(idm) nme/muzik ramblings + sf-move :)

From simonc
Sent Wed, Oct 20th 1999, 15:25

hi y'all,

since i just picked up the new copies
of both muzik and nme here in the uk,
thought i'd pass on the idm-related stuff
from both of them..

Luke Vibert + BJ Cole single (?)
"Drum+Bass+Steel" gets reviewed in
On in NME - "surprisingly harmonious",
but "involving Squarepusher's jazz fusion
thing on the B-side is perhaps a gene pool
too far". Does that mean Squarepusher remix
or just influences? It's on Law+Auder btw.

"Sunday Best Vol.2" on Sunday Best Recordings
is out Nov.22nd and I mention it cos it's got an
exclusive Lemon Jelly track and I haven't heard
them mentioned much round here - I heard one
of their 12-inches, which is frankly _amazing_ in a
chill-out Air-but-different-maybe-better type
way. Not totally idm, but totally worth watching
out for - they also run a wicked club in London
called Impotent Fury - they have a wheel with
musical styles on (eg 'surf', 'deathmetal', 'Prince',
'teenybop'), and spin it every half-hour, and then
play that style of music for a half hour :)

Ovuca gets reviewed in NME albums - "Lactavent"
gets 8/10, apparently he "brings a novel, e-number-crazed
approach to the increasingly earnest discipline of
electronic" (in other words, this is braindance -
Rephlex are getting back to rave principles again!)

Also, the V/VM "AuralOffalWaffle.." gets 8/10 -
"the soundtrack to your life - if you live in a cracked
sewage pipe under the M62", haha. I agree with its
brilliance but I'm afraid in the end I found it brilliant
but a bit unlistenable. Yeah, I'm a wuss, what of it?

Also Spymania Allstars - "Welcome To Celebrity
Fog Donkey" (best name ever alert!) get 8, with
Spymania being branded "consistently astounding"
and a final comment - "at time beautiful and moving,
at others sick and wrong, but always headed in the
right direction". Haven't heard it, but I dig the related
Spymania stuff I've heard - although the whole 'we'll
wear Jill Dando's killer's photofit masks for our
photoshoot' was a bit on the sick side, I thought. :)

There's a little Warp article in Muzik - Steve Beckett
mentions they shipped 3,000 "Music Has A Right To
Children" initially and it's now sold 60,000 - presumably
that's UK only? Dunno. He also said they contacted
Radiohead and Beck (!) to do remixes for "Warp 10+3",
but a lot of people they contacted couldn't or wouldn't
do it.

Sorry I always go on about Warp/Rephlex etc, btw.. I
guess they're what I relate too most and they're certainly
what the UK press go on about most :)

Oh, Tek 9 has a new album out (Dego from 4 Hero)
apparently - "Simply" on SSR. 5 stars outta 5 in Muzik.

Oo, new BT album has a guestspot from Kirsty Hawkshaw.
Lemme swoon now. And as I've pointed out to CiM,
BT's new label is called Headspace, unfortunately, but
it's no relation to the techno/idm label of the same name.
Doh.

New compilation - "The Big Chill: Enchanted 01" sounds
nice - Mr.Scruff, Fila Brazilia, Harold Budd, Amba
(Tom Middleton). Mm, chillout.

New Fila Brazilia album - "A Touch Of Cloth" - out
25th October, and they're touring the UK with a 6 piece
band, same as played The Big Chill I think. Hull's
best export! Oh, new album is out on Tritone, not
Pork - new label I guess.

The SolidSteel DJs (DJ Food, DK..) mention The Porn
Theater Ushers in their Top Ten - top choice, they're
the stupidestwackest hiphop I've heard in a while - yeh,
I know 'the new De La Soul' is passe, but they're another
candidate!

Umm, and that's about it. Hope people appreciate the info.

regards,
h0l/simon.
[http://www.mono211.com - xxx@xxxxxxx.xxx]

ps - on a not entirely un-related note, I'm moving from
England to San Francisco in a few weeks time (newjob+stuff!) -
can any SF people on the list who're up on all the idm-related
events in the city gimme a mail for a chat or to point me to
good web-resources?

[Mono211/Monotonik will continue as an online label, tho
obviously the possible forthcoming CD/vinyl releases are
stuffed up a bit by the move - I still have accomplices in the
UK, though, so watch for md - "between gaps" on CD soon,
all things being equal..]