Coco Steel and Lovebomb

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Does anybody remember CS&L?

I've only got three or four tracks on compilations, but I say they're one of the finest techno acts of the 90's and I demand that you all agree with me. I should have bought all their albums at the time, but instead I bought lots of earnest, worthy crap like B12 (Bore 12) and Juno Reactor (Rectum more like) because it was more grown-up. Now they've been deleted. Bah!

― Mr. Wackman, Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I've probably got the same 3 or 4 tracks as you, for they were less than prolific, but I agree that they far outstripped the sub-detroit cliches of B12 et al, by the simple expedient of recognising that great electro/techno is based as much in funk as in abstract hi-hat wankery.
I believe they released an album called "It", but don't know of anyone who owns it.....

― Microkomputer (Microkomputer), Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"Feel It" is the obvious key track. (don't-d-don't-d-don't jerk it....work it)

also, scour the racks and the file folders for their remix of Ultramarine's "Panther".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 September 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

They did a cut-up of the Velvets "Sunday Morning" with a backbeat and a Steve Reich sample from "Come Out" - it's great! On the free HMV Playlist CD there's a geezer called Coco who has got Nick Cave to cover "Sunday Morning" while he makes trip-hop noises and I'm really really hoping it's not the same one.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 5 September 2002 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

It is, Tom, I'm afraid.

I don't know their 90's stuff, but "The Sound Of Europe" EP from 1988 seems to be a forgotten classic. "Miracles (I Don't Believe In)" cuts up the Jackson Sisters' "Miracles" (unsurprisingly) into an uplifting house number, funk rather than abstract wankery definitely the key here, while the dub version tries the Coldcut trick of cramming in as many offbeat samples of American TV as possible. The Coldcut apery is taken even further on "The Sound Of Europe" which is based on the "Paid In Full" loop and has an alternative jazz version presaging Ninja Tune's beatz.

― Mike (mratford), Thursday, 5 September 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"It!" is available on soulseek for download at the mo'.

― baboon, Friday, 6 September 2002 08:45 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

"Touch It" is a dope ass song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufUjYLdG0xg

― *rolls eyez on me* (D-40), Sunday, 10 July 2011 03:53 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFgEi8IBv30&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXeKQSyderpw6NlbWAs7p9XN&index=6

― dsb, Sunday, 10 July 2011 06:17 (fourteen years ago)

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