itsonu

Member Since: Sep 05, 2003
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Rated 162 releases, average: 4.22
Location: netherlands
Profile: Just like most people my taste for music mainly developed in my late teens begin twins. For me that happened to be around 78 to 82 just in the highlight of new wave and punk. To me more new wave than punk. The first new wave/punk band I was confronted with was Siouxsie and The Banshees, Playground Twist. I can clearly remember the setting in which that took place, a young Dutch guy standing in a British pub and overwhelmed by Siouxsie’s voice, my association was with the 60-ies classic “White Rabbit” from Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick).

Okéh, before that I was already into: The Police, Fisher Z, Elvis Costello and the Attractions (great live show in The Hague) etc. With that as a starting point I came to: XTC, X-ray Spex, Magazine, Joy Division, The Pop Group, Japan, Cure (not to forget), etc.. From this list only 2 survived my aging: Joy Division, later of course New Order, kept my interest - still today. But most of all The Pop Group is at the base of my current interest. Of course the first generation after that: Pigbag, Maximum Joy, Rip Rig and Panic, and most of all Mark Stewart and The Maffia. The last also brought me to my nowadays most influencing person, Adrian Sherwood with his On U Sound Label and wide spectre of productions and remixes.

My friends call me a monogamist(!) in music. As long as Adrian Sherwood has something to do with it, it’s in my interest, the rest doesn’t count. I grade my records in yes/no AMS-factor and more than 1/3 of
my record collection is marked with that factor.
There are some exceptions.
• The before mentioned Joy Division/New Order line - pity that Sherwood never has done any remix of a New Order song.
• Then there is Y Records, with – of course – the here fore mentioned acts like The Pop Group, Slits, Pigbag and Maximum Joy. But also Shriekback and ‘funny’ one shots like: The Vincent Units, Tesco Bombers and Pulsallama. I’m almost complete on that.
• ESG (Not the rapper but the Scrogging sisters band from New York) who build up a nice collection of minimal funk music form 1982 up untill 2007!
• And last but not least …And the Native Hipsters. A weird sounding act from England who, after a short highlight (There goes Concorde again) initiated by John Peel, after more than 20 years released new material which survived the ages….

And last but not least CD sucks, Vinyl rules!!!!

Buyer Rating:

100.0% positive (6 ratings)

Reviews:

Various - Give Peace A Dance: A CND Compilation - 02-Sep-08 12:56 PM
The track "Karin Silkwoods car", which is here credited to Gary Clail, Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald (B. Alexander) and Keith LeBlanc, is originally a song by The Pop Group. On the (bootleg) issue "Idealists in Distress in Bristol", the Helsinki, October 1980 track "Hotter than thousand suns" is the same. The song is based on the life of Karin Silkwood who discovered that there was a fraude with nuclear waste. There was a movie of this with Meril Streep as Karin Silkwood.

...And The Native Hipsters - There Goes Concorde Again - 27-Jul-07 01:23 AM
The first 500 copies of this single were almost hand-made by the "Hipsters". The label was stamped, sleeves were cut out from huge posters of Kevin Keegan and stickered with the "... and the native hipsters" sticker. So every single has an unique sleeve.
The record cought the attention of John Peel and got a lot of airplay. The second releases (1000 and 4000) were more factory made but still every single has its own poster cutout sleeve.