Damn, Andy Weatherall is dead
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I was going to offer up Screamadelica in the 1990s albums thread last week, but couldn't think of another 9.
RIP
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
He did an amazing set on NYE @ Wang at the turn of midnight one year. Was off my nut, said happy new year to him when we passed in the corridor. He was so sweet and friendly. Same night I said the same to squarepusher and he was a total cunt. In short, Andy was a sweetheart. RIP
Most deaths of people who're not friends don't really touch me that much but this one does for some reason. He seems so proximate to me and my generation and rode (shaped) so many of the same musical waves we've all lived through, from Boys Own onward. Also made the only decent indie-dance crossover records in existence, I'd contend.
IdleRich
IdleRich
But yeah that's it Dan, on facebook it's crazy cos all the people my age (or a little older) grew up with a scene that he was such an important part of and so loads of them knew or know people who know him.... so there is some kind of personal sadness mixed in with the symbolic "end of an era" type thing. A lot of old ravers will be feeling as though their youth has a final full stop on it now.
bloody hell. i always rated him as someone who never ever compromised. more a post-punk than an ibiza type person. i remember reading an interview with him where he said around 93-94 he was playing all those big clubs like cream but had to take a step back cos he thought he could make it big but had better records than most djs on that circuit. hard to find so many heads like those.
cheers for introducing me to Juice records australia as well Andy proper hard acid
cheers for introducing me to Juice records australia as well Andy proper hard acid
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Wang was my go-to night for NYE (and throughout the year) for a long time, so I was probably at the same night. Me and the Mrs bumped into him at the station the morning after he played a small festival in Devon about a year and a half ago and found the same thing - lovely guy, a real enthusiast, no rock-star ego at all.
(And you're not the first person I've heard say that Tom Squarepusher is a right twat...)
This is exactly it. It's a death that has suggests our own mortality, but it's not just personal, it's that whole cultural moment.
My sister tagged me on Facebook to remind me of an old tape I had. I taped him and Bobby Gillespe on Kiss late one evening, playing the most lethal set of downtempo soul, rock, reggae. It was about 1 in the morning and I stayed up late, taping it. So many, many absolute fire tunes. Heptones "I shall be released", Patti Smith "Piss Factory", James Carr "Dark End of the Street, Aretha live doing "Nightlife ain't no good life". It was so fucking good, every tune was a fucking revelation Impeccable taste, a real distinct aesthetic carved out of collecting. I guess that was something else that marked him out and that I (and many others) identified with, records as a kind of practice, part of the identity. That space that others like Coldcut, DJ Shadow and so many others came out of.
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craner
Beast of Burden
Sounds really good, do you have a track list?
I did actually find it on the net once, let me see if it's still about.