diatomyc records wasn't it? badboy acid.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'robin howells'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:28 PM Subject: RE: (313) Weird old techno records - want to get your trainspotting caps on? > R&S did have something to do with a label Mike Dred (Kosmik Kommando) set up > in the early 90's but unfortunately I forget its name. There were a series > of several EPs with very minimal artwork, just a plain label. > > -----Original Message----- > From: robin howells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 10:38 AM > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: (313) Weird old techno records - want to get your trainspotting > caps on? > > > I found some mysterious 313-related items in my local record shop that I > thought some of you guys might be interested in and might be able to shed > some light on. > > One is a 12" with a plain red label with "TB-606 EP" handwritten on it (this > is presumably a combination of "TR-606" and "TB-303", or a mistake). There > are 6 tracks I think of rather good, techno made entirely with a 303 and a > 606. I guess what it most reminds me of is some of the early Rephlex stuff > like Universal Indicator. > > But what's interesting is that the guy assures me that it's a test-pressing > done by the R & S label, although he doesn't know who's responsible for the > music. I can find no evidence of any such thing being ever released by R & > S, so is he wrong or is this something that never made it to a full release, > do you think? > > Slightly more straightforward are two early Metroplex releases. One is an > unmarked white label bearing the handwritten legend 'Metroplex', and it > certainly sounds like something that would genuinely be a Metroplex release. > It also says "Olly" on it - but I think that's just the guy who owned it - > and has "Passion Records" stamped on it, which I assume is the shop that > originally sold it. > > The other is a copy of Shake's "5% Solution" on Metroplex, also featuring 3 > other tracks: "Mindless Entertainment", "Day of Reckoning", and "My Name Is > Binky". Can anyone advise me as to whether this is at all rare or valuable? > If not, it's still a very nice, and frankly insane-sounding, release. > > Thanks in advance if anyone can supply any information! I'd particularly > like to find what the so-called R & S thing might be. > > Robin Howells >
