yesh they released the bug album, some of the vadim stuff is good.
mo wax had some crackers, shadow, divine styler, urban tribe, carl craig bits, palmskin production, all good, tons and tons of total shit though.
admitting you were wrong: music you used to like and now hate
yesh they released the bug album, some of the vadim stuff is good.
mo wax had some crackers, shadow, divine styler, urban tribe, carl craig bits, palmskin production, all good, tons and tons of total shit though.
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Following this thread, I dug out my old DJ Shadow stuff which I used to love, to see if it was shit, and found that it wasn't. There was a lot of good stuff on Mo Wax, but literally no quality control at all. What was that double double CD they put out? Heads 2? God, it was like panning an entire hillside for nuggets of gold, that.
crackerjack
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Seemed like it was more about the packaging by that stage and they could flog any old cack so long as it came in a funky box. They were very sharp when it came to licensing though. As well as Shadow, they picked up quick on Krush (who had a couple of good tunes early on), La Funk Mob, Dr Octagon etc
most of their UK stuff was pretty average though. Have you heard Unkle lately? It's like someone scraping out Robert Del Naja's colon
It's very much I Am The Fly isn't it though.
I quite enjoyed that Blur single that just came out, well just the once.
ok come on it sounds nothing like i am the fly
but from wikipedia on elastica
The band became subject to controversy when several bands sued them for plagiarism. Specifically, the post-punk band Wire (who Elastica counted as one of their main influences) claimed that many of the band's melodies were taken from Wire compositions, as well as by The Stranglers. Notably, Wire's "I Am the Fly" has a chorus similar to Elastica's "Line Up" and the intro synthesizer part in Elastica's "Connection" (later also repeated on guitar) is lifted from the guitar riff in Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba" and transposed a semitone, and The Stranglers also passed comment that Elastica's "Waking Up" bore a marked resemblance to their song "No More Heroes". The judgment resulted in out-of-court settlements. [1]
i saw blur live once, on the same bill as dinosaur jnr, jesus and mary chain and my bloody valentine - all for £11
Brother Randy Hickey
formerly Dubversion
Rollercoaster tour. Cracking night out.
I always thought that although ALbarn can be a bit toxic, Blur have been one of the most consistently inventive bands of the last 20 years or so, in the "indie / mainstrem" field anyhow. It didn't all work - they made some shockers - but then that's what you get for not playing it totally straight (a la Oasis, and yes, I know that's a false dichotomy).
As for the Ninja Tune / Mo Wax stuff - i HOOVERED that kinda thing up in the mid-90s, without ever quite knowing why (and I understand even less now). I'm mid a big CD and vinyl purge now, and the next shelf to get laundered is the one with all the bloody "trip hop". I hope to god all those bloody Attica Blues 12"s are worth something...
benjybars
village elder.
yeah i can't lie.. when i was about 14 i went to Knebworth to see Oasis when they did their massive fuckoff weekend gigs there. it was actually amazing. manged to sneak into the elusive 'gold zone' which only held about 500 people at the front. danced next to kate moss. serious.
you know, i always associate my love for Oasis at that time with my love for Friends (tv show). both were almost embarrassingly important to me for a while. both were massively, massively popular and yet i always felt like i 'got' them more than everybody else. haha.. can anyone see where i'm coming from?!
first series of friends was very big. started to go downhill a bit after the whole ross and rachel getting together thing. never satisfy your viewers THAT much. but the first series, that episode where chandler gets locked in some ATM booth with that lingerie model in particular, was really good. lol.
same here, after age 12.
It does...
Although it might equally have been something else or some other Wire song I was thinking of. Not that it matters, it's no condemnation. Lots of rock and roll is about recycling riffs.
Saw this tour at Brixton Academy. I think Blur had a film of someone (or was it a dog?) having a shit playing backwards.
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
So you liked those bands when you were nine?
no more like 16
I really think this question should be a compulsory part of any interview with a dubstep/grime/funky DJ or producer given that the standard answer to questions concerning musical background seems to be that they were listening jungle and/or garage since the moment they were born. That might be true, but it's become such a standard answer now that it's not that interesting. You'd get a much better insight into someone's musical development if they had to give an answer like the ones people have put in this thread.
Leo
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i went through a brief ministry/revolting cocks phase, liked that they were sort of taking the piss on the industrial thing (particularly the cocks: "steers, beers and queers"!)
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Like Benny B, I had a massive thing for britpop from when I was 7 til about 10 or 11, it kind of trailed off after I'd exhausted Be Here Now and learnt to play all the songs on my squire stratocaster 
Towards the end of primary school I got massively in to hip hop, and listened pretty much exclusively to Cypress Hill, Gangstarr and Beastie Boys til I got in to Big L, Mos Def etc a few years later. I liked an awful lot of boring backpacker hip hop like most of the stuff on the second Lyricist Lounge album, High & Mighty, all that kind of stuff, while at the same time listening to a lot of French Touch house music, and the odd bit of old Soma guff that my brother would play, like Silicone Soul and Chaser. I then got really in to Def Jux, which was great for a while, but then became a horrible parody of itself. I think I was over that around the time I bought that album by The Perceptionists and realised it was total garbage. I still revisit The Cold Vein and RJD2's albums from that period, but they're the only Def Jux releases that I can really stomach these days.
After getting past being a total teenage stoner layabout, I got back in to dance music which pretty much purged my brain of all the sub-par hip hop stuff I'd subjected myself to through my teenage years. I do still have an unhealthy appetite for bad rock music like Boston, Journey, Foreigner, and popular metal like Metallica. I've also been known to get a little too enthusiastic when singing Paramore during a drunken session of Rock Band.
Towards the end of primary school I got massively in to hip hop, and listened pretty much exclusively to Cypress Hill, Gangstarr and Beastie Boys til I got in to Big L, Mos Def etc a few years later. I liked an awful lot of boring backpacker hip hop like most of the stuff on the second Lyricist Lounge album, High & Mighty, all that kind of stuff, while at the same time listening to a lot of French Touch house music, and the odd bit of old Soma guff that my brother would play, like Silicone Soul and Chaser. I then got really in to Def Jux, which was great for a while, but then became a horrible parody of itself. I think I was over that around the time I bought that album by The Perceptionists and realised it was total garbage. I still revisit The Cold Vein and RJD2's albums from that period, but they're the only Def Jux releases that I can really stomach these days.After getting past being a total teenage stoner layabout, I got back in to dance music which pretty much purged my brain of all the sub-par hip hop stuff I'd subjected myself to through my teenage years. I do still have an unhealthy appetite for bad rock music like Boston, Journey, Foreigner, and popular metal like Metallica. I've also been known to get a little too enthusiastic when singing Paramore during a drunken session of Rock Band.
I went to see Shed Seven a few years after they were pretty much past it, lovely chaps. Invited a few of us backstage after and ended up wrapping up all the food that had been laid on for them in paper towels and plastic bags for us to take home. Fed me for a week that did.