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There's a great scene in the movie Radio On by Chris Petit. The main character who is this very cold dispassionate figure has a job as deejay in a factory and he does the night shift. So he's playing music to all these half-dead workers and reads out a request from a woman on the floor for "Help...

Freelance work is a bit different from the factory experience, but there was a period in my life when every large feature I wrote - interview, singles column, thinkpiece, festival review - involved staying up all night. Late '80s through to early '90s, it was a weekly occurrence. Occasionally...

Haunted is really good isn't it, at the time i was so attached to the smash-out, diva-explosion mode of his that I was a little disappointed at first, but the filmic smoov-groove thing really works well and in time i've come to appreciate its achievement - it's proper album-album, all the way...

Dimensions of Sound is more or less when I gave up on Moving Shadow. I had it on advance cassette and remember the sinking feeling listening. That said, I did listen to it a year or so ago and found it not quite as bland / over-arranged as I'd recalled. Also quite liked Weekend World and one...

There's three all-new tracks I think - 'Alien Creed', "Together", "Shadowplay" - all excellent. I think it works as a both a debut and a story-so-far greatest hits. (It irritates me that the YouTube poster has described this as "progressive breaks"). There are postpunk precedents for Album...

Two questions for da masssive - what are the worth-a-listen single-artist albums that Moving Shadow put out, beyond the obvious (Omni - Deepest Cut)? - noticed that none of these mostly late-90s / early 2000s albums by Omni, E-Z Rollers, Dom & Roland, Flytronix, Guardians of euuch Dalliance...

very pleasantly surprised by this sort-of-new Omni stuff - "Miro's Theme" and "Low Level" especially

i am list i am listening to it right now as it happens! it is good isn't it. i am thinking maybe i should give some of the later albums a relisten. probably i am ready for their mellowness, metabolically.

Yes that should have been in the Lover's Jungle thread There's an even more wonderfully tender remix on one of the Enforcers releases Holding hands is a recurrent theme in Saint Etienne songs as it happens - "it's too hot to even hold hands / but that won't stop us from making plans" in...

Football / indie-dance hoolie-hippie intersection too bumptiously lively for 98rpm moment but proximate the song is like a second-div mod / freakbeat sneer plucked out of '66 and plopped into '90 chuggathonic houserock

not 98 bpm, a bit too lively, but connected to this moment of rockers turned ravers "prettiness is everywhere"

I was surprised Bob didn't go for this One Dove song rather than "Fallen" - I think it distils this moment and what it has going for it perfectly Vocally/lyrically walking that saintly / sexual / chemical line with exquisite ambiguity I feel like there's a mix where the wordless chorus bit...

But institutionally it's the same people - Heavenly Records / Heavenly Social. Creation starts this dance-oriented sub label label Infonet just a year or so before it gets the Oasis juggernaut rollin' I think they are phases of the same lineage - Madchester/indie-dance to Big Beat / Britpop...

Yes that sort of intersection of ethereal Goth-lite / shoegazey quasi-Medieval vocals with lolloping beats is a strand in the vicinity e.g. The Beloved sampling Gothic Voices: A Feather on the Breath of God, that LP of Abbess Hildengard of Bingen plainsong

that is a nice idea. i think this stuff I'm talking about actually fits better the Finney coinage - because the softness in the hardcore/jungle/UK garage is woven inextricably with the tuffness - you'll have a gorgeous lover's rock or soul vocal and then some raspy murder-him-gon-kill-im type...

A couple of things made me think of this sequel to the hugely successful Softcore Rap thread - a moment in dance similarly indexed to the wave of end-of-Eighties / very-early-Nineties positivity and vague hopefulness / hopeful vagueness. 1. reminded for the first time in decades of this group...

what a great sound it took me a long while to realise he was never going to open his mouth and sing

found this piece on K-Jazz his pirate station

not what you are talking about, but reminded me of Scott Walker on one of those later, hard-going albums, using meat as a percussive instrument - or rather, not really percussion, just recording the sounds of a pig carcass getting slapped and wacked and using that on a track Sort of...

woah that 'Buggin' Out' is a tuff little tune