substance” had to be rerecorded in 1987 because New Order (or Factory, their label) had lost the master tapes – at least I think that’s the reason, it could just have been that the band didn’t like the original versions. In this case I think it is the original 1981 recording but I’ve never owned a copy of the 12” single so I don’t really know for sure.

But whatever, it’s quite simply an early techno-pop classic. Strange whoop at about 4 minutes in and all.

Superbly reissued :: on 180g vinyl with link to mp3 downloads included in the package - from the Rough Trade shop

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The Double K — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:08:03 +0100

Speaking of people who are (or at least may have been) banned from playing places, I'm reading Peter Hook's "The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club" at the moment, and in 1985 Einstürzende Neubauten earned a lifetime ban from the club for taking a pneumatic drill to the main supporting concrete beam during a show. Apparently security had to wrestle it off him on-stage to prevent the roof coming down on everyone. Hooky's characteristically downbeat comment: "They shouldn't have let him in with a fucking drill anyway". He also says the removal of the drill didn't much alter the sound of the band as "they had another ten on tape anyway".

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Stepmoz — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:20:33 +0100

Unfortunately, Most of Hook's comments about this gig are pure bollocks. For a start, they didn't actually have a pneumatic drill, it was a Kango hammer (simply not as powerful). Secondly, the beams at The Hacienda were solid steel – Kango hammers don't go through steel – so there wasn't any real danger; probably N.U. Unruh just showing off. Still, Pete's gonna tout the apocryphal version, isn't he?