Examples of other (non hardcore) continuums

[version]

There's the hardcore (punk), post-hardcore thing too. Ian MacKaye et al.

 

[catalog]

hype williams as a collective, however, -does- exist on a continuum (of a different sort)

Dean blunt continuum is a movement trying all the hats on... from DJ to live instruments to beats to centre stage vocals to producer...

Party CDJ DJ, Teens of Thailand with Selom Woode (Floss Daily) (2007)



Bass in Graffiti Island (2007)



Early hype williams with Bahamma



Bo Khat free folk vibe



The classic Hype Williams




More solo DJing as Mr Audrey Horne (2012)



Dean Blunt





Babyfather

 

[john eden]

An expansive and in depth look at the UK anarchopunk -> rave continuum via free festivals and disco...

Crass go disco

NO, CRASS haven’t just gone disco. They went disco years ago. What, precisely, Crass were trying to do when they released Walls on their first proper album Stations of the Crass remains unclear, ev…

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[Slothrop]

London-based Mod into Psych into Glam was kind-of a thing wasn't it? I don't know enough about it, but I'm kind of fascinated by the psychic flexibility needed to morph from a street-smart Face to a faux-naif flower child to a glittery sex-alien in the space of about five years.

 

[version]

I think it's quite easy to move through phases like that as a teenager and in your early 20s. If you're talking about adults then yeah, it's a bit more notable.

 

[Slothrop]

Yeah, true. And I guess that to a certain extent it's all just different ways of playing dress-up.

 

[line b]

Punk kids all eventually turn into american folk/country kids

 

[catalog]

An expansive and in depth look at the UK anarchopunk -> rave continuum via free festivals and disco...

Crass go disco

NO, CRASS haven’t just gone disco. They went disco years ago. What, precisely, Crass were trying to do when they released Walls on their first proper album Stations of the Crass remains unclear, ev…

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very long and interesting article, don't know where he's going with it and then the musings on thatcherism etc in between the oral history tyle interviews make it feel very comprehensive.

i'm about halfway through.

never knew aki nawaz put on a crass gig in bradford, sold it out, then bought a drum kit the next day. heartwarming.

i always had a soft spot for fun-da-mental but never got them properly, they basically weren't very good. i remembe ri had this single on CD tho



the story about hearing racist crass fans in the toilets is a bit grim, but very typical

“So I’m in the toilet, sat there, and I hear two people come in, and I hear them have a piss and then one of them says, have you heard about that Paki promoter? He’s making Crass pay for us to get in.”

“I fucking hated racism. The one thing I couldn’t handle in the punk movement was racism,” says Aki. “You wouldn’t think followers of Crass would come out with that stuff. I don’t know. It was just interesting.”

The fact is he’d had to put up with this kind of casual, matter-of-fact racist abuse from his school days onwards, even from so-called friends. People would say this stuff to his face, never mind on the other side of a toilet stall door, and what could he do when faced with all that?

“The punk scene was full of it,” he says. “I would have been in a fight every night.”

“I’d heard that kind of stuff before, I just didn’t expect it at a Crass gig. They could have said, that fucking promoter, he’s a right tight get, but as soon as they dropped in the word Paki, I’m like, oh no, fucking hell.

“At that particular time, I couldn’t even speak my language properly. I was probably more English than the fucking English. But being called that kind of shit, I was like, fucking hell. I can’t get away from all this.

“That’s why I loved punk. In general, it was a tribe of people from all parts of the world and racism wasn’t really involved in it. I felt a belonging.”

lots of good tunes posted that i've never heard before, from crass, poison girls etc, but i probably like this southern death cult medley the most



Was intrigued by a band called 'Dandruff' who were on the crass label, and contributed a track to the 'bullshit detector' compilation, who the blog writer describes as an 'ardent young marble giants' which i can sort of hear in the instrumentation.



good to read this sort of grass-roots style history lesson tho, thanks @john eden for posting it

 

[john eden]

Glad you liked it @catalog - it struck me as something that was going to be a book or a commissioned article that just spiralled wildly out of control. In a good way, imo.