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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 July 2003 13:43
In the middle of my set I drop the Jacksons Can You Feel It
and the crowd goes wild. Funny thing is -- this girl comes up
to me and says Can you play the original?! and i'm like Huh?
A bit of 313 London spam here - apologies to everyone else!
We are putting on a night at Public Life on Sunday 24th August - Carnival
weekend - presenting a mixture of Detroit house, electro-funk, techno, booty
and ghetto tech. The line-up is:
Non Stop DJs (WIDE, Bootytronics)
Tristan Watkins
I've not heard it either, and the range of opinions I've heard about it so far
is broad enough for me not to have decided in advance whether I'm going to buy
it or not - at least it hasn't been universally panned!
This year is shaping up to be quite a big one when it comes to people with
And you could argue that if the BBC was trying to do a piece of genuine news
(rather than advertorial) about digital DJing and so on, they should really
mention alternative products (Ableton, Final Scratch, other makes of CD deck)
to retain some sort of balance...
...but this is *way* off
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 07 August 2003 19:50
One of my favorite stories of this is Ken Ishii - he took
one of his keyboards and turned it off and on repeatedly
until it kind of went kzzzgk - and then it made weirder
noises
There is also some 313er action at Public Life on the Sunday, with me and
Tristan Watkins playing... there is more information at www.bootytronics.com !
-Original Message-
From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 August 2003 14:46
To: Neil Tomlinson; 313@hyperreal.org
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From: Matt MacQueen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 August 2003 16:12
Also Claude Young was involved with some remixes on a Solar Feelings
12 from that album... on RS in the mid 90's. He did a pair of
remixes on the 12, then there is an original and the J.
And, obviously, Blackout by Lil Louis... :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 15 August 2003 17:10
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: (313) The lights go on the lights go off
OK, you know that there's going to be DJs throwing down
Watch it! I already mentioned that :)
Anyway, I'll see your Blackout and raise you Rob Hood's mix of Red 2...
bring the lights down, we're about to do something real serious... if you
gotta lighter in your pocket, light it up!
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From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL
Well, we have some 313-style action at Public Life from 8pm - more information
at www.bootytronics.com - and then afterwards there's Lost, featuring Plaid and
Jeff Mills... I'm hoping to make it down to both! (and I'd really *better* make
it down to the former - I'm playing there :)
Brendan
I was once in Uxbridge town centre at 7pm one evening, and a modified Mini came
roaring round the corner with Strings of Life blasting out of its hugely
overspecced sound system... now *that* was one time I just cut loose on the
streets! Never heard anything like that since, though...
Hi,
Just to let you know that Kevin Saunderson will be
appearing at BASE this Friday, at Crash in Vauxhall,
alongside Jim Masters, Ed DMX, Cutlass Supreme, and
the Non Stop DJs. Here is the info!
Friday 5th September at Crash
66 Goding St. Vauxhall, London
10pm - 6am
Admission £12.00 / £10.00
Hi,
Just a quick update for those who have e-mailed me about tonight's BASE party
with Kevin Saunderson, Jim Masters and Ed DMX, and for those who are still
deciding on coming!
I can get 313 members onto the concessions list, which will mean you'll get in
for the BASE member's price of £10
Bit of London spam here, so apologies to everyone else!
Booty/ghetto-tech big cheese DJ Assault and Direct Beat head honcho Keith
Tucker (aka DJ K-1) are both appearing at BASE on Friday 26th September,
alongside Space DJz, Jim Masters and Colin Dale.
The party is taking place at Crash, at 66
OK, it's time for another 313 bash at Public Life - more than a year on from
the last one!
Saturday 11th October is the date, and a full lineup of DJs has yet to be
confirmed, so if you're up for playing, send me a mail and we'll announce the
full lineup when it's been decided.
All 313
Liverpool Street and Aldgate tube
stations. If you need any more information on the party, just send me a private
mail!
Anyway, the lineup (in no particular order) is:
Brendan Nelson (Lunar Selector, WIDE)
Guy Thackeray (WIDE)
Rohan Thurairatnam (Audiolove, Overload)
Tristan Watkins (Phonopsia)
Placid
OK, my brain isn't exactly firing on all cylinders today and so my list didn't
include a particular 313er who *should* have been included... a Mr Ken Odeluga!
So here's the updated lineup:
Ken Odeluga (Bleep43)
Brendan Nelson (Lunar Selector, WIDE)
Guy Thackeray (WIDE)
Rohan Thurairatnam
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From: Lee Herrington IV [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 September 2003 15:13
does anyone else find that their musical tastes
change with the seasons?
Definitely! I always find myself heralding winter with It Is What It Is -
synthesized strings and crisp 909
Isn't that Troglodyte by the Jimmy Castor Bunch? That's the original, though,
so it doesn't repeat...
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From: :: evilgenetix :: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 September 2003 17:24
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: (313) Track/Accapella ID
Would like to find
is the lineup on the night - unfortunately Placid and
Rohan won't be able to make it:
Brendan Nelson (Lunar Selector, WIDE)
Dan Butler (313 Lurker!)
Guy Thackeray (WIDE)
Ken Odeluga (Bleep43)
Matt Chester (11th Hour)
Max Sullivan (Amp-Art)
Toby Frith (Bleep43)
Tristan Watkins (Phonopsia)
If you've got any
There will definitely be pictures, and I am hoping to do some
recording! We were all set to do it at the Bootytronics party
back in August, and we had the machines to do it, but were one
lead short and so it didn't happen in the end. This time around,
we'll think it through a bit more - we
So are you alleging that they have bootlegged Environ releases?
-Original Message-
From: FRED giannelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 October 2003 17:59
To: 313@hyperreal.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: (313) Paging Metroplex Records
Not to mention this little item from
Thanks for the positive messages from everyone about Saturday's 313 party here
in London - I think everyone involved can congratulate themselves on a job well
done! As Tristan said, the venue was absolutely packed, and the dancefloor
responded spectactularly. And to think that, at around 10pm,
Here's what I can remember of mine too - it's all a vague memory,
and, like Matt's, has been assembled after a quick scan of what records
have been pulled out of their sleeves in my bag:
Drexciya - Black Sea
Kosmik Messenger - Soundscape (Intricate mix)
Miklos Kovari - The Basement Track
Dave
Forgive the sparse layout of the site - I'll be uploading tracklists and
other information later on, but for now here are some pictures:
http://www.313party.com/
Enjoy!
Brendan
Guy and myself have finally got round to finishing and uploading
All Cylinders, a mix we've been trying to perfect for absolutely
ages! It's available for download as a 73-minute mp3 file at:
http://www.non-stop-djs.com/
With over 100 tracks on there, the mixing is pretty rapid-fire and
the
This is a bit of a long shot, but...
...back in the days of GPR (the label that put out Temple of Transparent Balls
by the Black Dog, alongside various other electronic-listening gems of the
early 1990s), they signed an act called Third Shock. This was in the final days
of GPR, however, and
Break even on selling records? What a weird concept! I have to say that if a
situation comes about where the techno audience grows, leading to a) a downside
where there's a perhaps rather more naive bunch of people into techno than
there used to be, and b) an upside whereby a lot of techno
Cheers! I do have a tendency to waffle a bit, especially on a
Monday afternoon as it makes the time go by a bit faster... :)
I was just thinking that after I got heavily into techno (which
was in 1991), it was only a few years before it suddenly became
absolutely huge, with the Tribal
I've got that movie - I think it's definitely worth buying! It sits on my video
shelf next to Brother From Another Planet...
A Joyful Noise is a good one too, but that's more of a documentary, and
features some amazing footage; rooftop renditions of Astro Black, Sun Ra
playing synth while
That's a very good analysis. One thing that springs to mind, for me, is
that, during the mid and late 1980s, there was another city apart from
Detroit where people were trying to develop a sound called techno:
'We have heard techno attempted, and yet sadly you have failed
you should stick to
We've been given a chance to hold another 313 party at Public Life on November
22nd - I know it's fairly soon after the last one, but I didn't want to turn
down a chance to have another night of such high-quality music before Christmas!
So the same arrangement as last time will apply - if you'd
and Atkins to play they're at Lost the same
night
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From: Brendan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:35 PM
Subject: (313) London 313 Party - November 22nd at Public Life
We've been given a chance to hold another
OK, we've got the list of who's playing at the next 313
party, which will be taking place on Saturday November 22nd
at Public Life, and will be free for all 313-mentioning
people who turn up at the door!
DJs on the night will be:
Max Duley
Matt Chester
Dan Butler
Tristan Watkins
Lunar
I'd say the first bit of Windwalker by Suburban Knight The Martian on the
way out, and something like Mills' Entrance to Metropolis on the way in...
Brendan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 07 November 2003 08:18
To: 313@hyperreal.org
This Saturday, the place to be in London is the 313 party!
Hot on the heels of the last 313 party at Public Life, Spitalfields,
we're having the big pre-Christmas 313 Party this Saturday, the 22nd
of November, featuring:
* Dan Butler
* Guy Thackeray
* Lunar Selector
* Matt Chester
* Max
Just in case you've missed any of the earlier mails about it,
here's a final reminder about tomorrow's 313 party. Apologies
for the repetition, but you'd be surprised how many people
complained last time about not knowing the party was happening!
The party is at Public Life and kicks off at
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From: Phonopsia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 November 2003 22:57
sigma.jpg (I think this one is actually phi.jpg)
Actually that's true - sigma.jpg is a shot of the barman properly rocking it
on the decks. I've got to say, my favourite bit of his set was when
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From: Brendan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 November 2003 23:47
sigma.jpg (I think this one is actually phi.jpg)
Actually that's true - sigma.jpg is a shot of the barman properly
rocking it on the decks.
Oops! I just realised that last picture
]
Sent: 28 November 2003 16:21
To: Brendan Nelson; 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: (313) 313 Party - names to faces
What record is that from?
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From: Brendan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:07 PM
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject
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Sent: 28 November 2003 16:54
To: Martin; Robert Taylor; Brendan Nelson; 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: (313) 313 Party - names to faces
so a there is the Jan date? has it been set Brendan/martin..will
I miss it as I am away 24th and 31st?? :(
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More 909 than 808 as well, I'd say the bit of drum programming most likely to
cause me to dislocate a knee on the dancefloor is Suburban Knight's The Art of
Stalking... also, Spectral Nomad by Robert Hood ends up sounding nearly four
times as fast as its real BPM due to the dense and
I've been drooling in anticipation of this Stasis compilation for some time, so
it's good to hear it's finally out - I think I'll be hitting the shops on
Saturday! What are the unreleased tracks like, incidentally? They're not along
the lines of the Mo'Wax-era Stasis tracks are they?
Brendan
being able to head home and actually playing
the things. So in the last few weeks I've been a bit old-
fashioned and have actually been going to shops... :)
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From: Blackman, Ryan (UKEKT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 December 2003 11:22
To: Brendan Nelson; Mann
OK, they're not all new, but I bought them all recently, so they're new to
*me*...
Starfighterz - 4 Flavours Of A Two-Sided Story - Part 1 (Delsin)
I didn't like this quite as much as I'd expected to when I first heard it, but
repeated listens have shown it to be a bit of a grower. It is a very
I didn't know that - I downloaded them all when they were just on
threetracks.com, and this is the first I heard of Absolut snapping them up for
their ad campaign. There's nothing wrong with it though, I don't think! It's
just another example of people being introduced to the music through
Having enjoyed my old-fashioned record shopping trip to ye olde
Berwick Street the weekend before last, I just couldn't resist
heading on down there again. It's over ten years since I started
frequenting the shops of Berwick Street, and by now the smell of
rotting vegetable matter (from the
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From: Blackman, Ryan (UKEKT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 December 2003 15:07
To: Brendan Nelson; 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: (313) More new (well, newish) records reviewed
Trolley Route - A Occhi Chiusi (Pure Plastic)
Agree with you there. Well
The mixes from November 22nd's 313 party in London have finally been encoded
into mp3 format and will be online pretty soon. Sorry about the delay in
getting them done - laziness struck for several weekends in a row and now
that the Christmas break is underway I've managed to get round to
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From: Lester Kenyatta Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 December 2003 06:50
There's been some attempt to actually test this empiricallyto see
whether exposure to rap music (or other aggressive art forms like heavy
metal) has an impact on how people
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From: Lester Kenyatta Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 December 2003 04:07
It's a bit of a chicken'n'egg question I suppose.
Not in this casethe power of the experiment is that you're able to
ferrett out the causal element...
Take a population of
That's a hell of a quote. Sounds to me like the person who came up with it
is truly in touch with the soul of techno... :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 05 January 2004 22:57
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: (313) A quote to start the year
I think that that's the most likely explanation, and it would be fairly
exciting although I can see potentially negative consequences for the world
of vinyl pressing and distribution if not necessarily for actual producers
themselves. Could it be argued that Apple will be stepping into the shoes
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From: Dennis DeSantis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 January 2004 10:34
But it makes me sad to see an issue like this creating
divisivness among people who probably completely agree with
him. ...bickering amongst ourselves distracts from those larger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frequency 7 - Visage
You can get it on the compilation Secret History on New Religion records,
which should still be fairly easy to find. I know that Smallfish
(www.smallfish.co.uk) have it in stock, and I'm sure
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From: Michael Lees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 January 2004 16:54
Oh and warps bleep is now live:
https://www.warprecords.com/bleep
This is so expensive! 0.99 a track regardless of length. So an album
with lots of short tracks cost more than one
They seem to be giving out mixed messages on the encoding side of things - in
their FAQ it says Bleep MP3s are a minimum of 256kbps, while the majority of
MP3s found on the internet are 128kbps. Yet they seem to contradict that in
the technical queries bit. Personally I don't think they should
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 January 2004 10:36
Was just wondering if anyone had used this service of warp's?
(the one where you can download a track for 99p or whatever)
I was just wondering why anyone would?
I mean it's just
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From: Tom Churchill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 January 2004 11:58
While we're on the subject - would people on the list pay to
download (for example) Headspace and Emoticon tracks as
high-quality MP3s? Trying to work out whether it's worth
exploring
iTunes is a lot cheaper than the Warp store, I think - it's 99 cents for a
track on iTunes, and 99 pence on Warp, so at the current exchange rate it's
almost twice as expensive. Not sure if iTunes has a per EP pricing deal,
though; what I've seen of it seems to be heavily structured around
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 January 2004 12:22
Hey - any heads on the list know if it really does cost alot?
Being a dullard, I can't see where extra costs would come
from if you're already running the site.
It would definitely
I'm getting a 404 on this URL - is it just me? I'm pretty intrigued by the
tracklist so am keen to give it a listen!
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From: James Hurlbut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 January 2004 06:54
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org
Subject: (313) electro.techno.bbeat.house mix
OK, after a bit of guesswork I've managed to work out the correct URL and am
downloading the mix now!
It's at:
http://www.hurlbotics.com/mp3/mixitup.mp3
Cheers,
Brendan
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From: Matt Chester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 January 2004 13:16
Don't mean to nit-pick, but you can get a co-hosting option
or a decent, large scale (though perhaps not enterpise scale,
which is maybe a little over the top for a label) remote
server
That Thinnerism site is quite a nice one - I haven't seen that before but it's
definitely one that I'd say is an example of a label site I like.
A lot of techno labels have sites that annoy me for several reasons: the main
ones being overly dependent on style over content (ie, you arrive at the
Isn't trainspotting ultimately descended from philately,
the mother of all bizarrely obsessive hobbies for nerdy
blokes?
I've heard that Asperger's argument before, and it does
make a bit of sense to me to be honest; the whole idea
of data being more fascinating to certain people than
other
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 January 2004 11:06
represses are good in some instances...
I was going to say this was the understatement of the year (represses are
*always* good!), but then checked myself when I remembered my brief
Alex Bond wrote:
so maybe digital dj'ing allows someone to think more about
programming than actual mixing (as it's virtually 'automatic')
and I think that has to be a good thing. I think?
I'd actually say that digital dj'ing gives DJs the flexibility to choose how
much automation they
So in an attempt to get the 313 list to break its vow of
silence, here are a couple of record reviews I did for
www.littledetroit.net - a bit of Speedy J on Novamute and
a bit of classic-style acid madness from Sendex on Bunker:
Sendex - Exposure EP (Bunker Records)
Using only equipment from
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 January 2004 04:25
Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon
(Nonesuch)
MEK
That Subotnick is a classic.
Completely agreed - in a lot of ways it's probably one of
the most techno pieces of
Yeah, there's definitely something strangely flat and unfinished to it - kind
of sounds as though it could have been made on one of those handheld Yamaha
synth/sequencer things. Everything is just too raw and plain in the mix,
really, to provoke any excitement or draw the listener into it.
One saying deserves another, though... Familiarity breeds contempt :)
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From: Ryan Snowden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 January 2004 15:16
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: 313@hyperreal.org; 'Maxim Sullivan'
Subject: RE: (313) Los Hermanos
Well there is the
I am listening to $tinkworx - Los Gatos Lloros (the crying cats?) EP. And
very nice it is too!
Where did you get that Brendan Gillen Ableton mix btw? Is it online? I've
never got a chance to hear any of his Ableton sets, and I'm always keen to
find out what other Brendans are doing with modern
No, Interdimensional Transmissions is run by Brendan Gillen aka Ectomorph as
far as I'm aware...
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From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 January 2004 12:06
To: Odeluga, Ken; Cobert, Gwendal; 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: (313) what you listening to
Ah, but I'd say there's an extent to which a lot of these males are kind of
forced into a situation like that - you could spend *years* looking around for
someone whose mindset and interests are very compatible with your own, but
because most people fall more into the ornament category, that's
I remember Derrick May had a my radio station page on mp3.com
featuring tracks by amateur producers on that site - he obviously
spent a bit of time listening to the tracks that people uploaded
there, and had one or two from former listmember Scott Vallance
as well (who was of course pretty
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From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 February 2004 15:09
i think there is a lot of looking back to previous musical movements
happening at the moment... it does make me wonder where things can
go in the future
which is the whole point, right?
I think that would be a bit drastic! The 313 list isn't
*all* vitriol and player-hating after all... :)
It's a funny thing about the internet that it seems to
bring out some serious bitterness and bile in a lot of
people, and that applies to forums and mailing lists
everywhere, not just 313.
I was about to mention that shifty Kube72 character actually! :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 February 2004 16:54
To: Martin; Blackman, Ryan (UKEKT); Brendan Nelson;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: 313@hyperreal.org
) He is a baby eater
*tut tut*
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From: Ryan Snowden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 February 2004 17:05
To: Brendan Nelson; 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: (313) Derrick May
He IS shifty, isn't he...
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From: Brendan Nelson
| -Original Message-
| From: Mike Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: 29 August 2001 18:17
|
| Hello,
|
| I have been getting into ambient techno and early 90's UK IDM
| lately. I am looking for more obscure material from that
| period and I was wondering what recommendations you guys
Interestingly enough, longtime Rephlex artist Mike Paradinas (aka mu-ziq) is
auctioning his ponytail on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1458443752
'idm ponytails are rare in the 2000s, since most were got rid of in the
early 90s once the dream dissolved...'
Brendan
| -Original Message-
| From: Jonny McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 11:54 AM
| To: 313@hyperreal.org
| Subject: [313] Couple of new records...
|
| Also picked up the remixes of Strings Of Life that I guess
| are the same as the ones TP was mentioned
There are two so far:
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/nostradamus.html
and:
http://www.urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa091101b.htm
Ob313: the Other People Place album is very, very nice and everyone should
go out and buy it...
Brendan
| -Original Message-
| From: Rob
Sorry for the waste of bandwidth! My old PC here at work has been destroyed
by the IT department, and my new one can't remember any e-mail addresses,
leaving me at the mercy of the biocomputer in my head which can, of course,
only ever remember '313@hyperreal.org'...
Brendan
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From: Jones, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 April 2002 17:10
Everyone is inspired by another artists work at
some point in time, why are you guys making such
a fuss over this one instance?
The distinction is that Wink stands to make quite a lot of
I don't think it's amazingly unrealistic to reduce it to that, yeah - that's
what it always comes down to, every time an artist or label has got pissed
about someone making cash out of sampled work. Basically, by most people's
moral codes, the guy who does the work deserves the reward. In this
I've always seen techno as being the music of the future in the sense that
it's *about* the future rather than destined to be the mainstream music
everyone listens to in 2007 or whenever. But even still, in the time I've
been involved in electronic music (about 12 years or so) there's been a
Derrick May was being pretty adventurous with the EQs, while Juan was
keeping things a bit more flat - I probably went for Juan's track selection
more than Derrick's (although Fade to Grey could have been faded out a bit
sooner I thought!), but to be honest I ended up spending a lot of time the
Sorry, I didn't mean to say that all people in their teens are fans of
nu-rock, just that it seems to be the dominant sound - when I was 19, the
dominant sound (here in the UK anyway) was grunge, but you didn't catch me
wearing any Pearl Jam t-shirts... :)
Brendan
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I remember Mark EG was one of the writers at Generator who gave quite a lot
of coverage to Detroit artists, but he always had a leaning towards
ludicrously hard techno. I got a record by him fairly recently whose title
was pretty self-explanatory - Mad Music Engagement.
It's a shame that
Or Beatmasters ft Merlin, Who's In The House?, in which Merlin asks:
who's Fast Eddie?
I'll serve him up like a plate of spaghetti
Hip-house really makes me laugh; what you had was a new genre of music that
lasted for about a year, tops. During that year, all hip-house records were
*about*
I think that the UK garage sound was quite nice when it started off in
around 1997 - in fact, I got quite excited about it at the time, mainly as
it was closer to nice techno/house than to drum'n'bass (which, by 1997, was
really getting on my nerves - all that tech-step stuff). It looked like
I agree with your point, but think I should jump in and defend Britney -
Slave 4 U was essentially an electro track, and if you listen to the
instrumental Britney doesn't even come to mind. It's kind of like Brandy's
What about Us - the instrumental of that is an amazing funky-glitch-techno
track
NSC is National Sound Corporation, a pressing plant in Detroit that's been
central to the city's music industry for decades. I believe they were
pressing Motown records back in the day, and a lot of the P-Funk material
was pressed there. They noticed the techno explosion, and the main guy there
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From: Jongsma, K.J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 April 2002 15:17
NSC is NOT a pressing plant!
OK, OK, I was wrong :) I was confused between those who cut the master and
those who press up the discs.
Brendan
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Yeah, that's right - Lee helped to start up Smallfish as well (the
replacement for Fat Cat), but ended up leaving the fold to work on other
stuff. He's involved with Pure Plastic and a range of other UK techno
shenanigans these days... his cheeky face is missed behind the counter at
Smallfish, and
I'd definitely pay slightly extra for a 12 with a Fat Cat sticker and some
of Lee's scrawlings - preferably in thick permanent marker rather than biro!
Not sure if I'd pay for a scrawling on its own, but given the choice between
a scrawled 12 and a non-scrawled 12 I'd pay a quid or two more for
It's from Techno City by Cybotron!
I'm listening to a track I made myself, sadly enough (lots more work needed,
I think). Next on the playlist is one of the UR remixes of Kraftwerk's Expo
2002, and then a bunch of tracks on Naked...
Brendan
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From: Tim Maughan
The two artists that have been doing it for me lately are Sterac and Morgan
Geist (sometimes I just play Super over and over). In addition, there's
Fabrice Lig, Splinterfaction, Daniel Wang, Duplex and all that lot too...
and I am going through a funny old KMS records phase as well, with tracks
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