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Rowland The Bastard & Simon Frankland - Your Mother Would'nt Like It / Method In Your Madness - 11-Nov-09 04:50 PM
The A here is famous more for it's sample and remix (released later) and the original here isn't a particular ear-grabbing track - I don't find much to enjoy here; but the AA side is a classic slab of wax more in the grin-your-face-off let's 'av it style of the COSHH releases, rather than the frantic acid attacks of other Bionic Orange records. 'Method In Your Madness' has a wicked bubbly bouncy bass drop, cheeky vocal samples and full on rave synths - wickedly produced and a major dance floor turn-on :)

If you like your acid techno bangin' bouncy and full on fun (without the movie quotes/song/theme tune rip-offs which can sometimes overwhelm an acid tech set) 'Method In Your Madness' is a must have for your record bag.

Atari Teenage Riot - Live At Brixton Academy 1999 - 22-Sep-09 05:45 PM
Piss funny and completely outrageous; The band seemed to be revved up to antagonise the audience to the max, they were supporting Nine Inch Nails, and completely overshadowed the shoegazing tedious 'Industrial' show with all it's glitz and glamour that followed...

I'd seen ATR a few times before this and their gigs always had some edge - one particular gig at the then Astoria 2 in London consisted of the band storming on and off stage several times before the music stopped, Alec Empire pushed through the crowd and adopted a 'Jesus Christ Pose' on top of the sound booth while people yelled 'Life of Brian' quotes; until he was pushed off into the crowd, kicked a girl in the head and had to be rescued by security as the venue erupted into a riot... - the show recorded here was memorable for it's sheer fuck off-ness, pure noise and feedback, people hurling abuse and ripped up ATR shirts at the stage. Releasing it on CD was (I reckon) definitely a comedy move; pretty unlistenable really but a good statement of the power of music to get inside peoples heads and fuck with them. ATR (& DHR) were the soundtrack to breaking down culture and society to its bare brutal bones through sonic attack; they managed to piss off pretty much a whole crowd, play a half hour set of noise and still get one over Trent Reznor and his NIN pomposity...

And then release it as a live album...

hahahaha :)

Items & Things - 14-Jun-09 03:01 PM
This is a lovely little minimal techno label, each one of the three (at time of writing) releases contains beautifully crafted tracks; On IT 01 there's the sublime 'Coma Couch Surfing' by Konrad Black which I've played to old acid house heads who love the vibe of the tune, and gabba freaks who can't help but be sucked in by it's superbly crafted rhythm, the rest if the 12" is completed with three more outstanding tunes. The 'Spies and Lies' 12" is another great collection of 4 tracks, 'Oogity Boogity' by Thrill Cosby is a well-kaned (by me anyway!) long bass-happy tune with groovy percussion and just the right amount of tweaks and pops to keep it moving - a great track for 3+ dex mixing, or just beautiful on it's own - the 12" finished off with great tracks by Kasper & Alexi Delano, the 'Spies and Lies' title fits great - it's a kinda subtle creepy record, maybe a soundtrack for a slow German James Bond with a bad haircut (!?) IT 03 by Clickbox contains 4 more minimal gems, my personal fav being 'Bass Tilt' with it's dogwoof-esque noises fading in and out over some lovely quality bass which pervades under all the tracks on offer here.

Magda's input is clear - listen to her 'She's A Dancing Machine' mix CD for more tracks along the same lines and you can see where the inspiration comes from/where the label is headed. Where minimul techno seems to be the new 'en-vogue' music to produce or mix and so the ouput is greater with producers from other genres venturing into minimal, it's nice to see a label keeping it tight with 3 releases in three years, all maintaining proper quality techno bizness. I love these records and a couple of tracks always find their way into my sets - quality :)

M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade Feat. Laurie Anderson - O Superman Remixes - Vinyl 1 - 23-Mar-09 12:57 AM
I love O superman as a tune, and any remix of it is gonna get my ears open! The Matt John Remix is really good; a nice piece of minimal with quality bass work, a tune to shake your ass to in a git down! fashion. But what I'm after here is clever use of the original tune, and Matt John has just used the 'ah ah ah' bits leaving out the vocals - a shame. Reboot's rework is good, and very clever, took a while to get it but it weaves the vocal into the tune really well, with unsuspecting drops and nice bass. On this vinyl I prefer the original; it has to be this! Nothing too clever, just a really funky bassline using most of the Laurie Anderson original, a tune that is immediately fresh, funky, danceable and very uplifting, some lovely sonix pick up as the vocals continue towards the end, leaving you craving more and more and more.
A vinyl WELL worth getting, purely for the original alone; Cuban's rework to use as a nice tool in a 3+ dex set, and Matt John's remix for some quality 'O Superman' checkin' quality minimal techno.

A worthy nod to the original:

'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justive is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!

So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me,
Mom, in your long arms.
In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms.
In your arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.
In your electronic arms.'

Brilliant!

Filter Code - Human Dance - 15-Mar-09 10:56 AM
I searched for this record for a long while, fully expecting it to be at least £10; in the end I got it for £4 odd - bonus!
The A-side 'Human Dance (organic mix)' is a nice techno tune, some good sonics flying around in the mix before a piano line takes the lead giving it an 'old school' flavour and maintaining a nice pounding kick - it's a good track, the piano lines are just not my cup of tea. The original on the flip (B2) is a quality track - lovely wobbly bass, the same quality sonix as on the A but where the remix drops and comes back with a piano line the original has good 303 action going on; a ripply 303 line lies nicely over the track making you wanna dance hard as all the sonix meld together over the bass and 303 line nicely.

If that tune weren't a good enough reason to own this, 'Human Dance (1.2.3 - revolution mix)' (B1) is pure class - a proper little gem of a tune! A nice simple 303 starts the tune, then the beat kicks in - it's almost a bouncy but not cheesy hard house kick and off-beat bass - the track builds and drops with good use of percussion, maintaining the simple 303 line. What makes this track SO good is the break, a heavily vocoded voice comes out of nowhere and the track suddenly turns into a pounding bass-heavy techno monster, the way it has been put together is pure class (and it's one of those records useful if you mix yourself into a corner - you pop this on and off you go!) proper dancefloor music - one of those 'what's this?' tunes. Synth swishes fly about until the vocal reaches a peak and then drops some real quality irresistably danceable driving hi-end percussion, keeping the heavy techno kick-drum pound going.

I don't know why this has been classed as Trance, apart from the build up to the vocal on B1 which has a hard house-y bass line it is pure techno/acid techno; and if you like your techno I highly recommend this release. The only issue I have with this record is the recording quality of Human Dance - it's far from terrible; but I find pushing the treble and the mid on the EQ's (just a little) makes this tune sound so much better :)

Recommended! (But don't pay more than 5-6 quid for it!)

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