>yes, I was really upset at how Mo Wax was marketing that UNKLE album more >that year than the URBAN TRIBE album, which made the UNKLE album look like >an amateurish student short film. It is such a deep album. And a few other >313 notables collaborated with sherard on this album, KDJ, Carl Craig, and >Shake. I spoke to sherard after his set and he told me he has another >project coming out on Mo Wax soon.
I agree with your sentiments on this. UNKLE got the UK rock press behind it. UNKLE had all those kinda guys on it that those white male rock hacks like - in particular Brit rockers like that Radiohead singer whose name I can't download from my memory at present. And it also fit in neatly with the rock-led old skool hip-hop revival. Yet, cynicism aside, UNKLE was also bound to get coverage as both James Lavelle and DJ Shadow have something of a cult identity in the UK. Maybe this ties in with the previous point - but I do think they have something, though I don't have the LP. I never read any interviews with Sherard, though I would love to - maybe he just refrains from giving them? I will have to check my back issues of Jockey Slut, the mag most likely to cover this, but I don't remember anything. By contrast, every mag got an interview with UNKLE. Often that's at the root of it all - understandably many underground US artists are wary of the UK press. Moodymann could get stories galore if he wanted to (esp here in Australia!), but he doesn't want them, and you have to respect the way he handles things. I would dearly love to read some interviews with K Hand (who I think is one of the most under-rated artists in the history of techno) and Rob Hood (ditto), but neither seems inclined to give interviews, or maybe they are not being approached by the right people? Peace C
