Is that the June 1984 one? I've got that book which has a big selection of Face articles on clubbing and dance music culture, and it includes a big electro article from 1984 by David Toop and Paul Rambali - I'm guessing you've got the original issue?
"Competition is fierce, reputations are waiting to be made or lost. The threat of 'pirates' or 'biters'... is always present." That book also has a fairly funny article about house, where a Face journalist, Sheryl Garratt, goes to visit Chicago and hangs around with Chip-E, Ron Hardy, Marshall Jefferson, Frankie Knuckles and co in 1986. She asks the question, "what is house music?", and all hell breaks loose... "House music? I couldn't even begin to tell you what house is. You have to go to the clubs and see how people react when they hear it. It's more like a feeling that runs through, like old-time religion in the way that people jus' get happy and screamin'. It's happening! It's... house!" "Let me see if I can put it better. It's more like eighties disco songs in eighties style." "It's Chicago's own sound." "'cept it came from New York, and they don't know it." "It's rock til you drop, that's what it is!" "It's a status symbol to party all night at the Music Box. Everybody goes there - all the hippest kids in the city!" "You'll leave there a changed person. You might go and seek religion afterwards!" She ends up being impressed by the enthusiasm of the house scene's advocates, but not by the music. She describes "Awww Shucks" by saying "it was made cheaply and somehow sounds even cheaper. But that, everyone tells me, is part of the appeal." This 1986 article on house ends with the journalist asking Chip-E how long they can keep doing it (house) before people get bored. He turns to her with a grin and says "about twenty years"... Brendan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 September 2004 10:48 > To: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: (313) The Face Magazine 1984 > > > While I was in London, I walked past this shop and spotted an old face > magazine from '84. > > It's the one where the cover is a mock-up of the streetsounds electro > comps. > > Big feature issue on Electro, loads of interesting shizz. So I picked it > up, only £2. > > Anyhow, the editorial informs me that in 1984 England's dancefloors were > "reverberating to the sound of techno-funk" and it also refers to the > "fierce dancable beat" going round the clubs. > > so, yeah, "techno-funk" in 1984. In England! > > nice. > > I always knew we were pioneers really > > ; ) > _________________________________________________________________ > > --------------------- End of message text -------------------- > > This e-mail is sent by the above named in their > individual, non-business capacity and is not on > behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers. > > PricewaterhouseCoopers may monitor outgoing and incoming > e-mails and other telecommunications on its e-mail and > telecommunications systems. By replying to this e-mail you > give your consent to such monitoring >
