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I just ran across this:

RELEASES DUE ON September 1, 2003
Hybrid & Peter Hook True To Form CDS $8.69

Anyone heard this yet? Could make for a very interesting collaboration....

....or it could just be The Revenge of Revenge.

― turkey (turkey), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

thought it was kind of proggy shite to be honest.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I think hooky plays bass on two tracks.. dont know anything else about it..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen the promo vinyl in my local DJ store, i'll check it out. Hybrid have been massively dissapointing with everything they released since Wide Angle though.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

hybrid are truly abysmal - and what a horrid, horrid name for a group, too... sets my teeth on edge just reading it...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 14 August 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Back from my lunch break & quick visit to the record store: it's nice but not much more. Very much a return to Hybrid's atmospheric "If I Survive" and "Unfinished Symphony" style. But a as usual with Hybrid, polished & sterile and not much more than the sum of its parts: soaring string orchestra + clean breakbeat + typical Hook bassline + wailing Thom Yorke-wannabe vocals.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 14 August 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I bet you fucking hate breaks Dave?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

admittedly most of it is utter boring clunky shite but I'm still a sympathiser

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I really liked "If I Survive"! But then I'm a sucka for Julee Cruise. There is some good stuff on Wide Angle but it is proggy shite indeed (nb. i think "proggy shite" is a genre not a description)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 15 August 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

haha yeah Tim it's called "breaks". All those awful Layo and Bushwacka sets, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha in 99 I loved Layo & Bushwacka and "If I Survive" and Sasha's "XPander" EP - I can see such an alternative path I might have followed.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank god for UK Garage.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Xpander too, it is a classic I must admit but god L & B's DJ sets are stupendously boring. I don't really understand it, does anyone enjoy prog? And if so how? Is there any good defence of what often appears to be dreadfully boring DJ sets, Northern Exposure etc are good but maybe it's just that a bad prog set is truly awful.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Hybrid did something with Julee Cruise that was quite nice - i think the Plump DJs have got them beat tho

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sasha seems to get it consistently right regarding prog sets...i always loved Northern Exposure, his album tho? hmmmm, just not exciting really but there were a couple of highlights (Fundamental, Magnetic North, Wavy Gravy)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah the Northern Exposure records are really good in an overblown sort of way (well, the first one's overblown; the second is more spacey and hypnotic). I love love love the Pete Lazonby track on the first one (I can't remember whether it's "Wave Speech" or "Sacred Cycles").

And every track on XPander is good! Sasha should have just pretended that was his debut album. It was basically long enough.

It's really sad about Layo & Bushwacka - Low Life was all in all a very good album, especially the different versions of "Dead Man Walking" and "Deep South". It's the same problem as with Stanton Warriors I think: DJs/Producers who get big with the wrong audience, and then start to suck more and more as they try to please that audience.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The problem with prog is that on their own, a lot of tracks are quite enjoyable (at least a dozen absolutely amazing tunes this year already) but DJ's tend to surround the good tunes with loads of godawful generic minimal & deep filler tracks. I've heard quite a lot of Hybrid livesets, and they all start off nice; none of that "let's only play instrumental minimalist grooves for the first 45 minutes to build tension" at least (I'm looking at you, Sasha, Lawler, Tomiie, Digweed!). But boredom usually sets in after the third track anyway. Funny, that.

BTW Junkie XL's bootleg of "Xpander" with Underworld "Cowgirl" is currently available on whitelabel vinyl. Also, I predict that once they've finally signed the track worldwide, Motorcycle "As The Rush Comes" will see some serious chart action, it has been drawing more hype than Iio "Rapture" and Tomcraft "Loneliness" combined.

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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