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Lysergically good Foreheads In A Fishtank track... Got a decent release but they were just too weird. Their revival page doesn't get many views & nor do the vids by the look of it:

I know I'm gonna be on my own with this one. Peel played it once or twice. Its on Rabbit City but it ain't what they're known for. Sorta epic yet thrown together, slightly hammy hardcore, bit upful in places, quite pounding in others, but I think not meaty enough to really get played out - I...

Always thought this was rather lovely in a sorta light Detroit style - Irish semi-well-known DJ Donnacha Costello, very low viewcount on youtube again:

There was a little period of Mid-town Euro hardcore stuff that had this particular strict beats & Mentasms but pre-gabba sound. I only heard these a coupla years later - there are only a handful that sit right in this sound (I know theres loadsa stuff that's close, but these are just edging a...

This Charo one isn't exactly unpopular, but it never gets its dues in the Salsoul catalogue, I think cos the singer was some sorta airhead celebrity & a bit short-tongued, but I like it, I always thought it was genuinely silky & latin & it was the first Salsoul one I owned.

This is a Max Rees (Cambridge soul DJ)-type tune. I wouldn't say the one below is a flop when you play it to people, I'm just always amazed it is not more popular. It was a minor hit at the time & I got sent a promo, which passed me by, then when I was going through stuff to pass on years...

I especially didn't get why his vocals were SO loud, like several steps above the already notoriously loud band. I suppose it is just genuinely meant to make you feel ill :-D Another along similar lines (sort of) - Sun Ra. I mean, again, he's great, but you never hear anyone coming anywhere...

I've just reviewed em live - been aware of em for many years of course but never seen em before. They were very very good but the audience were like they were North Koreans brought out for a political rally. Also, I can't really fault their legendary volume, cos it did weird things to my body...

I'm not saying I don't like em (damn, that's the point of the thread), but does anyone anywhere ever criticise Swans?!

I've only been doing reviews etc a few months & I think I've already employed the "-smith" thing. I also just realised last night that I think I'm going to be, through different lengths of gestation for different types of articles, calling more than one thing 'majestic' & more than one thing...

Just spotted this. You've probably seen already, but....he hath returned... ...which is nice. I don't think he's the don or owt but e was pretty good supporting Grimes about a year & a half back. We felt sorry for him in Manchester, with the soundman keeping him right down.

Yeah hopefully they'll do over some of it, as with Jobseeker. I've spotted a few little mistakes in reviews, where they've not fact checked. Great to see such near-universal interest though. I'm in exactly the same place as you on SPECTRE. I would imagine its on p2ps but I've been off them for...

Yeah there's loads of bitching underneath it :-)

http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/collateral-damage_tony-herrington-on-the-soul-of-electronic-dance-music-29686

You got any links for that stuff? X-D

From what I can make out, Jason was in sorta mod/folk/Britpop bands right up until early Sleaford days or thereabouts (hence the folky bits & slightly Callier tone songs on the first album & less so from memory on the second). He was trying the ranting & samples style out as another string to...

I really like that you think "Ha its a joke, the name's just off some local graffiti", but that Jason has genuinely been through punk, mod, acid house, living the styles but getting hacked off with them & moving on, trying to make sense of it all & being disappointed with what's been done in...

By the way, slightly off-topic, re: me saying above that I've started doing some bits for RC mag... Part of the idea was to bring in some more varied dance music coverage, so as I know many music bizzle people flock here, do PM me if there is anything I can possibly assist with (needs to be...

Some bitter wrangling about the Tony Herrington piece in the following issue of the mag & on the mag website. Not nearly as exciting though as the full-page letter the other month from the author disputing the entire contents of the full-page review of his book the month before!

I've taken my eye off the ball with this stuff cos of what's said here - Sliink (obvious king of it) seemed to have been sucked up into that bland EDM thing...