Andrew Weatherall? (RIP February 2020)

although weatherall is a soft target for critisicm, he is a wicked dj.

actually, if you've never done Orbital live, maybe give that a go. they're great the first five times. You get to watch thin Hartnoll being the Tartnoll.

Weatherall is a top DJ as well. Actually, split into three people and go to everything, that's what I say.

Listening to Pox On The Pioneers today for the first time. The intro to Built Back Higher sounds like an homage to Durutti Column. Another parallel to DC....neither Andy nor Vini should sing.

Not a bad album so far. Probably not one i'll return to but I appreciate him making an album like this instead of just pushing out more electro/deep house tracks.

Oh man I forgot about Hypercity. SEMINAL (in the sense of gooey, white, sticky ...)

Only half the way through Pox right now, but "Seminal Walking" is so good it actually makes me wish it had vocals (preferably from a guest).

....neither Andy nor Vini should sing xpost

I heard him vocalise around 1981 in a sixth form band at Windsor Arts Centre. sounds like he hasn't improved.

I kinda liked You Can't Do Disco Without A Strat

i really didn't like the gothabilly stuff he did. what is the "pox" album like?

No more opinions on Pox? Not sure what I think of it myself, other than the impression it's a bit topheavy- the first four tracks would make a fantastic EP.

Just looking at all the eight year old Orbital vs. Weatherall exchanges above is pretty amusing.

There's a good EP in there but I didn't enjoy it as an album.

vocals no worse than old Renegade Soundwave really (remind me of them + Terry Hall at times)

'All The Little Things' is fantastic

I like Walk of Shame. TBH, I generally like the album. None of it stands out, but as a sound I like it. Pleasant and a different take on the post-punk sound which is no mean feat considering how much it's been rinsed this decade.

"none of it stands out" = stock weatherall critique post-"stay down"

i think it's a fair critique btw

...and most of it I didn't like either. Personally I thought till this one after the Fifth Mission it went downhill for Weatherall (albeit with a few nice house records along the way).

This one grabbed me differently, and as for stuff not standing out I wouldn't say that's always a valid criticism. Would you criticise Gas or Young Marble Giants for it? It all sounds similar but it's a good similar.

Lest we forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvBXKSTHEZ0

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Seriously, forgot how great this is!!!

Fifth Mission is stunning. So many styles. I've bought it 3 times.

For archeologists excavating this thread: Weatherall is in part responsible for the Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport, which is in my top 10 of the past 5 years.

Cosign. Awesome record.

Weatherall produced the penultimate track on Warpaint's debut, too.

My copy of The Fool has him down as mixing Undertow and Baby.

I really like the dub mixes he's just done of Steve Mason's Boys Outside - reminds me of Sabres of Paradise mixes circa 94.

I posted that from the iPhone while still in bed, so bow to your actual fact checking there!

I've not heard the Boys Outside dub mixes, but I love that album so will have to seek it out. Is it on CD anywhere or am I gonna have to scour the internetz?

There are two mixes on the Boys Outside single, Nick - on iTunes and (presumably) CD.

With his various mixes and productions this year and his DJ set at the Screamadelica shows, I've enjoyed being reminded how much I love Weatherall. I used to be a total stan, buying every one of his early 90s remixes on vinyl.

Used to have all his Bloodsugar mixes on a hard drive somewhere. Must track them down.

Anyone else listened to his Asphodells project's new record yet? Cosmic/Balearic disco stuff, sounding pretty good on first listen.

I haven't heard it yet but if it's Love From Outer Space-type stuff it'll be amazing.

posted when I'd heard the first track, some of the later tracks feature vocals and are more in a post-punk vein, they remind me a bit of that Harvey Locussollus record.

In fact some melodica work is making it sound a lot like Power Corruption & Lies-era New Order, a good thing in my book.

that sounds pretty good, if it's more like Locussolus and less like the post-punky Two Lone Swordsmen record (From the Double Gone Chapel), I liked that one at first and then it wore off ...

http://soundcloud.com/factmag/weatherall-mix-asphodells

this is really good in places, but a bit guilty of being exactly as you'd imagine it to sound, ie like primal scream.

Yeah that's what I thought, I mean in fairness Weatherall did create that sound but it's such a well-worn grove to slip into that unless it's absolutely sublime I find myself wanting to put something else on. Same goes for the whole Richard Norris/Time and Space Machine thing.

https://soundcloud.com/faber-social/sets/musics-not-for-everyone-series

Say what you like about Weatherall but he has a decent beard.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YiXGN8kPL.jpg

this is so sooooo good.
its very much in line with his 'love from outer space' groove.
in fact thats the final track on the 3rd cd ..
oh, and he is hoping to sort out a proper dub version of the asphodells album (as opposed to the soon to be released remix set)

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=470

this is amazing

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/25/andrew-weatherall-interview-dj-disco-maverick

at a family friendly festival a couple of years back i got permission to do the selfish thing and saw him do the extended groove under the 'a love from outer space' banner.

best 3 hours ever.

I've seen him do that as well a day I dunno, I found it all a bit one paced at the time. I was in the middle of five days of Croatian beach festival mentalism and I'd just seen Optimo, so maybe it was a case of wrong set wrong time.

Looking forward to the new album though, even though I wasn't keen on the Asphodells thing I'll always give any Weatherall venture a go.

I saw A Love From Outer Space on Halloween 2013 at Plastic People. His goth side burst out for the occasion at half 12, with extended mixes of Bunnymen, Cave, Suicide etc.

wtf terrible news

RIP Andrew Weatherall, whose talent wasn't just for making music, but for thinking about in a wholly unique way.

— Michael Hann (@MichaelAHann) February 17, 2020

aw, what? fuck

just on Twitter at the moment but Dave Haslam has put this up

I can't believe I am writing this.#RIP Andrew Weatherall

(6 April 1963 - 17 February 2020)

One of the greatest, sweetest, funniest guys I've ever met. pic.twitter.com/hXKR02k850

— Dave Haslam (@Mr_Dave_Haslam) February 17, 2020

We are deeply sorry to announce that Andrew Weatherall, the noted DJ and musician, passed away in the early hours of this morning, Monday 17th February 2020, at Whipps Cross Hospital, London. The cause of death was a pulmonary embolism. pic.twitter.com/cOe6KA0yts

— Prescription PR (@prescriptionpr) February 17, 2020

shit

:(

What a fucking bummer.

What the shit?? RIP.

Fucking hell, that's horrible news. RIP.

oh no! RIP, nooooo

so many classics from the 90s and beyond, of course, but in particular I'll miss his NTS show which I tried to catch every month, was still discovering lots of good stuff from him :(

listened to his nts show just last week, wtf

fuck's sake

Fuck, this sucks bad. RIP.

His NTS was great, yeah.

wtf

oh fuck

Most random Andrew Weatherall memory is buying Tiny Reminders by Two Lone Swordsmen in Northampton HMV while at uni, gegting it home, putting it on, and the CD being a mispress that had the audio of a Shakespeare play or Dickens novel (I forget which - it was 20 years ago) instead of music. The graphic on the CD was right, just the wrong audio.

Weatherall changed the way I think and feel about music in a seismic way.

Super young. He fell off my radar a long time ago (that's my fault, not his), but I think I listen to his My Bloody Valentine remix more than I listen to MBV these days.

a personal favourite mix of his: https://www.mixcloud.com/PacOlgarte/heavenly-presents-andrew-weatherall-live-the-social-volume-3-1999/

kind of random but i just remembered that time he popped up on streetview

Think i just randomly found Andrew Weatherall on Google maps streetview - https://t.co/OKJV37KvkK pic.twitter.com/I9XxvoFDte

— 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚎𝚖𝚎 (@grohs) September 27, 2016

RIP. Screamadelica will be all over the obits, but Morning Dove White is the one I go back to more often, a favorite album from a favorite era in music.

RIP. I wasn't super familiar with his other material, but I loved Two Lone Swordsmen. Far too young to go.

my life would be different without him.

Holy shit this is terrible. I met him at a festival in Croatia a few years ago when he was having dinner at the restaurant table next to us, seemed like a lovely guy and the Love From Outer Space set he played later on was phenomenal. Yeah there's the stuff he's best known for but he appeared to have a genuine curiosity for new music, one of the few DJs from that era who never seemed to be outdated or relying on past glories.

Can’t believe it, it's easy to forget how much important output he was behind, and for how long. Two Lone Swordsmen and Sabres of Paradise were pretty important for me in my teens, and it’s sad to think part of that world is gone.

watching him and keith tenniswood playing vintage dub at Reading 98 was a lightning bolt moment for me. watching the crowd grooving to this slow reggae and hearing it morph seamlessly into techno by ways of Wilmot was so special

He played locally after Christmas and I stupidly didn’t go.

As Matt DC points out he seemed to have an undimming or unflagging interest in discovery, and never seemed to coast.

A bit before 'Tiny Reminders' came out I remember him saying something like 'We've made an electro album. I don't see why electro can't be considered a proper genre in itself, like house or techno'. And of course he was right, although in 1999 there wasn't enough new electro being produced for this to be conceivable. Two years later, electroclash was the most buoyant new genre in the game and electro would be the sound to define the coming decade in pop and dance music.

I mainly knew him through his remix work, which was reliably great from what I heard, esp given that most ppl treat it as an afterthought.

I love the fact that he had this parallel rockabilly thing going on for years as well.

when TLS went punkabilly, I have to say it threw me a bit. anyone prepared to reassess it?

I don't think I really listened to much by him after 2004 when From The Double Gone Chapel came out. What's good from after that era?

The final two TLS records were decent. Not life-changing, but enjoyable. The wrong meeting ones.

His Fabric mix from '04 is one of my favourites of the whole series

I'm really itching to listen to it again

From Bill Brewster's FB:

There were two sides to Andrew Weatherall. Over in one murky corner was the Lord Sabre of ill-repute, whose music often expressed a darkness that must have been otherwise well hidden. The other side was the quietly reflective, frequently hilarious, deadpan polymath whose character seemed deeply at odds with his piratic look. I guess he was a bit of both.

Although our paths often came close in the 1990s, it was only over the past 20 years that I really got to know Andrew. I interviewed him a couple of times, but we also DJed together at a bunch of parties and hung out at festivals, usually with his girlfriend Lizzie. In person he couldn’t have been further from his slightly foreboding reputation. He was an extremely likeable person, always with an interesting angle on a well-worn story, he was someone you’d be guaranteed to end of talking about something typically off the wall; I’m remembering conversations over the years that covered New Orleans voodoo, David Essex in That’ll Be The Day, Billy Childish or any one of countless diversions that always seemed to be part of a few hours spent with Mr Weatherall. He was also kind and thoughtful man. One summer, we spent a week together in a villa in Croatia, and he helped teach my then very young daughter how to swim (in between speculation about whether Dr John had filched lyrics from a book he’d just read).

I’d doubt whether anyone from the acid house generation has forged such a singular career as Andrew. Many have gone on to become much more successful and considerably more wealthy than him, but none of them have managed to plough a furrow so unique and utterly without ‘career planning’ in mind. Careers were for other people, but not him (during one of our interviews, he told me, “It was only about five or six years ago I realised I was a DJ.”)

Weatherall somehow beat a path in all kinds of directions – verdant and otherwise – but still managed to keep people fascinated by his next move and was equally at home banging out coruscating European techno as he was digging out rockabilly obscurities for a crowd dressed in Western checks and Levis. One of my favourite Weatherall tips was Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang’s brilliant cover of Tainted Love. Pure Andrew dynamite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qJwft9B48k

He told me on more than one occasion that he’d seriously thought about knocking DJing on the head and concentrating on his art. It’s a tragedy for the art world that he never lived long enough to pursue further diversions. In fact, it’s just a tragedy full stop. What a DJ. What a producer. What a guy.



Having gone through my own losses over the past few years, my heart is aching for Lizzie and for ALFOS buddy Sean and Caroline and all of his close friends. He was a giant of a man and he’ll be terribly missed by many many people.

Amazing hilarious interview here

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/25/andrew-weatherall-interview-dj-disco-maverick

Xp that's great stuff from Bill Brewster. I'm amazed when someone can have that kind of impact on so many people.

The three-CD 'Masterpiece mix he did for Ministry of Sound is also tremendous, more in the Love From Outer Space vein, although I'd recommend starting with discs two and three.

Also the Essential Mix from the 90s, always and forever.

I really want to know what he thought about David Essex in That’ll Be The Day!

Oh shit, Hypercity as well, that's one of the defining microhouse mixes.

i just want to say this news sucks, i got nothing else at the moment.

before i saw i saw him perform a 3 hour set of the same kind of groove as that Masterpiece set (as mentioned upthread), i bumped into him wandering around the festival.
i was wearing an on-u t-shirt, we of course chatted.
such lovely warm nature.
just wish i had the chance to have a few drinks and really chat to him, i bet he had some brilliant stories.

related : saw this band support Jim Jones a few years back, checked out the merch afterwards and saw that Andrew had remixed them, so bought the EP on the spot for the remix alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_dPcjS2NOI

The three-CD 'Masterpiece mix he did for Ministry of Sound is also tremendous, more in the Love From Outer Space vein, although I'd recommend starting with discs two and three.

seconded, well worth tracking down, acid house loveliness. I have fond memories of listening to it while getting the bus from Bilbao to San Sebastian, through misty Basque hills.

let's all listen to his nts shows, they are wonderful

Lovely words from Rolo McGinty of the Woodentops on FB:

I awoke, read something a bit weird got straight back in bed went straight to sleep and hoped it was hoax about Andy Weatherall.
He was for a while my near neighbour in Clapham North, late 80’s early 90’s. Theres so many people will be gutted because he was a cheerful friendly bloke, always a glint of good humour . I owe him a lot for all the tracks of mine he popped on the decks. All the places he put me on the door for, laughs, music conversations, mutual friends, some really ace tracks he produced but you know, mainly an active music nut like myself and im not at all used to the truth of this. Ive taken the day off, done deal. Plenty of names coming to mind of people who will be emotionally paralysed. To his family and people closer than I , I wish good healing. He was a centre of energy and clever as well as witty

And Joe Muggs at Mixmag:

https://mixmag.net/feature/rip-andrew-weatherall-obituary-dj

that joe muggs piece is excellent.
had to close down FB as my timeline was getting too emotional.
best thing is to just kick back with a glass of wine, and enjoy AWs grooves for the rest of the evening.

I'm listening to his 2017 album Qualia right now. a nice combination of murky, squirly electronica and the more live instrumentation of his later days

Was he about the only producer to birth a genre via a remix? Maybe the indie/dance crossover was inevitable to some extent, but it seems like "baggy", such as it was, couldn't have existed without "Loaded" and the "Soon" remix.

Justin Robertson has just posted this on the ALFOS FB group:

Weatherall and co artwork from over the years.

Download and do as you please within reason.

Link will be valid for 7 days and is free.

Hopefully it's a good gesture that AW would appreciate xx

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/c3c196a91e9f32b0a0760ba08bd7d16120200217170915/9dca65/grid

Was he about the only producer to birth a genre via a remix?

Not to take anything away from Weatherall, but I'm sure even he himself would credit King Tubby as being the first producer/remixer to do this.

Also, techstep was born out of DJ Trace's remix of T-Power's "Mutant Jazz", tho obviously that happened a couple of years after "baggy".

I didn't follow his career but this was unexpected all the same — his name popped up in so many places. I no longer remember how I discovered it (maybe here?), but several tracks from his Nine O'Clock Drop compilation never left my workout playlist, and in particular I have it to thank for exposing me to Gina X Performance. I should listen to some of those NTS shows! RIP.

tuomas : think the post was about the fact that Andrew possibly invented the baggy remix i.e. a specific genre - the remixing of indie guitar bands for the dance floor.

can anyone tell me the version of 'haunted dancehall' that's on the cafe del mar vol2 compilation

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Caf%C3%A9-Del-Mar-Ibiza-Volumen-Dos/release/23725

it's very very different to the version on the sabres album ?
it's truly gorgeous with massive orchestration and deep chill atmospherics.
no detail on the cover/credits/discogs or anything.

and in particular I have it to thank for exposing me to Gina X Performance

Same - 'Warm Leatherette' too for that matter (although I hated it at first) - iirc that comp came out at least a year or so before the revival of that aeshetic was in full swing. Loved that totally different Social mix just as much.

I'm sure he hated the word 'eclectic' but he did seem to occupy a central zone in which all directions of dance met, turning his attention like a clock arm to a particular direction just ahead of everyone else.

xpost to myself : youtube trawling revealed the answer.
it's the In The Nursery version.
guess i need to track that mini-lp of remixes down now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU26wxr520o

Really good interview:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/25/andrew-weatherall-interview-dj-disco-maverick

tuomas : think the post was about the fact that Andrew possibly invented the baggy remix i.e. a specific genre - the remixing of indie guitar bands for the dance floor.

“When that superstar DJ thing began to take off, I thought, ‘DJs? Heroes? Are people really that desperate? I know people want heroes, but seriously, this is ridiculous.’ It was very tempting, because the money to be made and the larks to be had were manifold. It wasn’t a grand, anti-commercial gesture, because I love pop music and I don’t decry people. But call me unambitious, I was fine as I was. I’m quite happy at this level. When it becomes a career, a career in any business looks quite tiresome and vexing and like it might involve me having meetings with people I don’t want to have meetings with.”

🤩🤩🤩 xp

Yeah, I've got that 7" release

Convinced there were another cover on the B side but discogs seems to think it was single sided xps

A friend of mine went to his house once and said he certainly didn't give the impression of having a lot of money.

it's quite sad is this, he was definitely one of the very few good ones:(

ripped from my twitter feed :

"OK my favourite weatherall story told to me by sean johnston... someone was giving him grief across the decks all night and eventually weatherall asks the griefer "how much did u pay to get in tonite?" and the griefer says "a fiver" and weatherall says "here's a tenner. fuck off"

<3

lol!

tuomas : think the post was about the fact that Andrew possibly invented the baggy remix i.e. a specific genre - the remixing of indie guitar bands for the dance floor.

I guess what I was getting at was that a genre could possibly be traced to a specific remix ("Loaded" in this case), that there was this shared "aha!" moment, which I'm sure was there with dub and house of course, but maybe not so traceable to an exact moment like w/ Weatherall. And DJ Trace, who I had forgotten about, though for me techstep was maybe the first genre that I couldn't actually describe to somebody else.

A lot of genres seem to evolve over time, but that indie/dance crossover moment was like a lightning bolt.

i agree.

Nah that was happening anyway and it was almost inevitable that it would - the Wrote For Luck remix was several months before that for one thing.

That is true but I just don't remember people going all doo-lolly for the WFL remix like they did w/ Loaded.

Plus, Vince Clarke basically turned WFL into an Erasure track w/ Shaun Ryder on vox, whereas Weatherall more or less laid out a blueprint w/ Loaded, which is probably why it was so influential.

Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a semantics thread. Let's make way for more great stories about a guy we all agree was a giant in our world.

Weatherall's Weekender.

.. available via soundcloud as i have just found out.

I think I got Nine O'Clock Drop out of the library in 2000 and didn't really give it a fair listen as I'd expected something more techno and dubbier, but going back to it now, that's a v prescient tracklisting - a lot of stuff that I heard revived and revered via other channels over the next few years after it came out

Sad news to wake up to this morning. Listening to Haunted Dancehall today, Wilmot is such a great track and it's such a great album.

I only saw him layout a few times but they were all immense and great memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMzyCoqzrZM

I think he was the DJ I most wanted to be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqOCi6lm3Rw

Middle of the second hour is immense.

Fuck me i’m sad now.

Me too, those were great nights.

I felt deeply saddened to the hear about Andrew Weatherall passing. He was so ubiquitous that almost everyone I knew had a story or a connection to him. He was due to speak at a conference within a festival in Leeds on the 7th of March which I was really looking forward to. I went to the same school as him. I started a few years after he'd left and Loaded had come out while I was a teenager. He was a legendary figure then. I must have seen him play out at least once a year in the last 10 years. I just can't believe he won't be there any more.

i'm not a dance music dude but i liked everything i heard that he was involved in. i mean he even made decent stuff with primal scream! that's heap big medicine.

Never got a chance to see him spin, but he's unquestionably been a huge influence on the direction of my personal musical paths. From the SoP albums ('Haunted Dancehall' still an absolute fave), through his many great remixes, and producer jobs for albums I dug. He was ubiquitous, I always seemed to run into his music somehow, most recently with his great NTS show.

I just remember that the company name for ilx’s zing! App is Haunted Dancehall.

this is a weatherall remix that i really like but i don't think have ever seen mentioned:

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grt188zk9bY

gah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grt188zk9bY

They're playing weatherall all morning on nts and taking requests via the chat

http://sound.modelfruit.com/tracklists/weatherall_bloodsugar.html

The bloodsugar mixes are all still online, with mostly but not quite complete tracklistings

xp Soon remix on now, god level, never gets old

Youtube playlist of all the tracks played on today's show:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOQLM8dqMbTuc87PabOiLCEtuLPrA8Q2Q

I just listened to Haunted Dancehall in the car for the first time in ages and wow it holds up better than ever. Always loved it but in today's context it still works. The drumming on it is fantastic - I assume those are live drum loops he played in? There's even a snatch of the rockabilly influence on tracks like Tow Truck

Beautiful words by Twitch on resident advisor. I'll pay my own tribute on the dancefloor at Optimo this Saturday.

Another Twitch-related memory - Pure was his pre-Optimo techno night in Edinburgh:

My dear fried Jill who also looked after the press for myself & Pure in the 90s dug this out from her archive. Andrew "Wet Pants" Weatherall. pic.twitter.com/rMJKROn6qC

— Optimo (Espacio) (@JDTwitch) February 18, 2020

Plus, Vince Clarke basically turned WFL into an Erasure track w/ Shaun Ryder on vox, whereas Weatherall more or less laid out a blueprint w/ Loaded, which is probably why it was so influential.

btw not trying to dunk on Henry again, just wanted to additionally acknowledge that Weatherall's first remix ever was also for the Happy Mondays, and he'd done other indie-dance remixes between that and Soon

I honestly wouldn't be where I am today without Weatherall's involvement in my music. His constant support and honesty, the time we spent together making 'Tarot Sport', everything. I don't want this to be real

— Blanck Mass (@BlanckMass) February 17, 2020

only found out today re the Weatherall remix of 'Death of a Rudeboy' by Madness.
after some research realised there is no physical product, seems to have been a digital only release, but still, what a fantastic 8 mins of old era Madness ska vs Weatherall dub it is.

oh, and this week sees his final release, Unknown Plunderer/End Times Sound, which includes a remix by Radioactive Man.

Enjoy a few mixes. 143 of them.

http://www.littledogdiscs.co.uk/listing/artistcollection/Andrew+Weatherall

Amazing tribute to Andy Weatherall in Edinburgh. Had to go and see it for myself. 👏 Shona Hardie #andyweatherall #weatherall #andrewweatherall #edinburgh #acidhouse #streetart pic.twitter.com/vFqPT1oLYA

— Edinburgh Music Lovers (@weareEML) February 19, 2020

https://byrdout.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-plunderer-end-times-sound

10 DJ mixes, picked by Matos

Thanks for that link sic, enjoyed some of those last week during a trawl through mixcloud.

Bill Brewsters latest DJ podcast is all things AW and thoughtful. Well worth two hours of anyone's time.

That Petrol Emotion - Abandon (Boy's Own Mix). Doesn't get mentioned much but you can hear the blueprint of all his rockier remixes right there. This must have come out not long after or around the same time as Loaded. Huge baseline and lots of the guitar and vocals left intact.

Readily available on 12" for under a quid.

I mixed all 5 of the Fort Beulah 12”s together since they’re not streaming anywhere.


https://www.mixcloud.com/biznotic/fort-beulah-nu-andrew-weatherall-sequentially-fb001-fb005/

Two rare Lords Of Afford tracks posted (in wav) by Twitch in this thread:

I spent a lot of 1994 putting together this 4 x LP compilation - https://t.co/lweLgvECxC. It would have been impossible to put together without a fax machine and I would endlessly fire off faxes to Coil, Chris & Cosey etc. until I wore them down and they agreed to contribute.

— Optimo (Espacio) (@JDTwitch) February 25, 2020

awesome, thank you brotherlovesdub and sic and Twitch

also I did not know that Pi Recordings was Twitch; picked up and enjoyed a couple of later Pi comps in the late 90s, but sadly don't have that one - looks beautiful

Nice show from David Holmes over on NTS

https://www.nts.live/shows/david-holmes/episodes/god-s-waiting-room-w-david-holmes-9th-march-2020

Tracklist looks great, it misattributes "Silver Cloud" to Neu! though...

https://testpressing.org/magazine/andrew-weatherall-audio-interview-january-1990?

Ace set from Justin Robertson as part of the Glade Glastonbury tribute:

https://www.mixcloud.com/Fail_We_May_Sail_We_Must/justin-robertson-deadstock-33s/

From the same tribute, the David Holmes 'mix' is more of a documentary on Andrew's life and musical career. It's a treasure. https://www.mixcloud.com/Fail_We_May_Sail_We_Must/david-holmes-music-andew-taught-us/

Thanks for the tip - for anyone else not clicking through, there's a total of 21 hours of tribute mixes by three decades of Weatherall collaborators there, and all but Holmer have written remembrances or notes on the mixes. These are buried in the comments, so let’s pull them out on the assumption that ILX is likely to survive, cockroachlike, longer than Mixcloud:

Sherman At The Controls (NME blokey, Sabresonic & Bloodsugar DJ): "Looks Like We’re Shy One Horse"

We lost our dear friend in February, so it is a real privilege that we are able to honour him with love and pride this weekend on behalf of the whole family. Andrew’s passion, knowledge and outlook on life were an inspiration and his shining light will continue to be a beacon for new sonic adventurers long into the future.

Andrew and I shared a love of all things reggae and dub, and music that was out on the borders of the dublands. Last year we sparked the idea of a one-off night encompassing all types of music that used dub techniques. Some of the tunes here reflect what would have gone down had the idea ever progressed further than that first enthusiastic natter in the back of a cab, some we had both bought in our youth, others were shared with each other and some just deserve to be here.

For Lizzie, Ian & Bob and dedicated to all Rotters Golf Club, Sabresonic, Bloodsugar, Circulation, Haywire Sessions, Wrong Meeting, Double Gone Chapel, ALFOS members.
Props to Biff of The Glade stage and Andrew Curley for bringing this together.

“We are together. We are unified.”

--

Rico Vincent (Double Gone Chapel DJ):

I first met Andrew in January ‘92 as a young teen before a Primal Scream concert at the Ulster Hall, Belfast that I’d travelled to from Glasgow. Andrew noticed me in the queue outside, recognising me from previous Scream gigs, and pulled me in past the bouncers and ushered me backstage where we chatted about music and clothes, surprisingly, and a solid bond was formed.

Andrew asked me where I stayed when travelling around the country following the Screamadelica tour and when I replied that I just walked around after the gigs until I could get a bus or hitch-hike to the next gig he immediately gave me his phone number and said I could stay with him when in London. Anyone who knew Andrew will recognise this generosity of spirit that he possessed, always taking care of kindred souls and bringing people together with inspiration and an amusing anecdote.

From then onwards my journey with Andrew was an adventure and musical education of “oompty boompty” techno, Jamacian riddims and rock’n’soul that would begin with “Alright Rico’ and the famous mischievous glint in Andrew’s eyes, occasionally followed by a withering look when stepping out of line, which I probably got more times than I care to remember or admit to, although both always made me smile.

Andrew started The Chapel in Cymon Eccles' pub The Griffin in Shoreditch, a notorious way to spend a Sunday with a mix of country, rockabilly and rock’n’roll to save the soul, providing sanctuary and sanctity for those suffering from Saturday’s shenanigans. I was a regular attendee of the congregation and soon began playing records before we doubled up as the Double Gone Chapel at various establishments around London.

The songs selected for this playlist were chosen to reflect the deep love Andrew and I had for rock’n’roll, The Clash and The Cramps trash culture and only made the grade if I could picture the ‘Andrew shuffle’ as each tune played.

I will always feel honoured to have known my dear friend Andrew and shared so many good times together and I know remembering both that glint in the eye and that withering look will keep me on the righteous path that Andrew tread and led.

Lots of love to everyone who attended the Chapel and knew Andrew, but especially to Lizzie and Ian for the loss of a partner and brother.

God bless the Church of Rock & Roll and Mr Andrew Weatherall.

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Rick Hopkins (Bloodsugar & Haywire DJ):
"Andrew Weatherall – Bird of Paradise"

I was resident alongside Andrew Weatherall (and Fat Cat Records' Alex Knight), at Bloodsugar - Andrew & Dean O’ Connor’s new venture after the legendary Sabresonic and Sabresonic 2 club nights.

To say I was the cat who got the cream, was a huge understatement, having both looked up to, and been massively influenced by Andrew, ever since 1990 or thereabouts. I admired his tenacity and desire to follow his own path.

Here was little old me playing records alongside my musical hero. It was the greatest period in my DJ life, sharing my musical tastes alongside Andrew and also playing music to the close knit circle of family and friends. We had all been on the same journey with Andrew from that very first night at Happy Jax - general mischievousness and dancing at Hoxton’s legendary, and sorely missed The Blue Note. Safe to say we all had the time of our lives - all thanks to The Guv.

Thank you Andrew, for listening to my cassette tapes when I thrust them into your hands at Sabresonic2.

Thank you Andrew, for offering me the residency at Bloodsugar, which opened a lot more doors for me.

Thank you Andrew, more importantly for your friendship and all the belly aches and laughter we had over the years. We had some seriously special times, that I along with so many others, will never forget.

I hope you like this mix Guv x

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LX Paterson (The Orb):
The gov , the man the legend . I will cherish those daze in battersea in late 80’s . Totally wild & untouchable in so many ways. Miss YOU & your mixes , your smile & funny comments.
Peace & rock out in paradise Andrew Lx x

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Timothy J Fairplay (The Asphodells) – "Memorymetropolis mix"

I first met Andrew around 2002 at the height of 00’s electro/electroclash at the regular Haywire parties in Shoreditch, these generally took place in a venue so hot & sweaty that there was a mist that rose off the crowd obscuring you from seeing who was actually playing. Without being over the top these nights became a mecca, not only did they book a lot of other world wide acts that had a huge effect on me - it was there I first saw many of the DJs from the Hague or acts like Adult. from Detroit, but Andrew’s sets were always unmissable, whether you got pummelling euro techno, 2 step tinged house or 200 mile an hour electro from fuck knows where. I remember I got up the bravery to go speak to him, I think just ask him what something was he had played, he seemed pleased I’d asked about that one… So here I am sitting here 20(ish) years later in what was/still is Andrews studio writing this to go with this mix. I have included a couple of old ones, I definitely asked him what ’Down’ was at some point, and ‘Memorymetropolis’ was a bit of an anthem in Scrutton Street studios around when we made The Asphodells album. But Andrew never dwelled on the past or rested on his laurels, so this mix is fundamentally made up of new music, there are nods to artists that he made me aware of and have also since followed, there are tracks that remind me of the psychedelia of the work we did together, there is music in there maybe harder than anything Andrew has played in a few years but holds the spirit of those nights where I first met him.
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Richard Sen (Bronx Dogs) - "Double Drop at Ten O'Clock"
I was a huge fan and first met Andrew in 1993 when I did the artwork for his Sabres of Paradise singles, 'Smokebelch' and 'The Theme' and since then he was a constant presence in my life. I DJ'd with him numerous times over the past 25 years including such legendary nights as Sabresonic, Blood Sugar, Haywire and The Heavenly Social. A personal achievement was also fulfilled when I was asked to remix a track for his Asphodells project and in return he and Tim would remix one of my tracks (which I have included in this mix). He was always supportive of my productions which I would give him exclusively to test out at clubs like ALFOS. Whether it was going to hear him DJ or just hanging out in his studio, Andrew was always entertaining, always interesting, always from the heart and always had a 'fuck off' punk attitude. I wouldn't be doing what I do now, musically, if it wasn't for Andrew. He was and still is a continual influence and inspiration not just musically, but as a cultural and spiritual guide.

I took Andrew's compilation, Nine O'Clock Drop as a framework and inspiration for my mix (hence the name). His was a collection of his favourite 'alternative' dance music tracks, ranging from post-punk to industrial and dub. In keeping with his idea, I compiled a selection of my own faves from those genres. I've included some classics, some obscurities and a few tracks I have heard Andrew play over the years, and a nod to his original compilation with a Quando Quango track and a glam cover of Warm Leatherette. There are also a few samples from his remixes sporadically sprinkled on top of the mix...

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Justin Robertson (Deadstock 33s, Lionrock):
‘Proceeding in a slow and orderly fashion into the future with half an eye on the past’ (Andrew Weatherall 2012)

Andrew we salute you.
It’s a tall order trying to stitch together an hour and a half’s worth of music to pay tribute to one of dance music’s true geniuses. There aren’t enough hours available to cover the spectrum of sound that he mastered. Andrew Weatherall was a wizard, a magician, a conductor of musical energy, the Guvnor. There is a lot of ridiculous hyperbole surrounding the art of DJing, but in Andrew’s case all the superlatives are deserved, his passion shone through every set he played, they were like rituals where real magic happened.

His inspiration will continue to feed those fascinated by the alchemy of ‘acid house’ and the wonder of outsider music in all its forms. So, with that in mind I thought I would explore just a small corner of the musical galaxy, what Andrew would call ‘oompty boompty music’. He could bring the rave like no other, always looking for new sounds and obscure tracks to baffle and delight. I’m still struggling to find most of them after years of searching. This mix is a mixture of new tracks, because Andrew was an evangelist for the new, and older tracks that remind me of him. I’ve included a couple of numbers I made that Andrew took the time to call me about. It was a great buzz to get his feedback and to know he was into what you were doing. He was always encouraging and positive like that, as I’m sure countless producers will testify.

In this particular potion you will find tunes and snippets from Andrew himself, a spot of lysergic boogie, a pinch of hypnotic trance dance, machine funk bangers, cosmic wigglers and all manner of galactic disco business. Transport yourself to the basement or field of your imagination. Until we meet again, thank you for everything my friend. X

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Jagz Kooner / Andrew Innes (Sabres / Scream Team):

There’s not much we can say about Andrew that hasn’t already been said by many (& far more eloquently). He was a true maverick, a pioneer & an inspiration as well as a sonic genius. However more than that to us he was our friend. Suffice to say we miss him dearly. We would say rest in peace normally but we hope he is cranking up the Sound-system and taking all those around him on a musical journey that puts a huge smile on all the faces of those listening & dancing to him. ❤️

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Sean Johnston (A Love From Outer Space): - "Further Adventures In The Bulletproof Staff Car"

There had been several prior adventures with Andrew spanning back to the early 90's, but somehow by 2008 and the alchemy of circumstance, I had become his regular gig driver. At the time I had a black company BMW 330d (M-Sport, no less), the automotive equivalent of Darth Vader. Andrew, with tongue firmly in cheek, referred to it as the "Bulletproof Staff Car".

It was on one of these late night and early morning motorway forays that the idea for A Love From Outer Space began to germinate. Generally, we got through a dizzying variety of music en-route, demo's, digging finds, and other assorted oddities. One night Andrew had thrown his gear in the boot and expected me to provide the evening's warm-up. Much to my chagrin, the only thing I had to offer was three mix CD's of "Erm, it's just this slow stuff that I'm into at the moment, you probably won't like it". Andrew absorbed them one after another and quietly observed that we should maybe do something together in this style.

Little was I to know that it would plot the course of the next decade. Thanks, Dear Boy, for the adventures, the music, the laughs, and also for the biscuits. We never really sorted that one out, did we? The Staff Car has long gone, but I'm still chasing the adventure. I'd like to think that you'd approve.

Brother Johnston, June 2020

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Scott Fraser (Body Hammer) – “AW Glastonbury Underground Resistance Mix”

In all truth I wouldn’t be here doing this for a living today if it wasn’t for two people, Andrew Weatherall and Martin McKay from Rubadub Records in Glasgow.

I wouldn’t have met one without the other either, and it seems very apt that I’ve chosen Underground Resistance Records to do this mix for my first ever at Glastonbury. There was always a special connection between Mike and the UR crew with the Rubadub guys in Glasgow. Furthermore, UR and what they stand for are even more vital than ever on this screwed up planet we are all living on at the moment.

One of the things I loved (and I miss terribly) about Andrew was his generosity in giving you the most ridiculously good records on an almost daily basis, and certainly weekly, after he had been record shopping in Soho or anywhere else. He would come in, hand you something and say “have you heard this.. unbelievable, you’ll love it…”

Quite often, he would just buy something for me because he knew I’d like it, and I’d often do the same for him if I was in a record shop. There's one on here (UR091 Nomadico), with which he bounced into my room one Thursday afternoon, bought on one of his regular trips to Phonica after visiting Chris Camm for a haircut.

Suffice to say, we always had a joint love of UR right from day one, so I’ve tried to get as many as we both love in as possible. Obviously there are too many to get into 90 mins so I hope I’ve done him proud with these choices. These are still some of the most forward thinking futuristic music I own which was always important to him too. The last time I played with Andrew was at the Panoramabar in September last year, he came down a couple of early (switched on the fan which I hadn’t noticed all night incidentally) and I vividly remember him bouncing in the DJ box when I dropped “UR Transition” about 9am with his hair wafting in the air as he gave me that knowing Weatherall nod and cheeky grin, and that’s how to remember him when it comes in here too!

Thank you Andrew, you are and always will be with me.
Scott Fraser

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Keith Tenniswood (Two Lone Swordsmen)

If Andrew wasn't making music, he was consuming it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Always preparing various DJ sets in multiple different styles and finding time for Art, making original prints, thinking about different images and ways to print. Track titles were always being noted. An expert in Gentlemen's facial hair experiments. A major bookworm. A walking encyclopedia of musical knowledge.

Above all a true artist, realising his time on the planet must be spent being creative..

Just how many friends he had and how many people he knew was amazing, on and around the scene of a travelling DJ, but London in particular - he was a proper Londoner, taking in all the cultural delights the city has to give and giving it back ten fold…

If he was around during all of this, I'd imagine he'd be gutted he couldn't be sharing his music as he did every week in clubs big and small across the planet.

Obviously he'd be doing ALFOS 10 hour live streams with Sean, and weekly radio shows, but I think there's nothing better than being in a party with a ton of love from all the people there, dancing and having a blast..

He just loved it and he worked harder at it than most people in the game.

Proper skills on the 1's and 2's is one thing, but if you can select tunes to take people away and transcend the way he did, you've got it made. And recording studio wise he was an absolute joy to 'work' with..

I’m thankful I got to spend a lot of time making music with him, productive and hilarious times were had..

I thank Mr Jagz Kooner and Mr Gary Burns for giving me that chance. x

Thanks to Andrew Curley for asking me to record this mainly TLS set which is pretty much the same set I’d played at a club night in London the week following his passing. I knew I wanted to celebrate the music and lots of our mutual mates came that night and it was comforting to be together and talk about the great man. Here's just a small selection of what we did together of which I'm immensely proud.

Sail on Major,
Legends live forever.
xx.
Much love
Keith Tenniswood
June 2020
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Alex Knight (Sabresonic & Bloodsugar DJ, Fat Cat Records) - "Glastonbury Sabres Mix"

I’m genuinely humbled to be asked to submit a mix to honour and celebrate brother Andrew. The times we shared at Sabresonic, Happy Jax , EC1 and at the Bloodsugar parties were something beyond special. The people I met, danced with, sweated with, laughed with, have become more than friends. We’ve become a family, the bonds remain strong across the years and I feel truly blessed to be part of that family.

This mix has been thrown together in true Bloodsugar fashion. Slabs of beautiful black vinyl tweaked and turned on a pair of reliable technics turntables, As was always my way I selected way too many records, pressed record, and played, hoping for the best.

What you hear is a warts-and-all mix, the mistakes left in. More than anything I hope it captures in some small way the essence of those sweaty, messy nights, the spirit and energy that made them so memorable and so much bloody fun!

I want to say thanks to Curley, Sherman, the whole Sabresonic, Bloodsugar and ALFOS crews, much love and good times to you all. ❤️⚔️ ❤️

-xx-

cheers sic

Yeah, thanks for posting all this. Would love to read a book about Weatherall and his exploits, seems like a no-brainer for Faber or someone to commission one.

The Weatherdrive is a Google Drive folder containing sub folders that span the length of Weatherall's mainstream DJ career, starting in 1988 when he would have been 25 and busy becoming one of London's foremost acid house DJs and scene provocateurs thanks to his involvement with the Boy's Own fanzine, in which he wrote under the nom de plume The Outsider.

Article here: https://mixmag.net/read/andrew-weatherall-dj-mix-tracks-best-recordings-live-news

David Holmes with a year-end obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/12/andrew-weatherall-remembered-by-david-holmes-obituaries-2020

jesus it does not feel like this happened this year

Free listening (on app or web) for 14 more days: Weatherall talking through his career and life via snippets of records.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z7hx0

Sean posted this on the ALFOS FB group earlier in case anyone was after a copy

Public service announcement from Jockey Slut

Due to huge demand we are happy to announce a limited reprint of 'The Jockey Slut Tribute To Andrew Weatherall'. The book will only be available via pre-order (and sale once stock arrives) from independent record shops. Any remaining copies will be sold via the Jockey Slut store.

One year today :-(

This is Gerard Sheehy from Baltimore in west Cork, who drove Andrew Weatherall to a festival in Skibbereen back in the summer of 2008 & told him some tales of the sea.#failwemaysailwemusthttps://t.co/klo1p0QiR3 pic.twitter.com/zjJU81uEv7

— Cian Ó Cíobháin (@COCiobh) February 16, 2021

RIP. This is a nice story about the origins of Weatherall's "fail we may, sail we must" tattoo. Cian is an Irish dj.

Absolutely awesome story.

Yes, thank you for that.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/download-900-hours-andrew-weatherall-mixes-2613909

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXWKxP_6iiU

salute!

y'all see this?

https://www.flightpathestate.com/drvr/#/browse

starts with mixtapes he gave some folks and moves forward in time from there!

Ewan Pearson posted a terrific tweet thread yesterday about Weatherall.

1/ Thursday 8th June 2017. The day of the general election. I am working on Tracey Thorn’s new LP and though we are mostly making it in my home studio in Walthamstow, today Tracey and I are going to Seven Sisters, to the space I supposedly share with Andrew Weatherall.

— Ewan Pearson (@ewanpearson) February 17, 2022

60th birthday tribute mix by Optimo (26 days left to listen):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kd39

Wilkes intro on the phone at 8:50, 20-min mix at 10:30

Great new introductory guide to his life and work by Joe Muggs over at Shfl -- wonderful stuff:

https://theshfl.com/guide/andrew-weatherall

In Dec 1994 I saw Primal Scream at Shepherd's Bush Empire... who were supported by a live incarnation of Sabres of Paradise (as well as a DJ set from the Chemical Brothers while they were still called the Dust Brothers, and an unannounced acoustic set from Noel Gallagher, and an encore appearance from Paul Weller, it was like the 1994est indie gig ever).

Anyway because the internet is amazing I have found a recording of essentially the same set from Manchester the same month - here

And for some reason - maybe something I read at the time? - I have always vaguely wondered if Weatherall was actually involved in this live show somehow or if it was more driven by Kooner & Burns. Despite knowing him by reputation I wouldn't have known what AW looked like at the time.

Anyway probably I will never know, but thought I would hang this memory out on the internet and maybe someone will one day reply.

the Curses comps, Next Wave Acid Punks Deux (now up to part 3) feel like a kind of continuation of the 9 o’Clock Drop comp. in any case something I imagine he would have very much liked.

yes big fan of the next wave acid punx comps

Huh there's an artist on NWAP 1 with the same handle as an ilx poster?

ha, i've noticed that before, that guy puts out a lot of stuff that's up my alley. def not the same person tho... or is it

xp it's the name of the protagonist in some of charles bukowski's novels

which my bukowski themed local pub chose as its name too.

https://www.chinaskis.co.uk

that’s funny, I liked the Chinaski album from a few years back and did wonder if it was the ilx poster lol

ha I used to know a guy about 20 years ago who had a band called Chinaski. pretty sure he doesn't post on ilx either (or DJ in Germany)

these Next Wave Acid Punks comps look right up my street though, going to check these out

Not me. Confession: I have a vague unease about being associated with Bukowski. Not that I've been arsed to do anything about it.

Fabric have posted sets from their recent Weatherall tribute night:
https://soundcloud.com/fabric/sets/commemorating-andrew
I'm listening to the Smagghe/Richards set which is three hours of burbling acid excellence:
https://soundcloud.com/fabric/ivan-smagghe-b2b-craig

https://materialmusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/a-love-from-outer-space
This beautiful collection dropped today

In Dec 1994 I saw Primal Scream at Shepherd's Bush Empire... who were supported by a live incarnation of Sabres of Paradise (as well as a DJ set from the Chemical Brothers while they were still called the Dust Brothers, and an unannounced acoustic set from Noel Gallagher, and an encore appearance from Paul Weller, it was like the 1994est indie gig ever).

Anyway because the internet is amazing I have found a recording of essentially the same set from Manchester the same month - here

And for some reason - maybe something I read at the time? - I have always vaguely wondered if Weatherall was actually involved in this live show somehow or if it was more driven by Kooner & Burns. Despite knowing him by reputation I wouldn't have known what AW looked like at the time.

Anyway probably I will never know, but thought I would hang this memory out on the internet and maybe someone will one day reply.

― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 11:38 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Well the internet did in fact reply!

With Weatherall busy DJing and producing, the group launched as a five-piece live act comprising Burns, Kooner, RIchard Thair (Red Snapper), Phil Mossman (LCD Soundsystem) and Nick Abnett (The Aloof), and played a series of legendary live shows across the UK, Europe and Japan.

Snippet taken from here

Nice find

Burns, Kooner and Thair were also mainstays of The Aloof

The remastered versions of Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall are now out

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/new-acoustic-spaces-in-the-dancehall-sabres-of-paradise-reissues-reviewed

Haunted Dancehall is so good

I didn’t know these reissues were coming but recently (re)bought Haunted Dancehall on cassette, I was living in London when it came out and was a great Walkman album for exploring the city

Unsurprisingly, “Wilmot” and “Tow Truck” were from the same session that produced “RSD”.

Excellent fact.

Six and a half hours of Weatherall and DJ Harvey B2B for RA1000:

https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra1000-dj-harvey-andrew-weatherall?

stoked

Awesome