That's terrible news :-( I have some deep love for the Trance Europe/Atlantic Express compilations. The whole book with CD thing is a great concept and while it didn't originate with Mr Deacon - he did it so well. I'd pour over it for hours whilst listening to the CDs. The Pacific State compilations were where I first got exposed to Ken Ishii and some of the best Japanese techno I'd ever heard.
MEK Greg Earle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/10/2007 03:03:58 PM: > Rob Deacon has died aged 42 in a canoeing accident. > > The Guardian has Rob's obituary today: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2187245,00.html > > "Who's he then?" you might ask. > > Abstract Magazine? Sweatbox Records? "Volume"? > "Trance Europe Express"? "Trance Atlantic Express"? > > (You know - the one with all that Detroit Techno on it) > > I owned something from nearly every incarnation Rob had a hand in. > While I never knew who he was, he had a huge influence on my musical > taste for a good 10 years or more, without me even knowing it. His > own musical taste evolution clearly followed my own - brothers in > timeline, as it were. > > R.I.P. Rob. Thanks for all the music.. > > - Greg > >
