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funnily enough was just listening yesterday to his forthcoming thing where he was given access to a museum full of synths in Switzerland - and enjoying it, both as a listen and a concept from the press release: "'Unconditional Contours' captures Legowelt’s stint at the Swiss Museum for...

er, not true - i said this about 'Disco Rout' - "impossibly stirring and portentous"

this is the one that destroys me (or is the other mix? can't remember) love the jittery use of T La Rock vocal

"king of the nubian beat"

the vocal science on this one is demented - a mix of "on a mission" there's an even more vocally delirious mix which isn't on YouTube - i digitized it recently but not got around to putting up as a video yet

had an amazing journey through music - "Nitro Deluxe is the moniker for respected American house producer Manny Scretching Jr.. Born Young Scretching 1/22/60 in philadelphia, Pa. He performed with a variety of funk and jazz groups including Sun Ra’s Arkestra before signing with Cutting Records...

don't forget this guy

perhaps he picked them up from listening to Manuel Gottsching then

on not really understanding the very processes of migration and mutation that led to Detroit techno in the first place: May: Now Cologne has its own techno version, Munich has its own techno, Toronto, London, Cornwall, wherever the fuck it is. Every single community has their own version of...

interesting too that the first labels they tried to send their music to were Nettwerk (Canadian industrial label) and Mute

on aesthetic self-limitation: I hated sampling. The only sample that I ever used was the laugh from Yazoo, on “Nude Photo” – and I let Tom Barnett do that. Sampling is the ultimate sin for me.

Anglophilia / Europhilia: We used to read NME. We learned about European records from their reviews. I remember saying it would be a dream to be in this magazine one day.

on elitism: The Music Institute It was 25 bucks to get in, and we’re talking 1988.,, We had membership. If you had membership, you stood in the left line. If you didn’t have membership, you got in the right line and paid 25 bucks. With membership you paid 15 bucks, but you paid 200 bucks to...

Europhilia: What kind of records were you playing at the high school parties? We were playing anything from the Thompson Twins “In the Name of Love” and Answering Machine’s “Call Me Mr. Telephone,” to “Capricorn” by Capricorn. We played that and more Italian music, things like [Doctor’s Cat]...

this one going out to the Jazz is the Teacher bods: Q: Where does jazz fit in? May: It doesn’t. I didn’t like jazz until five years ago. I didn’t even listen to it.

all this stuff is in the chapter on Detroit in Energy Flash - but it wasn't particularly uncommon knowledge even then (late 90s) that interview with May is a goldmine of from-the-horses-mouth data in support of my take on the city and the sound

to be a bit bleedin obvious isss the sssibilansss

have these been deposited here before? somehow, despite the absurd treatment, the glory of the former survives while the shiteness of the second cannot be disguised there's a bunch more but they're all D&B after its enshitenment

Barty says he gets a powerful whiff of chlamydia off the Bad Boy Chiller Crew

the records he did with Eno and/ or on Eno's label, are great... dreamspace shimmerscapes... exoticizing in exactly the way Luke talks about love City: Works of Fiction at the time but listening again recently sounded a bit airless he talks a good spiel but it's substantiated by the music...