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[dominic]

just did an internet search for I-D magazine

i arrived in UK in August of 1992 and used to read this magazine and others, not as gospel, but read it fairly consistently nonetheless -- looking at the covers, you can see how much they pushed the new "ambient" sound that year

here's the August 92 cover -- and you can click through to see the rest from that era

 

[noel emits]

They did indeed push it. But then this from December that year: http://www.i-dmagazine.com/i_collect/i_collect.php?id=111

By the way interesting how those 'ambient' events were the point where blissed out indie (shoegaze) crossed into techno and rave.

 

[stelfox]

God, I had viurtally all those old I-D's from about 1988 to about 1994.
Funny looking at them again.
Also did you notice who the cover star of the ragga issue was...
Michaela Strachan of Hitman & Her fame...

 

[dominic]

yeah, it's making me very nostalgic

there was so much going on at the time -- the UK really had it going on -- such a rich music culture

 

[mms]

errr, what years are we talking about???? -- there was a lot of ketamine abuse in brighton and clubs like "full circle" and "shave yer tongue" in the south . . . . twas not the pioneering edge of the jungle sound (was fairly crap house music by
maybe by standalone culture you simply mean the home-listening market??? home-listeners with no real rave or club experience? yes, that's an american thing most likely

but as far as the initial movement toward "intelligent" and "ambient" sounds -- whether at places like knowledge (pure techno) or the sugar lump parties (strictly ambient) -- these were uk initiatives going way way back to 1992

also, i'm not sure when the term "intelligent dance" came onto the scene, but certainly a club like knowledge was but one small step away from coining the term . . . .

the term for the music that came from knowledge was i think 'abstract dance' which was the termed by colin dale - who had something to do with running that club and had a show called abstract dance on kiss fm at the time - + a label too of the same name.
that was a hard club with a military kinda feeling too it, which was fairly honest given that repetitive beats were under attack by law at the time...
look the djs
http://www.myspace.com/djbrendarussell


http://www.myspace.com/colinfaver - who now seems to be a soul dj

http://www.myspace.com/abstraktdance - colin dale