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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:23:59 -0500
From: eye WEEKLY <eye5@gold.interlog.com>
To: eye-l@bronze.interlog.com, eye-music@bronze.interlog.com
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Subject: INDIE EYE: Techno! Techno! Techno!
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eye WEEKLY March 21, 1996
Toronto's arts newspaper .....free every Thursday
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INDIE EYE INDIE EYE
TECHNO! TECHNO! TECHNO!
by
CHRIS O'CONNOR
Run sequencers! Uncork Vapo-Rub! Set controls for heart of the sun! A
new Deepspace single and album are imminent. The "Hell Hath No Fury
Like A Hippy Scorned" 12-inch and as-yet-untitled full-lengther will
be among the first releases from Blueprint Recordings -- a new techno
label run out of Republic Records at Spadina and Queen.
"We're basically a rock 'n' roll techno label," says spokes-Brit David
Semple. "We'll be releasing cutting-edge U.K-style techno from artists
who want to be more creative and put more soul into it than just that
standard 808-style stuff. I'm thinking of Underworld, say, or
Leftfield. I think there's a lot of groups here that want to do that,
and can do that."
Blueprint's main goal is to release 12-inch singles from local acts at
the rate of "about six or seven a year" to "try to create interest in
the U.K. and U.S. press and establish Canada's position on the global
techno map." Its first release will be a three-track EP from Goldfinch
called "Ring Fingers," described as "classic Chicago-style house" and
set for release in April. Following will be a single from Hydraulic
("like Strange Cargo, but more on the pop side") and, in May, the
Deepspace "Hippy" single (featuring new members Omar "ex-Tuesday Weld"
Sheriff on guitar and DJ Floe on the turntables).
Just added to the Blueprint roster is Dave Howard, who's threatening
to release an EP of what Semple describes as "Jungle Lounge." "It's to
be a three-track single with all these Henry Mancini strings on it.
The weird thing is that I don't think he's even heard jungle techno
before."
Who -- Dave? Or Mancini?
98DA GET HAPPY
And Jungian synchronicity abounds as Jeff "one half of Deepspace"
McMurrich proves upon closer inspection to be the co-producer of
convicted sludge-vikings 98DA and their new album Blisskrieg. (Him and
Rob Sanzo. But then Sanzo's everywhere, isn't he?) And is that a cry
of "Dance traitor!" wafting up from the bobble-hat section?
No mind. Blisskrieg (accompanying video single: "Booyaka") gets its
official launch next Thursday (March 28) at Lee's Palace, where swill-
crazed motorcycle enthusiasts can bask in the warm, fuzzy vibes of
what the 'DA are calling their "happy album."
Happy?
"Well, more like a Happy Attack," elaborates Mars, the singer. "Not
happy in the sense of clowns, but good vibes nonetheless. The last
record [Star Pig: was more of a Loud Rock Band album: this's got more
of a good positive feeling."
Huh. This "Booyaka" single, Mars. That's actually a quaint Jamaican
term for the sound a shotgun makes when it blasts someone's skull into
pea-sized fragments, isn't it?
"Ah, it's not about guns at all! It just kinda sounded good
phonetically. We kinda use it more as a way of saying, like, 'Hey,
man!' "
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