Hmmm. I'm from the UK but I don't live there at the moment.
When I started reading the UK / US fite thread I wanted to be deeply patriotic.
But I dunno ... now I don't live there I don't know what is happening in the UK.
Last time I went (a couple of months ago) I brought back "So Solid" (brilliant but I find very derivitive of US stuff like Three6 Mafia), "The Streets" (I love when I can control my anti-geezer allergy), the new Aim album (saddly disapointing), and a great local downbeat compilation from Brighton.
I totally missed the bootleg scene until I read about it on the internet :-)
But what should I be looking out for next time? (Apart from the new Super Collider album which is a cert.)
― phil, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
A list of UK Artists set to deliver interesting albums soon:
Monday 20th May
Dot Allison - We're Only Science (Mantra) ex One Dove vocalist turns
into Britain's answer to Miss Kittin, with Keith T of Radioactive
Man/ Two Lone Swordsmen at the controls.
Mr C - Change (End Recordings) superb tech house album
The The - 45 RPM - Best Of (Epic)(R) compilation of singles
MAY 27th 2002:
Danny Breaks - Vibrations (Droppin Science)
Ian Crause - Head Over Heels (Acuarela) ex Disco Inferno
Digital - Dubzilla (Function Records) key drum n bass producer from
Ispwsich
Dillinja & Lemon D - Big Bad Bass (Valve) dual album - hard techstep
jungle
Dom & Roland - Back For The Future (Moving Shadow)
Faultline - Your Love Means Everything (Blanco Y Negro) David Kosten
makes a high profile album with guest vocals, getting good press
Icarus - Misfits (Unknown) experimental cut up electronics with
breakbeats
Sierpinski - This Geography Of Ours (Jonathon Whiskey) Compared to
Movietone, Boards Of Canada, Arovane, Micheal Nyman and Bark Psychosis
Super_Collider - Raw Digits (Rise Robots Rise) You know about this,
Simon Reynolds approved cut up sounds.
V/A Radioactive Man Vs Transparent Sound - Beatz Clash Volume One
(Longhaul) electro without the eclectroclash - this is more machine
driven electro !
V/A Tyrant 02 Craig Richards And Lee Burridge (Fabric) the big tech-
house compilation of 2002
The Jesus & Mary Chain - 21 Singles (WSM /Warner Strategic
Marketing) nice collection of singles in chrono order from 1984 to
1998
June 3rd
Rothko - A Continual Search for Origins (Too Pure) atmospheric post
rock with 3 bass guitars
Spylab - This Utopia (Guidance) Glasgow band, compared to lamb/
portishead/ massive attack
Waterglass - Wisdom Like Silence (Watertight Recordings) London based
band compared to Cocteau Twins/ Cranes.
June 10th
High Contrast - True Colours (Hospital Records) Future Funk Jungle -
drumnbass jungle's most anticipated debut album for 2002
Sometime in June:
V/A Andrew Weatherall - Machine Funk Specialists (Rotters Golf Club)
he is back with a wicked comp.
June/ July
Peshay - Fuzion (Cubik) July 1st - more Future Funk Jungle - sublime
producer.
Ils - Soul Trader (Marine Parade)fresh breakbeat from a signing to
Adam Freeland's label
Layo & Bushwacka - Nightworks(XL)early July? the big summer dance
album by a British artist. This is going to be sublime tech house
with some added bass guitar.
Starecase - Firstfloor (Hope Recordings) Bristol breakbeat crew.
Primal Scream - TBC/ July 29th - maybe pushed back !
Transparent Sound (Electrix) electro-beats ala The Advent.
― DJ Martian, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
'Autobahn 66': The first of two collaborations with old mucker Andy
Weatherall. "I think it's the best thing we've done since 'Higher
Than The Sun'. It's an absolute classic. When you hear the track,
you'll be blown away. It's as good as Kraftwerk. It doesn't sound
like Kraftwerk but it's got that melancholic, beautiful driving
feel." (
Bobby
Gillespie on the new Primal Scream Album)
Hahahaha. If Primal Scream or Andrew Weatherall EVAH record anything
half as good as Kraftwerk, I will probably drop stone dead from
complete SHOCK. Don't bother being modest or anything, Bobby, just
tell us how great you think ya are.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)