What nice people - I wrote a letter to PI c. 1986 (as you do when you are young!) and mentioned that i couldnt get Low Technology & Forty-Five anywhere and it was such a shame (they were long out of print then and discogs etc didnt exist to find them on) as i'd love to hear them - and Ambrose sent me a typewritten letter and a free copy of each in the post! 23 years & a bit later - thanks Ambrose if you are still listening :) Pete

A very rare cassette only release by Treatment who must have hailed from Winsford, Cheshire UK by their dialing code on the inlay card - they were actively plugged by Pink Industry - and rightly so! I bought my copy from Zulu via mailorder and played it almost religiously for over 2 years and it still isnt dated (much) now. Similarities always have to be made - think Cabaret Voltaire (without the vocals) meets Hula but more laid back and funked up a little in places and more electro and darker here and there. It is samples and beats but 'quite different' to everything that was going on at the time, perhaps even ahead of its time. It is in my opinion a forgotten masterpiece! Hard to describe but addictively good.

Ok - if you have this already you know its good - in my books the best Hula album and yes it is live - the live stuff is excellent and much better than your average 80's edgy-electrotypical band trying to play live - they actually did it well and the combo of the live vocals and cut ups with Nort's drumming really worked, sometimes outshining the studio tracks (particularly prevalent on the, i guess, more rehearsed 'Cut from Inside' tracks which sound much superior here). The studio album is also of excellent quality - think along the lines of Hula meets Sigue Sigue Sputnik - well sort of! Again a classic case of 'why was it never put on CD?'. Maybe one day. A half-mile away from their next (but also excellent if somewhat more commercial) LP, i think 1000 Hours was certainly their pinnacle of clever vocal and edgy rhythmic toe-tapping-loops. Inspired me to write poetry (strange, but honestly!). Always brings back fond memories. "All fall in to the crazy circle".

Ok not like the earlier CC material but in my books their best ever stuff and it is still very listenable to this day (in fact whilst writing this!). Some of the best 'darker' electro you will ever hear in my opinion - catchy at the same time if there can be such a thing. It crosses drum and bass/classical/darkness/electric in the same throw - its hard to describe but very listenable and re-listenable. No vocals - pure symphs and samples with good beats that stay in your head, try it - if you like anything vaguely similar to the description you wont be dissapointed. P.

This is defintely an album that grows on you and probably one of RHK's most 'catchiest' in terms of rhythms and beats mixed with haunting tribal chants. Well worth getting if you are debating. NYE/Na Panza/I'm not afraid are the standouts. I'm not afraid especially, a clever mix of spanish guitar salsa with slow(ish) dnb techno is the only way i can describe it - very cool!

This is an awesome mindbending soundscape with disjointed speeded up vocal preamble - you need to lie on the floor and let the sound submerse you - then ask anybody else in the room what they think the person is saying and it will be totally different to what you hear - e.g. 'patricks bobbing sleigh' or 'chopped off his head' or 'the general public likes this' in the same split second - incredible! Shame it never got pressed to CD. The album pressing quality is damn good though, better than the follow up 'Teste Tones' release.