Love these dudes so much, was shocked to realise there's no thread about them. So so classic. In retrospect, given their sound (on Sinking) was like a perfect cross between Mezzanine (before the fact) and Dubnobasswithmyheadman you'd think they would have been a lot bigger than they were. OTOH if I remember correctly they were number one album of '95 in whatever magazine I read about them in (The Face maybe?) so maybe they were at the time? Written out of history though. I love their gloriously overblown stadium percussion. Never really followed them past the post-punky Seeking Pleasure but I still listen to Sinking and their housey early singles heaps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2F-7EL9DxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP5vpzxNj68&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXuL4QEwjd4&feature=related
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 10:56 (fourteen years ago)
stuck on the shelf!
― bert, Sunday, 23 January 2011 11:07 (fourteen years ago)
I know how good is it!!
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 11:15 (fourteen years ago)
it's been a while but I do love sinking. I also associate then w dubby skunky uk house of a style less nuanced than I usually associate you with Tim!
― bert, Sunday, 23 January 2011 11:26 (fourteen years ago)
I am not a terribly nuanced person really.
Full comically histrionic ten minute version of "Stuck On The Shelf" on the album = the best.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 11:29 (fourteen years ago)
ha! and yes
― bert, Sunday, 23 January 2011 11:33 (fourteen years ago)
My understanding of dance music in 1996 = Sinking, The Chemical Bros, Music For The Jilted Generation, Everything Is Wrong, BT, ISDN, anyone Bjork was collaborating with or remixed by.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 11:33 (fourteen years ago)
Wot, no Orbital?
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 23 January 2011 11:47 (fourteen years ago)
I didn't get into Orbital until a year or two later.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 11:58 (fourteen years ago)
they worked w weatherall as sabres of paradise
― bert, Sunday, 23 January 2011 12:01 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, Haunted Dancehall (which I only discovered much later) is almost like Sinking in (more) Dub.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 12:05 (fourteen years ago)
I only know One Night Stand, but I love it. What should I investigate?
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 23 January 2011 12:29 (fourteen years ago)
Get Sinking, which has both "One Night Stand" and "Stuck On The Shelf" on it.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 13:30 (fourteen years ago)
paid a fair bit for a 12" of this back in my balEaric dazE!
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-221308-1230475320.jpeg
― piscesx, Sunday, 23 January 2011 13:55 (fourteen years ago)
Listening to that now...that's a good description!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 January 2011 17:20 (fourteen years ago)
wonder if anyone rated baby fox who sprung from same uk program house scene and where also lumped in wit massive a's triphop ? Or anyone want to talk of the caustic vision/This some bad weed etc stuff that encompassed this dubby crusty house scene?
― bert, Monday, 24 January 2011 11:41 (fourteen years ago)
Duh autocomplete...prog house
― bert, Monday, 24 January 2011 11:43 (fourteen years ago)
1st baby fox album had a lee perry association ? was rather lovely.found second album years later in the cheap bins, never had the urge to actually listen to it.
― mark e, Monday, 24 January 2011 11:47 (fourteen years ago)
yeah curly locks cover. Only one I heard tbh.
― bert, Monday, 24 January 2011 11:49 (fourteen years ago)
Good bunch of remixes from Sinking - Two Lone Swordsmen, David Holmes, Ashley Beedle.
Weird that the instrumental of One Night Stand was the music Radio 1 kept playing to mark Princess Diana's death - their forgotten moment of pop-culture ubiquity.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 24 January 2011 12:43 (fourteen years ago)
Society from '94, among the earliest Big Beat tunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbnQwrpLKds
― idgi fridays (blueski), Monday, 24 January 2011 13:02 (fourteen years ago)
My flatmates were playing them today, and implying they were a big part of the mid 90s indie/dance scene, but I've never heard of them, despite being a regular Evening Session listener.
On the day of the death of Diana Princess of Wales, BBC Radio 1 played their instrumental, "The Last Stand" (an extended instrumental version of "One Night Stand"), every 30 minutes for several hours
this must have been as a sound bed for the news or something.
― standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge), Monday, 2 May 2011 21:24 (fourteen years ago)
this was my favourite by these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjF8c-mXQUM
― craig carl (or something), Monday, 2 May 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)
I really loved Never Get Out of The Boat, especially the Flying Mix. Second the love for the TLS mix of Sinking.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 2 May 2011 22:32 (fourteen years ago)