Hmmm, when is Fabric gonna do a 313 related mix, I wonder? One from Stacey or Mr Saunderson would be nice...
> Subject: Legendary UK radio DJ signs to Fabric > > > The December issue of the genre-defying Fabric Live release will be > compiled by UK DJ icon John Peel. His Radio One show has been a mainstay of > the stations roster for 30 years and John has been responsible for breaking > more new talent than arguably anyone else in the UK. From his early days of > his `Perfumed Garden' show on pirate station Radio Caroline (which > broadcast from a converted fishing trawler moored in international waters > off the coast of the UK) to his current late-night slot on the national > broadcaster John's show has been a mish-mash of styles with one constant > theme. Find the newest and best of any genre and give it some airplay. His > laconic style was in direct contrast to the dire poptastic delivery of > daytime radio (it still is, come to think of it) and millions of schoolkids > smuggled their transistor radios under their bedsheets to drift off to > sleep each night listening to his varied playlist of punk, psychedelia, > mod, indie and dub reggae. For many white kids his show was their first > taste of `Black' music in the UK circa 1970's and switched on many > future artists (Gary Clail for one, who was to feature heavily in Peel's > later playlists) to the raw vibe of Dub. His influence in the UK's music > scene cannot be overstated. Daytime radio was toss, Peel's show was a > glimpse of the underground and continues to be to this day. His track > selection is, as expected, as eclectic a bag as you are ever likely to > encounter this side of a back to mine session with The Avalanches. Spanning > 50 years of music it includes tracks from Don Carlos, Trouble Funk, The > Fall, The Datsuns, MC Det, Smith & Selway, Joy Division and winds up with a > stirring rendition of `You'll never walk alone' by the Kop Choir (He's a > lifetime Liverpool F.C fan) and last but not least the Undertone's seminal > `Teenage Kicks' . This is his first and last mix CD and is fitting > testamant to a man who according to his lifelong friend and producer John > Walters is `the single most important figure in popular music in the last > 25 years'. File under `Educational' FABRICLIVE vol 7 Release date : > December 2ndDistribution : DMC DMC Records Australia > 211 Commercial Road > South Yarra > VIC 3141 > Australia > tel: ++ 613 9824 0944 > fax: ++ 613 9824 0955 >
