When a record came out on Electron Industries we'd get very excited as much so as a new UR record, which was a big thing back then. The clear vinyls were all excellent records but the double 12" by Sem is a monster.
Mark Brooms a really nice down to earth guy, he use to live in the same area as me in London, Bethnal Green. We'd always end up seeing each other in the supermarket, very techno - haha. His moved out North of London now. Eddies full of very funny stories, years ago towards the end of out door raves Eddie somehow ended up having Frankie Bones living with him in Southend, I think Frankie was getting booked a lot in the UK around this time. The story goes that Frankie stayed for about 4 month but had to return to NYC because he couldn't handle the madness of Eddies life and the scrapes he'd get him into, and apparently Frankie was a broken man when he returned home....hahaha ________________________________ From: benny blanco(r) [mailto:be...@blancodisco.com] Sent: 04 December 2012 11:48 To: list 313; Paul Kendrick Subject: Re: (313) Ask 313 Electron Industries / Sem / Octagon Man were always highlights for me when new releases came out in the shops. Man... to get those colored vinyls in clear sleeves seemed highly coveted cause only a handful would ever make it to town. Nice story on Eddie of A13. Closest I got to A13 (the label) was when Mark Broom came to DJ a small tour in the US up in New Hampshire (when I lived in Boston at the time) to play with Spacetime Continuum and then Autechre was the Headliner. Mark Killed it DJ'ing. I was overly obsessed at the time and must carried up 5 or 6 Pure Plastic / A13 releases Mark Produced and had him sign the vinyl/sleeves Soma might be an obvious label to mention too, but there are quite a few releases that were NOT huge by any means.. and still pretty good. Even some of Slam's non single Album cuts are quite worthy. Paul...if I lived yer way... we'd totally be Mates by the sound of your Record Collection.. Seems like the battery of UK Techno labels from the 90's are big sleepers in the larger community of Techno, but seem to be coveted and admired greatly by many of us that remain on this list. That is kinda comforting as I haven't thought about them much unless a track happened to pop up in iTunes that I may have digitally recorded. I think this thread could carry on for weeks as peeps start digging through their collections again and go... 'oh yeah, I remember that one!' benny blanco(r) blancodisco.com<http://blancodisco.com> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Paul Kendrick <p...@dagmar-tara.com<mailto:p...@dagmar-tara.com>> wrote: A13 was owned by a friend of mine Eddie, who lived in Southend on Sea in the South of the UK, and the main route getting to London from Southend is the A13 and that's where the name came from, Eddie was really good mates with Mark Broom and the Plaid guys. I saw him at Lost with Juan, Derrick and Kyle Hall the other week losing his nut to Derrick's set and his still talking of starting another label, and a club. He'll be very pleased people rate A13 as highly as Ifach. He told me once he still has loads of back cat unsold just sat around collecting dust. Stuff I rate that no one else seems to; Stasis and all the names he recorded under, but I really love the Paul W Teebrooke and Other world collective stuff Lee Purkis/In-Sync All the stuff on Ferox but the Russ Gabriel stuff is excellent Electronic Industries / Octagon Man / Sem Im not sure how over looked it was but the Norma Jean Bell LP- Come in to my room had some ace tracks on it, but the 2 for me are the ones co produced by K-Hand; Nobody and Feel what I like. I think it was massively passed over in the UK ________________________________ From: benny blanco(r) [mailto:be...@blancodisco.com<mailto:be...@blancodisco.com>] Sent: 03 December 2012 18:36 To: kent williams Cc: list 313 Subject: Re: (313) Ask 313 Okay, I'll bite. I always dug the 'Obscure' Pure Plastic / A13 sounds from Mark Broom/Dave Hill camp in the UK from the 90's. Not always 'detroit', but certainly techno.... and sometimes a nice downtempo breaky track in there too. Some Other Label Faves.... Pacific Records and Ifach benny blanco(r) blancodisco.com<http://blancodisco.com> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:23 PM, kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com<mailto:chaircrus...@gmail.com>> wrote: OK, now that we've established that lurkers know how to send e-mail to the list ... This is an idea for a mix I'd like to do. Here's the question: What is your favorite techno that no one else seems to rate highly? Extra points for being obscure. What's my impetus? I buy a lot of records at thrift stores and from crawling around in the crates on the floor at Dave's in Chicago. I look for things that might be OK based on producer, remixer and artists. So I have a lot of records that have decent to excellent tracks on them, that for one reason or another never got much enduring attention. Since I can't crate dig in Detroit very often, I'm looking for those sorts of things, after which i can engage in Internet searchage.
