As much as the Trance Europe/Atlantic CDs sorted me out, I also always used to check each Volume CD as it made its way in to the radio station. Turned me on to untold quantities of music. Definitely a sad loss. :(
Tristan ======= [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's terrible news :-( > I have some deep love for the Trance Europe/Atlantic Express compilations. > The whole book with CD thing is a great concept and while it didn't > originate with Mr Deacon - he did it so well. > I'd pour over it for hours whilst listening to the CDs. The Pacific State > compilations were where I first got exposed to Ken Ishii and some of the > best Japanese techno I'd ever heard. > > MEK > > Greg Earle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/10/2007 03:03:58 PM: > > >> Rob Deacon has died aged 42 in a canoeing accident. >> >> The Guardian has Rob's obituary today: >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2187245,00.html >> >> "Who's he then?" you might ask. >> >> Abstract Magazine? Sweatbox Records? "Volume"? >> "Trance Europe Express"? "Trance Atlantic Express"? >> >> (You know - the one with all that Detroit Techno on it) >> >> I owned something from nearly every incarnation Rob had a hand in. >> While I never knew who he was, he had a huge influence on my musical >> taste for a good 10 years or more, without me even knowing it. His >> own musical taste evolution clearly followed my own - brothers in >> timeline, as it were. >> >> R.I.P. Rob. Thanks for all the music.. >> >> - Greg
