Choon of the Day, redux

william_kent

william_kent

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on repeat, the b-side from the latest release on ECHO LTD:


SND & RTN FT Tenor Youthman - Whitney Version ( ECHO LTD 10 001 )

you won't believe when you hear this sound

yeah!

you won't believe when you hear it
so atmospheeeeeric

I've heard a lot of sounds
and i've heard a lot of dubplates

GOD knows, I was shocked!

I've never heard something sound so right
since Whitney Houston died

I was tempted to start a thread based on how ECHO LTD have picked up the dub techno baton that was dropped when Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald parted ways

there's been a total of two times in my life when I've asked the "guy behind the counter" what tune was playing, and the second was in one of those weird "specialist" shops, which happened to be in Dresden and although I was on a mission to buy up all the "electronics" records on the DDR state owned label,AMIGA, I wandered into this shop that had about 10 "crates" of tunes, and one of them was labelled "dub techno" so I started searching for the Horizontal Ground tunes that i need to complete my "collection", but while i was doing that the "guy behind the counter", who was actually outside smoking a cig with his lady friend on the steps ( some of our more cosmopolitan friends may refer to the steps as being a "stoop" ) and he plonked a record on the decks and immediately it had my companion who is really into female led goth metal bands that you and i have never heard of bouncing around the shop and I was compelled to ask "what's this record?" and that started me on the expensive, yet fulfilling, journey of buying up every release on ECHO LTD


this was the record that started me on my ECHO LTD journey


ECHO LTD 002 - full recording

gated delay - check!
dub siren - check!
fake "pablo" melodica - check!
sub bass - check!

ticks all my boxes ( almost )
 
wektor

wektor

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luka said:
wrote a poem for your dad today. hes got a new bird hes really in love. i dunno if it's tactless of me to mention that or if its ok?
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I knew already but that would explain the weight loss - the two facts which I have not connected
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Dunno why I'm asking you... I guess cos it's more fun than looking it up... but I looked it up anyway...

Cherry is the son of American jazz artist Don Cherry and Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry.
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william_kent

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IdleRich said:
Dunno why I'm asking you... I guess cos it's more fun than looking it up... but I looked it up anyway...
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Cherry is the son of American jazz artist Don Cherry and Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry.
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"the son"?

I'd always assumed she was Don's biological daughter... but now...

anyway, I've always been fond of her first appearances on the Rip Rig And Panic records ( it wasn't only Mark Stewart who carried on recording after the breakup of The Pop Group, etc., )


Rip Rig and Panic - Storm The Reality Asylum

"time is a trick of the mind"

strong vocal from Neneh on this one

pretty sure Robert Smith took notes from this and had a hit single with The Cure as a result
 
william_kent

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IdleRich said:
Yeah me too.
It's Eagle-Eye who is the son.
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ah, ok... so the post wasn't referring to Neneh?

edit: err... ok, maybe I've had one too rum too many, just re-read your initial post and I'm now aware that you were talking about the other one ( Eagle-Eye )

edit: I cheated and consulted wikipedia's entry on Neneh

Cherry was born as Neneh Mariann Karlsson in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of Monika "Moki" Karlsson (1943–2009), a Swedish painter and textile artist, and the musician Ahmadu Jah (1936–2018). Jah was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, the son of a tribal chief, and went to Stockholm to study engineering at university.
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IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
william_kent said:
ah, ok... so the post wasn't referring to Neneh?

edit: err... ok, maybe I've had one too rum too many, just re-read your initial post and I'm now aware that you were talking about the other one ( Eagle-Eye )

edit: I cheated and consulted wikipedia's entry on Neneh
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The thing is, I was talking about Eagle-Eye but the wikipedia article just said "cherry" - I thought about changing it but was too lazy - and now I'm paying the price by explaining it... a stitch in time saves nine...
 
william_kent

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IdleRich said:
The thing is, I was talking about Eagle-Eye but the wikipedia article just said "cherry" - I thought about changing it but was too lazy - and now I'm paying the price by explaining it... a stitch in time saves nine...
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it's ok, we know now - Don is the biological father of Eagle-Eye, but he was a real father to Neneh even if he didn't supply any genetic material
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Liza found some band on bandcamp that she reckons sounds like Happy Mondays but with a German guy on vocals - and she's right... but the sound takes me back to another band and a very specific period in my life... nb the following isn't a story as such, I just hate it when there are Choons of the Day with no writing or context or anything and so I started trying to describe the context and cos I'm high as fuck it grew out of control, apologies for that, probably better to just skip straight to the tune, except you won't like it anyway, best ignore this post altogether really.

In '99 I guess it was I had finished uni and was hoping to move to London, but had no real idea how to do it or any idea of what to do next really. I assume that's what happens to every single person who finishes university - or perhaps there are two groups, those who did a vocational type degree and walk straight into a job, and those who did a non-vocational degree and who walk into nothing.

So I was back with my parents in Oxfordshire but luckily... in fact with hindsight, thank fuck, one of my best mates from uni got a job in Oxford. Without that would have gone totally mad in that barren, cultureless desert, but luckily my friend was into all the same stuff as me, he had a massive record collection, we could watch bands together and films and so on... but the weird thing is, he was totally fucking straight, he never took any drugs at all... but even so we got on.

And there was this band Campag Velocet if you remember them, they were like a sort of cut price Happy Mondays with a cockney vocalist and they did have something I think, they were one of the few contemporary bands Matt liked. I remember going to a gig and when they played Bon Chic Bon Genre I saw someone going absolutely crazy on the dancefloor and then, to my amazement, I realised it was my friend who never took drugs and never danced. That image has always stayed with me, and so when Liza played this band today I thought not of Happy Mondays but in fact of Campag Velocet, and the song sounded exactly like this one which is my tune of the day. Enjoy... or don't, most likelly.

 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
william_kent said:
* will this get me killed? accusing a certified bad man of nonce lyrics?
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You reckon he checks dissensus? I guess it's not impossible, it definitely seems that some people spend their whole lives searching through the internet for instances when they've been insulted. One example that springs to mind is Portaloo which is apparently an actual company and a trademark, but at the same time it's become a word that people used to describe any plastic box with a toilet in that can be used at festivals. I think they employed someone to sift through all articles written ever in the history of time to make sure that no-one had libelled Portaloo by incorrectly using their name when in fact it was another company whose cabin had broken and trapped someone inside, or fallen over and covered a customer in shit.

Oh and also, I read something about Kool Aid once. There is a widely held belief or assumption that the drink that contained the poison used during the Jonestown Massacre was Kool Aid and in fact this is so prevalent there is a saying "keep drinking the Kool Aid" which I suppose is quite similar in meaning to "Wake up sheeple" as it's intended to imply that someone is mindlessly believing "the man" and unquestioningly following orders to the extent that they are happily swallowing the lethal Kool Aid simply cos the lame stream media tells them to. However, it wasn't actually Kool Aid, it was some other drink, and I believe that Kool Aid employ people to search through archives and so on, finding cases where their good name has been besmirched, and aggressively threatening legal action unless a correction is published.

I wanted to double-check I'm not just talking bollocks here so I looked up Jim Jones on wikipedia. When describing the tragic events it does specifically say Flavor Aid was used and at the bottom of the article it says

The widely known expression "Drinking the Kool-Aid" developed after the events at Jonestown, although the specific beverage used at the massacre was Flavor Aid.[/QUOTE]

I reckon they have been got at by Kool Aid's lawyers.
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