Hey Lance - this thread on LD may be of interest it starts with a post from Lee and mentions a new In-Sync records due in a couple of weeks.
http://www.littledetroit.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12965 Also the Elektrik Bugg 12"'s (there are 2 of them and Covert records http://www.covert.uk.com/ is the only place to stock them as far as I know) are well worth picking up. Im sure I heard somewhere that Lee had something to do with them too Cheers BT --- "Lance @ Inaudible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > he's still running his quite large video > production company, involved with > > productions even in America he said on a radio > interview last friday, > but as i > > asked him where he'll play further on, he said he > just plays three or > four times > > a year. it's just that people having him invited > to play at Amsterdam > and Frabic > > recently, and seeing people really enjoyed so > much, that he felt > reassured to do > > a mix set around where the idea of a Party is > still in sync with his. > Umm.. did > > I say in-sync? Their 'Storm' passed by in his > saturday night set. What > a track! > > > > Oh my yes... the builds on Storm are epic. I'm a big > fan of In-sync, aka > Lee Purkis', productions. Back in the early 90s he > ran a great label > called 10th Planet which featured a half-dozen or so > releases all > In-sync related with the best being the Android > Architecture album. Lee > also released a nice record on the Plink Plonk label > under the name MASP > and was co-producer for the excellent Joe Louis End > of the Beginning > album on Fragmented and Back to the Beginning 12" on > Relief. > > Rumor has it (according to discogs.com) that the > music on those Joe > Louis releases was taken from a DAT given to Joe > Lewis when he was in > the UK in 1995 by Jamie Read. The DAT contained > music made during a > period when Read was recording at the studios of > 10th Planet with Lee > Purkis, Chris Hartley and David Manuel (the 3 of > whom ran 10th Planet > and recorded as Insync vs. Mysteron). Read was keen > to have his music > released on Relief, a label with cult status in the > underground UK > scene. He gave the DAT, which contained music that > had been worked on by > all four aforementioned artists, to Joe Lewis for > the purpose of giving > to Relief as potential material for the label. Some > time later these > tracks appeared on Relief as a Joe Louis release, > with no credit to the > people who actually produced them. > > 10 years later (2005) Peacefrog Records in the UK > inadvertently released > a further batch of tracks from the DAT on a 12" > entitled "He's Back" and > an album entitled "The Return Of Joe Lewis", which > was released on both > vinyl and CD. > > Anybody know what Lee Purkis is up to these days? > Also, any comments on > the recent Joe Lewis releases on Peacefrog? are they > like the Jamie Reid > or Insync releases? it's surprising to hear that > Peacefrog and/or Joe > Lewis is releasing another artists work and not > giving any credit to the > original producers. > > > For some Frank De Wulf relevance, just last week i > took for a spin the > Frank De Wulf remixes of The Orb's Blue Room, The > Shamen's L.S.I., and > Model500's The Flow. Nice, nice, nice... > > > -->-Lance---- > 6099 Creekside Lane > North Ridgeville, OH 44039 > United States > >