beside orbital, 808state, and lfo at that time i used to be really into the shamen (their en-tact album) as well! am i the only one?? :)
that green orbital album, the first lfo album, and ninety and ex:el they all took me into more 'serious'/listening techno .. i'm feeling really old, as i realize it's already over ten years ago At 13-12-2002 +0000 14:56, you wrote:
Just some additional info on the posts made. FSOL's took the Stakker theme from one of their previous projects, AST (see Asus Flow). There's an old compilation out there of all their various guises, such as Yage, Mental Cube, Stakker... basically everything key that they did on Earthbeat. 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), and he whistles the tune from Pacific State all the way through. Not sure of the label, but I remember it had a Club as the label logo (as in Hearts, Spades, Diamonds). Voodoo Ray got hammered, but the promo of it had a great track "Blow Your House Down" on the flip-side, which was later hashed into a more thumping version on the Chicago Symphony EP (red vinyl bootleg-type affair). As for LFO? Frequencies is probably one of the finest albums of the 90's. LFO's "LFO" had a bit of a rough ride though, as Steve Wright ((ex-)BBC Radio One "deejaaaaay") claimed at the time that it was the worst record he had ever heard, but was under strict instructions to play the track, as it had been placed on the "B"-list for airing. John Peel still gave them alot of praise tho at the time, and rightly so. 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. "Track 4" from the "LFO (Leeds Warehouse)" 12" is still a most glorious example of how to put together atmospherics, bleep and base. Sweet Exorcist's "Test One", that can be traced far further back... half of Sweet Exorcist is Cabarat Voltaire's Richard H. Kirk. The Cabs "Body & Soul" LP is probably one of the most underestimated LP's within the early stream of techno that was coing from the UK in the early 90's. The similarities between some of the work that Mills did with Waveform Transmissions Vol.1 and X-102 are scarey-close. And finally... Orbital. If you get chance to dig around, pick up the two Mutations EP's... the reworking of Chime is fantastic.
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