Thanks for all that ! didn't know a lot of these connections and aliases, very interesting... I guess none of that has been released on CD ?
Gwendal > -----Original Message----- From: Forrest L Norvell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:15 PM T > o: [email protected] Subject: Re: (313) Acid Jazz discog? On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at > 02:36:54AM -0600, Cobert, Gwendal wrote: > > > VA - Pink Me Up: A Sabrettes Compilation LP (Sabrettes) > > > VA - Pink 'n' Poisonous (Sabrettes) > > > > I just love all the Weatherall-related output I know of, but some of > > it always seemed a bit dodgy to me... are those three worth it ? > > Sabrettes is only tangentially related to Sabres of Paradise and > Andrew Weatherall (who released a couple singles on Sabrettes in > concert with David Hedger else under the name Lords of Afford), having > been run by Nina Walsh, (ex-?)girlfriend of Andrew Weatherall and > prime person behind Hydrogen Dukebox's Slab. Sabrettes was primarily a > hard techno label, but put out early stuff by Andrea Parker (in her > Inky Blacknuss guise -- "Blacknuss" is probably my favorite track by > her ever) and some amazing midtempo tech-house tracks by Pyrex Detox > (particularly "The Bells of Induction") and Innersphere. > > _Pink Me Up_ and _Pink'n'Poisonous_ catch Sabrettes at the two ends of > their arc -- the former was one of the first releases on the label, > and the latter was a retrospective released when Walsh decided to shut > the label down to concentrate on Slab. So, suitably enough, the first > is a little dodgy in places, and the latter specializes in the kind of > hard techno that Sabrettes came to excel. Their hard stuff has a > distinctly industrial edge and isn't for everyone, but I think the > Turbulent Force and Pod records on Sabrettes are pleasingly weird. > > Sabrettes is, along with R&S, UR, Tresor and the 94-97 run of Reload > Records, one of my all-time favorite techno labels, and I think the > comps represent it accurately. I have every release on the label that > I've been able to find. > > yrz, > Forrest > > -- > . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . > ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, > deathless > (415)823-6356 http://www.pushby.com/forrest/ > ::AOAIOXXYSZ:: >
