25 Feb 2024

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Suppose it was only a matter of time before PhotoMosh started watermarking and charging. TBF I've been using it for years on here, surprised it hasn't happened before like.

A Tribe Called Quest - Dis Generation

Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes still doing it. You love to hear it.


David Axelrod - Holy Thursday

Gotta say I only really know this from Lil Wayne's Dr Carter but it seems it's been sampled extensively and used on all sorts of soundtracks including a GTA game. Incredible jazz funk rock from 1968.


Ouri - Down

Throbbing electronic music from Ghostly in 2018 though it sounds a little older than that. I heard this on Hyperdawn's Sunday Mix for Crack Magazine last month.


Youandewan - Be Good To Me, Poly

When those chords start I always think it's gonna be a bit Radiohead then it starts twisting and twinkling and ends up nearer early Caribou... and looking at the YouTube comments, it samples Weird Fishes by Radiohead, so there you go.


KLF - What Time Is Love?

Right, the next couple of tracks have all been mentioned in Party Lines, Ed Gillett's excellent exploration of dance music and British culture. The first half of the book is particularly strong, debunking the myth that acid house exploded out of nowhere in 1987 when Paul Oakenfold et al brought the music, the pills, and the vibes back from Ibiza. Instead, it traces a lineage of 'illegal' partying through the New Traveller movement of the 1980s, the free festival scene of the 1970s, and blues dances and sheebeens of the 60s. 


Smith and Mighty - Bass Is Maternal

Party Lines also traces how the state suppressed these gatherings and through the co-opting of rave, we've ended up at business techno and santisied festivals. There are other excursions in the book, from a stinging takedown of Boiler Room, plague raving during the panny d, and the rise of pirate radio, but it's the first half that really sticks.  


Will Powers - Adventures in Success

Actually, the stuff on the Nine o'Clock Service, which blended rave music with Christian worship in Sheffield is also mind-boggling. Turns out it was a personality cult riddled with sexual and psychological abuse, with people still coming forward over 30 years later. Proper grim.


DJ Pierre - Box Energy

Also in this section about Christian worship and dance music, it mentions a Channel 4 show fronted by Adam Buxton called God In The House. You will not see anything more cringingly 90s and it's no massive surprise that Dr Buckles doesn't ever bring it up.


Red Hot Entertainment - Junior Spesh (ft. Jaxor, Klayze Flaymz, Terra & Ray)

Anyway, I really dug Party Lines, especially as picked it up by chance from the local library, something I've not done in years.

Feels like it's only a matter of time before they come for the libraries. Get down there while you can.

And yes that's Kiell Smith-Bynoe.