Scuse me mate, have you got that one that goes nah nah nuh nah nah nuh nah?!?

[Mr. Tea]

There's a great techno track - well, maybe it's more house, I heard it years ago and I'm rubbish at this kind of thing anyway - that's got this American guy talking over it, banging on about how much he earns, where his apartment is, the car he drives, the fancy organic food he eats, as if he's trying to impress a girl in some godawful yuppy bar...first time I heard it I thought it was actually taken from American Psycho, and although I don't think it is, that's clearly the inspiration. It's got this chugging heavy-metal guitar in it, and the guy's going "...so he said, do you like drugs? And I'm like, YEAH, I like fucking drugs...so I did some E..." *chugga-chugga-chug, chugga-chugga-chug". It probably sounds unbearable from that description, but it's a really fun track, really bad-ass sounding in a stupid sort of way. Ring any bells, anywone?

 

[Lichen]

Horrorist?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Horrorist?

A quick Google makes that sounds likely, although I can't pin down that particular tune.

 

[noel emits]

No actual drums involved as far as i can tell though, so I could be wrong.

Another way that the women and girls play music is to literally "play the river". A group of them will stand in water up to their waists and with cupped hands hit the surface of the water. Each of them will play a different rhythmic pattern which together form a more complex synchopated rhythm. The sound of this drumming coupled with their laughter carries across the forest.

 

[PeteUM]

Yeah, that's what the sleevenotes say too. Just thought Martin's memory of water on the skin of a drum might be so specific as to refer to something else.

 

[mms]

There's a great techno track - well, maybe it's more house, I heard it years ago and I'm rubbish at this kind of thing anyway - that's got this American guy talking over it, banging on about how much he earns, where his apartment is, the car he drives, the fancy organic food he eats, as if he's trying to impress a girl in some godawful yuppy bar...first time I heard it I thought it was actually taken from American Psycho, and although I don't think it is, that's clearly the inspiration. It's got this chugging heavy-metal guitar in it, and the guy's going "...so he said, do you like drugs? And I'm like, YEAH, I like fucking drugs...so I did some E..." *chugga-chugga-chug, chugga-chugga-chug". It probably sounds unbearable from that description, but it's a really fun track, really bad-ass sounding in a stupid sort of way. Ring any bells, anywone?

 

[martin]

Hey Pete and MMS - I'm going to investigate this further, it could be my memory of it's skewed anyway - but thanks, some great leads there!

 

[DRMHCP]

I've always wanted a track played on Kiss in mid-late 1994 by Pete Wardman when he used to put a pretty underground hardbag/very early hardhouse mix in the middle of his weekday afternoon show (how things have changed!). It sampled the strings from Perry Como' s "It's Impossible" and beside remembering it as being absolutely bang on that's about all I can tell you...

 

[28 Gun Nice Boy]

There are times though, when a peice of music has haunted you, that when you actually bring it to the realm of the living it's ultimately disappointing. Some ghosts are better left in the spirit world.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Hmm, it's not that. Good video though.

 

[DigitalDjigit]

Then it's "Mission Ecstasy". It's got to be The Horrorist.

 

[zhao]

question:

the wire's "favorite dub of all time" - Satan Side by... Keith Hudson i think. which version is the championed one? lee perry or augustus pablo's version or are they the same? i think it should be an extended mix, longer than the 2 minutes of the original surely?

if anyone has an mp3 of the cut...

 

[leamas]

Saw Hawtin and Villalobos back to back in Fabric 27.11.2004. As the set was coming towards the end at around 6am Hawtin played a 30 minute passage which included one of the most sickeningly good techno tunes I've ever heard. It came shortly after he had played Ron Trent's 'Altered States'. It starts with some detroity hi pass filtered pads, similar to Carl Craig 'Just Another Day', which don't seem to loop but progress as a sequence of parallel chords for around a minute. Then they break down into noise, a huge 909 kick drum comes in, and then the pads return. I imagine the only way I would ever find out what this is would be to ask him in person. I also know that he played Rave Generator and Ramirez - Musika Tremenda at some point earlier in the set. It's not on DE9, Closer, or Dex Fx and 909, and it's not on any of the Plastikman albums, though it sounds a bit like Smak.

As you can tell I've spent far too much time thinking about this. Occasionally when i'm bored I try to think of new Google terms that might bring up a set list or recording.