I think Voodoo Rage was the name of the EP that Specific Hate came out on, but memory doesn't serve me too well these days. f it wasn't, it shows one thing... Gerald wasn't happy. :)
Yeah, I think I got me Varley's and Bell's mixed up. Good to hear about Bell is doing some work as LFO tho... very good. > -----Original Message----- > From: Brendan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 December 2002 14:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: RE: (313) 808 State (and A Guy Called Gerald, FSOL, LFO, Sweet > Exorcist & Orbital) > > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Craig Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Sent: 13 December 2002 14:56 > | > | As for A Guy Called Gerald, he did a response to what > | happened to him when he left/was pushed from 808 State, > | called "Specific Hate", in which he uses samples of the > | phone message (apparently, he was kicked from > | 808 State over the phone)... > > If I remember correctly, wasn't "Voodoo Ray" originally "Voodoo Rage", > another response to the 808 State situation? > > | Mark Bell's gone on to do production work for Bjork's > | "Homogenic" and for Depeche Mode too. Varley's been doing > | work under G-Man and "presents Tony Montana", but the work > | is a bit further away from LFO's roots than Varley's production > | work. > > I think you mean "than Bell's production work"! They basically split up > because Varley was keen on pursuing a more straightforward clubby and > dancey sound than Mark Bell, who was keen to maintain the air of > sparseness and experimentalism in LFO's music. Mark Bell has put out a > huge amount of material under other guises, though, including the > Speedjack EPs on R&S, the Lofthouse EP on Planet E, and a bunch of other > stuff. He's working on a new LFO album at the moment. > > Brendan
